Does it ever feel like you are living a double life? Where you eat one way around other people but a completely different way in secret? Do you have a part of you that wants to hide your eating behaviors but don't understand why you do it or how to stop?

In this episode, I share from my own experience of hiding my binge eating for years, including a memory of sneaking food as a young child, and explore why secret eating and hiding food make complete sense as a protective strategy, and what it actually takes to begin stepping out of it.

What You'll Discover:

• Why secret eating and hiding food aren't character flaws and what the part doing the hiding is actually trying to do
• Why the hiding tends to increase the shame over time and what living a double life around food costs over time
• What the part that hides actually needs and why forced accountability tends to backfire
• Why the first step out of hiding has nothing to do with telling anyone and everything to do with how you see yourself

If you've been carrying this alone, whether no one knows at all or the people in your life only know part of it, this episode is for you.

Previous episodes referenced:

How to Talk to Your Loved Ones About Your Secret Eating

Understanding the Part of You That Wants to Binge (Part 1)

If you would like to explore getting support with your eating challenges, schedule a Breakthrough Call today.

Want to know why you struggle with food and what to do next? Start watching The Binge Breakthrough Mini Series today.

If the idea of feeling safe in your body sounds unfamiliar, or even a little strange, you're not alone. In this episode we explore why so many people disconnect from their bodies in the first place, why that disconnection makes complete sense as a nervous system response, and what safety in the body actually feels like when you begin to find it.

You'll also get a short guided experience to help you recognize that feeling for yourself, and one simple daily practice to start building it.

What You'll Discover:

• Why disconnecting from your body is a nervous system adaptation, not a character flaw
• How the two-way communication between your brain and body shapes your relationship with food
• What feeling safe in your body actually feels like, and how to begin recognizing it
• Why this work is often hard to do alone, and what co-regulation makes possible

If you've ever wondered why you reach for food even when you're not hungry, or why being still and quiet feels unbearable, this episode may answer questions you didn't know you had.

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You did the work to let go of the rules, challenge the rigidity, and give yourself permission to eat freely. And then the pendulum swung in the other direction, and the freedom didn't feel like freedom at all.

This episode is for anyone who has experienced food freedom and found it more complicated than expected, and for anyone holding tightly to restriction because the other end of the pendulum looks too frightening to risk.

This episode explores what's actually happening when food freedom feels like it's working against you, and what it looks like when the pendulum finally stops swinging in either direction.

What You'll Discover:

• The difference between food freedom and body connection
• Why the pendulum swing happens and what's actually happening in the body when freedom feels out of control
• What real food freedom feels like and how to start imagining that for yourself
• A question to sit with to begin developing your own definition of food freedom

If you're wondering what it looks like to do this deeper work with support, schedule a Breakthrough Call today.

This is the third episode in a three-part series on what happens when the old strategies stop working. Listen to the first two episodes here:

• How to Measure Success Beyond the Scale
• What If I Need to Lose Weight for My Health?

Want to know why you struggle with food and what to do next? Start watching The Binge Breakthrough Mini Series today.