The Path Beyond Binge Eating

Molly Dyer | Licensed Therapist, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, Binge Eating Recovery Coach
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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 and older who are ready to identify, interrupt, and replace binge eating, restriction, chronic dieting, and emotional eating — and start creating a relationship with food and body something that actually lasts. Each week, Licensed Therapist, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, and Binge Eating Recovery Coach Molly Dyer will invite you on a path through the practical steps of moving beyond binge eating and toward a consistent, sustainable relationship with food, your body, and yourself.  Informed by 12 years of clinical experience and a Polyvagal lens, this show is not therapy — it is informational and educational, for women who are done waiting to lose weight or change their body to start living. This is where binge eating stops running the show and you start finding your way back to yourself. New episodes every Wednesday. Follow the show and learn more about Molly, and how you can find support at www.MollyDyer.com

  1. Nov 5

    15. Navigate Holiday Food & Body Comments with Confidence

    Message Molly You walk up to the front door carrying a dish you made. Your shoulders creep up, your stomach tightens, and your mind starts racing about what she will say this year. When food and body comments have been passed down through generations, it can feel like you just have to get through them. This episode picks up where Episode 14 left off, returning to the same holiday gathering with a new tool: pocket phrases. We follow the day from the greeting at the door, into the kitchen where the diet talk warms up, through the plates and the pie, past the old photo albums, and all the way to the leftovers. The first thing to take with you is that you don't have to explain anything. You are not required to justify what is happening with your body, and you can answer a comment about it as if the person had simply said hello. The second is that a pocket phrase does not have to fit the conversation. You are not responding to the comment; you are redirecting and protecting your peace, and it's okay if the change of subject is a little abrupt. The third is that you are allowed to set the line. If someone keeps going, you can name the boundary, and whatever you say or don't say, you can keep feeding yourself. The comments don't decide whether you get to eat. You will also hear what happened during a morning jog when a neighbor made a comment about burning off Halloween candy. Then you are invited into a simple practice: choose one or two phrases, write them down, read them silently, and read them out loud. Practicing while you are calm helps your brain and body access them when you really need them, and you can pair them with Feet, Filter, and Fresh Air from Episode 14. 'Tis the Season: Navigating Food and Body Comments with Confidence is a four-session holiday skills workshop, live on Zoom on Thursday nights beginning November 12th. It is a coaching group focused on skill building, not therapy. Join here: https://www.mollydyer.com/offers/s6Ahgbhm/checkout If this episode helped, follow The Path Beyond Binge Eating so you don't miss next week, and share it with a friend heading to a family table this season. This episode is educational and isn't a substitute for individualized care.

  2. Oct 28

    14. Are You Going to Eat ALL of That? Navigating Holiday Food & Body Comments | A Binge Eating Perspective

    Message Molly "Are you going to eat all of that?" "Oh, honey, you look so pretty," they say, their eyes scanning you from head to toe. If you've been working hard to heal your relationship with food, the holiday table can feel like walking through a proverbial minefield, and it often starts before you even get in the house. In this episode, Molly Dyer walks through a holiday gathering from the front door to the leftovers and names the family diet culture holiday soundtrack: the greetings, the diet talk in the kitchen, the whispers about who isn't there yet, the comments about your plate, and the dessert confessions. You'll hear where these comments come from, why they get updated with every new diet trend while the song stays the same, and why your body reacts the way it does. Then you'll learn your first pocket skill, Feet, Filter, and Fresh Air, a simple way to respond instead of react. This episode is for you if your shoulders creep up just thinking about the holidays. You can't change what other people say, but you can decide how much of it you let in. Molly is also opening 'Tis the Season: Navigating Holiday Food and Body Comments with Confidence, a four-session coaching workshop that meets live on Zoom on Thursday nights beginning November 12th. The official invitation hasn't gone out yet, so email molly@mollydyer.com to get on the list early. Press play, and let's protect your peace at the holiday table together.

  3. Oct 14

    13. The Holidays: Food, Family, and the Feeling of Being Judged | A Binge Eating Perspective

    Message Molly You 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, your automatic safety scanner, a term from Dr. Stephen Porges and Polyvagal Theory; interoception, your sense of what is happening inside you; exteroception, your sense of the world around you; and proprioception, your sense of where your body is in space. You'll also learn why perception is only the tip of the iceberg, and how the meaning you give a single look can arrive before you have any say. If food feels calm some days and loud on others, and you've never been able to explain why, this episode gives you language for what is happening below the surface. You'll leave with four simple questions to bring to your next meal, and a little more room to choose what you do next. Settle in, and let's sit at the table together.

