You're still functioning. You're still handling things. But suddenly, things that once felt manageable require far more effort than they should.

Why does everything feel so difficult?

In this episode of Delay the Binge™, Pam Dwyer sits down with clinical neuropsychologist Dr. Vanessa LaBode-Richman to explore what happens when stress, grief, adversity, and unresolved problems begin consuming more of our mental resources than we realize.

Vanessa introduces Pam to a concept that changes the way we can think about depletion:

Brain Dollars.

Imagine beginning each day with a limited amount of cognitive currency.

Decisions cost Brain Dollars. Stress costs Brain Dollars. Problems we're actively solving cost Brain Dollars, and sometimes the things we're avoiding continue costing us, too.

That becomes particularly important when we're trying to interrupt an automatic behavior, because even the pause requires resources.

Pam and Vanessa explore what happens when those resources begin running low, why simply pushing harder isn't always the answer, and how greater awareness can help us understand what we're carrying before we automatically react.

You'll also hear about Vanessa's FOURward Method, including the idea that not every problem should be treated the same way: some things need to be fixed, some faced, and some forgotten.

In this conversation:

• Why everything can suddenly start feeling harder
• The concept of Brain Dollars
• The cognitive cost of unresolved stress
• Why avoidance isn't necessarily free
• Why pausing before reacting requires resources
• Fix it, Face it, or Forget it
• Automatic patterns and intentional responses
• The value of journaling and reflection
• Grief, adversity and identity
• Surviving versus healing
• Recognizing when you've lost pieces of yourself
• Building resilience without simply pushing through

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🌐 DrVanessaOnline.com
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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

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SherryShaban.com
Make Peace with Food
Instagram — @makepeacewithfoodofficial
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Because it’s not about willpower…it’s about what you do in the moment the urge hits.

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What happens when you're still functioning, still achieving, still getting everything done, but everything starts feeling harder than it should?

Speaker, consultant, and recovering overachiever Erika Coleman joins Pam Dwyer for a candid conversation about burnout, chronic stress, perfectionism, and the hidden cost of constantly proving how much we can handle.

After building a million-dollar training company while caring for her mother through cancer, Erika experienced burnout so severe that she became non-functional. She later earned a master’s degree from Harvard University focused on stress, high performance, and well-being.

Together, Pam and Erika explore why high performers often normalize exhaustion, how achievement can turn us into our own rival, and why being capable of carrying more doesn't always mean we should.

Erika shares a powerful question: If you're bidding against yourself and you win, did you really win, or did you simply overpay for success?

They also explore the difference between pursuing a destination and choosing a direction, learning to receive help, allowing growth to take time, and finding a healthier way to succeed without losing yourself in the process.

In this episode:

• How overachievement quietly becomes burnout
• Why exhaustion can begin to feel “normal”
• Becoming your own rival
• The hidden cost of always rising to the occasion
• Direction vs. destination
• Learning to accept help
• Growing without rushing the process
• Building success without sacrificing yourself

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Discover which Achiever Mode you may be overusing and where one of your strengths could be creating unnecessary stress: Achiever Mode Quiz

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Because it’s not about willpower…it’s about what you do in the moment the urge hits.

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How many of the choices you make every day are actually conscious?

In the final episode of Week 1: Awakening of The Delay the Binge Journey, Pam Dwyer talks with behavioral change expert, keynote speaker, author, and Power Pause™ creator Paula Houlihan about the brain’s autopilot, and what happens when the patterns designed to help us begin taking us somewhere we no longer want to go.

Paula explains why automatic behavior isn’t evidence that something is wrong with us. Our brains are doing what they were designed to do: conserving energy, recognizing patterns, and automating familiar responses.

But what happens when those responses no longer serve us?

Together, Pam and Paula explore how awareness creates an opportunity to interrupt automatic reactions, why simply knowing better doesn’t always mean we automatically do better, and how Paula’s Power Pause can help bring the thinking part of the brain back online before we respond.

Paula also shares her own experience of recognizing old patterns returning while writing Hijacked, a powerful reminder that growth isn’t perfection. It’s becoming better at noticing, pausing, and choosing again.

This conversation closes Week 1: Awakening and creates the bridge into Week 2: Choosing.

Your Plus One:
When you catch yourself reacting automatically today, pause and ask:

Is this what I want to choose, or simply what I usually do?

You don’t have to change everything.

Just create enough space for one different choice.

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Through emotionally honest conversations and practical insight from experts in neuroscience, psychology, resilience, wellness, and human behavior, you’ll learn how to recognize patterns, reconnect with yourself, and build momentum one intentional choice at a time.

Because it’s not about willpower…it’s about what you do in the moment the urge hits.

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What happens when you’ve spent so long achieving that you’re no longer sure who you are without the achievement?

