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Sep 2019
14m 13s

How To Overcome Your Urges in 3 Steps

Georgie Fear and the Confident Eaters Team
About this episode

At some point, you'll have to tackle an urge to binge eat. In fact, you'll probably need to face urges many time during your recovery. In this episode you'll learn our 3 part method for exactly what to do as soon as you notice you are experiencing an urge. 

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