Episode 040 :: Dr. Judson Brewer :: Craving to Quit
Dr. Judson Brewer
Dr. Jud Brewer joins us to speak about craving and addiction recovery, with mindfulness.
If you’ve never had an addiction, you may not have a true understanding of what that means, of how compelling the desire to get your next fix can be. Tobacco may be the most common addiction today, but how might our mindfulness practice, directed to somatic experience, help us kick the habit?
Jud Brewer is a psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions, having developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for addictions, including both in-person and application based treatments. He has also studied the underlying neural mechanisms of mindfulness using standard and real-time fMRI, and is currently translating these findings into clinical use. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, spoken at international conferences, presented to the US President’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, been featured at TEDx, Time magazine (top 100 new health discoveries of 2013), Forbes, Businessweek, NPR, and the BBC among others.
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