Dr. Tara Narula

Being outside, I feel like in nature is a very underrated way to feel better.

We have a home in Connecticut, which is very rural.

Just taking a walk, seeing the birds, seeing the trees, getting the fresh air.

I feel like nature is...

extremely powerful.

And then, you know, breathing exercises.

And I think some of the techniques that I've learned about, you know, kind of taking five breaths in and then letting them out, you know, a lot of these things we can do, the breath work can actually help sort of, again, in the moment, really turn down the stress response.

Nobody's perfect.

We're flawed human beings, but that's okay.

And I think the moment we show ourselves the same love and the positive talk that we would show our child or our spouse or anyone else that we care about, that is the moment where we start to

kind of become more resilient because we see ourselves in the same way that we would see someone that we're caring for as a caregiver.

But that positive self-talk is really critical, that self-love.

Yes.

You're so much stronger than you think.

And that, that is really what the book also was about was this idea that like, we are so much stronger than we think we are.

We all have this capacity and we're not going to crumble and fall apart.

We can get through it.

Again, if we put one foot in front of the other.

Social support, again, is something that's so underrated, but so easily accessible to all of us.

And my friend, my former resident at the Brigham, Vivek Murthy, I was his intern.