Satiated Podcast
The Satiated Podcast explores physical and emotional hunger and satiation, helping listeners heal their relationship with food and body. Hosted by Stephanie Mara Fox, creator of Somatic Eating™, the show covers topics like disordered eating, emotional eating, chronic dieting, and body image concerns. Through interviews with professionals and practical tools, it promotes somatic nutrition, body empowerment, and nervous system regulation. The podcast aims to support food freedom and a more embodied life.
Episodes
Restrictive Diets Are Traumatic and a Response To Trauma
If someone had told me the truth that going on Weight Watchers at 13 years old would lead to a lack of trust in your body, obsession with food for years to come, an intense fear of food and anxiety around what to eat, and a decade in the restrict-binge cycle, I’m curious if my smart little self would have said, “No thank you. I’ll find a different way to feel safe.” But now I know I was drawn to d
Interoception: Get To Know Your Body's Internal Dashboard For Better Regulation with Alyssa Chang
About a year ago in one of my PhD classes, I voiced a huge gripe I had about somatic and nervous system practices. I shared that my friction with them was that they have been stripped down and depersonalized into these practices that anyone can do at any time and will support everyone in any moment to feel calmer or more grounded or safer or more regulated. My teacher replied with, "Well ever
How Embracing Rage Fuels Body Liberation and Heals Diet Trauma with Paula D. Atkinson
One underdiscussed aspect of a body image or food recovery adventure is the importance of rage. What can occur is that all the anger that might be felt about how you were treated in the past gets turned in on your body. Your body becomes the focus of all your rage rather than on a culture that ever taught you that your body should be different than it is. Your food behaviors become a way to expres
Use These Somatic Tools During and After Tough Times with Laurie James
You may have picked this up by now about how passionate I am about the field of somatic psychology. Learning about how to experience my body on all levels and build awareness of my nervous system states felt like it was learning how to come home to myself. I have often joked that many people who are somatic practitioners were drawn to this work because they have lived much of their life disconnect
Rebuilding Body Trust After Decades of Dieting with Amber Caudle
Your history with food and dieting didn't start with you. You saw your mothers or fathers diet and their grandparents also dieted and their grandparents also dieted. There is a long history of diet culture passed down from generation to generation and expressed differently in the trendiest, most common diet of the time. This isn't about the food, but that nervous system states, traumas,
How The Five Tastes Calm or Energize Your Nervous System with Michelle Brown
Something I learned from diet culture was that the taste of sweet was "bad." If I craved sweetness then something must be out of balance. There was probably a period of time where craving sweetness sent me into a panic where I had to become a detective to understand why I wanted something sweet. Learning about the five tastes changed my perspective. We have 5 basic tastes that include sw
Reading Reddit Stories: Body Image Edition
It is difficult to talk about food without talking about body image. The two are intertwined. For many of you, it was your body's appearance that started the dieting, restricting, and binge eating. It was the internalized messages from a culture that wants to control women's bodies that shaped how you interacted with food. And for many, you may create a stabilizing relationship with food
Game Changing Body Based Strategies for Binge Eating Recovery with Dr. Kristina Dobyns
This is actually a pretty wild story. During my first year in my PhD, a woman reached out to me through the contact form on my website and was like, "Hey, we're doing similar work! I would love to connect." I starred the email as something I needed to follow up on and then it got completely buried in my inbox. Then, several months later, one of my teachers emailed me and said, "
4 Teens On A Mission To Revolutionize Teen Health with The Holistic Kids
As many of you know, I went on my first diet when I was 13 years old. It was Weight Watchers and it shifted how I viewed my body for a decade. I saw it as something weak and that I could control. It would take years of nutritional, mind, and body studies to realize my body was never the enemy I was taught to see it as. I sometimes wonder how things might have been different if I had learned as a k
Breaking Free from Diet Culture Toward Body Liberation with Savala Nolan
Diets teach us to view the body as a project. You can tinker with what you're eating and transform your body into something different. Then fitness culture doubles down and provides the message that you can shape your body to be whatever you want it to be, you just have to put up with messages like no pain, no gain and a complete disconnection from your body, how it feels, and what resonates
What Self Love Really Is And How To Embody It Every Day with Lulu Essey
I have often felt like talking about self love can feel frustrating and confusion. What does loving oneself actually mean and look like? Early in my twenties, I think I thought self love looked and felt like self discipline. I went to yoga and meditated almost every day, I was strict with myself on what and when I would eat, I went to bed early and woke up early. From the outside, it looked like I
