It's like we've hit these multiple rounds of uncertainty to the point where not only has anxiety gone nuts, but I've also seen where people are kind of getting this, I don't know if this is the perfect term, but this is how I think of it, is kind of like learned helplessness, where, you know, a lot of people, they're like, I give up.
You know, my brain is fried.
Just too much anxiety.
Anxiety.
Even saying the word makes me a bit anxious.
But what if there was a way to unwind it and come back to calm?
That was maybe counterintuitively simple?
And what if a lot of the popular thoughts around anxiety and how to deal with it today were wrong, or at least took a lot more work than necessary?
Well, thats what were talking about today with my guest, Doctor Judd Brewer.
Hes a New York Times bestselling author, neuroscientist, addiction psychiatrist, and thought leader in the field of habit change.
And Judd is also the director of research and innovation at Brown University's Mindfulness center, where he serves as an associate professor of behavioral and social sciences in the School of Public Health.
He's the executive medical director of behavioral health at Sharecare, Inc.
And a research affiliate at MIT, and he's developed and tested really novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including treatments for smoking and emotional eating.
And, yes, anxiety.
He's the author of Unwinding Anxiety.
New science shows how to break the cycles of worry and fear to heal your mind and the craving mind, from cigarettes to smartphones, to love, why we get hooked, and how we can break habits.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
Your topic is a topic of interest.
It has been for a long time.