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.

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 Over Binge podcast, where we share a simple brain-based approach to ending binge eating.

I'm Catherine Hansen, author of the book's Brain Over Binge and my newer book,

The Brain Over Binge Recovery Guide. I'm very glad to be co-hosting this show with master

coach and author, Cookie Rosenblum. Hi, everyone. I want to welcome you to our podcast and let you know

that we're really happy to support you in your goal to make binge eating

something that you used to do. So welcome today. Thanks, Cookie. Our goal on this podcast is to

share information and insights to help enable you to quit binge eating. We want to empower you,

and we also want to encourage you, and we want to keep recovery as simple as possible to help you get on a clear path to freedom from binge eating.

If you've listened to previous episodes, you'll know that we aren't going to be focusing on your other problems.

We are only going to be focusing on how to stop binge eating.

So far, you've learned that the

urges to binge are the only direct cause of binge eating. You've also learned that these urges

come from a more primitive part of the brain, a part of the brain that's in charge of our

survival drives and our habits. We call this part of the brain the lower brain. You've also learned that the lower

brain cannot control your actions, that you always remain in charge of what you do because you

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