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What happens when doing more never quite feels like enough?

More achievement. More discipline. More control. More rules.

In this episode of Delay the Binge™, Pam Dwyer sits down with Sherry Shaban, osteopath, health and life coach, and founder of Make Peace with Food, for a conversation that begins with food, but quickly becomes about something much bigger.

Sherry explores the connection between overeating, overachieving, people pleasing, perfectionism and control, and why some of the behaviors we call self-sabotage may have originally developed as ways of protecting us.

Instead of asking “What's wrong with me?”, what happens when we begin asking:

“What is this behavior trying to protect?”

Pam and Sherry talk about awareness, delayed reward, restriction, emotional eating, identity, childhood patterns, responsibility without blame, and learning to honor the version of ourselves that once needed an old coping strategy.

This isn't a conversation about giving up ambition, discipline or growth.

It's about becoming curious enough to understand what's underneath the behavior before trying to change it.

In this conversation:

• Why doing more can still leave us feeling like we're not enough
 • Overeating, overachieving, people pleasing and perfectionism
 • Why awareness comes before lasting behavior change
 • Behavior versus identity
 • Restriction, scarcity and unwanted patterns
 • Delayed reward and interrupting automatic behavior
 • Curiosity instead of shame
 • Moving with respect instead of revenge
 • Responsibility without blame
 • Honoring the person you had to become to get here
 • Creating the pause that allows another choice

Connect with Sherry

SherryShaban.com
Make Peace with Food
Instagram — @makepeacewithfoodofficial
LinkedIn — Sherry Shaban
YouTube — Make Peace with Food
TikTok — @sherryshaban
Facebook — Make Peace with Food

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Delay the Binge™ explores the patterns behind burnout, Quiet Depletion, reactive coping, and the behaviors we return to even when we know they no longer serve us.

Through emotionally honest conversations and practical insight from experts in neuroscience, psychology, resilience, wellness, leadership, and human behavior, we explore why we do what we do, what happens when stress and depletion take over, and how small intentional choices can begin to change what happens next.

Because lasting change isn’t about getting it right every time. It’s about learning to recognize the pattern, create a pause, and choose your next right move.

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