#1 Body Image Expert: How to Repair Your Relationship with Your Body & Food
3/9/20261 hr 22 min
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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First 90 secondsMel Robbins· Host0:00
Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. [upbeat music] If your relationship with food, eating, and your body image feels like a constant fight, which is all of us, by the way, this episode is gonna change how you think about food, your body, and your health. Today, you and I are sitting down with Dr. Rachel Goldman, a renowned clinical psychologist and professor at NYU, who's worked with thousands of patients dealing with emotional eating, stress, obesity, and body image. And in my opinion, Dr. Goldman's insights are the missing piece in the conversation about weight and wellness, and she's gonna change the way you think about your body, your cravings, and your ability to feel good again. This episode is chock-full of aha moments and specific takeaways, things that you can do. You're gonna walk away with tools to stop emotional eating, break the binge restrict cycle, rebuild trust with your body using science-backed strategies that actually work so you can finally stop punishing yourself and start feeling good again. Dr. Goldman isn't just talking about behavior. She's breaking down the biology of what's really going on in your body, and then she's gonna teach you how to heal. So if you're tired of criticizing