Regulate Your Nervous System, Reframe Your Reflection: A Guide to Somatic Body Image Healing
I've been through a similar trajectory that so many have in food and body image recovery. In my twenties, I got to a place where food was less of a concern. I wasn't skipping meals anymore and I was balancing those meals and eating all macronutrients. I felt much more grounded and regulated. But, the body image struggles continued to hang around. I felt good in my body but I still hated
Reading Reddit Stories: Food Recovery Edition
In this week's episode, I chat about: I read 3 different food recovery Reddit stories I talk about recovery into a world that is just going to want to push you back into your food behaviors Grieving the time that has passed since your food coping behaviors began The comfort with being in the sympathetic nervous system making it difficult to recover The optimal pace of food recoveryThere are 4
Breakthrough Food Recovery Stuckness With Psychedelics and Movement with Francesca Annenberg
My current perspective on eating disorders is that labeling food behaviors as a disorder has kept the field of food recovery distracted, continuing to focus on that food is the problem. Patterns of binge eating, restriction, yo yo dieting, food noise, and body image struggles need to be re-labeled as nervous system dysregulation or a trauma response. Food, for many, was never actually the problem,
How a Feldenkrais Practice Can Improve Body Image and Relationship with Food with Beverly Atkins
I have a saying, Embody first, Examine later.When you're feeling like you're drowning in body image concerns or food impulses, your prefrontal cortex is shut down. This is the part of your brain where you rationalize and can think through what is going on. When that part of your brain is diminished, it can be much harder to try to understand what message your body is trying to send you t
How to Use Food Cravings as Feedback of Your Nervous System States with Luis Mojica
Since my time in graduate school for somatic psychotherapy, I have shared with anyone who would listen about the connection between somatics and nutrition. It has felt absurd to me that food was never talked about in my somatic studies. In my PhD interview, I passionately shared that I believe there is a need to bring the field of nutrition into somatics. This has been a 20-year journey where I&ap
Create Your Eating Timeline to Understand Your Food Story with Dr. Deanna Minich
Around 2018, I was living in Denver, Colorado and I was in my ongoing process of combining the fields of somatics, nutrition, nervous system, and trauma. I've wanted to learn as much as I can about all of the possible perspectives of what affects and shapes our food interactions. I was a member at the Denver Botanic Gardens and found out they were holding an all day nutrition workshop with Dr
Busting Detox Myths and Revealing Wellness Realities with Michele Scarlet
When I first entered into the world of wellness culture, I was swept up in the promise of health, vibrancy, and fixing every symptom I had and could ever have. I did the detoxes, the cleanses, the supplements, the colonics, the detox foot baths, the energy work, and the elimination diets. Now, if you're thinking, "Wait. I have done some of those things and they were helpful to me."
You Are Not Your Body…Or Are You? A Missing Piece in Food and Body Image Recovery
The statement, “You are not your body,” needs some somatic updating. This statement, which has been said countless of times to try to decrease body image struggles, actually guides you in detaching from the body, further causing separation from safely inhabiting the body.René Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am,” reinforced a mind-body split. This contributed to the belief that the body is meant t
Get Unstuck From a Sympathetic State and Increase Energy with Dr. Scott Sherr
Once I started to connect the dots that the sympathetic nervous system plays a prominent role in food impulses and behaviors, I began teaching everyone I work with how to identify when their sympathetic nervous system is activated. This isn't something we're often taught as a kid and would be a game changer to learn earlier on in life. You may just be learning this language of your body
Reading Reddit Stories: Binge Eating Edition
As I was editing this week's podcast episode, I accidentally deleted half of it and thought it was gone forever. At first, my heart sank, I was in shock, the blood drained from my face, and I literally said out loud, "Nooooooo!!!"I was ready to call it and my brain started quickly going through my options.As I went through my options, I paused and wanted to connect with my experienc
Making Empowered Food Choices Beyond Diet Culture with Bonnie Roney
Something I've noticed in food recovery is that certain foods and meals become associated with dieting. Suddenly, you're afraid or feeling resistance to eating certain vegetables or fruits because these foods have been somatically connected to deprivation and restriction. Your body tenses, your breath gets shallow, you feel tight, and you hear an internal, "NO, don't eat that.&
Simplifying Nutrition and Movement For Enhanced Wellness with Dr. Aleksandra Gajer
Diets can be a reminder of what no can feel like. The issue occurs that over time a no somatically gets connected with deprivation and restriction. So when you really don’t want to eat something, a no sends your body into a survival response. It can feel like you’re not allowed to say no because now all you feel is tight, tense, and constricted. And then anti diet culture swoops in and tells you t
