Ep. 2: The Cause of Binge Eating: Urges to Binge
Brain over Binge Podcast
Kathryn Hansen
4.6 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, you’ll learn the simple reason why you binge, and why you’ve found it difficult to stop binge eating in the past. Kathryn and Cookie explain that the urges to binge are the only direct cause of binge eating, which takes the complexity out of recovery.
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| 0:00.0 | If you ever feel out of control around food, you're not alone, and you're in the right place to learn practical, no-nonsense information about why you binge and how to stop. |
| 0:12.4 | Binge eating does not mean that something is wrong with you. It's a natural but primitive brain response that you can correct. |
| 0:19.9 | If you're ready for change, sign up for the |
| 0:22.3 | Brain Over Binge self-paced online course for less than $20 per month. And if you feel you need |
| 0:28.2 | personalized support, we also offer one-on-one coaching and group coaching. To learn more, go to |
| 0:34.6 | brainoverbinge.com forward slash subscribe. |
| 0:38.3 | And I hope you enjoy the show. |
| 0:44.9 | Welcome to the Brain OverBinge Podcast, where we share a simple, brain-based approach to ending binge eating. |
| 0:51.7 | This is Catherine Hansen. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm the author of Brain Over Binge and the Brain |
| 0:55.6 | Over Binge Recovery Guide, and I'm so glad to be co-hosting this show with my friend and colleague, |
| 1:00.7 | Cookie Rosenblum, who is a master coach and also an author herself. Hi, Cookie. Hi, Catherine. I'm happy to |
| 1:08.4 | be here and I'm happy to be with all of you listeners. |
| 1:11.9 | Thanks, Cookie. The purpose of this podcast is to share information and insights to help you stop binge eating. |
| 1:18.7 | With each episode, we want to empower you and we want to encourage you and help you move toward freedom from binge eating. |
| 1:26.2 | I'm excited to tell you what we have planned for today's show. |
| 1:29.3 | We're going to be talking about the real cause of binge eating. Those of you struggling with |
| 1:34.4 | binge eating have likely looked for a cause, and you've probably asked yourself the question of why. |
| 1:40.8 | You may have asked yourself, why am I doing this over and over again when I know it's causing |
| 1:46.1 | pain in my life? And the very simple answer that we're going to share is that you binge because |
| 1:52.4 | you have urges to binge. It's the urges that are the problem. In the first episode, I explained |
| 1:59.3 | that this is a central concept of the brain over binge approach. |
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