Binge Eating Breakthrough

Jane Pilger
  • 5.0 (4)
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The Binge Eating Breakthrough Podcast is for anyone looking to break through the cycle of binge eating, compulsive overeating, emotional eating and food addiction. No matter how long you’ve struggled or how many things you’ve tried, you will learn the strategies, tools and mindset you need to find peace with food.  Whether you're struggling with binge eating yourself or seeking to support a loved one on their journey to recovery, the Binge Eating Breakthrough podcast offers valuable insights, and expert advice to guide you toward freedom from disordered eating habits. Discover the tools, resources, and encouragement you need to break free from the cycle of binge eating and embrace a way of eating that is nourishing, supportive, and sustainable.  Master Certified Coach Jane Pilger's approach is rooted in the science of the brain and body, trauma-informed, and filled with compassion. Tune in every Wednesday for a new perspective you may have never heard of before. 

  1. 1 day ago

    The Part of You That Hides

    Does it ever feel like you are living a double life? Where you eat one way around other people but a completely different way in secret? Do you have a part of you that wants to hide your eating behaviors but don't understand why you do it or how to stop? In this episode, I share from my own experience of hiding my binge eating for years, including a memory of sneaking food as a young child, and explore why secret eating and hiding food make complete sense as a protective strategy, and what it actually takes to begin stepping out of it. What You'll Discover: Why secret eating and hiding food aren't character flaws and what the part doing the hiding is actually trying to doWhy the hiding tends to increase the shame over time and what living a double life around food costs over timeWhat the part that hides actually needs and why forced accountability tends to backfireWhy the first step out of hiding has nothing to do with telling anyone and everything to do with how you see yourselfIf you've been carrying this alone, whether no one knows at all or the people in your life only know part of it, this episode is for you. Previous episodes referenced: How to Talk to Your Loved Ones About Your Secret Eating Understanding the Part of You That Wants to Binge (Part 1) If you would like to explore getting support with your eating challenges, schedule a Breakthrough Call today. Want to know why you struggle with food and what to do next? Start watching The Binge Breakthrough Mini Series today.

    26 min

  2. 24 Jun

    What Does It Mean to Feel Safe in Your Body?

    If the idea of feeling safe in your body sounds unfamiliar, or even a little strange, you're not alone. In this episode we explore why so many people disconnect from their bodies in the first place, why that disconnection makes complete sense as a nervous system response, and what safety in the body actually feels like when you begin to find it.  You'll also get a short guided experience to help you recognize that feeling for yourself, and one simple daily practice to start building it. What You'll Discover: Why disconnecting from your body is a nervous system adaptation, not a character flawHow the two-way communication between your brain and body shapes your relationship with foodWhat feeling safe in your body actually feels like, and how to begin recognizing itWhy this work is often hard to do alone, and what co-regulation makes possible If you've ever wondered why you reach for food even when you're not hungry, or why being still and quiet feels unbearable, this episode may answer questions you didn't know you had.  Want to go deeper?  Explore The Gathering, a monthly guided experience to learn how to trust yourself. Book a Breakthrough Call.   Want to know why you struggle with food and what to do next? Start watching The Binge Breakthrough Mini Series today.

    27 min

  3. 17 Jun

    When Giving Yourself Food Freedom Backfires

    You did the work to let go of the rules, challenge the rigidity, and give yourself permission to eat freely. And then the pendulum swung in the other direction, and the freedom didn't feel like freedom at all.  This episode is for anyone who has experienced food freedom and found it more complicated than expected, and for anyone holding tightly to restriction because the other end of the pendulum looks too frightening to risk. This episode explores what's actually happening when food freedom feels like it's working against you, and what it looks like when the pendulum finally stops swinging in either direction. What You'll Discover: The difference between food freedom and body connection Why the pendulum swing happens and what's actually happening in the body when freedom feels out of controlWhat real food freedom feels like and how to start imagining that for yourselfA question to sit with to begin developing your own definition of food freedomIf you're wondering what it looks like to do this deeper work with support, schedule a Breakthrough Call today.  This is the third episode in a three-part series on what happens when the old strategies stop working. Listen to the first two episodes here: How to Measure Success Beyond the Scale  What If I Need to Lose Weight for My Health?  Want to know why you struggle with food and what to do next? Start watching The Binge Breakthrough Mini Series today.

    24 min

  4. 10 Jun

    What If I Need to Lose Weight for My Health?

    This episode comes directly from a listener question, one I hear in some form regularly. What do you do when your doctor has told you that losing weight is medically necessary, but everything you've tried has kept you stuck in the same cycle?  With her permission, I share a message from a listener who has been in the binge and restrict cycle for over 45 years and is navigating real health consequences. We discuss why restriction, even for medical reasons, keeps the cycle spinning, and what it actually looks like to work toward health when the scale has been the only measure you've ever known. What You'll Discover: Why restriction backfires even when the medical reason for it is real and seriousHow to hold both truths at once: your doctor's concern is valid, and another diet is not the answerWhat to focus on instead of body size and why these behaviors directly support the health markers that matterWhy what you focus on expands, and how shifting from "what to lose" to "what to add" changes everythingIf you've ever felt caught between a medical recommendation and the knowledge that dieting makes things worse for you, this episode is for you. Previous episode referenced: Supportive Structure If you would like to explore getting support with your eating challenges, schedule a Breakthrough Call today. Want to know why you struggle with food and what to do next? Start watching The Binge Breakthrough Mini Series today.

