The Self Led Woman Podcast: emotional eating and nervous system healing for self-leadership
Aug 2, 2026 · 17 min · 10 segments
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…
Megan DarnellHost
Because really, our bodies have been trying to tell us something the whole time.
Most of us are too busy ignoring it, numbing it out, overriding it, and often that comes with food.
Food becomes a coping mechanism that we can't actually hear what it's been saying.
We can't actually hear what our parts have been saying or our feelings have been saying, and that's the real guide.
What I'm going to speak about will reframe the way you see your relationship with food and yourself.
We spend so much time talking about the war that we're in with our bodies, especially when it comes to emotional eating or binge eating, and we might think things like, "Why do I keep doing this?" Or, "Why does my body keep doing that to me?" Or, "Why can't I just stop? Why am I so out of control?" I used to get angry, say, 10 years ago, if I was hungry.
I would get frustrated because I wanted to override that, and the feeling was trying to stop me from doing that.
I mean, it's trying to keep me alive, but that's how I had parts in my system that thought that and felt that.
And that question you have to ask, well, is it the wrong question to be asking entirely? And what if your body isn't out of control? What if it's actually doing exactly what it was designed to do? What if every craving, every urge, every moment that you find yourself standing in front of the fridge at 10 PM, what if that's not a failure and it's actually a message for you? I want you to sit with that for a second.
It is the most sophisticated, intelligent system you will ever have access to, and it's been trying to get your attention for years.
The question is, have you been listening? And here's what I want you to understand about your body.
Because really, our bodies have been trying to tell us something the whole time.
Most of us are too busy ignoring it, numbing it out, overriding it, and often that comes with food.
Food becomes a coping mechanism that we can't actually hear what it's been saying.
We can't actually hear what our parts have been saying or our feelings have been saying, and that's the real guide.
What I'm going to speak about will reframe the way you see your relationship with food and yourself.
We spend so much time talking about the war that we're in with our bodies, especially when it comes to emotional eating or binge eating, and we might think things like, "Why do I keep doing this?" Or, "Why does my body keep doing that to me?" Or, "Why can't I just stop? Why am I so out of control?" I used to get angry, say, 10 years ago, if I was hungry.
I would get frustrated because I wanted to override that, and the feeling was trying to stop me from doing that.
I mean, it's trying to keep me alive, but that's how I had parts in my system that thought that and felt that.
And that question you have to ask, well, is it the wrong question to be asking entirely? And what if your body isn't out of control? What if it's actually doing exactly what it was designed to do? What if every craving, every urge, every moment that you find yourself standing in front of the fridge at 10 PM, what if that's not a failure and it's actually a message for you? I want you to sit with that for a second.
It is the most sophisticated, intelligent system you will ever have access to, and it's been trying to get your attention for years.
The question is, have you been listening? And here's what I want you to understand about your body.
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