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The Self Led Woman Podcast: emotional eating and nervous system healing for self-leadership

by Megan Darnell

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Episode 46: What the Obsession With Your Body Is Actually Trying to Tell You

October 11, 2026 · 12 min

The obsession with your body, the fixation on fixing it, changing it, improving it, the constant mental noise around food and what you should or shouldn't be eating, that is not the problem you think it is. It's the clue. In this episode…
Episode 45: Unburdened Eating | Healing Your Relationship With Food and Your Body Through IFS With Dr. Jeanne Catanzaro

October 4, 2026 · 39 min

What if the preoccupation with food and your body had nothing to do with food or your body at all? It is genuinely one of the greatest honours of this podcast to welcome today's guest. Dr. Jeanne Catanzaro is a clinical psychologist with…
Episode 44: What Emotional Eating Is Actually Telling You About the Rest of Your Life

September 27, 2026 · 12 min

What if your pattern around food wasn't the problem to solve, but the window into something much deeper? In this episode I take you through each of the layers that sit underneath emotional eating, not to give you more things to fix, but to…
Episode 43: Why Emotional Eating Won't Budge No Matter What You Try | Trauma, the Nervous System and the Wellness Merry-Go-Round

September 20, 2026 · 13 min

If you have tried everything and you keep finding yourself back at the beginning, starting again, I want you to understand something. This is not an accident. That is by design. In this episode I'm talking about something that doesn't get…
Episode 42: Why Internal Family Systems Therapy Works for Healing Emotional Eating

September 13, 2026 · 16 min

This isn't a surface level overview of IFS. This is the actual clinical and human reality of why this model reaches what other approaches miss. In this episode I'm breaking down why I believe Internal Family Systems therapy is one of the…

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Episode 41: Food Is Not the Problem. It's the Message - Somatic Eating, Trauma and Nervous System Healing with Stephanie Mara Fox

September 6, 2026 · 58 min

What if your food behaviors were never the problem — but the most intelligent thing your body could do in a moment that felt unsafe? In this episode Megan sits down with Stephanie Mara Fox, somatic nutritional counsellor, creator of…
Episode 40: Comparison, Belonging and Coming Home to Yourself | Part 2

August 30, 2026 · 16 min

If you haven't listened to episode 39 yet, start there. This one picks up where that one left off. Last week I talked about comparison as a nervous system response and belonging as a biological need. This week I want to talk about what's…
Episode 39: Comparison, Belonging and Coming Home to Yourself | Part 1

August 23, 2026 · 18 min

Comparison isn't about vanity. It never was. It's about belonging. It's about safety. It's about what your nervous system learned was acceptable, what got praised, what got rejected, and what got mirrored back to you when you were too…
Episode 38: Why Ignoring Your Cravings Makes Emotional Eating Worse, Not Better

August 16, 2026 · 19 min

You wanted the chocolate. You chose the rice cake instead. And an hour later you were still thinking about the chocolate and probably ate more than you would have if you'd just had it in the first place. This episode is about why that…
Episode 37: Tired of Being Good | Fawning, the Nervous System and Reclaiming Your Body With Kallie Klug

August 9, 2026 · 48 min

What if the thing keeping you stuck in your relationship with food, your body, and other people isn't a lack of willpower, but a nervous system response that's been running since childhood? In this episode I sit down with Kallie Klug…
Episode 36: Your Cravings Might Be Older Than You Think - Epigenetics, Ancestral Trauma and Emotional Eating

August 2, 2026 · 17 min

What if the urge to reach for food when you're not physically hungry isn't just about today? What if it's older than that — much older? In this episode Megan explores one of the most fascinating and undertalked pieces of the emotional…
Episode 35: Why Emotional Eating Isn't a Willpower Problem - An Open Letter to Women Who Are Ready to Hear the Truth

July 26, 2026 · 14 min

This episode is for every woman who has been trying harder than anyone around her knows — and still can't make it stick. Who has reset more times than she can count, spent years on the merry-go-round of starting over, and quietly wondered…

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About the show

The Self-Led Woman is a podcast about emotional eating, the experiences that shape our relationship with food, and the path back to self-leadership.These conversations explore emotional eating beneath behaviour, through trauma, the nervous system, nourishment, and lived experience, with deep respect for the intelligence of the body and what it learned to do to keep you going.This is a space for understanding, relief, and reconnecting with your inner world.Hosted by Megan Darnell, Internal Family Systems therapy practitioner and psychedelic-assisted therapy facilitator.