Once Upon a Binge Podcast
Once Upon a Binge is a podcast about binge eating recovery, body image and letting go of perfectionism.
Hosted by Becca, a therapist specialising in disordered eating, the podcast offers honest and compassionate conversations about what’s going on behind the binge-restrict cycle – and how to break free from it.
Through conversations with people who have lived experience, as well as professionals working in the field, we explore the realities of healing your relationship with food and finding body acceptance.
Has the pressure of beauty standards left you feeling like you’re not enough?
Are you fed up of obsessive food thoughts?
Are you tired of feeling out of control around food?
Then you’re not alone. This is a space for you to feel seen and supported as you break free from food rules, find food freedom and learn to accept yourself as you are.
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I'm Becca, a therapist specializing in binge eating and body image, and this is the Once Upon a Binge podcast, where I have honest conversations with guests about breaking free from the binge restrict cycle and finding body acceptance.
Today, I'm joined by Anne Richardson. Anne is a registered nutritional therapist, cognitive behavioural therapy practitioner, lecturer, and supervisor. She's been practicing for more than 10 years and exclusively works in the field of disordered eating.
Anne suffered with anorexia in her teens, and now draws from her lived experience to blend her knowledge of nutrition with her CBT skills. She works with people all over Europe to help them achieve food freedom. She is also invested in helping other practitioners work with disordered eaters, as she recognizes that general nutritional advice can be extremely damaging to disordered eaters.
Anne is also a mom, the maker of all things, and especially a keen baker.
In our conversation today, we talk about supporting clients through cooking in recovery, the role of nutrition, and whether you fully recover from an eating disorder or not.
We also dive into:
✨ The role of nutrition in recovery
✨ Why calorie counting keeps people stuck
✨ Using rigid thinking to our advantage in recovery
✨ Cooking with clients in eating disorder recovery
✨ Perfectionism and control in anorexia
✨ The flaws with My Fitness Pal
✨ Mechanical eating vs intuitive eating
✨ Whether the “eating disorder voice” ever fully disappears✨ Recovery, body image, and coping with stress
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Connect with the podcast:
- Instagram - www.instagram.com/onceuponabingepodcast
- Email - podcast.onceuponabinge@gmail.com
Connect with Becca:
- Instagram – www.instagram.com/bingefreeandbeautiful
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccarobinson/
- Email - bingefreeandbeautiful@gmail.com
Connect with Anne:
- Email – anne@theeatingdisordernutritionist.co.uk
- Instagram - www.instagram/com/theeatingdisordernutritionist
- Website - https://www.theeatingdisordernutritionist.co.uk
Monday Jun 08, 2026
Monday Jun 08, 2026
In this deeply honest episode of Once Upon a Binge, Becca is joined by her partner Will for a raw conversation about disordered eating, body image, binge eating, orthorexia, fitness culture, and recovery.
Together, they unpack how their relationship with food and their bodies changed through meeting each other — despite both struggling with unhealthy beliefs around eating, exercise, appearance, and self-worth when they first met.
Will shares his experience with:
Orthorexia and “clean eating”
Veganism and identity
Body dysmorphia in the fitness industry
Social media pressure and perfectionism
Binge eating behind the scenes
Male body image struggles
Personal training culture and physique obsession
Becca opens up about:
Restrictive eating and dieting
Fear of weight gain
Recovery from binge eating and food rules
Reassurance seeking and body image anxiety
Learning to feel safe in her body
Healing through relationships and connection
This episode explores how shame, diet culture, wellness culture, and external validation can shape our relationship with food — and how acceptance, compassion, and emotional safety can become part of recovery.
If you’ve ever struggled with:
binge eating
emotional eating
food obsession
calorie counting
body dysmorphia
orthorexia
fear of weight gain
restrictive eating
comparison on social media
feeling “not good enough”
…this conversation will likely resonate deeply.
Let us know in the comments:
Are you a male who's struggled with body image and disordered eating?Have relationships ever impacted your healing journey with food or body image?
Subscribe for more conversations on:Eating disorder recovery, binge eating recovery, food freedom, body image healing, mental health, self-worth, and recovery from diet culture.
Connect with Becca & the podcast....
Instagram:
@bingefreeandbeautiful
@onceuponabingepodcast
Email:
bingefreeandbeautiful@gmail.com
podcast.onceuponabinge@gmail.com
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Monday May 25, 2026
Monday May 25, 2026
After 18 months of co-hosting the Once Upon a Binge Podcast, Katy is stepping away from the show. In this emotional and honest episode, Becca and Katy talk openly about the decision to end this chapter of the podcast, navigating change, burnout, recovery work, and what’s next for Once Upon a Binge.
If you struggle with binge eating, emotional eating, body image, perfectionism, or eating disorder recovery, this conversation may really resonate with you.
