"The 5 Resets" is full of evidence-based research, stories, and tools to help with reseting or rewiring your brain. Her five suggested mind shifts are powerful and I can see how they could be life-changing if applied and taken seriously. Recommended for anyone interested in self-help and wanting to change. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.
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I enjoyed reading this book and learning new tools to help control stress and prevent burnout. I found the techniques were very attainable and can be easily shared/related to teenagers as well. I also really enjoyed the authors voice! The only reason for 4 stars instead of 5 is because I don’t feel like I learned anything new.

Dr. Aditi Nerurkar is an internal medicine physician, public health expert, educator, and speaker who specializes in treating stress and burnout. In this book, she provides a brief quiz to help you identify your stress score and track changes over time, and then she provides three research-backed techniques for each of her proposed five resets (plus a few bonus techniques) to reduce your stress and increase your resilience.

I thought this book was easy to understand and offered very practical suggestions for how to manage your stress and improve your physical and mental health. You can make small, manageable lifestyle changes that will make a real difference over time. Some of the problems she addresses, such as unhealthy relationships with news, social media, or food, didn’t apply to me, but I suspect everyone will find something of value here. I particularly liked the suggestions to Stop-Breathe-Be, Activate Your Sticky Feet, and Live a Lifetime in a Day. These are stressful times, and most people could probably benefit from the strategies this book provides.

The back matter includes extensive endnotes and an index.

I was provided an unproofed ARC through NetGalley that I volunteered to review.

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC: This is a clearly written, evidence-based self help book, authored by an internal medicine physician who practiced for 8 years in an integrative health clinic. She is trained in mindfulness. The recommendations are clear and I especially appreciated her concept of not attempting more than 2 changes at one time, to set achievable goals, to identify values/meaning. I always wish that the final chapter would include a graphic to review the advice and actions proscribed in the book.
She draws from her mindfulness training, and the understanding of readiness to change.

As a clinician, I didn't find her clinical vignettes resonated deeply and on researching the author, she no longer appears to practice clinical medicine but has transitioned to a motivational speaker/media/journalist role. I think the book has utility in its clarity, reasonable advice and evidence base. I found myself wishing she was a bit more transparent about her clinical role at this point in her career.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC!

This was a useful, if simplistic book. As someone who has long suffered with anxiety, I probably need something that goes deeper than this, and that’s why I have a therapist. But it seems like it would be very useful to someone just beginning to explore stress reduction and resiliency or with less of a mountain to climb.

I for one suffer from anxiety, but this book helped me to put things in perspective to know that worry and stress are a normal part of life and how we cope if the most important take away.

Among other things, the book puts forward the idea that worrying is something we can control. I think that is one of the biggest lessons of the book. We CANNOT control everything although as humans we feel like we can. That is the beginning of self sabatoging.

All in all, this is a really useful resource for anyone looking for help with such challenges. Definitely worth checking out and being able to apply to your own practice with dealing with others.