Brain over Binge Podcast

Kathryn Hansen

A Simple, Brain-Based Approach to Help You Stop Binge Eating and Get on with Your Life.

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207 episodes
Updated July 24

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Aug 27, 2025 · 51 min
Ep. 186: The Biology of Binge Eating: New Research on How Weight Suppression Impacts Leptin and GLP-1 (with Pamela Keel, PhD)
I talked with Dr. Pamela Keel about her new study exploring the biological underpinnings of binge eating. We discuss how weight suppression affects key hormones—GLP‑1 and leptin—and how those changes can reduce satiety and drive binge...
Aug 13, 2025 · 42 min
Ep. 185: Healing Your Relationship with Food, Yourself, and Others (Part V)
Kathryn answers more listener questions about the intersection of binge eating recovery and relationships—whether that’s your relationship with yourself, romantic partners, friends, or family. This is the final episode in the series on healing...
Jul 29, 2025 · 19 min
Ep. 184: Productive Discomfort in Recovery (with Coach Julie)
Kathryn and Coach Julie talk about the role of productive discomfort in binge eating recovery. It’s natural to want recovery to feel easy, but the truth is that some discomfort is necessary—because that’s how the brain learns to let go...
Jul 17, 2025 · 59 min
Episode 183: GLP-1 Medications, Food Noise, and Binge Eating Recovery (with Marcus Kain)
Kathryn welcomes back for a thoughtful conversation about the increasing use of GLP-1 medications (like Ozempic and Wegovy) in the context of binge eating recovery and weight loss. They discuss the significant risks—especially for...
Jul 13, 2025 · 53 min
Ep. 182: Healing Your Relationship with Food, Yourself, and Others (Part IV)
Kathryn answers listener questions about the intersection of binge eating recovery and relationships—whether that’s your relationship with yourself, romantic partners, friends, or family. Thank you to everyone who submitted...
Jun 21, 2025 · 25 min
Ep. 181: You Do Care and You Do Deserve Recovery (with Coach Julie)
During urges to binge you may find yourself thinking “I don’t care anymore,” or “It doesn’t matter,” or “I deserve this binge”—as if binge eating is a reward. You might also hear the false message that...
Jun 6, 2025 · 48 min
Ep. 180: Understanding ADHD, Neurodivergence, and Toxic Striving in Eating Disorder Recovery (with Dr. Paula Freedman-Diamond)
Kathryn is joined by Dr. Paula Freedman-Diamond, PsyD, to talk about the intersection between eating disorders and ADHD, and how these challenges often overlap. Dr. Paula explains how people with ADHD/neurodivergence may struggle to recognize hunger...
May 31, 2025 · 22 min
Ep. 179: Healing Your Relationship with Food, Yourself, and Others (Part III)
Kathryn shares how to grow or rebuild connections in your life during and after recovery from binge eating. You’ll learn strategies for reconnecting with yourself and others in safe, manageable ways once you are no longer devoting so much time and...
May 24, 2025 · 27 min
Ep. 178: The Easy Path (with Coach Julie)
Kathryn and coach Julie help you reframe how you think about recovery. You’ll learn to challenge the belief that stopping binge eating is a hard road and see that ending this destructive habit is actually the easy path. Ease never comes from giving...
May 21, 2025 · 5 min
Ep. 177: Podcast Guide (A Listener’s Companion to Help You Navigate Recovery)
Episode Kathryn introduces the —a simple, indexed PDF that organizes all of the episodes so far into 85+ recovery topics like restriction, body image, motivation, weight, overeating and more. Whether you’re new or want to easily...
Apr 18, 2025 · 25 min
Ep 176: "Eating Foods You Love That Love You Back"
Kathryn and Coach Julie talk about the idea of “eating foods you love that love you back.” This is a phrase that Julie has used here on the podcast and that she often uses as a framework in coaching as she helps people learn to eat adequately....
Apr 11, 2025 · 23 min
Ep. 175: Healing Your Relationship with Food, Yourself, and Others (Part II)
This is Part II of a series about healing your relationships with food, yourself, and others (listen to ). Kathryn will help you explore your own unique patterns as far as how your relationship with food has affected your other relationships....
Mar 22, 2025 · 22 min
Ep. 174: The Magic of Consistency (with Coach Julie)
A binge-free life is created by dismissing one binge urge at a time, and by eating adequately one meal/snack at a time. This requires consistency. Although the decision to stop bingeing can be instantaneous, healing of the body and brain from this...
Mar 12, 2025 · 37 min
Ep. 173: Honoring and Balancing Your Body with Ayurveda (with Nidhi Pandya)
I had an enlightening conversation with Nidhi Pandya about balancing your body and developing a more holistic view of your body that allows you to honor and take care of yourself. Nidhi is an Ayurvedic doctor, teacher, coach, speaker, and author of...
Feb 28, 2025 · 19 min
Ep. 172: Inflection Points in Binge Eating Recovery (with Coach Julie)
Kathryn and Coach Julie teach you how to make positive change in pivotal moments or “inflection points” in recovery. You’ll learn that you don’t have to fix every part of your life or every part of your eating. Instead, you can zero in on the...
Feb 15, 2025 · 17 min
Ep. 171: Healing Your Relationship with Food, Yourself, and Others (Part I)
Having a difficult relationship with food affects nearly every other relationship in your life, including your relationship with yourself. Because eating disorders are so isolating, you may find yourself turning away from other people—even the...
Feb 5, 2025 · 42 min
Ep. 170: Veganism, Ethics, and Loving Food (with Jenné Claiborne)
Jenné Claiborne, author of the new cookbook, shares her journey from eating in a way that was harmful, and slipping into diet culture, to learning to love nourishing, nutrient-dense food and sharing that love of food with others through her...
Jan 28, 2025 · 19 min
Ep 169: Overcoming "Yeah, Buts" (with Coach Julie)
Kathryn and Coach Julie talk about when doubts pop up in binge eating recovery in the form of “yeah, buts,” including: Yeah, but I have weight to lose. Yeah, but I have too much stress in my life. Yeah, but I have been bingeing for too...
Jan 22, 2025 · 17 min
Ep. 168: My Take: Using Mel Robbins’ “Let Them” Theory to Help You Stop Binge Eating and Break Other Harmful Habits
I want to share my insights about how Mel Robbins’ could be a powerful tool in your recovery from binge eating, or as you break any habit. I’ll suggest ways you can apply this theory—especially when dealing with food and weight...
Jan 1, 2025 · 38 min
Ep. 167: Healthy Goal Setting and Sustainable Change in the New Year (with Marcus Kain)
Kathryn talks with Marcus Kain of about avoiding some of the typical pitfalls that January can bring when it comes to food and weight. When setting goals or resolutions in the new year, the choice is not a dichotomy between restrictive...