The Done Bingeing Podcast

The Done Bingeing Podcast

If you're done with binge eating, this podcast is for you. If you're tired of that "ugh" feeling after a binge—of those moments of regret, distress, and shame—this podcast is for you. Done Bingeing is the podcast that teaches actionable strategies and the latest brain science to deal with urges to binge, to restore your trust in your ability to feed yourself normal amounts of food, and to return to your natural weight. Martha combines her coaching expertise, her work with trusted health care professionals, her formal education, and her 30-year battle to end binge eating to teach cognitive-based and body-positive tools to find freedom from binge eating. The Done Bingeing Podcast offers a broad and deep approach to recovering from binge eating that respects the spectrum of treatment options available and the unique needs of each person who struggles with binge eating. From the urges to binge to just plain life, Martha will help you navigate common triggers to bingeing and help you heal from a place of power instead of from a place of powerlessness. You'll be surprised how much easier this journey can be when you know how you manage your mind! Have a question or topic you'd like to see covered on the podcast? Send it on over to https://www.holdingthespace.co/contact/ To help you kick-start your recovery from binge eating, download a free e-book at http://www.holdingthespace.co/12-surprising-steps-to-end-binge-eating.

Episodes

June 10, 2025 24 mins

When I was binge eating, it wasn't that I didn't want to feel my feelings—I just didn't know how to be with them without getting swallowed whole. Every time I tried, it felt like too much. And every time it felt like too much, the bingeing swept in to hel...

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When I was binge eating, what was missing from my life wasn't just freedom from bingeing—it was freedom itself. The kind of freedom you feel when you laugh with a friend at a café, walk with a neighbor in a park, or lose yourself—even for ten minutes—in a...

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You know those days when you're running on fumes, your inbox feels like it's breeding, and the idea of moving your body feels about as appealing as ironing doilies in a heatwave? 

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When I say, "Aretha Franklin," what's the first thing you want to belt out? 

If it's R-E-S-P-E-C-T, that's you and me both, my friend. And, don't worry, I won't hold it against you if it wasn't.

As one of my Internal Family Systems consultants, Robert Falconer, reminded me, respect is the opposite of shame and the minimum of love. The second of those ideas, he said, came from the work of Pia Melody, renowned author on recovery from...

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April 24, 2025 19 mins

Every time I promised myself I'd

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What does a shimmering pool on a hot desert plain have to do with you and binge eating?

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Welcome to The Done Bingeing Podcast. This is the place to hear about how you can pair the emerging brain science about why you binge with powerful life coaching to help you stop. If you want to explore an evidence-based, non-clinical approach to end binge eating, you're in the right place. 

It's time to free yourself. You have m...

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"How do I deal with the urge to binge?" It's one of the most common questions I get asked.

The experience of the urge can be incredibly tough, scary even. But you're not alone in this. I've put together this episode with nine actionable steps to help you navigate those moments when the urge to binge eat feels overwhelming.

In episode 78, I share nine actionable steps to help you when you're experiencing urges and cravings, includin...

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If you're anything like me, you've probably tried every diet, program or solution you could find—so many of which promised rapid results. I understand the soaring hope as you start out followed by the descent into disappointment when the bingeing returns, because I've been there too.

It makes sense to me that you want to stop bingeing right now—or yesterday—forever.

But what I've learned from my and my clients' lives is that living...

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Binge eaters often wonder: Is it safe for me to hope that one day I'll be able to stop bingeing, after doing it for this long?

I remember wondering this too. Then I'd risk it, try a new approach, and find myself uplifted with hope. Then, when the approach didn't resolve my bingeing, I'd find myself dropped back into hopelessness, believing once again that freedom was impossible, a place where hope seemed a world away.

Luckily hope ...

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July 20, 2023 15 mins

Depending on where you live, you may be about a month into summer. The summer is fraught with exposure stress for many binge eaters. With more heat comes more beach trips, more pool parties, more shorts, shorter sleeves, higher skirts, undershirts, camisoles, Speedos, and bikinis.

With more flesh to be seen, the spring often brings on a deluge of summer pressure, preparations, and promises. At this point in June, those aspirations ...

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Guilt and shame aren't the same. And it turns out that it pays to understand how they differ and what their relationship is with binge eating.

This episode explains the difference between guilt and shame, why we feel these emotions, and what they often lead us to do. When enough compassion is present, it's possible to see how our parts that feel guilt and shame interact with harshly critical parts of us that can inflame these emoti...

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On my road to recovery, I sometimes didn't binge for weeks or months. And sometimes all it took to slide back into bingeing was a holiday meal—a slide that could glide on for even more weeks or months. As it turned out, I'd rock like this . . . forward, backward, forward, backward . . . for decades.

This episode is about how sometimes our bingeing can worsen or come back during the holidays, even when we're celebrating with those w...

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April 6, 2023 15 mins

This time of year, Ramadan, Passover, and Easter are celebrations that honor what we believe, who we are, and whom we love. There are open hearts and open homes. Whether it's sharing a tradition, a meal, or a hunt for special eggs, there are many opportunities to nourish ourselves and our relationships.

The promise of renewal is everywhere. And so is food. Food could be right in front of us at a meal or circling in our minds as we ...

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January 12, 2023 12 mins

In this episode, we briefly review the food feedback loop and take a closer look at pain and desire feedback loops.

If we fear a painful experience enough to escape it with food, our brains note that and determine that the pain is a threat. The more we try to muffle the pain with truffles, the more threaten...

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January 6, 2023 22 mins

Sometimes it starts like this: We have food that's concentrated in some way—maybe it's extra savory, extra crunchy, extra sweet. And we have an amount in excess of what we need. Then we get more from the food beyond an ordinarily enjoyable way to nourish and sustain our bodies—we get an amplification of pleasure and fullness, a spike in energy, and a numbing of any pain that might be hanging around.

So far, so good, perhaps. But wh...

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Are you making resolutions, writing down goals, envisioning dreams? This can be a tough time for binge eaters because where a binge eater is on their journey is often quite far away from where they want to be. And when something is desperately wanted that feels far, far away, our instinct at New Year's—especially with all the messaging that's come our way—is to do an about face. For many binge eaters, that means a new diet starting...

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December 23, 2022 9 mins

Tis the season to be jolly, we're told, so you know what? Let's talk about that. Why? Because this season really can be jolly, where feelings and festivities align.

I had so many holiday seasons where I felt much love, much togetherness, and was left enthralled. Maybe you're feeling something like that right now. This is the bliss of having our physical, social, emotional, and spirituals needs met. In this peaceful vibrancy, our fe...

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December 16, 2022 21 mins
 
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September 2, 2022 39 mins

When a binge has started it can seem as if you're veering off-course with no way back. But there is a way forward, even as you're already eating off protocol. Listen in for the 6 steps to take when it feels as if failure is upon you.

If you're ready to apply the concepts in this podcast at a deeper level, join me in The Soulfull Academy membership program. Go to https://www.holdingthespace.co/join/ to learn more. Or, if now's the t...

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August 19, 2022 22 mins

This episode is about what to do if you feel you won't be able to have a day without bingeing, or without going off a diet or protocol. You may recognize all-or-nothing, aka black-and-white, thinking if you've ever thought something similar to, "I know I'm going to binge, so I might as well make it count." Episode 65 offers five ideas for the times you sense an oncoming urge to binge and that you won't be able to stop. I invite you...

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