Judson Brewer, MD, PhD | Unwinding Unhealthy Habits

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🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Whether it’s the struggle to reduce screen time or the battle against overeating sugar, many of us know how hard it is to kick unhelpful habits. And according to Judson Brewer, MD, PhD, the best-selling author of The Craving Mind, it’s not so much about willpower as it is about mindfulness. On this episode, the director of research and innovation at Brown University’s Mindfulness Center explains what happens in the brain when we break and form habits. He also shares habit-mapping tools, acronyms and reframing techniques that can help anyone take better control of their behaviors — for good.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Jalen Howell of the US Women Soccer Team, and you're listening to
0:04.6	Trained Body and Mind.
0:06.4	Oh, hello.
0:08.4	Welcome to Trained Body and Mind, a podcast exploring the cutting edge of holistic fitness.
0:13.6	I'm your host Jacqueline Byer.
0:15.9	Each episode I connect with the world's leading experts and athletes to talk about mindset,
0:20.6	movement, nutrition, recovery, and sleep.
0:24.0	What we like to call the five facets of fitness.
0:26.6	Today, I'm talking with a psychiatrist slash neuroscientist who studies how effective
0:31.9	mindfulness can be an unwinding, unhealthy habits.
0:39.6	Mindfulness is a concept is already challenging because it's this ineffable experience, so
0:43.8	I really focus on the concrete aspects.
0:46.5	To keep it simple, what I have folks in my clinic do is I just have them ask this simple
0:51.7	question, what am I getting from this?
0:54.0	Unintellectually, but really feeling into their bodies.
0:58.8	That's Dr. Judson Brewer.
1:00.4	He's the director of research and innovation at the Mindfulness Center of Brown University.
1:05.6	His research explores the complicated world of habits versus addictions, cravings versus
1:10.8	control, and the motivations and triggers that can dictate our healthy and unhealthy habits.
1:16.7	And that's exactly what we dive into in this episode.
1:19.1	You'll also get a sense for why Dr. Judson's 2016 TED Talk, a simple way to break a bad
1:24.3	habit, was the fourth most watch talk that year, and now has over 18 million hits.
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