Binge Eating Breakthrough
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.
Episodes
194 episodes
What a GLP-1 Can't Do for Your Binge Eating
In this episode, I'm answering a handful of questions that come up again and again around GLP-1 medications and binge eating. Maybe you're on one right now and still working out what it means for you. Or maybe you're considering starting one an...
Who Are You Without the Food Struggle?
In this episode, I'm answering a question your brain may already be asking without you realizing it. Maybe you're still in it, trying to stop binge eating or find some peace with food. Or maybe you've already reached your goal and don't know wh...
The Part of You That Checks Out
This episode explores the part that goes numb, zones out, and checks out when things get hard, and what it means that so much eating happens while we're not fully there. I draw on my own experience of surfacing mid-binge and not knowing where I...
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 ho...
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 ...
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 an...
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?&n...
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 pod...
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 ...
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 ans...
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...
What Running the Boston Marathon Taught Me About Chasing Any Goal
This week's episode is a little different. I recently crossed the finish line at the 130th Boston Marathon, and I invited my friend and fellow coach Shelby Tutty to sit down with me for a conversation about the race, the journey, and what it ac...
Why Binge Eating Feels So Hard to Talk About
There is a thought that lives alongside binge eating for almost everyone who struggles with it: "nobody can know". In this episode I share my own story of hiding. The years of secrecy, what it actually cost me, and what changed when...
What Breaking Free From Binge Eating Really Looks Like
Most people have a picture in their mind of what it looks like to finally break free from binge eating — a switch that flips or a moment that changes everything. The reality is different. And in a lot of ways, it's more hopeful. In ...
Stop Fighting the Part of You That Binges
What if the key to breaking free from binge eating isn't more control, but less fighting? In this episode, I'm talking about what it actually looks like to stop going to war with the part of you that binges, and what becomes possibl...
The Part of You That Binges Isn't the Enemy
What if the part of you that binges isn't broken and isn't something to be eliminated? In this episode, I'm sharing something that changed my own relationship with food, and that I've watched change so much for the people I work wit...
Why Change Feels So Hard (Even When You Want It)
If you've genuinely wanted to change your relationship with food and still found yourself stuck, this episode is for you. We explore why change feels so difficult even when the desire is real, and it has nothing to do with willpower or weakness...
How to Feel Your Feelings Without Turning to Food
Today I'm joined by Lauren Carlisle Brown, the emotions coach, for a conversation that gets right to the heart of why feeling our feelings is so much harder than it sounds. If you've ever known that emotions were driving your eating but had no ...
I Know What to Do But I Can't Make Myself Do It
If you've ever started a day completely certain it would be different, only to find yourself in the same place again by the end of the day, this episode is for you. We explore the gap between knowing and doing, why it has nothing to...
Progress Over Perfection
If you've ever felt like you're either doing it perfectly or completely blowing it, this episode offers a different way to think about your journey with food. We explore what black-and-white thinking looks like around eating, why rigid standard...
It's Not Self-Sabotage. It's Self-Protection.
If you've ever binged and immediately asked "what is wrong with me?" this episode is for you. You'll learn exactly why binge eating makes sense, why it's never actually self-sabotage, and what to ask yourself instead. You'll hear tw...
What Olympic Athletes Can Teach You About Food Freedom
After watching the Olympics for two weeks I wanted to share the stories that have resonated with me the most. Stories about what it takes to keep going, to trust your body, to come back after something hard. This podcast isn't just...
The Hidden Role of Shame in Binge Eating (with Kyira Wackett)
Shame might be the most powerful force keeping you stuck in the binge cycle—and you might not even realize it's there.Today I'm joined by Kyira Wackett, a licensed therapist specializing in shame, burnout, and anxiety, for a conversation...
Stop Fighting Food - How to Become a Peaceful Eater
What if the exhausting battle with food could actually end? Not through more willpower or another restrictive diet, but through understanding what's really happening underneath the struggle. In this episode, we explore what it means...
What to Do When You're Not Where You Wanted to Be
One month into the new year, many people are feeling discouraged. Maybe you're not where you thought you'd be. Maybe you feel like you've backslid into old patterns. This episode offers a completely different way to look at where yo...