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Breaking Up With Binge Eating
by Georgie Fear and the Confident Eaters Team
Breaking Up With Binge Eating is for anyone stuck in binge eating, emotional eating, or the restrict-then-binge cycle.Hosts Georgie Fear, Christina Holland, and Maryclaire Brescia share practical, evidence-based tools from the Breaking Up With Binge Eating Coaching Program—grounded in nutritional science, behavior change psychology, and approaches like CBT and ACT—without the shame or perfectionism.New here? Start with Episode 10: The 2 REAL Causes of Binge Eating.Pick your Listening Path (where to start, by topic): https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here-pick-your-listening-path
Episodes
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Am I Recovered Enough? [Bonus Episode]
Tina has done so much healing, and her question becomes: when is recovery “enough”? In this conversation, listener Tina shares a recovery story that will feel deeply familiar to many listeners: years of restriction, calorie counting, binge eating, fear foods, food obsession—and then a long,...
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Emotional Confidence: Trusting Yourself With Whatever Comes
What happens when things are actually going well—and your brain immediately starts waiting for something to go wrong? In this episode, we talk about emotional confidence: the ability to trust yourself with change, uncertainty, disappointment, and even happiness. You’ll hear why bracing for future...
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“Might as Well” Urges: What You Need to Do to Stop Them
One unplanned food choice can quickly turn into “I already blew it, so I might as well keep going.” In this episode, Georgie explains why eating-because-I-ate urges are a form of pain-relief eating: food is used to escape the guilt, fear, or disappointment caused by the previous eating. You’ll...
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Pain Relief Urges: When Food Feels Like the Fastest Way Out
In this episode, we’re talking about pain relief urges: the urge to eat because something hurts and food feels like the fastest way out. That pain might be physical, emotional, or both stacked together — and food may genuinely offer comfort for a little while. But comfort is not the problem. Cost...
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Autopilot Urges: When Your Brain Says “This Goes With Food”
Autopilot urges happen when your brain recognizes a familiar scene and says, “This is when we eat,” or “This goes with food.” These urges can show up as snacking, grazing, emotional eating, or a full binge before you feel like you’ve really chosen anything. In this episode, we’ll look at why...
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Recovery Isn't About Doing It the Hard Way: Why Guardrails Matter
In binge eating recovery, many people believe they should be able to keep every food in the house, eat every food casually, and handle every food environment without support. But recovery is not about proving you can do everything the hard way. In this episode, we talk about guardrails: practical...
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Exhaustion Urges: When Your Brain Is at 12%
In this episode, we’re talking about exhaustion urges: urges to binge, graze, order food, snack compulsively, or keep eating when your system is depleted and food starts to look like the fastest available relief. Instead of focusing mostly on what to do once you’re already too exhausted to care,...
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Restriction Urges: “Get It While You Can”
In this episode, we’re looking at restriction urges: the urges that say, “Get it while you can.” These urges are often not just about hunger or cravings. They are scarcity alarms. Sometimes the scarcity is physical, like not eating enough or going too long without food. Sometimes it is...
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What If Your Binge Eating Has Been Working... In a Way?
Bingeing can be painful and costly, but it often persists because it is doing a job. Not working because it is harmless or because you want to keep doing it, but because it may have been doing something important for you. Bingeing may provide relief, comfort, rest, numbness, pleasure, rebellion,...
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The First 60 Seconds: Don’t Let the Urge Become a Story
The First 60 Seconds: Don’t Let the Urge Become a Story (The Urge Proof Life — Episode 4) There’s a tiny moment when an urge first appears—before the binge, before the “might as well,” before the story starts writing itself. In this episode, Georgie explains why the first danger often isn’t the...
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Stop Arguing With Your Cravings: A Conversation with Dr. Glenn Livingston
Stop Arguing With Your Cravings: A Conversation with Dr. Glenn Livingston This episode is a rare guest conversation on Breaking Up With Binge Eating. Georgie is joined by Dr. Glenn Livingston, psychologist, author, and creator of Defeat Your Cravings, for a wide-ranging conversation about binge...
