New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Show Notes: Have you ever thought, “I don’t even like this that much… so why do I still want more?” In this episode, Georgie explains the difference between wanting and liking —and why urges can stay loud even when pleasure is fading. You’ll learn how wanting and liking are supported by partly different brain systems: dopamine-heavy motivat...
Jun 01, 2026•19 min•Season 3Ep. 3
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Show Notes: In this episode, Georgie gives you a practical “urge map” to answer the question that matters in real life: what kind of urge is this? Because the same pantry moment can come from very different mechanisms—and if you use the wrong tool, it’s easy to assume you “did it wrong” when you were simply solving the wrong problem. The co...
May 25, 2026•17 min•Season 3Ep. 2
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Show Notes: An Urge Is Not an Order: What Urges Are (and What They Aren’t) (The Urge Proof Life — Episode 1) Urges can feel like an emergency—like the outcome is already decided before you even start. In this season opener, Georgie reframes urges as signals, not commands, and explains why urges get so loud when pressure rises and capacity d...
May 18, 2026•18 min•Season 3Ep. 1
The Urge Proof Life — Season Trailer A practical season on urges: how to identify what kind of urge you’re having and match the tool to the mechanism, with one small weekly experiment in every episode. Want extra support? Join All Access (real-life coaching sessions, shared with permission): georgiefear.com/podcast Want to work with me? ConfidentEaters.com New to the show? Start Here : https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealin...
May 11, 2026•2 min•Season 3Ep. 2
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Show Notes: What happens when things are finally going better… and your brain decides that means it must be fake? In this coaching excerpt, Sarah names a fear I hear all the time: “Am I doing well… or am I just performing because someone’s watching?” We talk about why progress can feel suspicious, how “imposter/cheat” stories keep the bar m...
May 04, 2026•12 min
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. This Is Treatable (From Distress to Stability — Part 12, Season Finale) In the final episode of this season, Georgie names what many people quietly doubt: this is treatable. Not because it’s quick or simple, but because binge eating and emotional eating aren’t random or a personal flaw—they’re understandable system responses to pressure, de...
Apr 30, 2026•8 min•Season 2Ep. 12
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. The morning after a hard night of eating can feel heavy—physically and mentally—and it’s easy for your brain to start reaching for a “fix”: skipping meals, tightening rules, stepping on the scale, promising to be “very good” today. In this episode, Georgie explains why compensation usually turns into overcompensation, and how that swing add...
Apr 23, 2026•13 min•Season 2Ep. 11
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. This episode is about the moment before things fully blow up—not the binge itself, and not the morning-after panic, but the point where you start to feel… off. When your schedule changes (weekends, travel, illness, late nights, company), the day can lose its scaffolding and pressure quietly accumulates until eating starts to feel urgent and...
Apr 16, 2026•10 min•Season 2Ep. 10
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. If you can hold it together all day—and then feel like everything falls apart at night—this episode is for you. Nighttime bingeing isn’t a character flaw. It’s usually what happens when pressure exceeds capacity at the end of the day. In this episode, Georgie breaks down the most common drivers of nighttime binges (and why they often stack)...
Apr 09, 2026•15 min•Season 2Ep. 9
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Show Notes: As things start to feel steadier, a new fear often shows up: If I’m not white-knuckling this, am I doing enough? In this episode, we talk about why calm can feel unfamiliar when effort has been your survival strategy—and how real recovery looks more like stabilization than intensity. We’ll break down what stability actually mean...
Apr 02, 2026•9 min•Season 2Ep. 8
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Show Notes: When the urge to eat feels urgent, convincing, and hard to resist, insight alone usually isn’t enough. In this episode, we focus on what to do once the urge is already here—so you reduce escalation instead of making it worse. In this episode, you’ll hear the key reframe that an urge is not an order—it’s a signal, why fighting, s...
Mar 26, 2026•9 min•Season 2Ep. 7
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Episode summary Recovery doesn’t only happen in therapy—it happens in the moments in between. In this episode, Georgie talks with Mehek Mohan , cofounder of Kahani , an app designed to offer personalized, on-demand support for eating disorder recovery, and Elena , who uses the app in her own recovery and helps guide its development. You’ll ...
Mar 23, 2026•45 min
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. When life feels like nonstop self-management, food can become the fastest, most reliable way to get relief—especially if rest, comfort, or support don’t feel allowed. In this episode, we’ll look at why emotional eating and binge eating are points on the same continuum of pressure and capacity, and how to widen your “menu of relief” so food ...
Mar 19, 2026•14 min•Season 2Ep. 6
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. So many people believe: “Once I lose weight, I’ll finally feel calm around food.” In this episode, we unpack why that belief often backfires—turning food into a high-stakes performance, increasing stress and rigidity, and making emotional eating and binge eating more likely. We’ll also explore a stability-first approach: lowering pressure f...
Mar 12, 2026•14 min•Season 2Ep. 5
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Episode 4 — The Binge–Restrict Cycle (and Where It Actually Starts) From Distress to Stability — Part 4 Most people think the cycle starts with the binge. But binges don’t come out of nowhere—they come out of pressure. In this episode, we zoom out and name two beginnings : the day-to-day start (quiet pressure, depleted capacity, emotional e...
