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Podcast: Chaos to Connection: Boundaries and Breakthroughs for Cycle-Breaking Women
Episode: 235. Proving Ourselves Empty: The Link Between Approval, Control, and Disordered Eating
Description: In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about the deeper connection between approval-seeking, the need to prove ourselves, and the quiet ways these patterns can shape our relationship with food and our bodies.I share my own journey—growing up in a household where performance and perfection were tied to love, and how that created a deep fear of doing it wrong, being too much, or not enough. Like many women, I internalized thebelief that being good meant being small, quiet, and in control. For me, that showed up in disordered eating—but it could show up...