Ep. 88: Do Your Binges Feel Automatic?
Brain over Binge Podcast
Kathryn Hansen
4.6 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Kathryn addresses what you can do if you find yourself binge eating without recognizing an urge beforehand. You’ll learn to become more aware of the thoughts, feelings, and sensations that are driving the behavior, so that you can avoid going into binges automatically.
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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. |
| 0:45.3 | Welcome to the Brain OverBinge Podcast, where you learn a simple brain-based approach to ending binge eating. |
| 0:50.9 | I'm Catherine Hansen, your host, and I'm excited to be here today to share some information that I hope will help you on your journey to end binge eating. I'm Catherine Hansen, your host, and I'm excited to be here today to share some |
| 0:54.8 | information that I hope will help you on your journey to end binge eating and get your life back. |
| 1:00.1 | Because that's what this podcast is about. I want to empower you to take control back from that |
| 1:04.9 | primitive part of your brain that's driving you toward the harmful eating behaviors so that you |
| 1:10.0 | can start making choices that |
| 1:11.6 | are aligned with how you truly want to be eating and how you truly want to be living. A big component |
| 1:17.1 | of what I share here on the podcast and in my books is that the urges to binge are the one |
| 1:22.1 | and only direct cause of binging. This takes a lot of the complexity out of recovery and helps you zone in on the problem |
| 1:29.2 | and then correct it. If you want to learn more about this, you can listen to episode two, |
| 1:34.3 | which is titled The Cause of Binge Eating, Urges to Binge. And I link that episode in the show |
| 1:39.6 | description. If you did not experience urges to binge, you would not feel driven to binge, regardless of what else may be going on in your life at the time, or regardless of what emotions you're feeling, or what problems you're facing. |
| 1:52.6 | There's nothing inherent about strong emotions or problems that make you binge, even though there can be connections and patterns that develop between what's going |
| 2:02.3 | on in your life and when you have these urges. When you view the urges as the driving force of binging, |
| 2:09.0 | then recovery stops being about solving your other problems or changing your circumstances or |
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