When I was binge eating, it wasn't that I didn't want to feel my feelings—I just didn't know how to be with them without getting swallowed whole. Every time I tried, it felt like too much. And every time it felt like too much, the bingeing swept in to help.

In this episode, we explore what happens when you don't pressure yourself to sit in your feelings forever, but instead take just a small dip. Not a deep dive. Not a cannonball. Just a moment to be with what's present—before coming back up for air.

We can have parts of ourselves that get spooked by the prospect of feeling. Sometimes these parts have been trying to keep us steady and able to get through the day. Often, these parts are told to just "feel it and move on." Sometimes this confrontation works. But other times it creates overwhelm or additional difficult emotions, and the bingeing steps in to cool things down. There's another way. Listen to Episode 84 to learn more.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.holdingthespace.co/84.

If you're ready to invest in one-on-one support to help heal binge eating, go to https://holdingthespace.as.me/free30 and get on my calendar for a complimentary consult today. I pinky-swear—NO icky salesy vibes, just compassion and understanding.

When I was binge eating, what was missing from my life wasn't just freedom from bingeing—it was freedom itself. The kind of freedom you feel when you laugh with a friend at a café, walk with a neighbor in a park, or lose yourself—even for ten minutes—in a book that isn't trying to improve you.

In this episode, we explore what happens when you gently invite pleasure back into your life—not as a reward for good behavior, but as a birthright.

Because bingeing isn't always about food. Sometimes it's a part of you trying to break up the grind, bring back some joy, or create a moment that feels like it's actually yours.

If you're tired of being told to push harder or restrict more, listen in. This isn't about more discipline. It's about less pressure. It's about giving your parts something they've been longing for: a little fun, just because.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.holdingthespace.co/83.

If you're ready to invest in one-on-one support to help heal binge eating, go to https://holdingthespace.as.me/free30 and get on my calendar for a complementary consult today. I pinky-swear—NO icky salesy vibes, just compassion and understanding.

You know those days when you're running on fumes, your inbox feels like it's breeding, and the idea of moving your body feels about as appealing as ironing doilies in a heatwave?

Yeah—those days.

In this episode, we'll talk about why getting more sleep, moving in ways you actually enjoy, and easing even one tiny source of stress can quietly start to change your relationship with bingeing.

No food rules. No shame. Just small shifts that respect where you are—and the parts of you that are trying so hard to help.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.holdingthespace.co/82.

If you're ready to invest in one-on-one support to help heal binge eating, go to https://holdingthespace.as.me/free30 and get on my calendar for a complementary consult today. I pinky-swear—NO icky salesy vibes, just compassion and understanding.

When I say, "Aretha Franklin," what's the first thing you want to belt out?

If it's R-E-S-P-E-C-T, that's you and me both, my friend. And, don't worry, I won't hold it against you if it wasn't.

As one of my Internal Family Systems consultants, Robert Falconer, reminded me, respect is the opposite of shame and the minimum of love. The second of those ideas, he said, came from the work of Pia Melody, renowned author on recovery from addictions.

Shame is such an inherent part of the bingeing experience that it's built right into the clinical criteria for binge eating disorder. But regarding yourself with respect and care changes the game completely. Listen in to find out more!

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.holdingthespace.co/81.

If you're ready to invest in one-on-one support to help heal binge eating, go to https://holdingthespace.as.me/free30 and get on my calendar for a complementary consult today. I pinky-swear—NO icky salesy vibes, just compassion and understanding.

Every time I promised myself I'd quit bingeing, my first instinct was to trade carrot cake for carrot sticks and run so hard I'd practically slide off the treadmill. But no matter how dedicated I was to so-called "clean eating" and marathon gym sessions, the binges always came back.

Here's what I missed back then: There are key things you can do—things that have nothing to do with counting carbs or surviving bootcamp—things that can markedly shift bingeing. Counterintuitive as this is, focusing away from restricting and working out often yields a desire to eat and move in ways that serve us—body, mind, and soul.

