Going Beyond Anxiety

When you wake up in the morning, do you feel a low hum of dread, stress, or unease before the day has even begun?

For many people, chronic vigilance has become the new normal. We scroll for certainty, overthink every decision, brace for bad news, and try to manage a world that feels increasingly unstable. But according to renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr Judson Brewer, this constant state of worry is not a character flaw—or an unavoidable cost of modern life. It is a habit loop the brain can learn to change.

Building on the bestselling Unwinding Anxiety, Going Beyond Anxiety offers a practical, science-backed method for moving beyond fear and into a fuller, more resilient life. Drawing on Dr Brewer’s groundbreaking research, new neuroimaging studies, and thousands of clinical encounters, the book teaches readers how to identify their fear loops, become disenchanted with worry and avoidance, and use curiosity to move toward discomfort rather than run from it.

Readers will learn how to stop looping worries and overthinking, navigate everyday doomscrolling triggers, build distress tolerance, and transform adversity into renewed purpose, gratitude, joy, and meaning.

Clear, compassionate, and deeply practical, Going Beyond Anxiety gives readers tools to meet the world as it is—without being diminished by it.