Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

Every single society has some concept of toxic resilience because it's a manifestation of hustle culture.

And so I hope that the entrepreneurs listening, what they take away from our conversation is that you can be resilient and you can still get burnt out.

That's called the resilience myth that

people think, oh, I can't be burned out.

I'm so resilient.

Those two things, because what you're likely living through is this idea of toxic resilience.

Because we've been taught from a really young age that resilience is about tolerating a lot of discomfort, but that's not actually true resilience.

And so I want to dismantle that idea of resilience as being toxic and rather lean into your true resilience, which really honors your need for rest and recovery.

Because then that is how your brain, you know, newsflash that your brain really needs rest and recovery to be productive and to really be functioning at its optimal level.

I'm Sharia, and I lost 80 pounds on Weight Watchers.

I realized that it would take more than a prescription to lose weight and feel good on a GLP-1.

And how we can counter its devastating mental health effects.

The reason gratitude is so important from a scientific perspective is because when you are doing a gratitude, daily gratitude practice, it takes 60 seconds.

you are rewiring your brain because what you are doing, it's a scientific, again, a fancy scientific name called cognitive reframing, what you focus on grows.

So Rick Hansen talks about this idea of when you're going through stress, he's a psychologist in California, negative experiences become sticky in the brain like Velcro.

You hold onto them because it's a feeling of survival and self-preservation.

And so when you start practicing gratitude on an everyday basis, it's cognitive reframing.

What you focus on grows.

So you shift your perspective.

So even if negative and positive are happening at the same rate, good and bad things are happening in your life at the same rate, when you are feeling a sense of stress, you are focused primarily on the negative because you are thinking danger, danger, danger, right?