A somatic podcast · with Alex Bottomley
PODCAST
Beneath The Binge
Brave, body-based conversations for women done with body shame, emotional eating, food obsession and the all-or-nothing cycle. This is the work that lives beneath the food.
Your Binge Eating Makes Sense
Beneath The Binge
About the host
The work that lives beneath the food.
I’m Alex Bottomley — a somatic therapist supporting women to heal their relationship with food, their bodies and themselves. No restriction, no willpower, no plan that asks you to override what you feel.
This podcast is the conversation I wish I’d had years earlier. Each episode is an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and meet the parts of you that food has been protecting all along.
Episodes
Recent episodes
- 2
Mar 27
Your Binge Eating Makes Sense
Binge eating makes sense as a nervous-system-based survival strategy learned through repetition and relief — not a lack of willpower.
FoundationsNervous System29 min - 3
Mar 27
The Somatics of Survival and Safety
How binge urges relate to the body and nervous system — contrasting survival mode with safety mode and what regulation really feels like.
Nervous SystemSafety24 min - 4
Apr 3
Desire vs. Capacity: Understanding Your Body's Limits
The all-or-nothing cycle unpacked — what happens when desire exceeds capacity, and how to find the sweet spot where your body softens.
RestrictionCycle24 min - 5
Apr 10
A Binge Urge is Your Body Shouting for Your Attention
Reframing binge urges as urgent body-based communications from the survival nervous system rather than something to fight.
EmotionsNervous System24 min - 6
Apr 17
How Loneliness Drives Binge Eating
Loneliness as a felt sense of disconnection — how it activates threat circuits similar to physical pain and makes binge eating more likely.
Body ImageShame37 min - 7
May 15
Try This Instead of Another Summer Diet
Why another diet often keeps binge eating going — and the two-phase approach to freedom with food and sustainable change.
FreedomIntegration38 min
Why this podcast
Honest conversations for the parts of you that food has been protecting.
Honest
Direct conversations that name what diet culture trained you to swallow.
Body-based wisdom
Tools from somatic therapy, parts work and lived recovery — woven into every episode.
For the woman who’s done
Done with plans, done with willpower, done with the cycle. You’re in the right place.
Work with me · 1:1
Ready to go beneath the binge, together?
Book a one-off 60-minute consultation with me. A focused, private space to look at what’s really going on with food, your body and your nervous system — and the first honest step toward what comes next.
- 60 minutes, 1:1, over Zoom
- A somatic look at your relationship with food
- Personalised next steps — no plan, no rules
