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Habits for Healing Anxiety with Dr. Jud Brewer

January 12, 2021 2 Comments

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Dr. Jud Brewer is a thought leader in the field of habit change and the science of self-mastery. He is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University. 

In this episode, Eric and Dr. Jud talk about his book, Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind and they explore something called the Habit Loop, using it to understand and heal difficult emotions like anxiety.

If you’d like to start out this new year restoring some balance and putting some healthy habits in place, or if you’re tired of waiting for the right circumstances to make progress towards your goals, Eric, as a behavior coach, can help you. 

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In This Interview, Dr. Jud Brewer and I discuss Habits for Healing Anxiety and…

  • His book, Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind
  • Reward-Based Learning
  • Trigger, Behavior, Result
  • The Habit Loop
  • Addiction defined as continued use despite adverse consequences
  • Habits: Set and Forget
  • How if we don’t pay attention to how rewarding the habit is right now, we can’t change the behavior
  • How to heal anxiety as well as emotional eating using the Habit Loop
  • The role of curiosity in healing anxiety
  • Learning to be with difficult emotions and learning to allow them to pass
  • How to remember to be mindful throughout the day

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Dr. Jud Brewer on Habits for Healing Anxiety, you might also enjoy these other episodes:

Dr. Jud Brewer on Addiction and the Craving Mind (August, 2018)

BJ Fogg on Tiny Habits

James Clear on Compounding Nature of Habits-Part 1

James Clear on Compounding Nature of Habits-Part 2

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  1. Rebecca Clark says

    September 9, 2021 at 12:49 pm

    This episode made the biggest impact for me and helped me turn my life around. I could relate on so many levels. I’ve recommended it to many people. I just pulled it up to recommend again today and figured I should type this to let you know what an impact it’s had. Thank you.

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    • Eric Zimmer says

      September 21, 2021 at 8:33 am

      Thank you Rebecca! I’m glad it was helpful to you.

      Reply

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