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Maybe you’ve just had another late-night snack attack. And the guilt has set in. That heavy, quiet moment after, when the critical thoughts start, the shame moves in, and you wonder, again, what’s wrong with you.
Nothing is wrong with you. Your nervous system is trying to ground you against your own stress and big feelings the easiest way it knows how – eating.
Stress eating, emotional eating, and binge urges aren’t failures of willpower; they’re an overwhelmed nervous system doing exactly what it was trained to do: reach for the most reliable regulator it knows when the pressure builds.
Because food does biochemically change how you feel. Quickly. Until it doesn’t.
Then the guilt adds its own weight, which drives the next urge, which drives the next episode.
This free 3-day somatic meditation series from Certified Behavioural Eating Psychology Coach Jennifer carr is a circuit breaker for that cycle.
Each session is 10–13 minutes. Designed around a specific moment in the stress eating and binge eating cycle so you have the right tool for the right moment, not just generic mindfulness.
These are active, practical practices built on solid neuroscience: urge surfing, vagal breathing, interoception training, pendulation, and self-compassion research. It is recommended that you play them whenever you feel a binge or urge coming on.
Jen Carr is an eating psychology coach and founder of Mind + Plate. She works with women to heal their relationship with food through nervous system regulation, somatic practice, and compassionate re-education—not diets, restriction, or shame. Her approach is grounded in neuroscience, eating psychology, somatic experiencing, and nearly two decades of lived and professional experience.