In this episode, we discuss:
-Katy's decision to leave the podcast
-The emotional impact of endings and change
-Burnout in the eating disorder recovery space
-Recovery, mental health, and capacity
-The importance of conversations around binge eating recovery
-What the future of the Once Upon a Binge Podcast looks like
-Upcoming guest episodes featuring lived experience and professionals
Moving forward, Once Upon a Binge will continue with Becca as solo host, alongside guests including therapists, dietitians, coaches, and people sharing their own recovery journeys.
This podcast is dedicated to helping people heal their relationship with food, break free from the binge restrict cycle, improve body image, and let go of perfectionism.
✨ We are also looking for future podcast guests with lived experience of binge eating, emotional eating, body image struggles, disordered eating, or eating disorder recovery. If you have a story or perspective you’d like to share and think it could help others feel less alone, please get in touch — we’d love to hear from you. ✨
Thank you so much to everyone who has supported the podcast over the past 18 months through listening, sharing episodes, commenting, and reaching out 💜
Wishing you all the best Katy!
If you enjoy the podcast, please like, comment, and subscribe — it really helps more people find these conversations around binge eating recovery and eating disorder recovery.
#BingeEatingRecovery #EatingDisorderRecovery #BodyImage #MentalHealthPodcast #EmotionalEating #Perfectionism #RecoveryJourney #bodyacceptance #bodypositivity
Monday May 11, 2026
Monday May 11, 2026
In episode 36 of the Once Upon a Binge podcast Katy and Becca talk about navigating social events and disordered eating. They talk about how food rules blocked them from having food freedom at social events, the role of binge eating and how body image insecurities made socialising challenging.
They discuss:
• Anxiety before social events and binge eating as social avoidance • Mental calculations around food at social events • Introvertism and extrovertism and how it impacts our relationship with social events and food • Food restriction before social events• The role of dopamine in socialising and binge eating • How being ADHD impacts socialising • How alcohol effects socialising and binge eating • The need for time to prepare for social events and alone time afterwards• How food thoughts block connection with others at social events • Feeling like there’s something wrong with you for not wanting to socialise • Body image spiralling
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Connect with the podcast: • Instagram - www.instagram.com/onceuponabingepodcast• Email - podcast.onceuponabinge@gmail.com
Connect with Becca:• Instagram – www.instagram.com/bingefreeandbeautiful • LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccarobinson/ • Email - bingefreeandbeautiful@gmail.com
Monday Apr 27, 2026
Monday Apr 27, 2026
In this episode of Once Upon a Binge, Katy & Becca are talking about conflict - not just arguments or disagreements, but the way conflict can live in the body, shape your nervous system, and become tangled up with binge eating, restriction and body image struggles.
They explore how our very different childhood experiences with conflict shaped the way they responded to it: with one becoming conflict avoidant, swallowing feelings down and turning anger inward; the other becoming more reactive, using food afterwards to regulate the intensity of fight-or-flight energy.
They also talk about how binge eating can sometimes become the voice we weren’t able to use, the place our anger went, or the way our body tried to bring us back down when everything felt too much.
In this conversation, they cover:
How conflict can feel threatening to the nervous system
Fight, freeze and conflict avoidance
The link between suppressed anger, binge eating and body image
Why restriction can feel like control or obedience
Seeing the binge part with more compassion
Learning to speak up without abandoning yourself
Why conflict doesn’t always mean something is broken
How curiosity can help us understand our inner parts
This episode is for anyone who has ever felt like food became the place where unspoken feelings, anger, shame or overwhelm went.
Let us know: are you more conflict avoidant, more reactive, or something else entirely?
Thank you so much for listening 🤎
Monday Apr 13, 2026
Monday Apr 13, 2026
In episode 34 Katy and Becca and talking about transitions, both in our day to day life and big life transitions. Why they are so difficult to go through and how binge eating comes in as a tool to cope.
They talk about:
Transitions create “permission windows” to binge eat
Binge eating as a transition tool
Does binge eating give respite from tasks or provide momentum or both?
Is binge eating a habit or a ritual to help with transitions?
Difference between micro and macro transitions
The transition of childhood to adolescence to adulting and how binge eating helps
How transitions affect our identity and worldview
How we view a craving determines how we respond to it
The power of naming the difficulty with transitions
If you struggle with transitions and find binge eating is a tool to get through it then you’re not alone.
Let us know in the comments below if you’ve found this episode helpful.
Please like, comment and subscribe as it helps our channel reach more people who may find it helpful!
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Connect with us:
- Instagram - www.instagram.com/onceuponabingepodcast
- Email - podcast.onceuponabinge@gmail.com
Connect with Becca:
- Instagram – www.instagram.com/bingefreeandbeautiful
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccarobinson/
- Email - bingefreeandbeautiful@gmail.com
Connect with Katy:
- Email – knacoaching@gmail.com
- Instagram - www.instagram.com/knacoaching
Monday Mar 30, 2026
Monday Mar 30, 2026
What’s the difference between disordered eating and an eating disorder - and why does it matter so much?