Mar 05, 2026•22 min•Season 2Ep. 4
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Show Notes: Ever felt like the first bite “signs a contract”—and suddenly the brakes are gone? In this episode, we slow that moment down and explain why loss-of-control eating is a predictable state shift that shows up more often under stress and restriction. You’ll learn what’s happening in your brain and body—and how to interrupt ...
Feb 26, 2026•17 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. If you’ve ever been told “just stop restricting” and felt more confused than helped, this episode is for you. We’re defining restriction in a way that actually supports recovery: not every “no” creates pressure. The kind of restriction that fuels binge eating is excessive, distress-based scarcity—and learning the difference is how you build steadine...
Feb 19, 2026•14 min•Season 2Ep. 2
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Feb 14, 2026•4 min
Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Welcome to Season 2 of Breaking Up With Binge Eating . This 12-episode series walks you step-by-step from distress around food to something steadier and more workable—without perfection. In the Season 2 opener, we challenge the idea that loss of control is a character flaw and replace it with a more accurate frame: pressure exceeds capacity. We’ll unpack how restriction, stress, exhaustion, and emotional ove...
Feb 12, 2026•7 min•Season 2Ep. 1
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Episode Summary In this episode, Georgie Fear explores the psychological chain reactions behind binge eating, revealing how it often serves as a rebound effect from excessive restraint and self-sacrifice. Through the story of Marta, a busy mom juggling family and business, listeners learn how binge eating isn't about selfishness—it'...
Jan 16, 2026•13 min•Season 1Ep. 122
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Losing weight is probably one of the most common reasons we hear that people want to end their binge eating. It's the physical symbol of success and is most apparent to the world. Reasons for wanting to change their current state may also include bothersome achy knees, elevated blood pressure, or distress about not being a healthy r...
Dec 26, 2025•18 min•Season 1Ep. 120
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Have to do this. Can't eat that . Over and over, these mandates drive a person crazy. Many of our clients say that it builds up over time, and they snap. They just want to eat and eat, in opposition to feeling pushed around by all the responsibilities and demands on them. They want to feel free, like they can have or do whatever the...
Dec 05, 2025•12 min•Season 1Ep. 119
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. "I eat really clean" , Kyle said "Even my binges are on healthy things. That's why it's confusing. I'm a fit guy. I'm a healthy eater who binge eats." Kyle's words bring up a number of misconceptions about binge eating and the people who suffer from it. In today's episode, we'll delve into why clean eating can lead to or exacerbate ...
Nov 14, 2025•24 min•Season 1Ep. 118
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. In this Episode: Our philosophy on treatment includes supporting people in many areas of life in addition to meeting their nutrition needs. Eating disorder recovery certainly involves modifying your eating, but if someone only works on the food piece of their life, they often can't completely escape from the symptoms. They may relap...
Oct 24, 2025•27 min•Season 1Ep. 117
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Show Notes: Have you ever had the thought 'I don't deserve good things'? This pervasive belief can be subtle, but it's not harmless. Today we are going to explore what's really going on with this belief. When we peel back the layers, we can see that the belief of "deservingness" is rooted in conditional worth messaging, internalized...
Oct 03, 2025•16 min•Season 1Ep. 116
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Olivia emailed us sharing her personal journey with Semaglutide, a GLP one receptor agonist, and how it helped her manage binge eating disorder. Olivia's experience was so compelling and we believe it sheds light on the silence around GLP one drugs and their potential benefits beyond weight loss. Join Georgie as she discusses the im...
Sep 12, 2025•52 min•Season 1Ep. 115
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. In today's episode, we discuss how moments of emotional distress can often trigger binge and emotional eating and it all starts with the thought 'I can't handle this'. But what if there was a way to reframe that thought and change the course of your actions as a result? It all starts with combating overwhelm, building up alternative...
Aug 22, 2025•13 min•Season 1Ep. 114
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Join us in today's episode as we dive into one of the most pervasive thoughts in the binge-restrict cycle: 'I'll make up for it tomorrow.' We'll explore how this seemingly harmless thought is a clustered cognitive distortion, combining all-or-nothing thinking, future tripping, moral reasoning, should statements, and magical thinking...
Aug 01, 2025•12 min•Season 1Ep. 113
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. In this episode, we delve into the latest research on Binge Eating Disorder (BED), exploring its most common causes and effective treatments. Recent studies new findings show BED's connection to brain activity and reduced impulse control. Research also demonstrates the roles of systemic inflammation and the gut-brain axis in BED. Yo...
Jul 11, 2025•19 min•Season 1Ep. 112
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Are you someone who experiences a period of good weeks followed by bad weeks? Maybe you've heard yourself thinking, "I've been so good, I can afford it." This is an unhelpful thought that we hear pretty regularly from our clients and it's something we call "The Overconfidence Trap". Someone usually falls into this trap when they are...
Jun 20, 2025•11 min•Season 1Ep. 111
