Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

five minutes or when your kids are asleep or you know I don't understand and then it was that idea of like oh wait a second hang on again it's the resilience myth it's this idea that we have to tolerate lots of discomfort rather than leaning into our joy and so I've had so many again you know doctors are all about pattern recognition that's how we diagnose things so for me

And I've had so many similar stories with patients where they're like, oh, I love, I don't know, whatever it is, yoga, or I, you know, I love painting.

oh, but I can only do that on, you know, Sunday.

Like, but what do you mean?

Why can't you just have a little thing that you just doodle or just paint when you come home from work for a

five minutes or when your kids are asleep or you know I don't understand and then it was that idea of like oh wait a second hang on again it's the resilience myth it's this idea that we have to tolerate lots of discomfort rather than leaning into our joy and so I've had so many again you know doctors are all about pattern recognition that's how we diagnose things so for me

recognizing patterns and stress and burnout.

It's the same as like recognizing pancreatitis or heart disease or whatever it may be, because I've been doing this for so long.

So it was like, oh, this is a pattern.

I see what's happening here.

It's the resilience myth.

Like you're rearing its ugly head.

And so find your brave treasure is simply that.

That's the genesis of it.

But simply think about one or two activities that you did as a child that brought you lots of joy.

recognizing patterns and stress and burnout.

Like Carl Jung says, that made the hours pass like minutes.

It's the same as like recognizing pancreatitis or heart disease or whatever it may be because I've been doing this for so long.

And

figure out how to bring them into your day.