  4. Oct 7

    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 messages of diet culture, and the pendulum swing into rebound eating that can follow a period of restriction. You'll hear how the fear of uncontrolled eating can actually set up the very eating you are afraid of, and how all-or-nothing thinking keeps the pendulum moving between total control and total chaos. Molly also explores how the weekend "cheat day" teaches you that food is a reward you have to earn, and she speaks honestly to a question she hears often: "But what about my body?" This episode is for you if you feel tired of dieting but afraid to let it go. You'll leave with a simple, optional practice for looking at the thoughts behind food fear and finding a little more room in the middle. Take a breath, and let's explore the space between the diet and the rebound.

    12. If I Stop Dieting, I'll Never Stop Eating

  5. Sep 30

    11. The Shame of Eating in Secret | A Binge Eating Perspective

    Message Molly You 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, ordinary ways it shows up, from eating in the car before you pull into your neighborhood to replacing a box of cookies before anyone notices it's empty. We explore why this is not a willpower problem, how fear of judgment and diet culture beliefs make hiding feel safe, and how your brain learns that secrecy equals safety. Drawing on Brene Brown's research on shame and Dr. Kristin Neff's work on self-compassion, we talk about why shame grows in secrecy and what may help it soften. If you have ever eaten the salad in front of others and then eaten what you really wanted once you were alone, this episode is for you. You'll leave with a simple, optional practice rooted in Molly's framework: Identify, Interrupt, & Replace. Take a breath, and let's look at this together. Mentioned in This Episode: Brene Brown's research on shame: https://brenebrown.com Dr. Kristin Neff's research on self-compassion: https://self-compassion.org

    11. The Shame of Eating in Secret | A Binge Eating Perspective

  6. Sep 23

    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 closely at those unwritten rules: what they sound like, where they come from, and why so many women seem to just know them. You'll hear about a fridge magnet that quietly became a food rule, the places these beliefs take root (family comments, praise for weight loss, social media, and clothing sizes treated like a report card), and the four kinds of rules many of us carry: food rules, weight rules, body image rules, and the self-image rules they lead to. We also connect back to the nervous system ladder from last episode and why rigid rules keep you on the middle rung, alert and bracing, trying to get it right. This episode is for you if every meal has started to feel like a test you pass or fail, or if you've been told the answer is more discipline. You started following these rules to feel safe, liked, and in control, and now you get to question them. You'll leave with a gentle, invitational practice for the week ahead: notice one unwritten rule, write it down, and ask, "What does this rule promise?" For a free Unwritten Rules Reflection Checklist, email connect@mollydyer.com. Take a breath, get comfortable, and let's look at the rules you never chose.

  7. Sep 9

    9. Body Regulation and Binge Eating

    Message Molly 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 Dana's nervous system states, from a body already running low on capacity, through the alarm bells of fight or flight, into the binge itself, and often into a shutdown that leaves you numb and disconnected. You will hear why a binge can feel terrible and regulating at the same time, why restriction always shows up afterward promising safety, and why that same restriction is what sets the next binge in motion. This conversation is for you if you have ever asked why you can't “willpower” your way out of a binge. Instead, we ask a different question: what is your nervous system trying to accomplish through this behavior? Once you can name that, healing stops being about more discipline and starts being about real, felt safety in your body.

  8. Sep 5

    8. Your Nervous System | A Binge eating Perspective

    Message Molly 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 your awareness all day long. You will hear how Dr. Stephen Porges' polyvagal theory explains your body's built-in scanning system, and how therapist Deb Dana turned that theory into something you can actually picture: a three-rung ladder that moves between feeling safe and connected, fight or flight, and shutdown or disconnection. You will hear real examples of what each rung feels like, and you are invited to try the ladder practice yourself, using either your own memories or a scene from a show, movie, or book. This episode is for you if you have ever wondered why a binge can feel less like a choice and more like something pulling you, because so much of that pull lives on this same ladder. Understanding where you are on it is one more piece of the awareness that supports real change.

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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 and older who are ready to identify, interrupt, and replace binge eating, restriction, chronic dieting, and emotional eating — and start creating a relationship with food and body something that actually lasts. Each week, Licensed Therapist, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, and Binge Eating Recovery Coach Molly Dyer will invite you on a path through the practical steps of moving beyond binge eating and toward a consistent, sustainable relationship with food, your body, and yourself.  Informed by 12 years of clinical experience and a Polyvagal lens, this show is not therapy — it is informational and educational, for women who are done waiting to lose weight or change their body to start living. This is where binge eating stops running the show and you start finding your way back to yourself. New episodes every Wednesday. Follow the show and learn more about Molly, and how you can find support at www.MollyDyer.com

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  • Creator
    Molly Dyer | Licensed Therapist, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, Binge Eating Recovery Coach
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Molly Dyer Coaching, LLC
  • Show Website
    The Path Beyond Binge Eating

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