In all, I'll been talking about 10 important pieces to understand, and this episode focuses on understanding how your bingeing makes sense. YES, you read that right! Listen in to hear why it makes sense and why it's so powerful to understand that it does.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.holdingthespace.co/80.

If you're ready to invest in one-on-one support to help heal binge eating, go to https://holdingthespace.as.me/free30 and get on my calendar for a complementary consult today. I pinky-swear—NO icky salesy vibes, just compassion and understanding.

What does a shimmering pool on a hot desert plain have to do with you and binge eating?

Keep listening!

Welcome to The Done Bingeing Podcast. This is the place to hear about how you can pair the emerging brain science about why you binge with powerful life coaching to help you stop. If you want to explore an evidence-based, non-clinical approach to end binge eating, you're in the right place.

It's time to free yourself. You have more power than you know. To find out more, go to www.holdingthespace.co and click Programs

"How do I deal with the urge to binge?" It's one of the most common questions I get asked.

The experience of the urge can be incredibly tough, scary even. But you're not alone in this. I've put together this episode with nine actionable steps to help you navigate those moments when the urge to binge eat feels overwhelming.

In episode 78, I share nine actionable steps to help you when you're experiencing urges and cravings, including part of Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory. Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.holdingthespace.co/78.

And here's the cherry on top: I've created a special resource called, Calm in the Crave: Your Pocket Pal When You Need It, just for you. It summarizes everything we'll discuss here, so you can have it handy whenever you need it. Head over to https://www.holdingthespace.co/calm to download it.

If you're anything like me, you've probably tried every diet, program or solution you could find—so many of which promised rapid results. I understand the soaring hope as you start out followed by the descent into disappointment when the bingeing returns, because I've been there too.

It makes sense to me that you want to stop bingeing right now—or yesterday—forever.

But what I've learned from my and my clients' lives is that living from a place of urgency and pressure for immediate change often leads to exactly the result you don't want—slower change, no change, or backward movement.

Listen to episode 77 as I talk about the exponential power of tiny marginal improvements, as outlined by James Clear in his book, Atomic Habits. Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.holdingthespace.co/77.

If you're ready to invest in one-on-one support to help heal binge eating, go to https://holdingthespace.as.me/free30 and get on my calendar for a complementary consult today.

Binge eaters often wonder: Is it safe for me to hope that one day I'll be able to stop bingeing, after doing it for this long?

I remember wondering this too. Then I'd risk it, try a new approach, and find myself uplifted with hope. Then, when the approach didn't resolve my bingeing, I'd find myself dropped back into hopelessness, believing once again that freedom was impossible, a place where hope seemed a world away.

Luckily hope isn't the only thing that can inspire healing. There's power in holding on to the possibility of healing, rather than clinging to the hope of healing.

Listen in to episode 76 as I talk about how focusing on the plains of possibility offers some respite from the rollercoaster ride of hopefulness and hopelessness. Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.holdingthespace.co/76.

If you're ready to invest in one-on-one support to help heal binge eating, go to https://holdingthespace.as.me/free30 and get on my calendar for a complimentary consult today.

Depending on where you live, you may be about a month into summer. The summer is fraught with exposure stress for many binge eaters. With more heat comes more beach trips, more pool parties, more shorts, shorter sleeves, higher skirts, undershirts, camisoles, Speedos, and bikinis.

With more flesh to be seen, the spring often brings on a deluge of summer pressure, preparations, and promises. At this point in June, those aspirations may be going swimmingly well or drowning in disappointment. If it's the latter, or if you want to set a new goal right now, this episode is for you—it's all about setting intensions, based on the work of Chris Burris, an Internal Family Systems lead trainer and author.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.holdingthespace.co/75.

If you're ready to invest in one-on-one support to help heal binge eating, go to https://holdingthespace.as.me/free30 and get on my calendar for a complimentary consult today.