About Dr. Brewer: Judson Brewer MD PhD is a thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery”, having combined over 20 years of experience with mindfulness training with his scientific research therein. A professor and researcher at the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, he has developed clinically proven app-based training to help people with emotional eating (www.goeatrightnow.com) and anxiety (www.unwindinganxiety.com). He is the author of The Craving Mind: from cigarettes to smartphones to love, why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).
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Constant Craving 

Habits help us to survive. But they can also cause us to crave what’s unhealthy. Read More 

  • Judson Brewer and Mindful Staff
  • April 1, 2018
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Tame Bad Habits with This 10-Minute Mindfulness Practice 

Your mind is built to crave. We can respond to cravings in two ways: sate them, or notice our triggers and work with them. This guided meditation helps us build awareness around how cravings surface in mind and body so we can break free from unhealthy habits. Read More 

  • Judson Brewer
  • February 26, 2018
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A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit 

Psychiatrist and addiction expert Judson Brewer on how we can use mindfulness to harness the brain's habit-forming process to build more nourishing habits that aren't steered by cravings. Read More 

  • Judson Brewer
  • November 10, 2017
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How To Let Go of Ego 

When we can find ways to slip free of our ego, we enter a “flow state” where time and judgment don’t matter and joy overtakes us. Read More 

  • Judson Brewer
  • February 8, 2017
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Get Out Of Your Own Way 

How to access "flow," a mental state where you are so immersed in an experience that time and space and self no longer disrupt the present moment. Read More 

  • Judson Brewer
  • February 15, 2016
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