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. 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 had to deal with it today

were wrong or at least took a lot more work than necessary.

Well that's what we're talking about today with my guest Dr. Judd Brewer.

He's a New York Times best-selling 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 Share Care 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 signs 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

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