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The Path Beyond Binge Eating

Molly Dyer | Licensed Therapist, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, Binge Eating Recovery Coach 1 Episodes Sep 9, 2026

Binge eating often feels like a willpower problem, but it isn't. Molly Dyer, a licensed therapist and eating disorder specialist, hosts this podcast to help women 30 and older identify, interrupt, and replace binge eating, restriction, and emotional eating. Using a Polyvagal lens and 12 years of clinical experience, she offers practical steps toward a sustainable relationship with food and body. The show is educational and informational, not therapy, and encourages women to stop waiting to lose weight before living fully.

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9. Body Regulation and Binge Eating Sep 9, 2026 651 A binge can feel terrible and regulating at the same time, and that's not a contradiction. Food offers powerful sensory input- taste, warmth, predictability- and for a while it genuinely lowers emotional intensity. Understanding why makes so much more sense than judging yourself for it.Building on the polyvagal ladder from last week's episode, we trace the entire binge cycle through Deb

8. Your Nervous System | A Binge eating Perspective Sep 5, 2026 564 Have you ever felt your heart start racing before your mind caught up with what scared you? Your body reacts to danger and safety long before you consciously decide anything, and that quiet, automatic reaction plays a much bigger role in your binge eating pattern than you might think.In this episode, you will learn about your autonomic nervous system and the two branches that run it underneath you

7. Identify, Interrupt, & Replace Binge Eating Aug 26, 2026 389 You feel the urge building before you have even decided to respond to it. One moment you are moving through your day, and the next you are standing in the kitchen with food already in your hands, wondering how you got there so fast. If that gap between the urge and the binge feels like it disappears before you can do anything about it, this episode is for you.This week you get a three-step framewo

6. What Role Does Binge Eating Fill? Aug 19, 2026 462 Maybe food has been the thing that never let you down. Maybe it showed up when nothing else did and felt safe to turn to. If binge eating has ever felt less like a problem and more like something you can't imagine your life without, this episode is for you.In this episode, we look at the different roles binge eating can quietly take on in a woman's life: a friend who shows up, a source o

5. Awareness: The Key to Interrupt Binge Eating Aug 12, 2026 321 Awareness is the key to interrupting binge eating and healing your relationship with food, body, and self. In this episode, Molly breaks down what awareness means and why the binge eating cycle runs on autopilot when awareness is missing. Molly describes how even a few seconds of noticing can open space between an urge and a response. She ends with a simple awareness practice you can take with you

4. The Body Checking Trap | Body Image and Binge Eating Aug 5, 2026 465 Body checking can feel like reassurance, but it may be pulling you deeper into the very patterns you are trying to change. In this episode, Molly explains how mirrors, clothing, comparison, and other checking behaviors can quietly reinforce restriction and binge eating. You’ll learn why these habits often develop over time, how they can shift your sense of worth outside of yourself, and what they

3. Why Women Bond Over Diet's | A Path Beyond Binge Eating episode on diet culture, comparison, and connection." Jul 29, 2026 429 Why do so many women feel closest to each other over a shared diet — and so alone the moment they step off the plan? In this episode, Molly unpacks the biological drive women have to bond with one another, how diet culture quietly hijacks that drive into comparison and competition, and — crucially — how the disconnection that follows can become a direct trigger into the restrict-binge cycle. If yo

2. Why Your Brain Pulls You Back to Binge Eating Jul 29, 2026 531 If you've ever wondered why, you can't just stop binge eating — even when you desperately want to — this episode offers a shift in how you understand why you have felt so stuck. In this episode, Molly Dyer breaks down what is actually happening in your brain when binge eating becomes a pattern. You'll learn why binge eating is a brain and nervous system response, not a willpower pr

1. The Girl Who Couldn't "Just Stop" Binge Eating Jul 29, 2026 718 The Path Beyond Binge Eating is a podcast for women who are exhausted from fighting with food — and are ready to identify, interrupt, and replace the binge cycle. Hosted by Molly Dyer, Licensed Therapist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, each episode offers clinical depth, personal honesty, and practical tools to help you move from shame and secrecy toward a quiet, sustainable relationship

The Path Beyond Binge Eating - Launching July 29, 2026 Jul 22, 2026 135 Binge eating has a way of making you feel like the problem — like if you just had more discipline, more willpower, more resolve, you'd finally get this under control. But binge eating isn't a willpower problem, and you were never the problem to begin with.The Path Beyond Binge Eating is for women 30+ who are ready to stop cycling through binge eating, restriction, chronic dieting, and em

The Path Beyond Binge Eating

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