Ever feel bad about your body and go straight to food?

That moment feels confusing, self-defeating, and impossible to explain to anyone who hasn't lived it. This episode is about that moment — why it happens, what's actually driving it, and why the reaction makes far more sense than you've been told.

Inside this conversation, we look at the psychological and nervous-system dynamics that turn body image distress into powerful eating urges, and why the more you care about your body, the more intense this loop can become.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• why body image distress creates all-or-nothing thinking and urgency
• how mood-congruent cognition makes your thoughts spiral to match the mood
• why the nervous system prioritizes escaping immediate discomfort, even when it creates more later
• how binge urges can come from both collapse/soothing and mobilized, high-energy stress
• why "self-punishment" is often about control, predictability, and making pain make sense
• how the rebel/protector part responds to the invisible labor of body-image panic
• why your brain anticipates restriction before you ever change a single behavior
• and how slowing down becomes the doorway back to choice

This conversation connects binge eating, body image, trauma, nervous system regulation, and scarcity psychology — giving language to a pattern that a lot of people live inside, but rarely understand.

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