Unwinding Anxiety

Unwinding Anxiety (2021) breaks down the brain science behind the bad habits that keep us stuck. Have you ever tried to reason yourself out of binge eating, or procrastinating? Then you’ll know that it just doesn’t work. That’s because addiction and obsessive thought patterns are controlled by our instinctive survival brains, not our rational brains. Learning how to retrain our brains using mindfulness techniques will allow us to free ourselves from chronic worry, anxiety, and other obsessive habits.

Judson Brewer, MD, PhD, is a renowned addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He is director of research and innovation at the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, as well as being an associate professor at the university’s School of Public Health and the Medical School. His TED talk about breaking bad habits has been viewed over 16 million times.