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 want to eat like a normal person". That's what people tell us over the phone, on Zoom, via email, or written into our new client assessment. In today's episode, we want to explore with you what it means to be a 'normal eater,' and highlight that normal eating encompasses a range of behaviors rather than a specific definition. We ...
May 16, 2025•16 min•Season 1Ep. 110
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 you noticed a pattern in your life where you use food to solve all the things? Whether you are cold, tired, behind schedule or intimidated or unsure or angry, does your brain say "should we eat something?" Even if you aren't hungry at all? This is exactly how emotional eating makes us act: We find ourselves using the same actio...
Apr 25, 2025•21 min•Season 1Ep. 109
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. We all have tapes that play in our heads or narratives in the background of our lives. The stories we tell ourselves cast us into roles and you can be certain that they impact how you feel, the choices you make day to day, and how you eat. If you are a creative person, a writer, a poet, or artist, you probably have a really develope...
Mar 28, 2025•12 min•Season 1Ep. 108
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 you noticed a pattern in your life where you use food to solve all the things? Whether you are cold, tired, behind schedule or intimidated or unsure or angry, does your brain say "should we eat something?" Even if you aren't hungry at all? This is exactly how emotional eating makes us act: We find ourselves using the same actio...
Feb 28, 2025•18 min•Season 1Ep. 107
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. We love when we get letters from listeners! Today, we want to share one that came in from longtime listener, Marissa. Marissa has stopped binge eating thanks to following the skills she's learned from this podcast! However, she shared with us that she is still experiencing some challenges with managing her treats intake, particularl...
Feb 07, 2025•19 min•Season 1Ep. 106
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 you noticed a pattern in your life where you use food to solve all the things? Whether you are cold, tired, behind schedule or intimidated or unsure or angry, does your brain say "should we eat something?" Even if you aren't hungry at all? This is exactly how emotional eating makes us act: We find ourselves using the same actio...
Jan 17, 2025•14 min•Season 1Ep. 105
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. Winter is here! For many of us, it's a long stretch of the year—one that can throw a wrench in even the best-laid health plans. If you're someone who tries to stay active, eat well, and nurture your mental wellness throughout the year, you probably know that winter brings its own unique set of challenges. Whether it's battling the w...
Dec 13, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 104
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. Today on the show, we are going to talk about procrastineating, which is procrastination, where food is concerned. Procrastineating may show up like snacking or grazing, or it may be the form of a binge. When we sort through procrastination eating, we are less concerned about the magnitude of eating and more concerned about why it's...
Nov 29, 2024•11 min•Season 1Ep. 103
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. Whats the best way to smother a binge before it snowballs, stopping it from gaining momentum, and spreading it to destroy your day, weeks, or decades? Well, we actually are going to talk about exactly that in today's episode. Overcoming binge eating challenges must happen from several different angles. First, we can look at it from ...
Nov 08, 2024•9 min•Season 1Ep. 102
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. Our group coaching client Emma recently reached out feeling defeated. Her vacation got derailed by an incoming hurricane. She felt like a failure of the program because she was going back to old ways of using food to cope with the disappointment of her intended family plans, wondering if she would ever get better from these eating a...
Oct 18, 2024•14 min•Season 1Ep. 101
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. This is our 100th episode of the Breaking up With Binge Eating Podcast! Thank you, listeners, for the love and support of this podcast. We are glad you are here and thankful to be a small part of your healing journey to food freedom. Does encouraging yourself feel weird? If so, then this episode is for you. In fact, the "weirder" it...
Sep 27, 2024•12 min•Season 1Ep. 100
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. Food can be a wonderful tool of connection. You can use it to connect with others, to a nostalgic memory, while traveling to a new culture, or even connecting to your own heritage. But food is not the only way you can connect to these things. In today's episode, join Georgie as shares some ideas for other ways you can connect with a...
Sep 06, 2024•10 min•Season 1Ep. 99
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. The days are gone when eating disorders and body image struggles were secrets to keep. Nowadays, people talk about them openly, which a beautiful thing. But if you aren't prepared, those conversations can get awkward, or worse yet, start disagreements when you were only asking for some help and support. Join Georgie and Christina in...
Aug 16, 2024•21 min•Season 1Ep. 98
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 a long term calorie counter? Then you may want to consider whether it is helping or hurting your journey to breaking up with binge eating. What we have seen with clients is that calorie counting and binge eating are linked, and can unfortunately perpetuate the pendulum swing of binge and restrict. Maybe you have used calorie...
Jul 19, 2024•15 min•Season 1Ep. 97
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. “We all make mistakes” - you’ve heard that so many times that I bet it’s practically meaningless. It’s like a bland hallmark card inscription that has zero power for most of us. Many people who are working on improving their relationship with food, such as stopping binge eating or emotional eating say their #1 struggle is how to rec...
