Ep 207. Dr. Jud Brewer talks worry, social contagion, and realigning our wheels

Not Another Anxiety Show

Kelli Walker

Therapy, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Health, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Anxiety, Claireweekes, Counseling, Brenebrown, Research, Meditation, Panicattacks, Science, Selfhelp, Stress

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Join Erica as she talks with Dr. Jud Brewer about this "unique" period of time we're all experiencing. They talk about everything from worry, to social contagion, to why social media can feel like someone just sneezed on your brain. Listen in to hear how we can begin to realign our wheels to learn how our minds work.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone to not another anxiety show. I'm Erica Latham, and today I have one of our favorite
0:17.7	guests, Dr. Judd Brewer. Welcome, Dr. Judd.
0:20.3	Thanks for having me. I'm going to remind folks of who you guests, Dr. Judd Brewer. Welcome, Dr. Judd. Thanks for having me.
0:22.0	I'm going to remind folks of who you are, and you were just on one of our recent shows, I think, episode 184, but nobody quote me.
0:29.5	I'll double check that.
0:31.3	Dr. Judd is the director of research and innovation at Brown University's Mindfulness Center
0:36.3	and an associate professor at their
0:38.9	psychiatry, I'm sorry, in psychiatry at their School of Medicine. He is also a research affiliate
0:44.8	at MIT. And before that, he held research and teaching positions at Yale University and the
0:50.7	University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness. Say Massachusetts it's five times fast, right?
0:57.4	Dr. Judd, Dr. Judd's work has been featured on 60 Minutes, Ted, Time Magazine, Forbes, NPR,
1:05.1	the BBC, and obviously your biggest claim to fame, our show.
1:09.5	And that's just the name of you.
1:12.1	Of course.
1:13.6	As an addiction psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for treating addictions,
1:19.9	Dr. Judd has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change.
1:25.1	He founded a company called Mind Sciences, which makes digital therapeutics,
1:29.4	which, I mean, correct me, we just went over this, but it's a fancy name for app-based behavior
1:34.7	change treatments, right? Did I get that right? That's perfect. That's something, right? And you aim for
1:41.5	smoking, emotional eating, anxiety, you kind of touch on all the bases.
1:46.8	And we're going to talk a ton about that.
1:49.5	You are passionate about understanding how our brains work and how to use that knowledge to help people make deep, permanent change in their lives with the goal of reducing suffering in the world at large. And Dr. Jed, we need you now.
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