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

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...