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Brain over Binge

Why I Was Bulimic, Why Conventional Therapy Didn't Work, and How I Recovered for Good (Second Edition)

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Brain over Binge

By: Kathryn Hansen
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After completely and independently conquering a debilitating eating disorder, Kathryn Hansen wrote Brain over Binge to share her struggle—and her escape from it—with those still trapped in the compulsive binge-purge cycle. Since the book’s initial release in 2011, it has endured as an essential road map for using the power of the brain to erase harmful habits and create lasting change. The second edition is fully revised and updated with new information, compelling insights, and uplifting success stories that will inspire listeners to break free from their own self-defeating behaviors.

Brain over Binge is both a memoir and a scientific account, providing a gripping personal narrative and a research-based perspective on bulimia and binge eating disorder. Kathryn traces the course of her own condition and then describes in detail her unconventional approach to recovery. In the process, she offers a much-needed alternative viewpoint on the landscape of eating disorder literature to help others in the throes of any form of out-of-control eating.

The mainstream view of bulimia holds that it’s a complex disorder that manifests as a means of coping with deep underlying emotional and psychological problems. But the author resolutely departs from this philosophy, cuts through the confusion she experienced in traditional therapy, and simplifies both the origins of binge eating and its cure. As Kathryn explains the brain-based principles that led to her recovery from relentless bingeing and purging, Brain over Binge sheds current and crucial light on our human potential to overcome destructive patterns and reclaim our lives.

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The ideas and thought technique is have been a gift in my life. I've ordered the Recovery Guide and listen to Kathryn Hansen's Podcast. I am so grateful that I discovered this book. I literally cried tears of joy because I felt hope for the first time in my life.

Finally found what I've been looking for.

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I absolutely loved this book! So far I have been binge free for 2 months after reading this! Chapter 11 was the most helpful gem and I will definitely keep revisiting it. I will say I felt the book was way too long and got repetitive after chapter 11 so I struggled to finish it do a while. Please read if you are struggling with your eating habits!

So helpful

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It’s a personal memoir with lessons that could help many people. It’s grippingly told — vivid in just the most appropriate way. And the insight that the author experiences may have some great lessons for anyone

Insightful and fantastic story, well told

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I truly enjoyed this book and found it very enlightening. I am currently in a program called Bright Line Eating, and one of the groups was talking about this book. I thought I would get it just for some tips for what I was doing. I never thought that binging was something I did, however, after listening to this audiobook, I completely disagree with myself and realize I have been a binge eater since in the single digits of life. Kathryn did a great job of sharing her life experiences with binge eating and the science behind it with the audience on a very real personal level. If you struggle with eating, or with binging and purging, then you will find useful things in this book! Again, until I read this book, I never would have said I was a binge eater. Now I will say that I most definitely was. Thank you for a terrific personal story and fantastic information. Thank you for continuing to help people on their journey through binge eating.

Never realized I was a binge eater.

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One of the best books I’ve ever read in my life. I am a man personal trainer and I am being on the road of FITNESS for more than 10 years and all that time I’ve struggled with binge cheating. I’m passing through this book has made me realize those five components as helped me tremendously, I cannot say much since I only been two weeks without a binge eating episode and continue to do so strongly but to any individual that has problems with food I highly recommend this book it will change your life for the better for years to come✅

Life changing

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I suffered from binge eating for 35 years before I found this book. This is the only resource that’s helped me stop. Everything she’s saying is so accurate. I really hope that her story and research can impact the way that binge eating disorder and bulimia is treated in the medical field and about more people can be helped by this book.

The only resource that’s helped

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This book has not only saved me from 40 years of BED, it has also led me to help countless women do the same! It’s a must read for anyone struggling with BED or any ED as Kathryn’s story helps us all see how we can all change our brains and have peace and freedom with food and our bodies.

The true path to freeing yourself

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This book has been an eye opener for me! I loved it and I know now that I have the control of my life and food doesn’t need to be my enemy the rest of my life.

Helped me so much!

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I've spent 20 years in therapy and 30 years in self help programs, which helped my complex PTSD and narcissistic thinking, but my eating disorder/food addiction was always doing push-ups in the parking lot while I was in "the rooms." I've gained and lost hundreds of pounds over the years. This book clicked for me, however, I needed help with my pain first. I started using medical cannabis at 55 for Lyme disease/PTSD pain and found that if I always use the first dose of the day to meditate, pray, and unplug from all my pleasure traps, I can easily dismiss my addictive urges. This book, along with the ritual use of plant medicine, has started me on a path to real and positive change. Bonus: I can suddenly play the bongo drums!

I used this with plant medicine to reboot my brain

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Such an amazing book!! I've struggled with binge eating for quite some time now and I was desperate. I found Kathryn's podcast and knew I had to read this book. An absolute game changer in helping me conquer my urges and truly makes me feel I'm not alone.

absolutely LOVED

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