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.

So great to have you back for another episode where we dive into the science of healing, binge eating.

If you hear the fire crackling in the background

or my husband walking around, I am recording this from our teeny tiny 800 square foot cabin up

in the mountain. So if you hear those noises in the background, I apologize. But there is not a

whole lot of space for me to sneak away and get somewhere super quiet to

record this podcast. But I'm excited to dive in and talk more about the science of healing,

binge eating. For so many years, I felt trapped in the cycles of binge eating, emotional,

eating, compulsive over eating, dieting. and it was absolutely maddening. It was

disheartening. And through lots of trial and error, I finally was able to reprogram my brain

and find my way out of these behavior patterns. But it was only through really beginning to

understand the neuroscience of behavior change. How do we reprogram the brain? And

for many years, researchers believed our brain stopped developing by our early to mid-20s. However,

what we know now is that the brain is always malleable. We're always able to change it. We're

able to learn. We're able to grow. and we're able to reprogram the way that we

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