UNWINDING ANXIETY

Break free from anxiety and be free to live a full happy life with internationally renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr Judson Brewer based on over 20 years of research and his simple habit breaking programme We are living through one of the most anxious periods any of us can remember Whether facing issues as public as a pandemic and political upheaval or as personal as having kids at home fighting the urge to reach for the wine bottle every night we are feeling overwhelmed and out of control But in this timely book Judson Brewer explains how to uproot anxiety at its source using brain based techniques and small hacks accessible to anyone We think of anxiety as everything from mild unease to full blown panic But it s also what drives the addictive behaviours and bad habits we use to cope e g stress eating procrastination doomscrolling and social media Plus anxiety lives in a part of the brain that resists rational thought So we get stuck in anxiety habit loops that we can t think our way out of or use willpower to overcome Dr Brewer teaches us to map our brains to discover our triggers defuse them with the simple but powerful practice of curiosity and to train our brains using mindfulness and other practices that his lab has proven can wo