Unwinding Anxiety
Presenter:
Dr. Judson Brewer, Talks at Google
Time:
1:00:46
Summary
Judson Brewer discusses his book "Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind," which shows us a step-by-step plan that is clinically proven to break the cycles that drive anxiety and addictive habits. We are living through one of the most anxious periods any of us can remember. Whether facing issues as public as a pandemic or as personal as having kids at home and fighting the urge to reach for the wine bottle every night, many of us are feeling overwhelmed and out of control. In this timely book, Dr. Brewer explains how to uproot anxiety at its source using brain-based techniques and small hacks accessible to anyone.
We think of anxiety as everything from mild unease to full-blown panic. But it's also what drives the addictive behaviors and bad habits we use to cope (e.g. stress eating, procrastination, doom scrolling and social media). Anxiety lives in a part of the brain that resists rational thought, so we get stuck in anxiety habit loops that we can't think our way out of or use willpower to overcome. Dr. Brewer teaches us to map our brains to discover our triggers, defuse them with the simple but powerful practice of curiosity, and to train our brains using mindfulness and other practices that his lab has proven can work.
Transcript
Hi, my name is Kristen Moscow and I lead the mental wealth health and wellbeing team here at Google. We are thrilled to have you all here today to engage in our discussion with Dr. Judd Brewer, who is here to discuss his book unwinding anxiety. New Science shows how to break the cycles of worry and fear to Heal your mind.
Dr. Brewer is a New York Times best selling author and thought leader in the field of habit change and the science of self mastery. He blends over 20 years of experience with mindfulness training and a career in scientific research. As a psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for treating addictions, Dr. Judd has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in person and app based treatments for anxiety. unwinding anxiety is the app emotional eating, eat right now is the app and smoking craving to quit is his app.