Ep. 184: Productive Discomfort in Recovery (with Coach Julie)
Brain over Binge Podcast
Kathryn Hansen
4.6 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Kathryn and Coach Julie talk about the role of productive discomfort in binge eating recovery. It’s natural to want recovery to feel easy, but the truth is that some discomfort is necessary—because that’s how the brain learns to let go of the binge eating habit.
You’ll learn why feeling challenged isn’t a sign that you’re doing something wrong; it’s a sign that you’re making meaningful progress toward real, lasting change.
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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. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm Catherine Hansen, author of Brain Over Binge and the Brain Over Binge Recovery Guide, |
| 0:15.4 | and Coach Julie is here on the show today as well. |
| 0:17.6 | And in this episode, we're going to talk about productive discomfort in |
| 0:21.2 | recovery. It will be great if recovery felt easy all of the time and never felt uncomfortable. |
| 0:27.0 | But that's just not the reality of it. If trying to stop binging feels difficult for you right now, |
| 0:32.1 | that doesn't mean you're doing it wrong. It probably means you're experiencing some of the |
| 0:36.5 | productive discomfort that's always |
| 0:38.5 | involved when we extinguish harmful habits and train our brain in a new direction. And that new |
| 0:44.0 | direction is where you want to go, toward a life that is completely free of binge eating. Before we get |
| 0:50.1 | started, I want to let you know that if you're looking for daily reminders to keep you motivated, |
| 0:54.5 | especially during these uncomfortable moments, you can get my free 31-day Brain OverBinge |
| 0:59.5 | Inspiration booklet. It's simple, practical, and rooted in everything that I teach here on the |
| 1:04.9 | podcast and in my books. You can download it at BrainoverBinge.com forward slash inspiration |
| 1:10.4 | dash booklet. |
| 1:12.0 | And that link is also in the show description. |
| 1:14.4 | And now we'll get into today's topic. |
| 1:16.8 | Hi, Julie. |
| 1:17.6 | Welcome back. |
| 1:18.6 | Hi, Catherine. |
| 1:19.6 | So good to be here with you. |
| 1:21.5 | Our topic today is productive discomfort. |
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