Are You Binge Eating to Avoid Conflict? (The trigger we don’t talk about) - OUAB Ep. 35

In this episode of Once Upon a Binge, Katy & Becca are talking about conflict - not just arguments or disagreements, but the way conflict can live in the body, shape your nervous system, and become tangled up with binge eating, restriction and body image struggles.

They explore how our very different childhood experiences with conflict shaped the way they responded to it: with one becoming conflict avoidant, swallowing feelings down and turning anger inward; the other becoming more reactive, using food afterwards to regulate the intensity of fight-or-flight energy.

They also talk about how binge eating can sometimes become the voice we weren’t able to use, the place our anger went, or the way our body tried to bring us back down when everything felt too much.

In this conversation, they cover:

• How conflict can feel threatening to the nervous system
• Fight, freeze and conflict avoidance
• The link between suppressed anger, binge eating and body image
• Why restriction can feel like control or obedience
• Seeing the binge part with more compassion
• Learning to speak up without abandoning yourself
• Why conflict doesn’t always mean something is broken
• How curiosity can help us understand our inner parts

This episode is for anyone who has ever felt like food became the place where unspoken feelings, anger, shame or overwhelm went.

Let us know: are you more conflict avoidant, more reactive, or something else entirely?

Thank you so much for listening 🤎