Welcome to the Brain Over Binge Podcast, where you learn a simple, brain-based approach to ending binge eating.

I'm so glad you're here.

I'm Catherine Hansen.

I'm the author of Brain Over Binge and the Brain Over Binge Recovery Guide.

Today I'm continuing the series on healing your relationship with food, yourself, and others.

This is part three. And if you haven't listened yet to part one and part two, I'll link those

episodes in the show description. And those episodes were 171 and 175. In the first two episodes,

I talked about how binge eating and restrictive food behaviors interfere with relationships in many ways.

They isolate you from others and from your own needs and your ability to care for yourself.

I helped you explore the many ways that issues with relationships could be intertwined with your eating disorder.

And I also addressed how it's very important to separate your ability to improve relationships

from your ability to avoid binge eating.

You want to set yourself up to be binge free no matter how well or how poorly relationships

are going because binging is never the solution to relationship issues.

I also talked about how stopping binging or even making progress in recovery so that food

starts to take up less of your time, energy, and mental capacity, how this starts to create space

for more connection in your life and more space to focus on addressing and healing relationship

issues, whether that's with yourself or with others. And that will be my primary focus for this

episode. Now, as I've discussed mostly in part one of this series, if your relationship with food

is still consuming you, it's going to feel really hard to heal other relationships, because you're

still in that survival mode. So it's very important to focus on getting to a more stable place with food, and we have

many resources to help you do that, including one-on-one coaching with me or coach Julie, or the group,

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