Owning It: Is Your Anxiety A Habit? With Dr Judson Brewer
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to season 6!
Dr Judson Brewer is legit amazing; he has his own neuroscience lab in which he and his team carry out lots of research to back up everything you'll find in his latest book Unwinding Anxiety, which is probably one of the best books I've ever read on the subject. In it, and in our conversation here, Jud puts forward the idea that maybe anxiety is simply a habit loop we've got stuck, something that plays out several times a day in the format of trigger, behaviour, result. It's a really interesting and empowering idea because when you start to wrap your head around it, it becomes something you can better manage or almost hack.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to Owning It. |
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| 0:18.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:31.5 | Hello and welcome to another episode of owning it the anxiety podcast with me, your host and author Caroline Forin. Now, I have a question for you. Have you ever looked at your experience of anxiety and thought of it as |
| 0:39.0 | a bad habit or something that you could work on or work out of your system the same way you might |
| 0:45.0 | kick a habit such as smoking or a habit for people pleasing or all the different things that |
| 0:50.3 | might form habits in your mind? Well, my guest here is world-renowned psychiatrist and |
| 0:56.6 | neuroscientist and now New York Times best-selling author, Dr. Judson Brewer, and his book is called |
| 1:01.8 | Unwinding Anxiety. It's a very straightforward approach to managing anxiety. And for him, |
| 1:08.2 | it makes a lot of sense when you liken it to the same way our brain forms |
| 1:13.0 | habits and in terms of undoing it or unwinding it in his words we have to look at it from that |
| 1:20.4 | habit framework so this is a really interesting conversation i'm thrilled to have dr judd on my |
| 1:26.0 | podcast i really hope you find it helpful and I hope |
| 1:28.8 | you enjoyed as much as I enjoy chatting to him. |
| 1:39.3 | Dr. Judson Brewer, or Dr. Judson Brewer, or Dr. Judd, as I'm going to call you, thank you so |
| 1:43.2 | so much for joining me on |
| 1:44.5 | owning it, the Anxiety Podcast. I am so thrilled and honored to have someone of your esteem on |
| 1:50.3 | this series. Thank you so much. Well, thanks for having me. Huge congratulations on not just |
| 1:56.7 | an incredible career spanning 20 years in neuroscience, but you are now in New York Times best-selling |
| 2:02.1 | author with your new book, Unwinding Anxiety. How does that feel? I'm surprised and humbled. |
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