#1 Body Image Expert: How to Repair Your Relationship with Your Body & Food

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Mar 9, 2026

Dr. Rachel Goldman, a clinical psychologist and NYU professor known for treating emotional and disordered eating, joins to explore body-image and food struggles. She discusses how diet culture distorts hunger, the mind-body link with stress and sleep, mindful pauses to interrupt urges, and how to break the restrict–binge cycle. Practical tools and realistic perspectives on treatments like GLP-1s are highlighted.

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ADVICE

Spot Urgent Emotional Hunger Vs Gradual Physical Hunger

Recognize emotional hunger by its urgency: it demands immediate relief and targets specific comfort foods.
Physical hunger rises gradually and accepts whatever food is available; use that distinction to resist impulsive cravings.

INSIGHT

Stress Can Suppress Then Increase Appetite

Acute stress first suppresses appetite, then a cortisol-driven rebound increases hunger after stress passes.
This explains why people either forget to eat during stress or later overeat when they return to baseline.

ADVICE

Three Red Flags Of Restrictive Disordered Eating

Watch for warning signs of restrictive disordered eating: preoccupation with food/shape, rigid rules, and impaired daily functioning.
If eating thoughts dominate your day, cause isolation, or disrupt life, seek help rather than tightening rules.

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If you feel like you have a complicated relationship with your body, food, and eating, you’re not the only one.

Mel has gotten thousands of messages asking for an episode about emotional eating and body image, which is why she invited a world-renowned expert to talk about this topic with you.

Today, Dr. Rachel Goldman is here for you. Dr. Goldman is a nationally recognized clinical psychologist and NYU professor who has spent more than a decade working with thousands of people struggling with emotional eating, obesity, disordered eating, and struggles with body image.

She has an empowering perspective on body image, weight, wellness, and food, and today she's here to talk about body image and the way food can quietly turn into a coping mechanism.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to:

-Stop emotional eating
-Break the binge–restrict cycle
-Interrupt stress-driven cravings
-Understand the biology behind urges and overeating
-Rebuild trust with your body
-Create sustainable, supportive habits without punishment or shame

For anyone who feels confused, stuck, exhausted, or unsure what “healthy” even means anymore, this conversation brings clarity, relief, and offers a new way forward, one rooted in understanding your body instead of fighting it. This conversation is grounded in science and offers you tools that actually work.

Dr. Goldman will change the way you think about your body, your cravings, and your ability to feel good about yourself again.

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