Hello and welcome. This is Jesse Jean and you're listening to the Dear Body Podcast.

I spent 10 years stuck in the diet binge cycles hating my body and envying women who seem to have it all because I never felt enough.

And what I discovered in my journey to food freedom, radical self-love, and becoming an eating psychology coach is this.

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it.

And that is what this podcast is all about.

We get real, we get raw, and we hold nothing back.

So if you're ready to learn how to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome

to the show.

Before we dive in, I do want to place a trigger warning that in this episode, Dr. Caroline

Leif does mention vomiting, bulimia.

We talk about various eating disorders.

So if these things are triggering to you, please be advised that they are included in this

episode. During my 10-year battle with binge overeating and body shame, I felt completely trapped in a

struggle that I believed would be the thorn in my side, the rest of my life, something I'd always have to

deal with in one way or another. And it wasn't until I started to understand the science of

conquering binge eating, which was really the science of behavior change that I started to feel

hope and see progress and experience freedom for probably the first time in over a decade.

And it's truly because of the work of neuroscientists across the globe. and experience freedom for probably the first time in over a decade.

And it's truly because of the work of neuroscientists across the globe that I had the resources and hope and the access to mental reprogramming tools that have truly forever changed my life.

They've changed my brain and the way my mind works around food and body.

And if you're struggling in any way

with food or body challenges or really any mental health challenges, it's really important that

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