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

I wanted to come on the show today just to talk about something that's been on my mind

that relates to breaking the binge eating habit during this challenging time.

This goes beyond what I talked about in the binge eating recovery during a crisis episode, which was episode 63.

What I want to talk about today is the fact that an eating disorder takes so much from you.

And one of the things that it seems to take is the ability to be truly present in your life.

And I think this becomes most evident during hard times, in your own life, or in the life of your

family, or your community, or your country, or the world. Feeling so compelled to binge and

purge and restrict and obsess about your weight takes away from you focusing on what's

truly important to you. I know you don't want this. I know that you're not intentionally taking

your focus away from meaningful matters in order to focus on food. I know this because I've been

there. I remember when I was stuck in a cycle of binging and purging,

having really bad things happen in my life and in the world. Just as some examples, my best friend

passed away, other family members that I was close to also passed away. Natural disasters

affected the world. September 11th caused so much suffering, and through these events and many more,

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