    27 min

  5. 3 Jun

    How to Measure Success Beyond the Scale

    If the number on the scale has been your primary way of knowing whether things are going well with food, this episode is for you. A conversation with a new client, who is literally a scientist, sparked something I knew I had to bring to the podcast. You can be making real progress, feeling calmer around food, binging less, feeling more connected, and still find yourself on the scale waiting for the number to confirm what you're already experiencing. And when it doesn't? All that real progress disappears. In this episode, I talk about why the scale is measuring the wrong thing entirely, what it actually means to track success in your relationship with food, and what I've seen in my own experience when a number became the thing I was chasing. What You'll Discover: Why chasing a number keeps you in monitoring mode rather than in connection with yourselfWhat the scale can't measure and why that data matters more than the numberMy own experience with using the scale as a measure of control, and what I can see now that I couldn't thenWhat to do with the scale if you're not ready to put it away entirelyIf you've ever felt like you were making progress, only to have the scale talk you out of it, this episode will give you a different way to measure what's actually happening. If you want to know what it would look like to explore this with support, schedule a Breakthrough Call today. Want to know why you struggle with food and what to do next? Start watching The Binge Breakthrough Mini Series today.

    20 min

  6. 27 May

    What Self-Trust Around Food Actually Means

    "I just don't trust myself around food." If that sentence is familiar, this episode is for you.  Today I'm unpacking what self-trust actually is, and what it isn't, because most people are working toward a version of self-trust that was never achievable to begin with. And that definition might quietly be keeping you stuck. What You'll Discover: Why the most common definition of self-trust sets you up to fail before you even beginWhat self-trust actually isThe difference between self-monitoring and self-awareness, and why one creates more shame while the other creates real changeWhy respect is often more accessible than love, and how practicing respect with your body builds the safety that self-trust actually requiresIf you've ever dismissed your own progress because you didn't get it perfect, this episode will give you a different place to stand. Mentioned in this episode: The Gathering is a monthly guided experience for women who want to slow down and learn how to trust themselves. Each session, I bring the topics I'm personally working through and the patterns I keep seeing in my clients, and we go there together. Our most recent session was a full conversation on self-trust, self-respect and self-love. Replays are available for one month until the next live call.    What to Do After a Binge: your 5 step guide to return to yourself after a binge or out of control moment with food. Want to know why you struggle with food and what to do next? Start watching The Binge Breakthrough Mini Series today.

    22 min

  7. 20 May

    Your Food Struggles Might Actually Be a Transition Problem

    If you've ever wondered why binge eating or emotional eating seems to happen at the same times of day, after work, after lunch, on Sunday nights, or when you get home from a trip, this episode is going to reframe everything.  The answer might not be about food at all. It might be about transitions. In this episode I break down what transitions actually are, why the brain finds them so hard to navigate, and how so many binge eating triggers are really just transition moments your nervous system didn't know how to get through.  Whether you're dealing with the small daily transitions that fly under the radar or a bigger life change that's been quietly driving your eating, this episode will help you finally understand what's happening and what to do about it. What You'll Discover: Why your brain treats transitions as a threat and how that drives binge eating and stress eating urgesThe daily transition moments most people never recognize and how to spot the ones that are hardest for youHow to tell if a big life transition is behind your current food struggles and the question to ask yourself right nowHow to minimize transitions where you can — a nervous system strategy that also happens to be a productivity strategyA practical framework for navigating the transitions you can't avoid so food stops being your brain's default relief valve If you've ever found yourself reaching for food after work, during a stressful season, or at the same time every day without knowing why, this episode will help you finally connect those dots. Binge eating triggers aren't random. And understanding them is the first step to changing them.  Do you want help navigating big or small transitions? Schedule a Breakthrough Call today. Want to know why you struggle with food and what to do next? Start watching The Binge Breakthrough Mini Series today.

    27 min

  8. 13 May

    What Happens When You Can't Keep Busy Anymore

    If you struggle with binge eating and feel like you're holding it together on the outside while something quietly unravels on the inside, this episode is for you. A contestant on the survival show Alone had everything he needed to win and tapped out on day eight anyway. Not because of anything going wrong on the outside. Because of everything he had never learned to be with on the inside. His story reveals something important about why binge eating happens and why willpower will never be the answer.  What You'll Discover: Why high-achieving people who struggle with binge eating often don't recognize their own coping mechanismsWhat binge eating and emotional avoidance have in common — and what the body is actually reaching forThe difference between a willpower problem and a capacity problem — and why it changes everything about binge eating recoveryWhy building capacity to be with difficult emotions is hard to do alone — and what support actually looks like If you've ever wondered why you binge eat even when life looks fine from the outside, or why staying busy feels easier than slowing down, this episode will help you understand what's actually going on underneath.  If you're ready for support with your relationship with food, schedule a Breakthrough Call today.  Want to know why you struggle with food and what to do next? Start watching The Binge Breakthrough Mini Series today.

    24 min
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The Binge Eating Breakthrough Podcast is for anyone looking to break through the cycle of binge eating, compulsive overeating, emotional eating and food addiction. No matter how long you’ve struggled or how many things you’ve tried, you will learn the strategies, tools and mindset you need to find peace with food.  Whether you're struggling with binge eating yourself or seeking to support a loved one on their journey to recovery, the Binge Eating Breakthrough podcast offers valuable insights, and expert advice to guide you toward freedom from disordered eating habits. Discover the tools, resources, and encouragement you need to break free from the cycle of binge eating and embrace a way of eating that is nourishing, supportive, and sustainable.  Master Certified Coach Jane Pilger's approach is rooted in the science of the brain and body, trauma-informed, and filled with compassion. Tune in every Wednesday for a new perspective you may have never heard of before. 

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  • Creator
    Jane Pilger
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    191
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Binge Eating Breakthrough
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    Binge Eating Breakthrough

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