when food becomes coping: binge eating, inner child healing, and recovery with ronni robinson

<p>n this episode, I sit down with Ronni Robinson, a certified eating disorder recovery coach and author of <em>Out of the Pantry: A Disordered Eating Journey</em>. Ronni spent 30 years struggling with binge eating before finding her way to recovery over 17 years ago.</p><p>We explore how coping mechanisms like binge eating often develop in childhood as responses to emotional needs that weren&#39;t being met. Not from major trauma necessarily, but from the everyday experiences of not being emotionally seen or heard. The moments that taught us our feelings weren&#39;t safe or acceptable.</p><p>Ronni shares honestly about how food became a way to control something when everything else felt out of control. How it consumed her thoughts, her social experiences, her entire life. And how recovery wasn&#39;t about diets or willpower, but about finally addressing the wounds underneath.</p><p>This conversation is for anyone who has ever used something external to cope with something internal. Whether it&#39;s food, alcohol, work, perfectionism, or people-pleasing, the pattern is the same: we reach for something outside ourselves because we never learned we could handle what&#39;s inside.</p><p>If you&#39;re ready to understand your own patterns with more compassion, this episode will meet you where you are.</p><p><strong>Connect with Ronni:</strong></p><p>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/recoverwithronni" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@recoverwithronni</a></p><p>Website: <a href="https://www.ronnirobinson.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">www.ronnirobinson.com</a></p><p>Buy her book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Out-Pantry-Disordered-Eating-Journey/dp/1735184802/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ON4LD3DV0U65&keywords=out%20of%20the%20pantry&qid=1673378463&sprefix=out%20of%20the%20pan%2Caps%2C519&sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><em>Out of the Pantry</em></a></p><p>-----</p><p>Follow me on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/iamtinamelendez/⁠" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@iamtinamelendez</a> </p><p>Come sit with me in meditation. See my <a href="https://www.intuitive-soulutions.com/events⁠" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">upcoming events</a> </p><p>Join my mailing list: <a href="https://www.intuitive-soulutions.com/shadow-meditation">https://www.intuitive-soulutions.com/shadow-meditation</a></p><p>Stock Media provided by HotZtudio / <a href="⁠https://www.pond5.com/?ref=signup647" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Pond5</a></p>