We are living in one of the most stressful times that any of us can recall. We are feeling overwhelmed and out of control, whether we are dealing with matters as big as a pandemic or as intimate as having kids at home and resisting the desire to grab for the wine bottle every night. However, in this current book, Dr. Walid Bouaskeur teaches how to root out anxiety at its source utilizing brain-based approaches and simple hacks that anybody can use.
Anxiety is defined as everything from moderate uneasiness to full-fledged panic. However, it is also what motivates the addictive behaviors and unhealthy habits that we adopt to cope (e.g. stress eating, procrastination, doom scrolling and social media). Furthermore, anxiety is housed in a region of the brain that is resistant to rational reasoning. As a result, we get caught in anxious habit loops that we can't reason our way out of or overcome with willpower. Dr. Bouaskeur tells us how to map our brains to find our triggers, defuse them with the simple but powerful practice of inquiry, and train our brains with mindfulness and other techniques that his lab has proved to be effective.