What happens when a physician, trained to prioritize science and performance, discovers that her own healing requires compassion, spirituality, and trust in her body?

In this powerful interview, we explore one woman’s story of recovering from binge eating disorder while navigating the pressures of medicine, diet culture, and systemic weight bias.

You’ll hear how early messages about food and scarcity shaped her relationship with eating, how medical training reinforced body shame, and how she ultimately reconnected to herself through self-compassion, intuitive eating, and body trust. This episode offers both a deeply personal narrative and a professional perspective on how healthcare can move toward weight-neutral, compassionate care.

How childhood scarcity and fear can shape lifelong eating patterns

The pressures physicians face to conform to body ideals in medicine

How chronic stress and sleep deprivation in residency can trigger binge eating

Why self-compassion—not willpower—became the turning point in recovery

What it takes to unlearn diet culture within the healthcare system

The rise of GLP-1 medications and how they complicate conversations about body autonomy

Healing the disconnect between professional identity and personal recovery

Building a weight-neutral, compassionate approach to health and wellbeing

This episode is for anyone who has struggled with binge eating, body shame, or internalized weight stigma—especially those in helping professions. It’s also for clinicians, therapists, and healthcare providers seeking to understand how medical culture perpetuates harm and how to bring more compassion into patient care.

If you’ve ever felt like your professional role or perfectionism made recovery harder, this episode will remind you that you’re not alone—and that healing is possible, even in systems that don’t always make room for it.

In a world where doctors are often seen as immune to body image struggles, this story reveals how deeply systemic fatphobia and diet culture reach—even into the halls of medicine. It challenges the myth that knowledge alone heals disordered eating and instead centers nervous system safety, self-compassion, and intuitive wisdom as the foundation for recovery.

Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

Reclaiming Body Trust by Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant

Wayza Health (wayzahealth.com)--Dr. Michelle's website

Research on GLP-1 medications and long-term outcomes

Center for Body Trust

If you or someone you love is navigating binge eating, emotional eating, or recovery after years of dieting, visit drmariannemiller.com to explore specialized support. You’ll find resources for binge eating recovery, ARFID support, and neurodivergent-affirming therapy and courses.