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And I hope you enjoy the show.

Welcome to the Brain Over Binge Podcast, where you learn a simple, brain-based approach to ending binge eating.

I'm Catherine Hansen, your host, and I'm happy to be back for another show.

Today I'm going to be talking for another show. Today I'm going

to be talking about the faulty logic of the lower brain. If you're new to brain over binge and

new to the concept of the lower brain, I'm going to link episode three in the show description,

and it's called The Lower and Higher Brain at Work in Binge Eating, so that will give you a good

background for this episode.

But basically, the lower brain is that primal part of our brain that wants to maintain the

binge eating habit. In the brain over binge approach, it's about recognizing that the lower

brain will encourage you to binge with tempting thoughts, but you can learn to dismiss those

thoughts. You can learn to stop taking them seriously,

and most importantly, you can learn to stop acting on them.

You can realize that those lower brain thoughts are not true,

and they're not indicative of who you truly are

and what you truly want.

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