In this episode, I will be speaking with London nutritionist and health coach, Marcelle Rose. The number one complaint of people with binge eating, food addiction and emotional eating is usually a digestive one. That makes sense because the di

126: Emotions, Negative Beliefs and Perfectionism: How insecure attachment can lead to eating disorders

Mar 7th, 2023 25m 17s

Research is now showing that something called “attachment styles” may also explain why people with a history of toxic stress related to childhood trauma or to other specific childhood issues (abandonment, neglect, abrupt separation from a paren

125: Weight Stigma, Medical Backlash and Social Justice – Conversation with Stephanie Dodier

Jan 24th, 2023 39m 51s

Stephanie Dodier of “Going Beyond the Food” has been a guest on my podcast many times and our conversations have always been honest and cover a variety of topics. Today, we talked about the toxicity that exists in the world of eating disorders

Change your relationship with food NOW! Learn to eat with JOY!

Jan 11th, 2023 26m 17s

You may have dieting whiplash and just frankly have so much misinformation that you really don’t know what is good for your body and what is not. So you end up eating lots of raw carrots and celery or stick mainly to salads. While there may be

123: Food Shaming

Dec 27th, 2022 17m 35s

Food shaming is when someone criticizes or judges what another person is eating. Food shaming can be intentional but even with unintentional, can lead to guilt, shame and embarrassment. Constant examination of what you are eating or what some

122: Grief and Loss Have Overwhelmed my Food Addiction and Binge Eating

Dec 13th, 2022 21m 18s

Grief following the death of a loved one is well studied and understood. Researchers have documented an initial period of numbness, followed by sadness or depression and then reorganization and recovery. Grief in this case is used to describe

121: What is Childhood Trauma and is it the Cause of my Food Addiction?

Nov 29th, 2022 28m 16s

What is trauma? Well, in the past, most people would say, "Trauma is severe abuse or neglect." But our more modern definition of trauma is that trauma is anything that causes you to lose an essential part of yourself – a sense of security or sa

120: Interview with Julie Duffy Dillon

Nov 15th, 2022 38m 48s

In the podcast, I interview friend and colleague, Julie Duffy Dillon who is a specialist in Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). We discuss the importance of addressing TRUE determinants of health – what makes us healthy and how weight loss doe

119: Eating Disorders in the Workplace

Nov 1st, 2022 13m 13s

We spend about a third of our adult lives in the workplace. Work can improve mental health for some individuals – providing them with a sense of meaning and purpose and offering valuable social connections. However, for individuals with binge

118: Interview with Ali Shapiro

Oct 18th, 2022 43m 56s

My guest on the podcast today is Ali Shapiro – the creator of Truce with Food® and the Truce Coaching Framework Certification, host of the top-ranked podcast Insatiable, a holistic nutritionist, integrated health coach and rebel with a serious

117: How do I forgive those who have hurt me to heal

Oct 4th, 2022 19m

116: Body Image Issues in Men

Sep 20th, 2022 33m 16s

Aaron Flores is a dietician and health at every size, body trust and intuitive eating advocate who works with individuals with eating disorders, including males. While eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder often are

115: Leveraging Your Brain Power to Overcome RDS

Sep 6th, 2022 22m 23s

This is the third and final part of our series on RDS. In Episode #112 and #114, I discussed what RDS is and how it could impact your eating behaviors as well as what caused RDS and how sugar addiction that you’ve read about is related to RDS.

114: Food and Mood and RDS

Aug 23rd, 2022 18m 5s

In episode #112 I talked to you about Reward Deficiency Syndrome – what is and how it may contribute to food addiction, emotional eating or binge eating. In this episode, I will discuss the causes of dopamine depletion or reward deficiency syn

113: Developmental Trauma - Interview with Dr. Joanne and Dr. Lynne on

Aug 1st, 2022 42m 49s

Trauma has been show to increase the risk for eating disorders and addictions. There has been much research showing that early childhood trauma can really change a person’s life trajectory – causing problems with learning, attention, memory an

112: What is Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS) and how can it help me heal my Food Addiction

Jul 18th, 2022 20m 31s

You may never have heard about RDS but it may be critical to understanding why your food and body image issues are so difficult to heal from. If you have binge eating, food addiction or emotional eating, you may have a genetic risk for RDS or

111: How to Free Yourself from the Tyranny of the Scale

Jun 10th, 2022 16m 23s

In this episode, I will share with you some of my personal struggles with the tyranny of the scale. I will also talk about body shaming and weight stigma especially when it comes from physicians and will give you my responses to and anger abou

110: The Future of Eating Disorder Treatment (with Dr. Jillian Lampert)

May 12th, 2022 40m 35s

109: I’ve lost my passion and purpose and food is all I have!

Apr 26th, 2022 20m 15s

Being out of touch with or disconnected from your spirit can lead to spiritual depletion. Spiritual depletion can exacerbate binge eating, food addiction and emotional eating. Spiritual emptiness is a sick- ness that has signs and symptoms ju

108: Help! I’m Stressed to the Max and I can’t Stop Eating!

Mar 31st, 2022 23m 4s

If you are struggle with food addiction, emotional eating or binge eating, stress can trigger emotions that you may have been regulating with food. Managing stress without food requires that you learn a new set of skills to use when you’re fee

107: Betsy Thurston Interview

Mar 15th, 2022 38m 40s

In this podcast, I will interview Betsy Thurston, a dietician who also specializes in the use of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy as a unique tool in treating her eating disorder clients. The founder of IFS, Dr. Richard Schwartz describes

106: How to, for once and for all, make peace with your body

Mar 9th, 2022 14m 54s

If you are dissatisfied with your body, you are not alone. While having self-doubts is a normal part of being human, if your self-evaluation is primarily dependent on your superficial appearance, your size or shape, that can lead to shame, neg

105: How body movement can help heal binge eating and food addiction

Mar 4th, 2022 19m 54s

Physical activity has been co-opted by the diet industry just as food has – in other words, only good to get you to lose weight. No wonder thinking about body movement may send you into a fit of resistance or rebellion or make you feel guilty

104: Skills you can use to stop binging and overeating NOW

Feb 14th, 2022 25m 33s

The first goal of therapy if you have binge eating, compulsive overeating, food addiction or emotional eating should be interrupting any current unwanted behaviors, such as bingeing, overeating, obsessing about food or your body. But these beh

103: Breaking free of the foods that hold you hostage

Jan 28th, 2022 23m 23s

If you have binge eating, food addiction or emotional eating, you may know that diet culture has rebranded itself as “healthy” vs. the prior focus on the thin ideal, losing weight or getting skinny. There has also been a trend by social media