One Body to Love with Dr. Meredith MacKenzie
One Body to Love with Dr. Meredith MacKenzie
Podcast Description
One Body to Love with Dr. Meredith MacKenzie is a space for honest, unfiltered conversations about food relationships, body image, and the emotional journey to self-acceptance. Hosted by binge eating therapist and intuitive eating coach Dr. Meredith MacKenzie, this podcast dives deep into what it really takes to break free from the cycles of bingeing, restricting and food guilt, in order to finally feel at home in your body. With warmth, insight, and lived experience, this show offers connection and guided support for women who are tired of chasing perfection and ready to reconnect with themselves in a more meaningful way, free from outside pressures.Each week through solo episodes, guest interviews, and real-life coaching conversations, listeners are invited into real, grounded conversations. Ranging from topics of intuitive eating and binge eating recovery, to reclaiming your body, joyful movement, and navigating life in a culture obsessed with size. If you’ve ever whispered, “I don’t know what else to try,” One Body to Love will offer a new perspective, one rooted in compassion, curiosity, and sustainable change. Whether you’re in the thick of it or slowly finding your way forward, this is your reminder that healing is possible and you don’t have to do it alone.
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The podcast focuses on emotional journeys surrounding food relationships, body image, and self-acceptance with episodes exploring topics such as intuitive eating, binge eating recovery, and reclaiming one's body. For example, a recent episode delved into the gray area between healthy eating and disordered eating, shedding light on common struggles and offering reflection prompts for listeners.
One Body to Love with Dr. Meredith MacKenzie is a space for honest, unfiltered conversations about food relationships, body image, and the emotional journey to self-acceptance. Hosted by binge eating therapist and intuitive eating coach Dr. Meredith MacKenzie, this podcast dives deep into what it really takes to break free from the cycles of bingeing, restricting and food guilt, in order to finally feel at home in your body. With warmth, insight, and lived experience, this show offers connection and guided support for women who are tired of chasing perfection and ready to reconnect with themselves in a more meaningful way, free from outside pressures.
Each week through solo episodes, guest interviews, and real-life coaching conversations, listeners are invited into real, grounded conversations. Ranging from topics of intuitive eating and binge eating recovery, to reclaiming your body, joyful movement, and navigating life in a culture obsessed with size. If you’ve ever whispered, “I don’t know what else to try,” One Body to Love will offer a new perspective, one rooted in compassion, curiosity, and sustainable change. Whether you’re in the thick of it or slowly finding your way forward, this is your reminder that healing is possible and you don’t have to do it alone.
You know you're not hungry. You eats anyway. And the shame that follows feels heavier every time.
In this episode, Dr. Meredith MacKenzie offers the most compassionate reframe in the series: emotional eating is not weakness, and it's not a bad habit. It's a coping mechanism that developed for real reasons — and understanding what it's actually doing is the only way to build a genuinely different relationship with it. This episode names the specific emotions that most commonly drive emotional eating, challenges the ”just find other coping strategies” advice that never quite lands, and introduces a practical tool for beginning to create space between the urge and the response.
Key takeaways:
- Why emotional eating is a coping mechanism, not a character flaw
- What emotional eating is actually doing neurologically and emotionally
- The specific emotions most commonly underneath the pattern: boredom, loneliness, stress, anxiety, overwhelm
- Why ”go for a walk instead” misses the point — and what real alternative coping looks like
- The shame loop: how shame about emotional eating drives more emotional eating
- The 10-15 minute pause: what it is, what it isn't, and how it creates space without restriction
This week's reflection prompt:
The next time you notice the urge to eat when you're not physically hungry — what if you got curious? What emotion is present? What need is underneath it?
Final reminder: Code SUMMER10 at meredithmackenzie.ca/summer — $10 off Food Freedom in a Weekend. Last week of the series next week.
Ready to go deeper? Food Freedom in a Weekend is Dr. Meredith MacKenzie's self-paced mini-course — two hours of video, a workbook, and a personalised food freedom plan built around your patterns. Use code SUMMER10 at www.meredithmackenzie.ca/summer for $10 off. Available for the full six weeks of this series.
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