The Real Reason You Feel the Need to Control Everything About Food (The Nervous System Series, Ep. 5)

The Real Reason You Feel the Need to Control Everything About Food (The Nervous System Series, Ep. 5)

July 15, 2026 · 30 min

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This episode explores the connection between the nervous system and the compulsion to control food, sharing personal experiences and insights.

You don't have a control problem. You have a nervous system that found control through food. Episode 5 of the Nervous System Series is about the real reason behind the compulsion to track, restrict, and micromanage everything around food, including my own story of moving to university at 18, my nervous system hitting DEEP dysregulation, and realizing years later that what I thought was my personality was actually a strategy. A really effective, really painful, really exhausting st...

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