In this episode of Once Upon a Binge, Becca and Katy unpack the often-confusing conversation around disordered eating, eating disorders and the grey area in between. They explore why these experiences can feel more like a spectrum than a clear-cut box, how diet culture and wellness culture can normalise harmful behaviours, and why so many people end up feeling like they’re “not bad enough” to deserve support.
They also share parts of their own personal experiences with food, body image, restriction, bingeing, and recovery - including how eating struggles can develop gradually for some people, and much more intensely for others.
In this episode, they talk about:
✨ The difference between disordered eating and a diagnosed eating disorder✨ Why food struggles are often far more normalised than people realise✨ How dieting, food rules, guilt, and morality around food can escalate over time✨ Why labels can be helpful - but also harmful✨ The problem with clinical criteria, BMI, and people being denied support✨ How trauma, perfectionism, and the need for control can show up through food✨ What a more peaceful relationship with food can actually look like
This is such an important conversation if you’ve ever questioned whether your relationship with food is “serious enough” to matter.
You do not need to hit a crisis point before your struggle counts.
If this episode resonated, we’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments.
Monday Mar 16, 2026
Monday Mar 16, 2026
In episode 32 of the Once Upon a Binge podcast Katy and Becca talk about their journey of body image healing and the process of grieving your body.
They discuss:
How body grief shows up for many women, not just in eating disorder recovery
How your body is your one true home
How natural weight fluctuations can be really unsettling for body image
The 5 stages of body image grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
Body avoidance versus body exposure – which helps most in body image healing?
How denial was actually helpful for recovery!
Why photographs are so damn triggering for body image!
This episode was recorded before the recent announcement for Stephanie Buttermore’s death. We’d like to send our condolences to Jeff Nippard and the rest of Stephanie’s family. We thank Stephanie for how many people she helped in recovery through documenting her own all-in journey.
If you enjoyed this episode, please like, comment and subscribe. Engaging with our channel helps us grow and reach more people in recovery.
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Connect with us:
- Instagram - www.instagram.com/onceuponabingepodcast
- Email - podcast.onceuponabinge@gmail.com
Connect with Becca:
- Instagram – www.instagram.com/bingefreeandbeautiful
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccarobinson/
- Email - bingefreeandbeautiful@gmail.com
Connect with Katy:
- Email – knacoaching@gmail.com
- Instagram - www.instagram.com/knacoaching
Monday Mar 02, 2026
Monday Mar 02, 2026
In episode 31 of the Once Upon a Binge Podcast, Katy and Becca are talking about rest, burnout and binge eating.
The discuss:
- What really is rest? What’s the difference between passive rest and restorative rest?
- The go-go-go-crash cycle of binge eating
- How the inner critic influences the way we view rest
- How black and white thinking shows up around rest
- Embodiment, rest and binge eating
- Bingeing as a form of nervous system regulation
- What is the fear of rest?
- ADHD and how it affects our ability to rest
- A car analogy to represent running on empty
Let us know in the comments if you found this episode helpful. We’d love to hear how you think rest influences your relationship with food and exercise.
Please like, subscribe and comment. Engagement with our channel helps us to reach more people and we appreciate every little bit of support in helping our channel grow – thank you!
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Connect with us:
- Instagram
- www.instagram.com/onceuponabingepodcast
- Email - podcast.onceuponabinge@gmail.com
Connect with Becca:
- Instagram – www.instagram.com/bingefreeandbeautiful
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccarobinson/
- Email - bingefreeandbeautiful@gmail.com
Connect with Katy:
- Email – knacoaching@gmail.com
- Instagram - www.instagram.com/knacoaching
Monday Feb 16, 2026
Monday Feb 16, 2026
In Episode 30 of the Once Upon a Binge podcast, Katy and Becca talk to guest, Sharon, about her experience of recovering from binge eating disorder and being in a plus-size body.
Sharon from The BED Post Blog – poet, blogger, speaker, activist, and expert by lived experience - was diagnosed with binge eating disorder (BED) in 2013 after over 30 years of disordered eating.
We appreciated so much how vulnerable and open Sharon was with us in this episode - she really embraced the essence of the podcast!
Sharon shared with us:
- Her experience growing up around diet culture and fatphobia as a larger child
- How Princess Diana's helped with her recovery
- Being diagnosed with BED and the treatment that followed
- The power of community and being around people who "got it" for the first time
- Weight stigma from medical professionals
- Mechanical eating and learning about food portions
- How recovery led to activism and advocacy
- Why body neutrality feels more realistic than body positivity
It's a long one but it is definitely worth the listen!
We LOVED recording this episode - thank you so much Sharon.
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Connect with Sharon:
- https://thebedpost.blog/
- Instagram: @thebedpostblog
Connect with us:
- Instagram - www.instagram.com/onceuponabingepodcast
- Email - podcast.onceuponabinge@gmail.com
Connect with Becca:
- Instagram – www.instagram.com/bingefreeandbeautiful
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccarobinson/
- Email - bingefreeandbeautiful@gmail.com
Connect with Katy:
- Email – knacoaching@gmail.com
- Instagram - www.instagram.com/knacoaching