The Path Beyond Binge Eating
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.
Episodes
13. The Holidays: Food, Family, and the Feeling of Being Judged | A Binge Eating Perspective
Message MollyYou reach for a dinner roll at a holiday table, and from across the room your mother glances at the roll, then your plate, then you. That one look can shape how you feel for the rest of the day.In this episode, Molly Dyer slows that moment down to show you what your body was doing underneath it. You'll learn the four systems your body uses to gather information: neuroception, you
12. If I Stop Dieting, I'll Never Stop Eating
Message Molly"I know dieting isn't working, but if I stop, I'm scared I'll never stop eating." If that thought has kept you on one diet after another, you are not the only one. The fear of losing control around food can start to feel like the only thing holding you together.In this episode, Molly Dyer explores where that fear comes from: your own history with diets, the me
11. The Shame of Eating in Secret | A Binge Eating Perspective
Message MollyYou are standing in the pantry after everyone has gone to bed, eating quickly and listening for footsteps, hoping no one walks into the kitchen. Eating in secret is far more common than most women realize, but the shame around it keeps it hidden, so almost no one talks about it.In this episode, we look at secret eating with curiosity and compassion. You'll hear the quiet, ordinar
10. Unwritten Food & Body Rules | A Binge Eating Perspective
Message Molly"Don't eat after 7:00 at night." "You have to earn your food." "Smaller is always better." If rules like these sound less like opinions and more like plain truth, you are not the only one. Most of the food and body rules we live by were never written down, and no one ever sat us down to teach them out loud.In this episode, we slow down and look close
9. Body Regulation and Binge Eating
Message MollyA 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
8. Your Nervous System | A Binge eating Perspective
Message MollyHave 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 u
7. Identify, Interrupt, & Replace Binge Eating
Message MollyYou 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
6. What Role Does Binge Eating Fill?
Message MollyMaybe 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 u
5. Awareness: The Key to Interrupt Binge Eating
Message MollyAwareness 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
4. The Body Checking Trap | Body Image and Binge Eating
Message MollyBody 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, a
3. Why Women Bond Over Diet's | A Path Beyond Binge Eating episode on diet culture, comparison, and connection."
Message MollyWhy 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
2. Why Your Brain Pulls You Back to Binge Eating
Message Molly 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
1. The Girl Who Couldn't "Just Stop" Binge Eating
Message MollyThe 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
The Path Beyond Binge Eating - Launching July 29, 2026
Message MollyBinge 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 di
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