Binge Eating Breakthrough
The Binge Eating Breakthrough Podcast is for anyone looking to break through the cycle of binge eating, compulsive overeating, emotional eating and food addiction. No matter how long you’ve struggled or how many things you’ve tried, you will learn the strategies, tools and mindset you need to find peace with food. Whether you're struggling with binge eating yourself or seeking to support a loved one on their journey to recovery, the Binge Eating Breakthrough podcast offers valuable insights, and expert advice to guide you toward freedom from disordered eating habits. Discover the tools, resources, and encouragement you need to br...
Why It's Hard to Know What You Want
In this episode, I'm exploring why it can be so hard to know what you want, even when you know exactly what you don't want. Maybe you're trying to stop binge eating, and so much of your focus has gone to what to avoid that you've never had space to ask what you'd actually love. Or maybe something new has started pulling at you in your work, your relationships, or your life, and part of you says you should just be grateful for what you have. Either way, I explore why your wants are meant to change over time...
Your Definition of Food Freedom Might Be Keeping You Stuck
In this episode, I'm asking a question you may never have put into words: what does food freedom mean to you? Maybe you're still in it, trying to stop binge eating or quiet the food noise. Or maybe you've made progress and still feel like something is missing. Either way, I explore how the picture of food freedom you're carrying can unintentionally keep you stuck with emotional eating and binge eating, and how to create a definition your brain can move toward. I also share my own definition and what came up for people at a live workshop on...
Why It's So Hard to Tell Anyone About Your Eating (and What Changes When You Do)
In this episode, I'm exploring why it can feel so hard to tell anyone how much you struggle with food. Maybe you've never told a single person about your binge eating or emotional eating. Or maybe someone knows a little, but not the whole story.
Either way, I share what happened when I finally told my husband about my binge eating, why keeping it hidden keeps you stuck, and how the right support can help with binge eating, emotional eating, or overeating so you're no longer carrying it alone.
What you'll discover:
Why "Just Trust Your Body" Doesn't Work Yet
In this episode, I'm looking at advice you've probably heard many times: "just trust your body." Maybe you're still in it, trying to stop binge eating and wondering why intuitive eating hasn't worked for you. Or maybe you've made progress and still don't fully trust yourself around food.
Either way, I explore why trusting your body isn't something you can simply decide, why your hunger signals can feel so unreliable after years of dieting and restriction, and how learning to tell the difference between your protective parts and your anchored self helps you rebuild trust with food a...
The Difference Between Numbing Out and Resting
From the outside, rest and numbing out can look exactly the same. Sitting on the couch. Watching TV. Scrolling your phone. Reading a book. Even eating.
In this episode, we’re looking beyond the activity itself to understand what it’s actually doing for you. I’ll share why numbing isn’t automatically a problem, how to recognize what you actually need, and a recent Monday when I caught myself in a pattern that used to lead to a binge and made a different choice.
What You'll Discover:
Why rest and numbing...Why Rest Feels Unproductive (Even When You Need It)
You know you need rest. You might even be exhausted. But when you finally have the chance to stop, you find yourself reaching for your phone, thinking about everything you should be doing, or getting back up to tackle one more thing.
In this episode, we're looking at the gap between knowing you need rest and actually being able to take it. I talk about why stopping can feel surprisingly uncomfortable, what staying in motion might be doing for you, and why the discomfort that shows up when you slow down may be useful information rather than...
ADHD and Binge Eating: What's the Connection?
Is there really a connection between ADHD and binge eating? Research shows ADHD and binge eating show up together far more than chance would explain, and once you see what's actually driving that overlap, some of your own patterns might finally make sense.
In this episode, I'm looking at what the research actually tells us about ADHD and binge eating and, more importantly, how this information might help you better understand your own eating patterns.
What You'll Discover:
The real research connection between ADHD and binge eatingWhat ADHD...20 Things You Need to Know to Stop Binge Eating
In this 200th episode of the Binge Eating Breakthrough Podcast, I'm sharing the 20 things I most want you to understand about binge eating and what it really takes to change your relationship with food.
Maybe you're still caught in the binge eating cycle and wondering why nothing you've tried has created lasting change. Or maybe you've already made significant progress but still find yourself struggling with urges, food rules, or trusting yourself around food.
Either way, this isn't a list of 20 tips or another plan to follow. It's 20 ways of understanding binge eating, restriction, urges...
Who Are You Practicing Becoming?
In this episode I'm exploring a question most of us have never consciously asked ourselves: Who am I practicing becoming? Maybe you're still deep in the binge and restrict cycle, waiting for the day it finally stops. Or maybe you've already made real progress and you're wondering why you still don't feel as free as you thought you would. Either way, I break down why the life you want doesn't start with your circumstances changing, and what it actually means to build it from the inside out, one small practice at a time.
