Ep. 181: You Do Care and You Do Deserve Recovery (with Coach Julie)

Brain over Binge Podcast

Kathryn Hansen

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

During urges to binge you may find yourself thinking “I don’t care anymore,” or “It doesn’t matter,” or “I deserve this binge”—as if binge eating is a reward. You might also hear the false message that you “don’t deserve recovery.” These are common thoughts that perpetuate so many cases of binge eating and other harmful habits and addictions. In this episode, Kathyrn and Coach Julie help you learn how to recognize these thoughts, understand them, and stop giving them value and attention. You’ll also learn how to reconnect with the deeper truth that you do care and that you do deserve to fully recover.

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Episode 38: Q&A: Binge Eating as a Form of Self-Punishment

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Brain Over Binge podcast, where you learn a simple, brain-based approach to ending binge eating.
0:11.0	I'm Catherine Hansen. I'm the author of Brain Over Binge and the Brain Over Binge Recovery Guide,
0:16.0	and I want to thank you for being here and for taking the time to support yourself in recovery.
0:20.7	In today's episode, Coach Julie is here, and we the time to support yourself in recovery. In today's
0:21.4	episode, Coach Julie is here and we're going to focus on untangling some common thoughts you may
0:26.3	have as you try to stop binge eating. During urges to binge, you may find yourself thinking,
0:31.7	I just don't care anymore, or it doesn't even matter, or I deserve this, as if binging is a reward or a source of good things for you.
0:40.8	You might also hear the false message that you don't deserve to overcome binging, or that recovery is not something that you're worthy of.
0:48.2	You're definitely not alone in this. These thoughts serve to perpetuate so many cases of binge eating and other harmful habits and addictions.
0:56.1	In this episode, we'll help you learn how to recognize these thoughts, understand them,
1:00.7	and ultimately stop giving them value and attention so that you can stop acting on them.
1:05.7	You'll also learn how to reconnect with the part of yourself that does deeply care,
1:10.0	and we'll teach you how to start
1:11.6	believing that without a doubt you deserve recovery. Hi Julie, welcome back. Hi, Catherine. So good to be
1:18.4	with you. Awesome. We're going to be talking about a topic today that's been coming up a lot in
1:23.5	coaching. We're going to call it you do care and you do deserve it. So Julie, why don't you just
1:28.5	set us up for this conversation? Yeah, it's a lesson that I created for the group because
1:34.3	I feel as if a very common or two very common lower brain permission giving thoughts are
1:43.1	I just don't care. And also, I just, I deserve this.
1:48.0	I deserve this. Right. And I think it would be great for us to talk about untangling these thoughts.
1:55.7	Because the truth is that we very much do care, all of us, we with our higher brains. And we do deserve
2:04.3	recovery, but binging isn't something anybody deserves. There's a lot to unpack here for sure.
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