67: Top 6 Women In-Depth Podcasts for Binge & Emotional Eating

Welcome to the podcast! Today’s episode will be a little different, because I am not interviewing everyone else, it will just be me. I am delighted to share the top 6 Women In-Depth podcasts for binge and emotional eating, as put together in a blog post by my dear friend and colleague Jodie Gale.  Jodie has a private practice in Sydney, Australia and is a Soul-Centred Psychotherapist, Eating Psychology Specialist, and leading specialist in women’s emotional, psychological and spiritual health and well-being.  And without further ado, here are the top 6 Women In-Depth podcasts, for helping women who struggle with binge eating, emotional eating, comfort eating and overeating! One: Podcast 11: Childhood Emotional Neglect: The Invisible Experience with Dr. Jonice Webb Underlying most eating disorders, disordered eating and other food, weight and body image concerns, is an experience of childhood emotional neglect (CEN). If our feelings and needs have been neglected, we may have turned to food (or other substances) as a way of numbing or soothing ourselves. In this podcast, clinical psychologist, Dr. Jonice Webb discusses what childhood emotional neglect really is.  *If you love this episode, you can also listen to Dr Jonice Webb’s follow up interview: 62: After Childhood Emotional Neglect: Healing Your Relationships with Your Partner, Children, & Parents  Two: Podcast 21: Healing the Mother Wound with Bethany Webster Bethany Webster is a writer, transformational coach, international speaker and a midwife of the heart. Her work is focused on helping women heal the “mother wound” so that they can step into their full feminine power and potential. The mother wound can manifest in conditions such as addiction, depression and eating disorders such as binge eating, bulimia and chronic dieting/restricting. In this podcast, Bethany Webster discusses how the mother wound affects all aspects of a woman’s life, the devaluation of the feminine, why this isn’t simply bringing up the past and the mother wound as a tool of empowerment.  Three: Podcast 63: Gifts & Challenges of the Highly Sensitive Person with Julie Bjelland, LMFT Women suffering with food, weight and body image concerns are more often than not, highly sensitive people (HSPs). Author of Brain Training for the Highly Sensitive Person: Techniques to Reduce Anxiety and Overwhelming Emotions, Julie Bjelland, has a passion for, and expertise in neuroscience and determining how to successfully train the brain so people can live their best lives. Julie discusses in this episode the definition of high sensitivity, the correlation with health issues, self-care and other techniques to manage high sensitivity.  *If you love this episode and want to learn more about HSPs, check out episode 53: Beyond the Myths: Understanding the Highly Sensitive Person with April Snow  Four: Podcast 37: Women and Anger with Michelle Farris, LMFT Many women who binge or emotionally eat squash their anger down with food. They haven’t learned how to be with their rich emotional life. It often feels safer to eat down the anger (and the pain and sadness underlying the anger) than to express it in an assertive and healthy way. Michelle Farris, LMFT. Michelle is a licensed marriage and family therapist who teaches others how to be more authentic in relationships by healing their anger and codependency. In this episode, Michelle discusses how codependency is related to anger, how anger can misrepresent women, people-pleasing and anger, how we can reconnect with our anger in a healthy way and learning how to say no!  *If you identified with the topics in this episode, you might also enjoy episode 22: Overcoming People Pleasing with Sharon Martin, LCSW  Five: Podcast 59: Cracking the Hunger Code Through Storytelling and Metaphor with Anita Johnston Anita Johnston, Ph.D. is the author of Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationships with Food Through Myth, Metaphor, and Storytelling and the co-creator of the Light of the Moon Cafe, an online e-course and support circle. In this episode Anita discusses, fitting in versus. belonging, the significance of the feminine in understanding disordered eating, what the food choices/qualities in disordered eating can reveal and how to redefine our relationship with food.  Six: Podcast 09: Disordered Eating: A Search for Wholeness with Jodie Gale In this podcast, Jodie address the underlying spiritual context and how recovery is an unfolding journey of the authentic self/soul. Jodie also shares about her personal recovery from bulimia (20 years this year!); how we must work with the parts and the whole; and most importantly – how we are whole, not broken, even though we often feel this way! Jodie is passionate about putting the soul back into therapy!