Binge Eating to Food Freedom | For Driven Hearts and Minds

Your health means everything to you. You research every supplement, devour wellness podcasts, and genuinely care about treating your body right. Yet at night you find yourself alone with another empty box of cookies, furious at yourself for doing it again. In this episode, I'm sharing why this painful disconnect happens - and what to do about it. GET FOUNDATIONS CLASS + FREE TIPS EVERY WEEK: ⁠kati...

Hannah used to hide candy in the frozen Brussels sprouts bag so her kids wouldn’t find it. She never imagined she'd become a person who’d actually FORGET there was even candy in her house!  🍭 After 25 years of binge eating and trying everything:  Extreme diets (even a 60-day juice fast) to leading  Overeaters Anonymous Recovery meetings (even leading them … and then going home and bingeing af...

If you keep promising yourself, “This is my very last binge,” but you’re still stuck in the cycle ... This episode reveals 3 essential shifts that can finally end it.  I’ve used these shifts myself and they might surprise you! Tune in. GET FREE FOUNDATIONS CLASS: katiepapo.com/resources WORK WITH ME: katiepapo.com/programs

After 27 rounds of Weight Watchers and decades of dieting, my mom was convinced nothing would work for her.  Now, 6 years after going through my program, she shares her remarkable transformation from food obsession to freedom.  Learn how she overcame her lifelong struggles with trigger foods and emotional eating to find lasting peace with food. WORK WITH ME: katiepapo.com/programs FREE RESOURCES:...

These completely changed how I show up in life. They're probably not what you're expecting - but BOY do they work! This isn't about creating another perfect plan. These exercises help you get crystal clear on what truly matters to you before you even THINK about goals. While everyone else is spinning their wheels with the same old resolutions, you'll be building something real and lasting. FEEL TH...

Ever notice how certain foods seem to have an almost magnetic pull over you - like those cookies that won't let you sleep until you've eaten the entire package? In this episode, I'm revealing what needs to shift so you can feel calm around any food, even the trigger foods you don't trust yourself to keep in the house. FEEL THE SHIFT PROGRAM: katiepapo.com/programs FREE RESOURCES: katiepapo.com/res...

👉Get Weekly Food Freedom Tips: katiepapo.com/resources Today's episode: "Your Brain in the INSTANT You Start a Diet (Same Response EVERY Time)" You're sitting there on Sunday night, feeling totally committed to your fresh start tomorrow.  Then, before Monday even arrives, your brain starts obsessing about every single food you're planning to give up.  That chocolate bar in your desk drawer that y...

👉Get Weekly Food Freedom Tips: katiepapo.com/resources Today's episode: Think Like a Normal Eater: 3 Inner Shifts Ever watch someone effortlessly leave food on their plate and wonder what they know that you don't?  It's not about willpower or rules - it's about three fundamental shifts in how they THINK about food.  In this episode, I'm revealing these transformative inner shifts that separate no...

Get Weekly Food Freedom Tips: katiepapo .com/resources You're usually the kind of person who gets things done. 💯 When you set your mind to something, you show up - no question about it. Whether it's at work, in your relationships, or pursuing personal goals, you have a history of going all-in for your commitments. Yet there's this ONE area (FOOD … ugh!!!) that defies your usual determ...

Get Weekly Food Freedom Tips: katiepapo.com/resources In Today’s Episode …  Why One Cookie Always Turns Into the Whole Box (And How to Finally Break This Pattern) You know that moment - you decide to have just one cookie, completely intending to keep it under control. But somehow, 20 minutes later, stomach hurting, you're stuffing the empty box in the garbage, kicking yourself for having no willpo...

Here's a beautifully real and candid conversation about lasting recovery from disordered eating, even if you’ve been struggling since childhood!  My guest and past client on this episode, Johanna from Finland, had been battling food since age 9, and now, for the first time, is embracing a new life of food freedom and genuine ease. Here’s what we cover in this episode: Creating a true identity...

Listen in as Rona, a smart, warm, and spiritually-inclined person, shares how she hit her rock bottom after trying to manage her binge eating for multiple decades. After hitting rock bottom and deciding, "This is not the hill I die on," she finally freed herself from this cycle of suffering, and shares stories of her experience, and the most important insights that she gathered along the...

