Judson Brewer || Unwinding Anxiety

Today it’s great to have Jud Brewer on the podcast. Dr. Brewer is a New York Times best-selling author, addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He is an associate professor and the Director of Research and Innovation at the Center for Mindfulness at Brown University and the Executive Medical Director of Behavioral Health at Sharecare Inc. He has developed clinically proven app-based mindfulness trainings including those to help people with quitting smoking, emotional eating and anxiety. He is the author of The Craving Mind: from cigarettes to smartphones to love, why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017) and Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind (Avery/PenguinRandom House, 2021).

Topics

Why Jud practices mindfulness
How to break unhealthy habits and addictions
What “everyday addictions” are
Can addictions be reversed?
Why we prefer cake to broccoli
The shortcomings of willpower
Jud discusses discipline and changing behaviors
The role of anxiety in habit formation
The science of curiosity
Understanding our cravings
What anxiety sobriety is

About the guest

Judson Brewer

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Judson Brewer is an American addiction psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and author who serves as director of research and innovation at Brown University's Mindfulness Center and as a professor at Brown University's School of Public Health and School of Medicine. He is the author of The Craving Mind and the New York Times bestseller Unwinding Anxiety.

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