397: Dr. Jud Brewer on Unwinding Anxiety

<p>Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: <a href= "https://bit.ly/drjudbrewer397">https://bit.ly/drjudbrewer397</a></p> <p>Dr. Jud Brewer (IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dr.jud" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@dr.jud</a>) is an internationally renowned addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He is an associate professor in the School of Public Health, and Medical School at Brown University.</p> <p>Jud's 2016 TED talk, "<a href= "https://www.ted.com/talks/judson_brewer_a_simple_way_to_break_a_bad_habit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit</a>," has been viewed over 16 million times.</p> <p>He has trained Olympic athletes and coaches, government ministers and business leaders.</p> <p>Jud's first book, <a href="https://geni.us/V7SsW" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">The Craving Mind: from cigarettes to smartphones to love, why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits</a>, was published in over 16 languages.</p> <p>Today, we’re discussing his new book, <a href= "https://geni.us/YeNG54X" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind</a>.</p> <p><strong>In this episode, we discuss:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Jud's lightbulb moment</li> <li>How mindfulness can help with anxiety</li> <li>The three gear approach to anxiety</li> <li>Anxiety and panic defined</li> <li>Anxiety as a habit</li> <li>Understanding the trigger, behaviour, and reward</li> <li>Start mapping out your habit loops</li> <li>Is your anxiety making you productive?</li> <li>Make sure that you're proving causation rather than correlation</li> <li>The increase in anxiety and mental health issues during the pandemic</li> <li>Differentiating a rational response from clinical anxiety</li> <li>Learning to be comfortable with discomfort</li> <li>Bring awareness to your behaviours</li> <li>The behaviour result relationship drives future behaviour</li> <li>Is worrying actually solving the problem?</li> <li>What is the default mode netw