Dr. Judson Brewer | Unwinding Anxiety

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🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In today’s episode, we cover anxiety with Dr. Judson Brewer. Jud is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in Behavioral and Social Sciences at the School of Public Health and Psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University, as well as head of behavioral health at Sharecare. Anxiety can make anyone’s life more difficult, but you can take steps to minimize or eliminate it altogether—so how are your habits and thought processes making your anxiety worse, and what can you do to take back control of your life? What to Listen For Introduction – 0:00 What common misconceptions do people have about anxiety? How do habits and anxiety play off each other and what can we do to prevent our habits from creating crippling anxiety? Taking back control from our environment and biology – 12:51 What can you do to overcome the influence our environments and biology have on amping up our anxiety? What simple exercise can you do to stop bad habits and when should you do it? What question can you ask yourself if you want to stop binging or over indulging? Is anxiety stopping you from pursuing positive activities? – 34:56 What can you do if your anxiety is getting in the way of doing things that are good for you? How can bringing awareness to your anxiety help you to get your life back from anxiety dictating your actions? The danger and harm caused by worrying – 49:20 What is going on when you worry and how does it impact your behaviors? What can you do if you’re constantly worrying? In ancient times, anxiety was useful for teaching us what we should be concerned about. But in the modern world, we are bombarded with a million things everyday that we “should” worry about. Between notifications on our smartphones, the news, that overflowing email inbox, and everything we see on social media, the anxiety can be overwhelming. As a result, we tend to develop habits as a way of coping with the anxiety, and those habits can lead to even worse anxiety. A Word From Our Sponsors Do you LOVE the toolbox episodes? Did you know that every week we give a LIVE mini-toolbox lesson inside our Private Facebook Group? Best of all it is FREE to join. Join today and get access to all of our live training and level up your communication, leadership, influence and persuasion skills. With 14,000 members it’s a great place to network, learn and overcome any obstacle that’s in your way. Did you know that you can get the whole Art of Charm catalogue when you subscribe to Stitcher Premium using our link? That’s 15 years of podcasts featuring expert guests and toolbox episodes! Sign up today and use Code “CHARM” to get a free month! Resources from this Episode Dr. Brewer’s website Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind by Dr. Judson Brewer Check in with AJ and Johnny! AJ on Instagram Johnny on Instagram The Art of Charm on Instagram The Art of Charm on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Articharm podcast to show design to help you communicate with power and become unstoppable on your path from hidden genius to influential leader.
0:09.0	We know you have what it takes to reach your full potential and that's why each and every week Johnny and I share with you interviews and strategies to help you transform your life and unlock your X factor.
0:19.5	Whether you're in sales, leadership, building client relationships or even looking for love, we got what you need.
0:26.0	You shouldn't have to settle for anything less than extraordinary.
0:29.0	Today we're speaking with Dr. Judson Brewer. Dr. Brewer is an addictions psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for treating addictions.
0:38.0	He's developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in person and at based treatments for smoking, emotional eating and anxiety.
0:48.0	He's also the author of the bestseller, the craving mind from cigarettes to smartphones to love, why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits and his latest book, Unwinding Anxiety.
0:59.0	New science shows us how to break the cycles of worry and fear to heal your mind came out early last year.
1:06.0	In that book, he distilled more than 20 years of research and hands on work with thousands of patients including Olympic athletes and coaches and even leaders in government and business.
1:16.0	He presents a solution oriented program that anyone can use to feel better, no matter how anxious they feel.
1:23.0	Welcome to the show, Dr. Brewer. Thanks for having me.
1:26.0	Now, Johnny and I have talked to a lot of authors of books around anxiety over the last decade.
1:33.0	Many of them titled Stop, Defeat, Feet, Anxiety.
1:37.0	Unwinding Anxiety is a new perspective that Johnny and I hadn't heard before, so we'd love to just start with your definition of the book title.
1:46.0	Yeah, it's a great place to start.
1:49.0	So as a psychiatrist, I've had patients who have tried to stop, tried to beat, tried to do everything to essentially end their anxiety and have come to me after 15 years or 20 years and saying,
2:06.0	I'm exhausted, I've tried everything.
2:09.0	So this title came out of my own anxiety around helping my patients, you know, about one in five patients shows a significant reduction in symptoms with medication.
2:20.0	So my prescribing is basically me playing the medication lottery.
2:25.0	And also, this serendipity just came together with some research that my lab had been doing around how to help change habits and those two pieces came together that really changed the way that I view anxiety completely.
2:42.0	And it's really about unwinding it rather than, you know, it's like you have this string and you pull on it and suddenly that not is, oops, you know, you cannot get that not untied.
2:55.0	It's not about pulling.
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