What you'll discover:<...
5 Things That Changed My Relationship With Food
What does it really take to change your relationship with food? That's the question I'm answering in this episode, in a very specific way. Whether you're just starting to look closely at your relationship with food for the first time or you've already put in years of work and still find certain moments hard, I'm walking through five specific things that changed everything for me.
What You'll Discover:
The real reason awareness has to come before anything elseA tool I use almost daily to reconnect with my body...The Difference Between Reading About Change and Doing It
In this episode, I'm talking about something I think a lot of us are quietly doing without realizing it. Maybe you're still in it, reading and listening to everything you can find about binge eating and emotional eating, trying to finally understand it well enough that something changes. Or maybe you've already gone through most of what's out there and you're left wondering why understanding it hasn't actually changed anything.
Either way, we're diving into the real difference between learning about change and actually doing it, and why staying informed, through books, podcasts, or anything else, can q...
What You Actually Need to Find Peace With Food
In this episode, I'm talking about what actually creates peace with food, because it's probably not what you've been told. Maybe you're still in it, trying every rule and every plan to stop binge eating or emotional eating. Or maybe you've already tried most of what's out there, from books to structured programs, and you're left wondering why none of it fully stuck.
Either way, I'm breaking down the four things that actually get you to trusting yourself around food again, and why more willpower or another set of food rules was never going to be one o...
Everything You Wish You Could Ask Your Doctor About GLP-1s
In this episode, I'm continuing last week's conversation about GLP-1 medications, but this time I brought in someone who actually is the expert. Dr. Matthea Rentea, a board certified internal medicine and obesity medicine physician, joins me to answer the questions I'm not qualified to answer myself.
Maybe you're on a GLP-1 right now and know there's more to it than what your last appointment covered. Or maybe you're considering one and don't know where to start. Either way, we get into what these medications actually do in the body, who they're really for, and what almost n...
What a GLP-1 Can't Do for Your Binge Eating
In this episode, I'm answering a handful of questions that come up again and again around GLP-1 medications and binge eating. Maybe you're on one right now and still working out what it means for you. Or maybe you're considering starting one and aren't sure what to expect. Either way, I get into what these medications can actually do, what they can't touch, and what it really takes to feel at peace with food, whether you use one or not.
What you'll discover:
Why a GLP-1 is a tool, but never the only...Who Are You Without the Food Struggle?
In this episode, I'm answering a question your brain may already be asking without you realizing it. Maybe you're still in it, trying to stop binge eating or find some peace with food. Or maybe you've already reached your goal and don't know what to do with yourself, or your life, without the constant food noise. Either way, I explore why the food struggle can quietly become an identity, and what it actually takes to figure out who you are without binge eating or the constant focus on food, diet, and weight.
What You'll Discover:<...
The Part of You That Checks Out
This episode explores the part that goes numb, zones out, and checks out when things get hard, and what it means that so much eating happens while we're not fully there. I draw on my own experience of surfacing mid-binge and not knowing where I'd been, and look at why eating on autopilot makes complete sense as a protective strategy, and what it actually takes to start building enough safety to stay present.
What You'll Discover:
Why eating on autopilot and zoning out around food aren't about willpower and what the part...The Part of You That Hides
Does it ever feel like you are living a double life? Where you eat one way around other people but a completely different way in secret? Do you have a part of you that wants to hide your eating behaviors but don't understand why you do it or how to stop?
In this episode, I share from my own experience of hiding my binge eating for years, including a memory of sneaking food as a young child, and explore why secret eating and hiding food make complete sense as a protective strategy, and what it actually takes...
What Does It Mean to Feel Safe in Your Body?
If the idea of feeling safe in your body sounds unfamiliar, or even a little strange, you're not alone. In this episode we explore why so many people disconnect from their bodies in the first place, why that disconnection makes complete sense as a nervous system response, and what safety in the body actually feels like when you begin to find it.
You'll also get a short guided experience to help you recognize that feeling for yourself, and one simple daily practice to start building it.
What You'll Discover:
Why disconnecting from y...When Giving Yourself Food Freedom Backfires
You did the work to let go of the rules, challenge the rigidity, and give yourself permission to eat freely. And then the pendulum swung in the other direction, and the freedom didn't feel like freedom at all.
This episode is for anyone who has experienced food freedom and found it more complicated than expected, and for anyone holding tightly to restriction because the other end of the pendulum looks too frightening to risk.
This episode explores what's actually happening when food freedom feels like it's working against you, and what it looks like when t...
What If I Need to Lose Weight for My Health?
This episode comes directly from a listener question, one I hear in some form regularly. What do you do when your doctor has told you that losing weight is medically necessary, but everything you've tried has kept you stuck in the same cycle?
