The Soul Sessions with Jodie Gale is a podcast about emotional eating, childhood emotional neglect, mother daughter relationship trauma, and complex PTSD in women.

If you are searching for help with emotional eating in Australia, understanding the root causes of binge eating, or healing attachment trauma, this podcast explores the deeper psychological drivers behind food, weight, and body image struggles.

Hosted by Jodie Gale, PACFA Registered Clinical Psychotherapist and emotional eating therapist, each episode explores how early relational trauma shapes adult coping mechanisms.

This podcast addresses:

• emotional eating and underlying trauma

• Health at Every Size

• childhood emotional neglect in women

• mother wound and narcissistic mother recovery

• attachment trauma and insecure bonding

• complex PTSD symptoms in adulthood

• binge eating and shame cycles

• people pleasing, codependency and self-abandonment

Rather than focusing on diets or surface level solutions, The Soul Sessions examines why emotional eating develops and how relational psychotherapy supports long term healing.

What Causes Emotional Eating?

Emotional eating is often linked to childhood emotional neglect, insecure attachment, developmental trauma, and chronic shame. When emotional needs were not safely met in early relationships, food can become a regulating strategy.

Emotional eating is not a lack of willpower. It is often a nervous system response to attachment anxiety, loneliness, rejection, or stress.

How Are Mother Daughter Relationships Linked to Emotional Eating?

Difficult mother daughter relationships, particularly involving emotional unavailability, narcissistic parenting, or chronic misattunement, can shape self-worth and identity.

Many women who struggle with emotional eating also carry:

• fear of not being enough

• internalised shame

• difficulty setting boundaries

• people pleasing patterns

Healing the mother wound can significantly shift disordered eating patterns.

Is Emotional Eating Related to Complex PTSD?

Yes. Emotional eating can be a coping response to complex PTSD and developmental trauma. When early attachment wounds are unresolved, the body may seek comfort, numbing, or regulation through food.

Relational psychotherapy addresses the root trauma rather than only the eating behaviour.

Who Is This Emotional Eating & Trauma Podcast For?

This podcast is for women in Australia and worldwide who are:

• struggling with emotional or binge eating

• healing from childhood emotional neglect

• working through complex PTSD

• navigating estrangement or mother wound issues

• seeking trauma informed therapy

Each episode offers insight, depth psychology, attachment theory, and practical reflections for trauma recovery and emotional regulation.

Emotional Eating Therapy in Australia

Jodie Gale is an emotional eating therapist based on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, offering online therapy across Australia.

Her work integrates:

• trauma informed psychotherapy

• attachment based therapy

• nervous system regulation

• parts work and inner child healing

• mind body approaches to disordered eating

Tune in weekly to explore how healing attachment trauma can transform your relationship with food, body, and self.

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Emotional Eating, Childhood Emotional Neglect & Trauma Healing Podcast (Australia)