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Unwinding Anxiety
New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind
Judson Brewer4.5
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A new way of understanding the emotional scourge of our time
Anxiety has been with us since the dawn of humanity. Improperly dealt with it can destroy us but, just maybe, it's a big reason we're still here today. We are more anxious than ever before. Despite -- perhaps because of -- all the information at our fingertips, uncertainty rules. In this groundbreaking book, internationally renowned neuroscientist Judson Brewer helps us understand how anxiety drives our lives and gives us the tools we need to build better ones.
Manifesting as fear, vigilance, and outright panic attacks, anxiety is a complex, deeply rooted emotion that drives itself as well as addictive behaviors and bad habits. We get stuck in anxiety habit loops that we cannot break as anxiety drives anxiety. The brain wants to maintain mood states because they are familiar even if they are uncomfortable.
Distilling more than 20 years of research and hands-on work with thousands of patients, including Olympic athletes and coaches and leaders in government and business, Dr. Brewer explains how to take simple steps to uproot anxiety at its source using brain-based techniques and small hacks accessible to all.
With this book we can finally understand our anxiety, modify it and let it take us to new heights of achievement and personal and professional satisfaction. Judson Brewer MD, PhD, is an internationally renowned addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He is an associate professor in the School of Public Health, and Medical School at Brown University. His 2016 TED talk, "A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit," has been viewed over 14 million times. He has trained Olympic athletes and coaches, government ministers and business leaders. His first book, The Craving Mind: from cigarettes to smartphones to love, why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits, was published in over 16 languages.
Anxiety has been with us since the dawn of humanity. Improperly dealt with it can destroy us but, just maybe, it's a big reason we're still here today. We are more anxious than ever before. Despite -- perhaps because of -- all the information at our fingertips, uncertainty rules. In this groundbreaking book, internationally renowned neuroscientist Judson Brewer helps us understand how anxiety drives our lives and gives us the tools we need to build better ones.
Manifesting as fear, vigilance, and outright panic attacks, anxiety is a complex, deeply rooted emotion that drives itself as well as addictive behaviors and bad habits. We get stuck in anxiety habit loops that we cannot break as anxiety drives anxiety. The brain wants to maintain mood states because they are familiar even if they are uncomfortable.
Distilling more than 20 years of research and hands-on work with thousands of patients, including Olympic athletes and coaches and leaders in government and business, Dr. Brewer explains how to take simple steps to uproot anxiety at its source using brain-based techniques and small hacks accessible to all.
With this book we can finally understand our anxiety, modify it and let it take us to new heights of achievement and personal and professional satisfaction. Judson Brewer MD, PhD, is an internationally renowned addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He is an associate professor in the School of Public Health, and Medical School at Brown University. His 2016 TED talk, "A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit," has been viewed over 14 million times. He has trained Olympic athletes and coaches, government ministers and business leaders. His first book, The Craving Mind: from cigarettes to smartphones to love, why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits, was published in over 16 languages.