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Breaking the Anxiety Loop
An interview with Judson Brewer by Morra Aarons-Mele
It’s never a bad time to think about habits. Why do we do what we do? What is and isn’t healthy for us? What can we do to improve our lives?
Dr. Judson Brewer is an addiction psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and associate professor at the Brown University School of Public Health. He’s also the author of the books Unwinding Anxiety and The Craving Mind. His research focuses on how and why your anxiety—and why worrying more specifically—might be a habit. In this interview, he explains the three-step process that forms this habit and how we can use curiosity to break out of the loop.
Morra Aarons-Mele: You say that anxiety hides in our habits. How?
Judson Brewer: Any habit ...
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