The Delay the Binge™ Journey begins with Awakening and Dr. Mamta Bhatt, a macromolecular scientist, bestselling author, speaker, and wellness expert whose own journey took her from high-pressure achievement through years of illness and nearly two decades of monastery life.

Mamta had built an identity around output. She knew how to achieve, solve problems, and keep going.

But when her health changed, the tools that had always served her couldn't answer a much more personal question:

Who was she without all the achieving?

In this conversation, Mamta shares a pivotal sunrise at the monastery when she realized she had been waiting to get well before allowing herself to be happy. In that moment, she discovered that illness and joy didn't have to be mutually exclusive, she could experience difficulty and still choose joy.

Pam and Mamta also explore:

• When achievement quietly becomes identity
• The tiny moments that can add up to self-abandonment
• Why high achievers often struggle to turn off
• Perfectionism and the connection between achievement and self-worth
• Listening to the body's “whispers” before continually overriding them
• Creating intentional periods of silence and space
• Mamta's SWOON practice for reconnecting with yourself
• Why progress can matter more than perfection

This may speak to you if...

You've spent years achieving, producing, helping, or meeting expectations, and you're beginning to wonder who you are without all the doing.

This is Day 1 of The Delay the Binge™ Journey and the opening conversation of Week One:

AWAKENING | You can't change what you haven't seen.

Beginning August 10, one conversation will be released each weekday. You don't need to listen to all of them.

Choose what speaks to you. There is no “getting behind” on this Journey.

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Release date: Monday, August 10, 2026

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Delay the Binge™ explores burnout, emotional patterns, Quiet Depletion, and the pause between impulse and action where real behavior change begins.

Through emotionally honest conversations and practical insight from experts in neuroscience, psychology, resilience, wellness, and human behavior, you’ll learn how to recognize patterns, reconnect with yourself, and build momentum one intentional choice at a time.

Because it’s not about willpower…it’s about what you do in the moment the urge hits.

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Jennifer Greenhut was diagnosed with Stage 4 triple-negative breast cancer and faced the possibility that her life might be cut short.

Instead of asking, "Why is this happening to me?" she began asking a different question:

"What's in this for me?"

That shift changed everything.

In this episode of Delay the Binge™, Jennifer shares how cancer became an unexpected awakening, teaching her about gratitude, trust, receiving love, and finding purpose through pain.

We discuss:
• Stage 4 breast cancer and survival
• The power of perspective
• Caregiver support and burnout
• Receiving help when you're used to giving it
• Gratitude during difficult seasons
• The Pinch Me Method
• Finding meaning in life's hardest moments

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❤️ The Zero Negative Foundation
www.zeronegativefoundation.org

👜 Love, Zero Negative
www.lovezeronegative.com

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Most parents don't lose their patience because they're bad parents.

They lose it because they're exhausted.

In this episode of Delay the Binge™, Pam Dwyer sits down with therapist, parent educator, and founder of Compassionate Heart Parenting, Michelle Puster, to explore what happens when burnout, shame, and nervous system overwhelm quietly shape the way we respond to our children.

Michelle shares her personal journey through parent burnout, growing up in a family impacted by addiction, and learning how self-compassion became the key to breaking generational cycles without becoming trapped in guilt and self-criticism.

Together, they discuss why so many parents feel like they're failing, how quiet depletion affects families, and practical ways to pause before reacting.

In This Episode

✔ Parent burnout and emotional exhaustion

✔ Breaking generational patterns

✔ Why self-compassion matters

✔ The connection between shame and reactivity

✔ How nervous system overload impacts parenting

✔ The RAIN practice for emotional regulation

✔ Why you don't have to start over after a difficult moment

If you've ever walked away from a parenting moment wondering, "Why did I react like that?" this conversation is for you.

Connect with Michelle Puster

Website:
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Why do we keep doing things we know aren’t good for us?

In this powerful episode of Delay the Binge, Pam Dwyer sits down with Elaine Starling to explore the hidden patterns behind emotional eating, overworking, overthinking, people pleasing, nervous system overload, and Quiet Depletion.

After surviving a life-changing stroke and experiencing what she describes as a profound spiritual awakening, Elaine began receiving what she calls “divine downloads” about human behavior, self-worth, alignment, and the deeper reasons we disconnect from ourselves.

Together, Pam and Elaine discuss:

• Why unhealthy patterns aren’t really about willpower
• The subconscious mind and emotional protection
• How journaling reveals hidden patterns
• The emotional exhaustion many women silently carry
• The importance of receiving instead of only giving
• How gratitude and awareness shift the nervous system
• Why “noticing your breath” is often the first step back to yourself

One of the most powerful moments in the episode comes when Elaine says:

This conversation is emotional, practical, spiritual, and deeply human.

Because healing doesn’t begin when everything is fixed.
It begins in the pause.

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Website: https://www.TheAbundanceJourney.com

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Because it’s not about willpower…it’s about what you do in the moment the urge hits.

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