With her permission, I share a message from a listener who has been in the binge and restrict cycle for over 45 years and is navigating real health consequences. We discuss why restriction, even for medical reasons, keeps the cycle spinning, and what it actually looks like to work toward health when the scale has b...
How to Measure Success Beyond the Scale
If the number on the scale has been your primary way of knowing whether things are going well with food, this episode is for you. A conversation with a new client, who is literally a scientist, sparked something I knew I had to bring to the podcast.
You can be making real progress, feeling calmer around food, binging less, feeling more connected, and still find yourself on the scale waiting for the number to confirm what you're already experiencing. And when it doesn't? All that real progress disappears.
In this episode, I talk about why...
What Self-Trust Around Food Actually Means
"I just don't trust myself around food." If that sentence is familiar, this episode is for you.
Today I'm unpacking what self-trust actually is, and what it isn't, because most people are working toward a version of self-trust that was never achievable to begin with. And that definition might quietly be keeping you stuck.
What You'll Discover:
Why the most common definition of self-trust sets you up to fail before you even beginWhat self-trust actually isThe difference between self-monitoring and self-awareness, and why one c...Your Food Struggles Might Actually Be a Transition Problem
If you've ever wondered why binge eating or emotional eating seems to happen at the same times of day, after work, after lunch, on Sunday nights, or when you get home from a trip, this episode is going to reframe everything.
The answer might not be about food at all. It might be about transitions.
In this episode I break down what transitions actually are, why the brain finds them so hard to navigate, and how so many binge eating triggers are really just transition moments your nervous system didn't know how to get through.
...What Happens When You Can't Keep Busy Anymore
If you struggle with binge eating and feel like you're holding it together on the outside while something quietly unravels on the inside, this episode is for you.
A contestant on the survival show Alone had everything he needed to win and tapped out on day eight anyway. Not because of anything going wrong on the outside. Because of everything he had never learned to be with on the inside. His story reveals something important about why binge eating happens and why willpower will never be the answer.
What You'll Discover:
W...What Running the Boston Marathon Taught Me About Chasing Any Goal
This week's episode is a little different. I recently crossed the finish line at the 130th Boston Marathon, and I invited my friend and fellow coach Shelby Tutty to sit down with me for a conversation about the race, the journey, and what it actually feels like to reach a goal you've been chasing for years.
But this isn't just a race recap. If you have a dream you've been putting off, a goal that feels just out of reach, or something you've tried before and haven't quite gotten to yet, there's something in this conversation for...
Why Binge Eating Feels So Hard to Talk About
There is a thought that lives alongside binge eating for almost everyone who struggles with it: "nobody can know".
In this episode I share my own story of hiding. The years of secrecy, what it actually cost me, and what changed when I finally let someone in.
If you've never told a single person about your struggle with food, or if you've told someone and still felt completely alone in it, this episode is for you.
What You'll Discover:
Why shame forces us to hide and how that secrecy keeps th...What Breaking Free From Binge Eating Really Looks Like
Most people have a picture in their mind of what it looks like to finally break free from binge eating — a switch that flips or a moment that changes everything. The reality is different. And in a lot of ways, it's more hopeful.
In this episode, I walk through the phases people often move through on the journey to food freedom, not as a prescribed timeline, but as a map of recognizable places you might find yourself.
Wherever you are, you'll be able to identify yourself in one or more of these phases.
What...
Stop Fighting the Part of You That Binges
What if the key to breaking free from binge eating isn't more control, but less fighting?
In this episode, I'm talking about what it actually looks like to stop going to war with the part of you that binges, and what becomes possible when you do.
What You'll Discover:
The different types of parts that exist within each of us and their unique rolesWhy the part that binges feels so urgentThree concrete steps for shifting from fighting to working with this partWhat this approach is...The Part of You That Binges Isn't the Enemy
What if the part of you that binges isn't broken and isn't something to be eliminated?
In this episode, I'm sharing something that changed my own relationship with food, and that I've watched change so much for the people I work with.
If you've ever hated that part of yourself, felt ashamed of it, or wondered why fighting it so hard hasn't made it go away, this episode is for you.
What You'll Discover:
Why fighting the part that binges tends to make it stronger not weakerWhat that pa...Why Change Feels So Hard (Even When You Want It)
If you've genuinely wanted to change your relationship with food and still found yourself stuck, this episode is for you. We explore why change feels so difficult even when the desire is real, and it has nothing to do with willpower or weakness.
What's actually happening in your brain and nervous system when you try to change a pattern might surprise you.
What You'll Discover:
Why the brain resists change even when you genuinely want itThe real reason shame slows progress rather than motivating itHow new neural p...How to Feel Your Feelings Without Turning to Food
Today I'm joined by Lauren Carlisle Brown, the emotions coach, for a conversation that gets right to the heart of why feeling our feelings is so much harder than it sounds. If you've ever known that emotions were driving your eating but had no idea what to actually do about it, this episode is going to give you a whole new way to think about that.
