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Binge eating does not mean that something is wrong with you. It's a natural but primitive brain response that you can correct.

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And I hope you enjoy the show.

This is the Brain OverBinge Podcast, where you learn a simple, brain-based approach to ending binge eating.

I'm Catherine Hansen, your host, and whether you're a regular listener

or you're here for the first time today, I want to welcome you. My goal in this podcast is to give

you an empowering way to view your binge eating habit, and also a practical way to overcome it.

Today I'm going to be talking about your motivation for recovery and how to look at your motivation

in a way that promotes a helpful mindset for ending the binge eating habit.

The first thing I want to say about motivation is that a desire for recovery is absolutely

necessary. In order to stop binging, you have to want to. And that doesn't mean you have to want to quit in every moment,

but overall you have to have reasons why you no longer want this destructive habit in your life.

If someone feels very little or no desire for recovery,

then their higher brain is likely to continue following the urges to binge from

the lower brain.

The higher brain or the higher self needs to be motivated in some way in order for any approach

to work.

This goes for the brain over binge approach or any recovery method or strategy or therapy.

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