<p>Are Eating Disorders Physiological or Psychological? The Answer Changes Everything</p><p><br></p><p>This is a solo episode that shifts how you understand your eating disorder entirely.</p><p><br></p><p>I&#39;m diving deep into Tabitha Farrar&#39;s work on the migration response and exploring the question that everyone asks: is it biological or is it psychological? The honest answer is it&#39;s both. And understanding why changes how you recover.</p><p><br></p><p>This episode is for you if:</p><p>• You&#39;ve wondered if your eating disorder is &quot;real&quot; because you don&#39;t have anorexia</p><p>• You thought restriction should be easier and it wasn&#39;t (or it was, and then suddenly it wasn&#39;t)</p><p>• You&#39;ve struggled with the binge eating that came after restriction</p><p>• You&#39;re stuck in restriction but your body won&#39;t cooperate anymore</p><p>• You&#39;ve done all the therapy and still can&#39;t stop the behaviours</p><p>• You want to know why willpower doesn&#39;t work and what actually does</p><p>• You&#39;re trying to understand if you just need to eat more or if you need psychological work too</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, we cover:</p><p>✨ The migration response — why some people&#39;s bodies make restriction feel easy</p><p>✨ The hibernation response — a different genetic physiological response to restriction</p><p>✨ Why your metabolism might speed up or slow down when you restrict (it&#39;s genetic)</p><p>✨ How the same person can find restriction easy, then nearly impossible (my personal story)</p><p>✨ Why some people achieve extreme weight loss easily and others don&#39;t, even with severe restriction</p><p>✨ The vicious feedback loop between biology and psychology in eating disorders</p><p>✨ What eating disorders are really about beneath the desire to be thin</p><p>✨ Why you restrict: acceptance, safety, validation, control, identity (it&#39;s always deeper)</p><p>✨ Why therapy alone won&#39;t fix an eating disorder (and why weight restriction alone won&#39;t either)</p><p>✨ Weight restoration isn&#39;t recovery — it&#39;s just the beginning</p><p>✨ How your nervous system learns to treat weight gain as danger</p><p>✨ Why you can&#39;t think your way out of what your body is experiencing</p><p>✨ The neuro pathways that need to be rewired</p><p>✨ Meeting the actual psychological needs your eating disorder was serving</p><p>✨ Why somatic work (body work) is absolutely essential for recovery</p><p>✨ The whole-picture approach: biology + psychology + nervous system + history</p><p><br></p><p>Powerful quotes from the episode:</p><p>💬 &quot;Restriction wasn&#39;t hard, it felt right. It was nothing to do with willpower. It was genetics.&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>💬 &quot;You can have all the insights in the world about why you developed your eating disorder and still be stuck in the behaviours.&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>💬 &quot;Your nervous system has learned that weight gain equates to danger. Your brain has built neuro pathways that treat food as a threat.&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>💬 &quot;Eating disorders are both physiological and psychological. They&#39;re usually not one or the other.&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>💬 &quot;You deserve recovery that honours the full truth of your experience, not the simplified version that fits into a diagnosis box.&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>If you&#39;re confused about why eating more isn&#39;t enough, why willpower fails, why you can&#39;t just think your way out — this episode will make sense of all of it. Recovery works when you address the whole picture.</p><p><br></p><p>💙 Join my FREE support group: <a href="https://victoriakleinsman.com/free-support-group/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://victoriakleinsman.com/free-support-group/</a></p><p>💙 Free trial group coaching: <a href="https://victoriakleinsman.com/coaching/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://victoriakleinsman.com/coaching/</a></p><p>💙 Work with me 1:1: <a href="https://victoriakleinsman.com/1-1-coaching/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://victoriakleinsman.com/1-1-coaching/</a></p><p>💙 Follow me on Instagram @victoriakleinsmanofficial</p><p>💙 Become a coach: <a href="https://victoriakleinsman.com/become-a-coach/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://victoriakleinsman.com/become-a-coach/</a></p>

The Body Love Binge - Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast

Victoria Kleinsman

Are Eating Disorders Physiological or Psychological?

