Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Everyday Better is kicking off 2025 with a month’s worth of conversations designed to help you reset for the year ahead. In the first episode of our series, Leah sits down with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, a Harvard physician and expert in stress and burnout. In their conversation, Dr. Nerurkar outlines five powerful strategies for resetting your baseline stress level in order to prevent burnout.
“The goal of life is not to live a life with zero stress. It's actually biologically impossible. You need a little bit of healthy stress, and so your brain and body are really good at managing short-term stress, a short burst of stress and then you come back to baseline,” says Dr. Nerurkar. “But if you never come back to baseline, you start getting these unhealthy manifestations of stress.”
Each week on Everyday Better, you’ll learn about research-backed techniques for improving your mental, physical, work and relational well-being.
Subscribe to the #EverydayBetter newsletter for more stories about and tips on turning a stumble into a fresh start: bit.ly/3D91qoe
00:00 - Intro
04:51 - Living in your amygdala
06:11 - The amygdala versus the prefrontal cortex
12:00 - The brain/body connection
14:21 - Historical perspectives on stress
17:01 - Our “primal urge to scroll”
18:08 - Why do we work against ourselves?
20:55 - Reset #1 - creating your ‘MOST’ goal
25:52 - Reset #2 - find your quiet in a noisy world
28:15 - Reset #3 - syncing your brain and your body
31:05 - Reset #4 - come up for air
34:15 - Reset #5 - bring your best self forward
37:46 - What we all need to understand about stress
39:27 - Conclusion
#linkedinnews #EverydayBetter #stress #burnout
Everyday Better is kicking off 2025 with a month’s worth of conversations designed to help you reset for the year ahead. In the first episode of our series, Leah sits down with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, a Harvard physician and expert in stress and burnout. In their conversation, Dr. Nerurkar outlines five powerful strategies for resetting your baseline stress level in order to prevent burnout.
“The goal of life is not to live a life with zero stress. It's actually biologically impossible. You need a little bit of healthy stress, and so your brain and body are really good at managing short-term stress, a short burst of stress and then you come back to baseline,” says Dr. Nerurkar. “But if you never come back to baseline, you start getting these unhealthy manifestations of stress.”
Each week on Everyday Better, you’ll learn about research-backed techniques for improving your mental, physical, work and relational well-being.
Subscribe to the #EverydayBetter newsletter for more stories about and tips on turning a stumble into a fresh start: bit.ly/3D91qoe
00:00 - Intro
04:51 - Living in your amygdala
06:11 - The amygdala versus the prefrontal cortex
12:00 - The brain/body connection
14:21 - Historical perspectives on stress
17:01 - Our “primal urge to scroll”
18:08 - Why do we work against ourselves?
20:55 - Reset #1 - creating your ‘MOST’ goal
25:52 - Reset #2 - find your quiet in a noisy world
28:15 - Reset #3 - syncing your brain and your body
31:05 - Reset #4 - come up for air
34:15 - Reset #5 - bring your best self forward
37:46 - What we all need to understand about stress
39:27 - Conclusion
#linkedinnews #EverydayBetter #stress #burnout