Lauren shares her Emotions Manifesto: five truths we can choose to believe about our feelings, and we dig into why feeling our emotions is so much harder than it sounds, and...
I Know What to Do But I Can't Make Myself Do It
If you've ever started a day completely certain it would be different, only to find yourself in the same place again by the end of the day, this episode is for you.
We explore the gap between knowing and doing, why it has nothing to do with willpower, and what's actually happening underneath the surface when that determined morning version of you seems to completely disappear.
What You'll Discover:
Why the "knowing/doing" gap is a nervous system signal, not a willpower failureHow the part of you that binges is actually trying t...Progress Over Perfection
If you've ever felt like you're either doing it perfectly or completely blowing it, this episode offers a different way to think about your journey with food. We explore what black-and-white thinking looks like around eating, why rigid standards can actually create the very behaviors we're trying to stop, and how learning to look for progress — not perfection — changes everything.
What You'll Discover:
Why all-or-nothing thinking keeps you stuck in binge cyclesWhat progress with food can actually look like (it might surprise you)Why small changes are more powerful than big overhaulsHow what you focu...It's Not Self-Sabotage. It's Self-Protection.
If you've ever binged and immediately asked "what is wrong with me?" this episode is for you. You'll learn exactly why binge eating makes sense, why it's never actually self-sabotage, and what to ask yourself instead.
You'll hear two real stories: one woman in the thick of shame and self-blame, convinced she's broken, and another who spent months white-knuckling through Sunday night promises before something finally shifted.
What You'll Discover:
Why "self-sabotage" is almost always self-protection in disguiseThe one question that will shift you out of the shame spiralThe signs you are making progress t...What Olympic Athletes Can Teach You About Food Freedom
After watching the Olympics for two weeks I wanted to share the stories that have resonated with me the most. Stories about what it takes to keep going, to trust your body, to come back after something hard.
This podcast isn't just about inspiration, it's about what these athletes can teach you on your journey to food freedom.
What You'll Discover:
- Why inspiration is one of the most underrated tools on your path to food freedom
- The mindset required to overcome hard things
- What Mikaela Shiffrin's ap...
The Hidden Role of Shame in Binge Eating (with Kyira Wackett)
Shame might be the most powerful force keeping you stuck in the binge cycle—and you might not even realize it's there.
Today I'm joined by Kyira Wackett, a licensed therapist specializing in shame, burnout, and anxiety, for a conversation that gets to the heart of why shame and binge eating are so deeply connected. Shame is the painful belief that we are fundamentally unworthy of love, belonging, and connection—a feeling that shows up intensely after binges or any behavior we try to hide.
Kyira shares her own story of struggling with food and body...
Stop Fighting Food - How to Become a Peaceful Eater
What if the exhausting battle with food could actually end? Not through more willpower or another restrictive diet, but through understanding what's really happening underneath the struggle.
In this episode, we explore what it means to become a peaceful eater - someone who is calm, connected, and confident with food - and why that transformation might be more attainable than you think.
What You'll Discover:
• Why fighting food harder only makes the fight bigger - and what to do instead
• What it actually means to be a "peaceful eater" (it's not perfe...
What to Do When You're Not Where You Wanted to Be
One month into the new year, many people are feeling discouraged. Maybe you're not where you thought you'd be. Maybe you feel like you've backslid into old patterns.
This episode offers a completely different way to look at where you are - one rooted in both truth and compassion. You'll learn about measuring the gain instead of the gap, why you're never actually back at square one (even when it feels like it), and how to find what's different even in familiar patterns.
What You'll Discover:
• The Gap and The Gain: two completely dif...
The Importance of Rhythm & Routine For Your Body
Your nervous system craves predictability - but that doesn't mean rigid rules.
This episode explores why rhythm and routine matter so much for nervous system regulation, what to do when you rebel against structure, and how to create Supportive Structure that feels like freedom instead of restriction.
Even if you think you hate routine, this episode might change your perspective.
What You'll Discover:
• Why your nervous system needs predictability to feel safe
• The difference between rigid rules and Supportive Structure with flexibility
• How to work with rebellion against...
A Nervous System Approach to Goal Setting
Most goal-setting advice completely ignores your nervous system - and that's why most goals fail.
When you understand how your nervous system responds to different types of goals, you can set yourself up for sustainable success instead of constant struggle.
This episode reveals why traditional goal-setting often backfires and offers a completely different approach that works with your body instead of against it.
What You'll Discover:
Why most goals trigger your nervous system's threat responseThe difference between "away from" and "toward" goals and why it mattersHow to set True Goals that work wi...