Binge Eating Is a Nervous System Response, Not a Willpower Problem | Stephanie Mara Fox

E35 - Binge Eating Is a Nervous System Response, Not a Willpower Problem | Stephanie Mara Fox

Published: July 20, 2026

Duration: 1:03:31

In this episode, I sit down with Stephanie Mara Fox — somatic nutritional counselor, mentor, PhD student, and the creator of Somatic Eating, a body-oriented, sensation-focused approach to healing the relationship with food.

With a master's in somatic psychology and over a decade of practice, Stephanie has guided women coaches and wellness professionals around the world out of binge eating, emotional eating, chronic dieting, and body image struggles.

She brings a perspective rarely voiced in recovery spaces: that binge eating was never really a food problem — it's a survival response, and the body, far from being the...