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

binge eating. I'm your host, Catherine Hansen. I'm the author of Brain Over Binge and the

Brain Over Binge Recovery Guide. My goal on this podcast is to help you have freedom from the

struggle with food in the most efficient way possible, so that you don't get lost in emotional

analysis or

endless recovery work. And to help with that, I often bring in guests to share different

strategies and ideas so that you can discover what uniquely helps you and brings you closer

to complete recovery. Today, I'm honored to speak with Dr. Amy Epigion about how trauma

impacts our body and our nervous system and how that can

create challenges in recovery, as well as how trauma healing can create safety in the body and in the

nervous system, which gives you more access to your decision-making abilities and therefore

supports recovery. Dr. Amy is a double board certified physician in preventative and addiction

medicine with master's degrees in biochemistry and public health. She has developed the biology of

trauma model, which is a framework for addressing how overwhelming experiences become rooted in our

biology, not just in our minds. What makes Dr. Amy's work especially unique is that it's grounded

not just in science, but in her own lived experience. After adopting a child with a history of trauma

and then experiencing her own health breakdown, she realized firsthand how deeply trauma can shape a person,

but she also saw that it's possible to heal. And she also used these trauma-informed

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