This is Everyday Wellness, a podcast dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals and provide practical strategies that you can use in your real life.

And now, here is your host, Nurse Practition practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.

Well, I'm delighted this morning to be connecting with Dr. Judd Brewer.

He's Dr. Judd, an MD PhD and a thought leader in the field of habit change and the science of self-mastery,

having combined over 20 years of experience with mindfulness training with his scientific research

therein. He is the director of research and innovation at the Mindfulness Center

and associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University.

He is also a research affiliate at MIT. Dr. Brew has developed and

tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments

for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety.

He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, trained U.S. Olympic coaches,

and his work has been viewed on 60 minutes, Ted, the fourth most viewed

talk of 2016 with 10 million views and others. Dr. Brewer founded Mind

Sciences to move his discoveries of clinical evidence behind mindfulness for anxiety,

eating, smoking, and other behavior change in the hands of consumers.

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. Good morning Dr. Judd. Good morning.

We were chatting a little bit offline, but you know I think this is such an incredibly

timely opportunity for me to be able to speak to you in this unprecedented time in our lives of COVID-19 and social distancing.

And so there are a lot of things I want to talk to you about, but what's up with the toilet paper

hoarding?

Like what is behind all that?

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