Jun 28, 2024•15 min•Season 1Ep. 96
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. This week, we are excited to share an insider review of our Breaking up with Binge Eating Group program. Join Georgie and Berenice, as they discuss her journey from being a listener of the podcast, to joining the group program 6 months ago, to overcoming the binge and restrict cycle and developing food freedom. Berenice is a joy and...
Jun 07, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 95
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 you ever wondered if you are addicted to food? Can someone be addicted to food like they can be to alcohol and other substances? Many of our clients feel out of control around certain foods, and may feel as though they are food addicted, which is why we thought this would be an important topic to cover together. Each month, the...
May 18, 2024•43 min•Season 1Ep. 94
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. This week, we are excited to share a Client interview from our 1:1 coaching program. Join Coach Christina and her former client, Maddie, as they discuss her journey of overcoming the binge and restrict cycle and developing food freedom. We all have different challenges, backgrounds, habits, and lifestyles. Maddie shares her story as...
Apr 19, 2024•50 min•Season 1Ep. 93
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 coach Georgie and the Confident Eaters team in today's episode, as we discuss recent updates to Emotional Eating and Binge Eating Disorder in one our monthly coaches education meeting. One of the papers we discuss in this conversation is all about self control. If you struggle with self control or wondered if you can maximize y...
Mar 29, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 92
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. Everybody is "stressed", but we don't always understand exactly what that means. We believe that not all stress is bad. It is a protective mechanism that helps us survive situations in life. It also allows us to be challenged and have meaningful experiences. At the same time, if we are stacking stress on top of itself without coming...
Mar 08, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 91
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. If you've listened to our podcast before, then you've heard us talk extensively about the fact that being kind to yourself can lead to remarkable personal growth and improved well-being. In this episode, Coach Georgie explores the reasons people are often overly critical of themselves and how this can hinder progress. Join us as we ...
Oct 30, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 90
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. This is a free preview of subscribers-only content! To unlock ALL the subscribers-only episodes with real clients and conversations, join us at georgiefear.com/podcast . Join Georgie with her real life client Brian, who has had a really good week. He has been making progress in utilizing the tools they have worked on together, like ...
Oct 23, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 89
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. Right after an overeating incident or binge, once of the most helpful things to do is look back and consider what lessons we want to take from the experience. Maybe you discovered a situation you don't want to put yourself in again, or a choice you don't want to repeat. Or, perhaps your regrettable incident revealed a supportive rou...
Sep 12, 2023•13 min•Season 1Ep. 88
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. This is a free preview of subscribers-only content! To unlock ALL the subscribers-only episodes with real clients and conversations, join us at georgiefear.com/podcast . Today you'll hear Georgie and real life client Rachel in a conversation about what Rachel can do to escape the "hamster wheel" of swearing she will not binge, but t...
Jul 25, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 87
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'll get started... after a snack." "This is so overwhelming... I need candy." Life contains onerous tasks, and they can cause dread and anxiety even when we haven't begun them. Because avoiding a chore presents its own drawn out emotional torture, binge eating or procrastineating entices us to escape BOTH the task and the heavy gu...
Apr 04, 2023•15 min•Season 1Ep. 86
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. "Now's my chance." "I'll be better tomorrow." "One last time." Thoughts like these can make you feel just a little more reactive, a little more tense, a little less settled. And frankly, they also make you more prone overeating or binging. In this episode, you'll learn to recognize when you slip into a scarcity mindset. More importa...
Mar 20, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 85
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. The sinking feeling of realizing you made a mistake can be awful. It can lead to panic, fear, embarrassment, and often, binge eating. Presumably you are already trying hard to not make mistakes, so what else can be done? A lot. Here are five precise things to do after you make a mistake to help you get back to your feet emotionally ...
Feb 21, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 84
The following sequence of events may be all too familiar: You want to push yourself to do something different with food - maybe order a carb, eat the dressing, or enjoy dessert out in the open instead of in secret. So you gather your strength, recite a mantra or two, take the leap... and then feel mega guilty afterwards. What gives? This is what you wanted to do, and now instead of glowing with pride, you're feeling like hell over it. In this episode, we'll talk about this phenomenon, why it hap...
Feb 02, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 83
"It's frustrating," says Kaitlyn. Who wouldn't be frustrated? Watching your mind circle around the next opportunity to eat like a moth doing laps around a garden light...is hardly the fully-lived life most of us want to be experiencing. Let's look at how we can help Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn has already made some progress, including a recent win with handling a stressful day without a binge. She's worried that it will be a single outlier experience, though, and wants more strategies to help her feel in c...
Oct 14, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 82
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. When it comes to problems in our lives (such as disordered eating or excess weight), we can create full-time jobs for ourselves just thinking about them. We can spend endless hours considering how this problem has worsened or changed over time, what contributed to it, whom can be blamed, and how fiercely we want things to be differe...
Oct 03, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 81