FEB 8, 202633 MIN
The Body Love Binge - Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast

Are Eating Disorders Physiological or Psychological?

FEB 8, 202633 MIN

Description

<p>Are Eating Disorders Physiological or Psychological? The Answer Changes Everything</p><p><br></p><p>This is a solo episode that shifts how you understand your eating disorder entirely.</p><p><br></p><p>I&#39;m diving deep into Tabitha Farrar&#39;s work on the migration response and exploring the question that everyone asks: is it biological or is it psychological? The honest answer is it&#39;s both. And understanding why changes how you recover.</p><p><br></p><p>This episode is for you if:</p><p>• You&#39;ve wondered if your eating disorder is &quot;real&quot; because you don&#39;t have anorexia</p><p>• You thought restriction should be easier and it wasn&#39;t (or it was, and then suddenly it wasn&#39;t)</p><p>• You&#39;ve struggled with the binge eating that came after restriction</p><p>• You&#39;re stuck in restriction but your body won&#39;t cooperate anymore</p><p>• You&#39;ve done all the therapy and still can&#39;t stop the behaviours</p><p>• You want to know why willpower doesn&#39;t work and what actually does</p><p>• You&#39;re trying to understand if you just need to eat more or if you need psychological work too</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, we cover:</p><p>✨ The migration response — why some people&#39;s bodies make restriction feel easy</p><p>✨ The hibernation response — a different genetic physiological response to restriction</p><p>✨ Why your metabolism might speed up or slow down when you restrict (it&#39;s genetic)</p><p>✨ How the same person can find restriction easy, then nearly impossible (my personal story)</p><p>✨ Why some people achieve extreme weight loss easily and others don&#39;t, even with severe restriction</p><p>✨ The vicious feedback loop between biology and psychology in eating disorders</p><p>✨ What eating disorders are really about beneath the desire to be thin</p><p>✨ Why you restrict: acceptance, safety, validation, control, identity (it&#39;s always deeper)</p><p>✨ Why therapy alone won&#39;t fix an eating disorder (and why weight restriction alone won&#39;t either)</p><p>✨ Weight restoration isn&#39;t recovery — it&#39;s just the beginning</p><p>✨ How your nervous system learns to treat weight gain as danger</p><p>✨ Why you can&#39;t think your way out of what your body is experiencing</p><p>✨ The neuro pathways that need to be rewired</p><p>✨ Meeting the actual psychological needs your eating disorder was serving</p><p>✨ Why somatic work (body work) is absolutely essential for recovery</p><p>✨ The whole-picture approach: biology + psychology + nervous system + history</p><p><br></p><p>Powerful quotes from the episode:</p><p>💬 &quot;Restriction wasn&#39;t hard, it felt right. It was nothing to do with willpower. It was genetics.&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>💬 &quot;You can have all the insights in the world about why you developed your eating disorder and still be stuck in the behaviours.&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>💬 &quot;Your nervous system has learned that weight gain equates to danger. Your brain has built neuro pathways that treat food as a threat.&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>💬 &quot;Eating disorders are both physiological and psychological. They&#39;re usually not one or the other.&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>💬 &quot;You deserve recovery that honours the full truth of your experience, not the simplified version that fits into a diagnosis box.&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>If you&#39;re confused about why eating more isn&#39;t enough, why willpower fails, why you can&#39;t just think your way out — this episode will make sense of all of it. Recovery works when you address the whole picture.</p><p><br></p><p>💙 Join my FREE support group: <a href="https://victoriakleinsman.com/free-support-group/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://victoriakleinsman.com/free-support-group/</a></p><p>💙 Free trial group coaching: <a href="https://victoriakleinsman.com/coaching/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://victoriakleinsman.com/coaching/</a></p><p>💙 Work with me 1:1: <a href="https://victoriakleinsman.com/1-1-coaching/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://victoriakleinsman.com/1-1-coaching/</a></p><p>💙 Follow me on Instagram @victoriakleinsmanofficial</p><p>💙 Become a coach: <a href="https://victoriakleinsman.com/become-a-coach/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://victoriakleinsman.com/become-a-coach/</a></p>