Thank you for joining us for episode 436 of Live Happy Now.

Anxiety is so pervasive today that more than 40 million adults in the U.S. are living with it.

But this week's guest is trying to change that.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I am talking with Dr. Judd Brewer, a New York Times bestselling author and director of research and innovation at Brown University's Mindfulness Center.

In his 2021 book, Unwinding Anxiety, Dr. Judd shared his scientific insights into how to break the cycle of worry.

Now, those steps are also available through an app,

and he's here today to tell us how we all can learn to break free from anxiety. Let's have a listen.

Dr. Judd, thank you so much for joining me today. Thanks for having me. You have written research,

done so much work in the area of anxiety.

And this is such a huge, huge problem for people.

And to start it off, this has been problematic for generations.

And I wondered why we're not getting better at managing it, given the amount of time we've

had to learn about it.

This is way before neuroscience was even a field. You know, neuroscience is a very young

field, a field of study. It wasn't even coined until like the 1970s. But if you think about this

approach to changing human behavior and working with ourselves, it's about, you know, I think

therefore I am. I think, therefore I could think I can think my way out of anxiety.

And so that's been a dominant paradigm for a long time.

Even I love one of my favorite comedy skits is from the 1970s.

This guy, I don't know if you remember Bob Newhart.

Oh, I loved him.

Yeah.

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