Overloaded, Exhausted, and Ready for a Reset: 3 Doctors Give Their Best Advice

About this episode

<p>If you’re exhausted, barely keeping it together, and quietly wondering when you’ll feel like yourself again… this episode is your lifeline. </p><p>Maybe you’re the one who keeps the house running. </p><p>The one everyone calls in an emergency. </p><p>The one who knows takes care of everyone including medications, the bills, doctor visits, and the schedules.</p><p>The one who stays up late searching for answers, and gets up early to make sure everyone else is okay. </p><p>You don’t complain. </p><p>You don’t slow down. </p><p>But you’re running on fumes. And no one sees it. </p><p>You feel invisible. </p><p>Like you are losing yourself. </p><p>Like you’re going through the motions in a life that used to feel like yours. </p><p>Mel is talking to you in this episode. </p><p>Whether you’re raising kids, managing a household, supporting aging parents, a sick family member, or all of the above, taking care of others can slowly wear you down and make you feel like you don’t even know yourself anymore. </p><p>In this powerful and deeply validating conversation, Mel sits down with three world-renowned experts, all of whom are doctors as well as caregivers,  to give you the truth, the tools, and the hope you need to finally come up for air. </p><p>You’ll hear from: </p><p>-<a href="https://www.melrobbins.com/episode/episode-255/" target="_blank">Dr. Aditi Nerurkar,</a> Harvard physician and stress researcher, on why chronic caregiving stress is not your failure, it’s a public health crisis </p><p>-<a href="https://www.melrobbins.com/episode/episode-223/" target="_blank">Dr. Pooja Lakshmin</a>, psychiatrist and bestselling author, who’ll teach you how to set guilt-free boundaries and reclaim a sense of control over your life </p><p>-<a href="https://www.melrobbins.com/episode/episode-265/" target="_blank">Dr. Rangan Chatterjee</a>, physician and bestselling author, whose deeply personal story will show you how to stop disappearing into caregiving, and start living again </p><p>This episode is not about pushing harder. It’s about finally pulling back in a way that actually helps. </p><p>You are not alone.</p><p>You are not failing.</p><p>And you are not here to disappear.</p><p>So press play, and let this episode take care of you for once.</p><p>For more resources, <a href="https://www.melrobbins.com/episode/episode-307/" target="_blank">click here</a> for the podcast episode page. </p><p>If you liked the episode, you’ll love the full episodes with each of the doctors interviewed today:</p><p>Dr. Aditi Nerurkar: <a href="https://www.melrobbins.com/episode/episode-255/" target="_blank">If You Struggle With Stress & Anxiety, This Will Change Your Life</a></p><p>Dr. Pooja Lakshmin: <a href="https://www.melrobbins.com/episode/episode-223/" target="_blank">Focus on Yourself: 3 Signs You’re Giving Too Much & What to Do About It Right Now</a></p><p>Dr. Rangan Chatterjee: <a href="https://www.melrobbins.com/episode/episode-265/" target="_blank">Change Your Body & Your Life in 1 Month: 4 Small Habits That Actually Work</a></p><p>Connect with Mel: </p><p> </p><ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1401971369?tag=lnk0001-20&geniuslink=true" target="_blank">Get Mel’s #1 bestselling book, The Let Them Theory</a></li><li><a href="https://bit.ly/45OWCNr" target="_blank">Watch the episodes on YouTube</a></li><li><a href="https://bit.ly/3QfG8bb" target="_blank">Follow Mel on Instagram </a></li><li><a href="https://bit.ly/49bg4GP" target="_blank">The Mel Robbins Podcast Instagram</a></li><li><a href="https://bit.ly/46Kpw2v" target="_blank">Mel's TikTok </a></li><li><a href="https://bit.ly/46PVnPs" target="_blank">Sign up for Mel’s personal letter </a></li><li><a href="https://siriusxm.supportingcast.fm/" target="_blank">Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes ad-free</a></li><li><a href="https://www.melrobbins.com/disclaimer" target="_blank">Disclaimer</a></li></ul><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>