Judson Brewer: Ending Worry Addiction and Unwinding Anxiety

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Do you have a habit you just can't break no matter how hard you try or how badly you want to? Renowned addiction psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and bestselling author Judson Brewer—or Dr. Jud, as he's widely known—has helped millions of people find freedom from excessive worry, overeating, cigarette smoking, and many other challenging behaviors. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Jud about his life-changing books—The Craving Mind, Unwinding Anxiety, and most recently, The Hunger Habit—and his compassionate and respectful approach to habit change.

Enjoy this empowering and "aha!-inducing" conversation about breaking the cycle of anxiety; the process of negative reinforcement; fear of the future vs planning for the future; the three elements of a habit loop: trigger, behavior, reward; the pros and cons of distraction; distress tolerance—a survival skill for our times; changing the reward value of a behavior; karma and reinforcement learning; exploring gratification to its end; the brain as a smoke detector; recalibrating the nervous system after trauma; the concept of dependent origination; the superpower of interest curiosity; hedonic hunger vs homeostatic hunger; paying attention to your "pleasure plateau" when it comes to food; awareness as the key ingredient for behavior change; the mantra "What's this?"; and more.

Note: This episode originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com.

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0:00.0	Hello friends. My name is Tammy Simon and I'm the founder of Sounds True and I want to welcome you to the Sounds True podcast, Insights at the Edge.
0:11.5	I also want to take a moment to introduce you to Sounds True's new membership
0:16.1	community and digital platform. It's called Sounds True One. Sounds True One features original premium transformational docu series
0:27.4	community events classes to start your day and relax in the evening. Special weekly live shows including a
0:36.8	video version of Insights at the Edge with an after-show community question and answer session with featured guests.
0:45.0	I hope you'll come join us.
0:47.0	Explore, come have fun with us and connect with others.
0:51.0	You can learn more at join.
0:54.3	Sounds True.com. I also want to take a moment and introduce you to the
0:59.0	sounds true foundation, our nonprofit that creates equitable access to transformational tools and
1:07.3	teachings. You can learn more at sounds true foundation.org and advance, thank you for your support.
1:16.4	In this episode of Insights at the Edge,
1:20.0	my guest is Dr. Jutzen Brewer, Dr. Judd, as he's called.
1:26.6	Dr Judd is an internationally renowned addiction psychiatrist,
1:31.5	neuroscientist, habit change, expert, and author.
1:36.5	He's a professor in the School of Public Health
1:39.0	and the Medical School at Brown University.
1:42.3	His 2016 TED Talk, a simple way to break a bad habit, has
1:48.6	been viewed more than 19 million times. He's the author of several books including The Craving Mind, the New York Times
1:58.6	Best Seller Unwinding Anxiety, and a new book. It's coming out on February 20th, 2024. It's called
2:07.0	The Hunger Habit. Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to stop. Dr. Jed, welcome.
2:14.5	Thanks for having me.
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