Food recovery with the shame named out loud.
Confessions of a Binge Eater treats food struggles as a signal, not a simple willpower problem. Episodes move between personal recovery, guest conversations, and practical reflections on secrecy, people-pleasing, health symptoms, and life after weight loss.
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Confessions of a Binge Eater is built around the parts of food struggle people often hide. It gives language to secretive eating, binge cycles, dieting relapse, and the shame that keeps those patterns private. The show’s central idea is that food is rarely just food. Episodes repeatedly connect overeating with stress, feeling unsupported, fear, body discomfort, and the need for relief when life feels unmanageable. That makes the show feel less like a nutrition lecture and more like a recovery conversation. The voice is warm, personal, and plainly spoken. It can be tender. It can also be firm about self-deception, people-pleasing, and the stories that keep emotional eaters stuck. Some episodes revisit older lessons from the Heal Your Hunger era while placing them under the newer Confessions of a Binge Eater banner. Solo episodes focus on patterns such as eating in secret, believing mental “lies,” fearing post-weight-loss maintenance, and using writing to examine anger instead of staying in victimhood. Guest episodes broaden the frame. Kim Vopny brings pelvic floor health into the conversation, especially around perimenopause, menopause, incontinence, and pain. Reed Davis discusses the food pyramid, functional diagnostic nutrition, food sensitivities, sugar, processed carbohydrates, and broader wellness habits. A lipedema conversation centers chronic pain, mystery weight resistance, medical dismissal, body betrayal, and the trauma of not being believed. Glory St. Germain’s episode turns toward caregiving, weight loss, music education, and the possibility of building a later-life chapter with momentum. Across these topics, the show keeps returning to body trust. It is interested in what happens after the diet, after the quick fix, and after the private bargain with food stops working. The emotional register is validating, but not vague. It names hard feelings and then looks for a next step. For listeners who have felt trapped between wellness advice and private shame, the show offers a more human middle ground.
Made for: For listeners dealing with binge eating, emotional eating, yo-yo dieting, body shame, or fear around maintaining weight loss. It also suits people drawn to women’s health, chronic illness, and recovery-minded wellness conversations.
What sets it apart: The show links binge eating to the emotional and physical realities around it, from secrecy and people-pleasing to pelvic health and lipedema. Its appeal comes from the mix of confession, practical guidance, and guest-led health context.
People who struggle with food and weight tend to look for answers in all the wrong places. Join Tricia Nelson as she takes you on this journey of inspiration and healing.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Tricia Nelson connects binge eating to grief, betrayal, chronic pain, and the emotions that can turn food into temporary relief.
Tricia Nelson treats binge eating as a signal with an emotional history. Through candid solo reflections and guest interviews, she connects food and body struggles with grief, betrayal, relationships, chronic illness, and nutrition.
Food is rarely just food here; your grief, betrayal, and body get seats at the table.
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A food-pyramid debate with real stakes at the pantry level.
The episode uses the new food pyramid as a launch point for a larger question: what happens when someone is eating clean but still feels off. Reed Davis is framed as a double board certified holistic health practitioner, a doctor of nutritional therapy, and the founder of the…
A blunt look at lipedema, pain, and how easily women's symptoms get waved off.
Confessions of a Binge Eater follows a guest's account of lipedema, rapid body changes, and the unsettling shift of weight from her legs, thighs, and hips into her calves, arms, and waist.
A raw anniversary reflection on grief, friendship, and the emotional roots of emotional eating.
Grief is the heart of this candid single-episode reflection, as the host marks the anniversary of Roy's death and the long friendship that survived the end of their marriage.
A warm look at familiar relationship patterns, emotional programming, and learning to let something good feel safer.
Love becomes a kind of emotional pattern match in this episode, as Orna and Matthew Walters describe how the subconscious can light up around what feels familiar, even when that familiarity leads back into old relationship habits.
Eat enough. Lift well. Stop shrinking.
Eat smarter, stay full, change habits.
This episode discusses how to stop self-criticism after binge eating or overeating, focusing on the harmful cycle of emotional eating and self-flagellation.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
Tricia Nelson interviews Orna and Matthew Walters, world-renowned dating coaches and authors of 'Getting It Right This Time.' They share personal stories of overcoming difficult pasts to build a lasting marriage.
Host Tricia Nelson marks the one-year anniversary of her ex-husband Roy Nelson's death, sharing her personal grief journey.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
Trisha Nelson says people pleasing can make restaurant plans and party foods difficult for emotional eaters.
In Confessions of a Binge Eater, Trisha Nelson explains why intuitive eating may not work reliably for emotional eaters with bingeing, grazing, dieting, or food cravings.
Tricia Nelson presents a two-part test for choosing foods: whether a food leaves someone in control and whether it creates negative consequences.
This episode features an interview with Kim Vopni, the Vagina Coach, discussing the importance of pelvic health, including topics like pelvic pain, core exercise, menopause, and incontinence for women.
This episode explores the connection between secretive eating behaviors like binge eating and emotional eating, and the underlying shame and secrets that drive them, offering insights for healing.
The host reintroduces a past episode titled 'Seven Perils of People Pleasing,' discussing how people-pleasing relates to emotional eating and sharing personal insights from her journey.
This episode explores the psychological challenges and emotional pitfalls that often follow weight loss, particularly for those with histories of binge eating or yo-yo dieting.
This episode exposes five common lies that emotional eaters believe, focusing on how addressing self-deception rather than just food or exercise is key to overcoming binge eating.
The host opens with a question about whether clean eating is enough when health symptoms still linger.
Donna starts with how her weight sat in her legs, thighs, and hips, then spread into her calves, her arms, and her waist.
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This episode features Glory St.
This episode features an interview with Hazel, a client who lost over 60 pounds without dieting through the Heal Your Hunger program, focusing on healing emotional eating and inner transformation.