"It doesn't feel rewarding to eto worry about stuff," she says. "But, ah, but there is sort of step wise thing where you can reinforce the worrying" She explains how we sometimes literally taste this when working from home and feeling anxious. 'We're not hungry, and what we want is to mask the feeling'
In this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer, a neuroscientist and addiction psychiatrist, discusses the biological origins of anxiety and how to unwind our feedback loops using techniques derived from his lab’s research.
Since his last appearance on the show, Dr. Jud has written and published a book which is now a NYT bestseller titled Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind which he describes as, “a clinically proven step-by-step plan to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and addictive habits.”
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