The Self Led Woman Podcast: emotional eating and nervous system healing for self-leadership

What if your body was never the problem. but the wisdom you’ve been missing? In this episode, I’m joined by Dr Anthea Todd, chiropractor, women’s health educator, and author of the bestselling book What’s My Body Telling Me? for a powerful conversation about symptoms, safety, and the intelligence of the body. Anthea shares why she believes symptoms are not something to fight or fix, but meaningful...

What if your body was never the problem. but the wisdom you’ve been missing? In this episode, I’m joined by Dr Anthea Todd, chiropractor, women’s health educator, and author of the bestselling book What’s My Body Telling Me? for a powerful conversation about symptoms, safety, and the intelligence of the body. Anthea shares why she believes symptoms are not something to fight or fix, but meaningful...

This episode is a straight talking, compassionate deep dive into why emotional eating doesn’t change just because you know what to do … and why willpower, discipline, and another nutrition plan are never the real solution. We explore the privilege of a regulated nervous system, how childhood support (or the lack of it) shapes your relationship with food, and why comparing yourself to women who “ju...

This episode is a straight talking, compassionate deep dive into why emotional eating doesn’t change just because you know what to do … and why willpower, discipline, and another nutrition plan are never the real solution. We explore the privilege of a regulated nervous system, how childhood support (or the lack of it) shapes your relationship with food, and why comparing yourself to women who “ju...

The Self-Led Woman is a podcast about emotional eating, the experiences that shape our relationship with food, and the kind of healing that unfolds when women reconnect with their sense of self. In this space, we go beneath behaviour, exploring trauma, the nervous system, nourishment, unmet needs, and mental health - with deep respect for the intelligence of the body. Hosted by Megan Darnell, Inte...

For most of my life, I believed my body was the problem. Not in a dramatic way. Not in a way I could easily name. Just in the quiet, unquestioned way that sat underneath everything — shaping how I ate, how I moved, how I looked at myself, and how much peace I felt in my own skin. In this first episode, I share part of my personal story with food, body image, control, and emotional eating. From die...

In this episode, we explore why emotional eating so often shows up in women who are high-functioning, capable, and already doing everything they can to cope. We look at emotional eating through an Internal Family Systems lens and unpack what’s actually happening in the nervous system when food becomes loud. Not as a lack of discipline, but as a signal that parts of you are working hard to regulate...

The holidays don’t create emotional eating. They reveal it. In this episode, we explore why this time of year so often activates old patterns around food, even when your life looks stable on the surface. Through the lens of trauma, the nervous system, and Internal Family Systems, we unpack how the body stores memory and how certain seasons, dates, and environments can reactivate responses learned...

For years, I believed my night-time bingeing was a discipline problem. Something I should be able to control if I just tried harder. But the truth was far more confronting and far more compassionate. In this episode, I share the story of the pattern I couldn’t stop. Waking in the night in full panic. Racing to the kitchen. Eating with a level of urgency that felt completely out of my control. What...

If food feels loud for you, it’s not a discipline issue. And it’s not something wrong with your body. Food noise increases when your system is under strain. Too many decisions, too much responsibility, not enough rest, not enough support. When capacity drops, parts of you look for relief wherever they can find it. In this episode, I unpack food noise through a nervous system and Internal Family Sy...

There are things your body does that feel confusing, extreme, or “too much” until you understand what your nervous system has actually been trying to do. In this episode, we explore why anxiety, shutdown, emotional eating, cravings, people pleasing, collapse, urgency, and overwhelm so often aren’t signs of dysregulation or weakness, but signs of an intelligent system trying to complete something t...

Emotional eating gets talked about like it’s one behaviour with one cause. It’s not. In this episode, I break down the different roles food can play in your life and why understanding which role it’s playing matters far more than trying to “fix” your eating. Because food isn’t always about avoidance or numbing. Sometimes it’s regulation. Sometimes it’s comfort. Sometimes it’s relief. Sometimes it’...

If food feels loud for you, it’s not a discipline issue. And it’s not something wrong with your body. Food noise increases when your system is under strain. Too many decisions, too much responsibility, not enough rest, not enough support. When capacity drops, parts of you look for relief wherever they can find it. In this episode, I unpack food noise through a nervous system and Internal Family Sy...

For years, I believed my night-time bingeing was a discipline problem. Something I should be able to control if I just tried harder. But the truth was far more confronting and far more compassionate. In this episode, I share the story of the pattern I couldn’t stop. Waking in the night in full panic. Racing to the kitchen. Eating with a level of urgency that felt completely out of my control. What...

The holidays don’t create emotional eating. They reveal it. In this episode, we explore why this time of year so often activates old patterns around food, even when your life looks stable on the surface. Through the lens of trauma, the nervous system, and Internal Family Systems, we unpack how the body stores memory and how certain seasons, dates, and environments can reactivate responses learned...

In this episode, we explore why emotional eating so often shows up in women who are high-functioning, capable, and already doing everything they can to cope. We look at emotional eating through an Internal Family Systems lens and unpack what’s actually happening in the nervous system when food becomes loud. Not as a lack of discipline, but as a signal that parts of you are working hard to regulate...

For most of my life, I believed my body was the problem. Not in a dramatic way. Not in a way I could easily name. Just in the quiet, unquestioned way that sat underneath everything — shaping how I ate, how I moved, how I looked at myself, and how much peace I felt in my own skin. In this first episode, I share part of my personal story with food, body image, control, and emotional eating. From die...

The Self-Led Woman is a podcast about emotional eating, the experiences that shape our relationship with food, and the kind of healing that unfolds when women reconnect with their sense of self. In this space, we go beneath behaviour, exploring trauma, the nervous system, nourishment, unmet needs, and mental health - with deep respect for the intelligence of the body. Hosted by Megan Darnell, Inte...