Beneath The Binge

Summer is approaching, holidays are booked, and for many women, the pressure to “get your body ready” can feel overwhelming. If you’ve found yourself thinking: “I need to lose weight before my holiday.” “I have to get my eating under control.” “Maybe I just need to go on one more diet.” “This summer has to be different.” …this episode is for you. In this episode, Alex explores why going on another...

In this episode of Beneath the Binge , somatic practitioner Alex Bottomley invites listeners to ground in what physically supports their body, then explore loneliness as a felt sense of disconnection that can show up as collapse, fogginess, or an empty “void” often sensed in the belly. From her personal experience and client work, she describe how early differences, shame, and losses can shape a n...

In this episode of Beneath the Binge , I reframe binge urges as urgent body-based communications from the survival nervous system rather than a problem to fight. I explain that urges feel overwhelming because they arise as physical sensations and activation that demand immediate resolution — fighting, distracting, analyzing, using willpower, or immediately giving in can intensify urges or reinforc...

In this episode of Beneath the Binge , Alex Bottomley explains how binge urges relate to the body and nervous system through somatic psychology by unpacking the all-or-nothing cycle with food, exercise, and life. She reframes the pattern as a nervous system response rather than a willpower problem, introducing the difference between desire (what you want and expect) and capacity (what your nervous...

In the first episode of Beneath the Binge , somatic practitioner Alex Bottomley introduces a body and nervous-system based approach to understanding and recovering from binge eating, aiming to replace shame with compassion and build internal safety so food is no longer the main comfort. She shares her decade-long, largely hidden struggle marked by all-or-nothing thinking, cycles of control and col...

In episode two of the Beneath the Binge , somatic practitioner Alex Bottomley explains that binge eating “makes sense” as a nervous-system-based survival strategy learned through repetition and relief, not a lack of willpower. She describes how triggers like overwhelm, loneliness, or stress can lead the body to reflexively seek food for temporary comfort, numbness, or grounding, and how post-binge...

In this episode of Beneath the Binge , Alex Bottomley explains how binge urges relate to the body and nervous system through somatic psychology. The episode contrasts survival mode (sympathetic activation with racing heart, shallow breath, muscle tension, agitation, anxious thoughts, and urgent cravings used for fast relief) with safety mode (parasympathetic regulation with slower breath, soft mus...

Welcome to this new podcast! Beneath the Binge is a podcast for those who feel stuck in binge eating and exhausted by the fight with food. This is a space where we explore our relationship with food and what sits beneath binge eating, through the lens of the nervous system, somatic psychology, and self-inquiry. Hosted by Alex Bottomley, a somatic practitioner specialising in binge eating recovery,...