The Dr. Jud Podcast
In this podcast, you'll learn the science behind why panic buying spreads, and four things you can do to help.
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Dr. Judson Brewer explains 4 steps to break a habit. Dr. Judson Brewer, MD, Ph D, neuroscientist, author, psychiatrists explains how to be mindful.Dr. Brewer is author of "The Subtle Mind" 1. R: Recognize 2. A: Acceptance 3. I: Investigate 4. N: Note
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For many of my patients, and even myself, the recognition that anxiety can be its own toxic comfort has been a lightbulb moment. It can be unsettling to examine our thoughts and our behaviors closely.
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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, we are feeling overwhelmed and out of control.
Addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist Jud Brewer, M.D., Ph.D., has spent over 15 years studying why we make bad habits—and what makes them so difficult to break.
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So, if fear helps motivate us, what's wrong with injecting a bit of fear into our lives, so that we improve them? First, we can examine how well fear works as a motivator, and then see how it trips us up.
How often do you feel like it is a struggle to fight your brain to break bad habits and start healthy ones? Here’s a short video that shows you the neuroscience behind why this is the case and how to hack your brain’s reward centers to get it to do the work for you.
So join me on Episode 930 and listen to what Dr. Jud has to say about the coronavirus and how to keep our minds from spiraling into fear and anxiety.
Can we break bad habits by being more curious about them? Psychiatrist Judson Brewer studies the relationship between mindfulness and addiction-from smoking to overeating to all those other things we do even though we know they're bad for us.