Wow. This episode is a must-listen. I invited Bethany Dotson, a brilliant toxic relationship expert, who shared mind-blowing insights about healing your self-destructive and addictive relationship, whether it’s with food – or another person! She shares the most key first steps to finally pull the plug on addictive, self-sabotaging behaviors that go deep to the core.  You really don’t want to miss...

Me and Eating Disorder Therapist Sarah Speers developed our eating disorders working at the same place. Our paths went in different directions after that, and she first went the clinical route, where there is still widespread belief that binge eating and eating disorders are unfixable. (We discuss why this notion is 100% false, BTW.) In this episode, Sarah and I cover: 👉 Why many of us start bing...

Yo-yo dieting and the binge cycle are a rollercoaster – and not the fun kind.  If you have a long history of dieting, losing weight, binge eating, and gaining back the weight, this episode is a must-listen. I bring on my special guest Laura, to share the details of how she not only broke the binge cycle, but learned how to eat naturally, without a single diet or food rule whatsoever. Tune in. ____...

If criticizing ourselves helped us reach our goals, wouldn’t it have worked by now?  I’m sitting down with Suzi Lever, age 70 years old, as she shares her wisdom from her first-hand experience navigating the force of self-judgment, in her relationship with food.  We’re sharing how to navigate self-judgment along the recovery and healing journey. ________________________ To work with us, visit: kat...

Whether you’re considering attending your first meeting, or you’ve been part of meetings for YEARS, tune in for this special episode.  Hannah Fansler, our team member and former client, will be joining me to share her past experience with OA, having been an active member and leader in Overeaters Anonymous for 8 years, before choosing a new path.  Together, we’ll share some key elements about OA an...

Want to know the super silly secret to figure out how to stop binge eating?   Yes, I said silly. Because this is so counterintuitive, yet so in your face at the same time.   If you’ve been spending years trying to figure out how to stop binge eating, this episode is an absolute “must-listen.”  Tune in! ________________________ To work with us, visit: katiepapo.com/program To listen to client freed...

Looking back, I’ve figured out the 5 smartest things I did that helped me end binge eating permanently.  In this podcast episode, I’ll be talking about the very first thing that made a GIANT difference for me with food.  It all had to do with what I stopped focusing on, and what I started focusing on instead. This one mindset shift was one of the best things I could have done for myself, and now I...

If you often numb out with food as an attempt to relax yourself or give yourself enjoyment, this episode is for you.  Tune in! * This episode marks the last Podcast of this Season. Season 6 beings mid-May. Watch for Announcements! ________________________ To work with us, visit: katiepapo.com/program To listen to client freedom stories, visit: katiepapo.com/freedom Follow on Facebook and Instagram...

How can you trust yourself with food when you keep breaking promises to yourself? “This is the last time.” (I can’t even count how many times I’ve said THAT one to myself!) In this special episode, I invite Mindset Expert Shahar Kovetz to join me to discuss the mindset necessities of building trust with your body and food. Even if you’ve broken countless promises to yourself in the past, this epis...

Today I'm sharing a fabulous analogy that one of my clients came up with, to demonstrate the process of changing old habits, so you can ultimately create new, lifelong habits. Tune in! ________________________ To work with us, visit: katiepapo.com/program To listen to client freedom stories, visit: katiepapo.com/freedom Follow on Facebook and Instagram: KatiePapo108 For inquiries, email: coach...

If you think the reason you can’t stop binge eating is because of lack of willpower, think again. Weirdly enough, I’ve found that willpower is actually a huge part of the *problem* — not the solution! In this episode, I explain why willpower won’t keep your binges away, and what to do instead. Tune in! ________________________ To work with us, visit: katiepapo.com/program To listen to client freed...

Why do you keep falling off the wagon? “I was being so good! I stuck to my plan 100%. But then XYZ happened, and that one little thing opened the floodgates, and now I can’t stop binge eating. I undid all my hard work and ruined everything.” Sound familiar? In today’s episode, I’ll discuss the hidden force that’s making you fall off the wagon again and again, and how to overcome this problem perma...

Before you step on the scale for the 1000th time, listen to this episode. I used to be 100% certain that weighing myself helped me be in control of my eating. I then discovered the truth about the scale — and that weighing myself was harming me more than helping me. With this shift around the scale, I changed my eating faster than ever before. Tune in! ________________________ To work with us, vis...