Train Your Brain to Unwind Stress and Anxiety Habits

Introduction

• Break the anxiety loop

1. The Basis of Anxiety and Stress

• Fear vs. anxiety
• It’s not you, it’s your prefrontal cortex
• What makes anxiety worse?

2. The Loop: How Stress and Anxiety Become a Habit

• How anxiety loops begin
• Willpower is more myth than muscle

3. Unwind Anxiety Step 1: Mapping Anxiety Loops

• Step 1: Map anxiety habit loops
• Metacognition: Learn to see your thoughts as thoughts

4. Unwind Anxiety Step 2: Building Disenchantment

• Step 2: The drawbacks of worrying
• Somatic awareness: Listening to your body

5. Unwind Anxiety Step 3: Finding More Rewarding Rewards

• Step 3: Trading up to swap in curiosity for anxiety
• Tips to jumpstart curiosity

6. A Common Co-Conspirator for Anxiety Habit Loops

• Replacing self-judgment with kindness
• Next steps