Unwinding Anxiety

By Judson Brewer

Unwinding Anxiety - Judson Brewer
  • Release Date: 2021-03-09
  • Genre: Self-Improvement
Score: 4
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From 145 Ratings

Description

New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller

A step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and addictive habits


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. 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 behaviors and bad habits we use to cope (e.g. stress eating, procrastination, doom scrolling 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 work.

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 has created a clear, solution-oriented program that anyone can use to feel better - no matter how anxious they feel.

Reviews

  • Amazing

    5
    By pickles&swiss
    Great book check out his Ted Talks
  • Loved it

    5
    By tholloway
    Very useful
  • Not worth your time very misleading

    1
    By shaggy520
    Your better off asking a mental health professionals about recommended books I trust my therapist who is clinical chief of behavior health and has his mba im good off this book!!
  • Superb.

    5
    By gthep1
    Truly an exceptional method to help with stress management, a key element that helps define emotional intelligence.
  • Very misleading Title

    2
    By Henrik Lynn
    I think he want to use the buzzword “anxiety” so that people get curious enough to pick up the book just to be disappointed. You’ll be better off sticking with Atomic habit which is a better version of this book.
  • Excellent resource to help kick anxiety!

    5
    By MTMade22
    I have struggled with a diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder for years. I have gone to therapy, read tons of books...anything that could possibly help. This book is almost magical and far surpassed by expectations. It helped me in new and far more effective ways then any other book. Do yourself a favor and read it now, I’m about to read it again!
  • So good and yet frustrating

    4
    By 🤔and🙄
    There is so much in this book that is meaningful and “thinking inside the box” that should change emotional health care. It would be helpful to include at the back a definition page review for acronyms. Also include a outline worksheet, minus all of the credits, names, etc, to use in ongoing rehabilitation. For someone already in a mentality confused state, this book was somewhat frustrating.