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Why You Want More (Even When It’s Not That Good)
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Show Notes: Have you ever thought, “I don’t even like this that much… so why do I still want more?” In this episode, Georgie explains the...
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The Urge Map: 5 Types of Urges (and What Each One Needs)
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Show Notes: In this episode, Georgie gives you a practical “urge map” to answer the question that matters in real life: what kind of urge…
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An Urge Is Not an Order: What Urges Are (and What They Aren’t)
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Show Notes: An Urge Is Not an Order: What Urges Are (and What They Aren’t) (The Urge Proof Life — Episode 1) Urges can feel like an...
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Coming Soon, Season 3: The Urge Proof Life
The Urge Proof Life — Season Trailer A practical season on urges: how to identify what kind of urge you’re having and match the tool to the mechanism, with one small weekly experiment in every episode. Want extra support? Join All Access (real-life coaching sessions, shared with permission):...
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Is This Real Progress… or Am I Just Performing? (Bonus Episode)
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Show Notes: What happens when things are finally going better… and your brain decides that means it must be fake? In this coaching excerpt,...
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This is Treatable
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. This Is Treatable (From Distress to Stability — Part 12, Season Finale) In the final episode of this season, Georgie names what many people...
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The Morning After: Stabilizing Instead of Compensating
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. The morning after a hard night of eating can feel heavy—physically and mentally—and it’s easy for your brain to start reaching for a “fix”:...
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Before the Spiral: When Plans Fall Apart
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. This episode is about the moment before things fully blow up—not the binge itself, and not the morning-after panic, but the point where you...
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Why Nighttime Binges Aren’t a Willpower Problem
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. If you can hold it together all day—and then feel like everything falls apart at night—this episode is for you. Nighttime bingeing isn’t a...
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Building Stability Without Perfection
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Show Notes: As things start to feel steadier, a new fear often shows up: If I’m not white-knuckling this, am I doing enough? In this…
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What To Do When the Urge Hits
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Show Notes: When the urge to eat feels urgent, convincing, and hard to resist, insight alone usually isn’t enough. In this episode, we…
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Support in the Moment: Kahani, Eating Disorder Recovery, and Real-Time Tools (with Mehek Mohan + Elena)
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Episode summary Recovery doesn’t only happen in therapy—it happens in the moments in between. In this episode, Georgie talks with Mehek...
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When Food Is the Only Break You Get
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. When life feels like nonstop self-management, food can become the fastest, most reliable way to get relief—especially if rest, comfort, or...
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Why “Being Good” Backfires (Especially When Weight Loss Is the Goal)
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. So many people believe: “Once I lose weight, I’ll finally feel calm around food.” In this episode, we unpack why that belief often...
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The Binge–Restrict Cycle (and Where It Actually Starts)
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Episode 4 — The Binge–Restrict Cycle (and Where It Actually Starts) From Distress to Stability — Part 4 Most people think the cycle starts...
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Why Stress Makes Eating Feel Out of Control
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Show Notes: Ever felt like the first bite “signs a contract”—and suddenly the brakes are gone? In this episode, we slow that moment...
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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Restriction
Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. If you’ve ever been told “just stop restricting” and felt more confused than helped, this episode is for you. We’re defining restriction in a way…
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Start Here: Pick Your Path
New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the listening path that fits what you’re dealing with right now.
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It’s Not Willpower, It’s Pressure (Why Binge & Emotional Eating Happen)
Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Welcome to Season 2 of Breaking Up With Binge Eating. This 12-episode series walks you step-by-step from distress around food to something steadier and more workable—without perfection. In the Season 2…
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How Binge Eating Reflects Our Struggle with Restraint
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Episode Summary In this episode, Georgie Fear explores the psychological chain reactions behind binge eating, revealing how it…
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"But I'm not losing weight yet"
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Losing weight is probably one of the most common reasons we hear that people want to end their binge eating. It's the physical…
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When Food Becomes Protest: Defusing Resentment & Rebellion
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Have to do this. Can't eat that. Over and over, these mandates drive a person crazy. Many of our clients say that it builds up over...
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I Really Eat Perfectly (When I'm Not Bingeing)
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. "I eat really clean", Kyle said "Even my binges are on healthy things. That's why it's confusing. I'm a fit guy. I'm a healthy…
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Rest Is Hard. Here's How To Do It Anyway. (Featuring Allison)
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. In this Episode: Our philosophy on treatment includes supporting people in many areas of life in addition to meeting their…
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The Lie Behind "I Don't Deserve To Have Good Things"
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Show Notes: Have you ever had the thought 'I don't deserve good things'? This pervasive belief can be subtle, but it's not…
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Olivia's Journey: How Medication Helped Silence Her Food Noise
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Olivia emailed us sharing her personal journey with Semaglutide, a GLP one receptor agonist, and how it helped her manage binge...
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“I Can’t Handle This” — The Thought That Triggers the Binge
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. In today's episode, we discuss how moments of emotional distress can often trigger binge and emotional eating and it all starts…
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The Lie Behind "I'll Make Up For It Tomorrow"
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Join us in today's episode as we dive into one of the most pervasive thoughts in the binge-restrict cycle: 'I'll make up for it...
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What the Latest Research Says About Binge Eating Disorder
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. In this episode, we delve into the latest research on Binge Eating Disorder (BED), exploring its most common causes and effective...
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"I've been so good, I can afford it" (The Overconfidence Trap)
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Are you someone who experiences a period of good weeks followed by bad weeks? Maybe you've heard yourself thinking, "I've been so...
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How To Eat Like A "Normal Person"
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. "I want to eat like a normal person". That's what people tell us over the phone, on Zoom, via email, or written into our new client...
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When Food Isn't The Fix: Emotion Regulation Skills (Part 3)
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Have you noticed a pattern in your life where you use food to solve all the things? Whether you are cold, tired, behind schedule or...
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The Incredible Relief of Changing Your Story
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. We all have tapes that play in our heads or narratives in the background of our lives. The stories we tell ourselves cast us into...
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When Food Isn't The Fix: Emotion Regulation Skills (Part 2)
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Have you noticed a pattern in your life where you use food to solve all the things? Whether you are cold, tired, behind schedule or...
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Let's Help Marissa
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. We love when we get letters from listeners! Today, we want to share one that came in from longtime listener, Marissa. Marissa has...
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When Food Isn’t the Fix: 4 Emotion Regulation Skills (Part 1)
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Have you noticed a pattern in your life where you use food to solve all the things? Whether you are cold, tired, behind schedule or...
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Your Winter Wellness Survival Guide (The Art of Wintering)
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Winter is here! For many of us, it's a long stretch of the year—one that can throw a wrench in even the best-laid health plans. If...
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Why You're Procrastineating (and How to Change It)
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Today on the show, we are going to talk about procrastineating, which is procrastination, where food is concerned. Procrastineating...
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How to Halt a Binge in Its Tracks
New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Whats the best way to smother a binge before it snowballs, stopping it from gaining momentum, and spreading it to destroy your day,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Breaking Up With Binge Eating is for anyone stuck in binge eating, emotional eating, or the restrict-then-binge cycle.Hosts Georgie Fear, Christina Holland, and Maryclaire Brescia share practical, evidence-based tools from the Breaking Up With Binge Eating Coaching Program—grounded in nutritional science, behavior change psychology, and approaches like CBT and ACT—without the shame or perfectionism.New here? Start with Episode 10: The 2 REAL Causes of Binge Eating.Pick your Listening Path (where to start, by topic): https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here-pick-your-listening-path
HOSTED BY
Georgie Fear and the Confident Eaters Team
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Breaking Up With Binge Eating is for anyone stuck in binge eating, emotional eating, or the restrict-then-binge cycle.Hosts Georgie Fear, Christina Holland, and Maryclaire Brescia share practical, evidence-based tools from the Breaking Up With Binge Eating Coaching Program—grounded in nutritional...
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