Reading Reddit Stories: Body Image Edition
Every Saturday, my husband and I listen to a podcast that reads Reddit stories. For a long time, I have wanted to do something similar but with a focus on food and body image behaviors. I even set up a whole form for people to send in questions, but I got very few responses. So I decided to move forward on this anyway and find my own Reddit stories to read and share my thoughts on how I might supp
Bioindividual Approach to Nutrition for Neurodiversity and ADHD with Dr. Miguel Toribio-Mateas
Over the past few years, I've become more interested in neurodiversity. I've had more people come to work with me navigating being on the ADHD or autism spectrums and telling me that intuitive eating didn't work for them. I saw that many of the bodily changes that can occur as a response to trauma can already be happening in someone's brain when in the spectrum of neurodiversit
How To Choose Foods Based On Your Body's Constitution with Dr. Shivani Gupta
Digestion and cravings can all start in your nervous system. Food decisions made from a stressed, sympathetic nervous system state will lead you to specific foods for your survival. You then struggle to digest those foods, not because there is something “wrong” with the food or your gut, but because your digestion has shut down to prepare you for battle. You can start to see that every food behavi
Uncomplicating Wellness and Redefining Personal Wellness with Jenn Trepeck
Wellness culture teaches you how to NOT feel enough. It is never enough biohacking, protein, red light therapy, organic, sprouted, activated, pure, lectin free food. Feeling like you’re never going to get it “right” does not create wellness. What creates "wellness" are things that cannot be commodified and sold to you as the answer to your fears and worries. In this week's Satiated
Unraveling the Hidden Energetic Effects of Generational Trauma with Shannon Salge
When the focus is always on finding a root cause, it keeps you looking for the next answer and the next answer and the next answer to your food issues. This can keep you stuck in a survival response. This constant searching sends signals of danger to the body that something is wrong, and it has to keep the sympathetic nervous system turned on (where food behaviors intensify).What if there is no ro
The Death of New Year's Resolutions and What To Replace It With
I wanted to approach the transition into a new year differently. For the past couple of years, I felt like it was more somatically aligned to explore a feeling word for the year rather than resolutions. This feeling word could then be a guiding light throughout the year toward actions or food or environments or hobbies that support you in feeling the way you want to feel. But, I decided to move aw
When Holiday Leftovers Feel Like a Threat
This holiday week might have been really hard. Surrounded by family, arguments, familial patterns, working on staying connected, trying to enact different patterns with food, and feeling overwhelmed and dysregulated. And for others, this week may have included huge wins. You noticed yourself regulating your nervous system, staying connected, choosing other options besides food to connect with you
The Power of Finding and Trusting Your Inner Voice with Jeanie Manchester
One of the aspects of food recovery I wished that I had greater guidance around (and had to learn for myself) was discovering how to listen to my body. Even within different food recovery approaches, there are still all of these rules about what to eat to "prove" recovery or what to do to ensure recovery. I've seen more confusion over the years about what will or will not lead towa
The Impact of Food Trauma on Your Eating Behaviors with Rachel Hobbs
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) are traumatic events that occur in childhood and affect your sense of safety. ACEs have been found to be higher in prevalence among those who struggle with food and body image. As the experience of safety diminishes, the likelihood of binge eating increases.This is why you can't shame yourself for your food behaviors. They are not your fault. You’ve been ma
Why Your Food Behaviors Are NOT the Problem. Here's the Real Culprit...
The number one question I often get asked in sessions is, "What is the somatic practice I should be doing to calm myself down?"Somatic and nervous system work has been completely misconstrued and misrepresented, and I get why. If all you're seeing on social media is a list of suggestions on practices you can do to make things better or calm yourself down, it can feel like there is s
Revolutionize your Health Through Learning Self Leadership with Courtney Townley
We were all taught how to eat and move and exist in our bodies. The “shoulds” that you learn from your parents, diet/wellness/fitness culture, magazines, media, movies, family and friends can keep your nervous system stuck in a sympathetic response.When you live in chronic stress or survival states, your system prioritizes safety over sensation. That means you may default to habits that feel famil
Why Learning To Be With Grief is Crucial for Trauma Recovery with Syanna Wand
I remember the very slow realization as I started to embody my binges that food was never going to give me what I was looking for. It felt crushing to face. I'd been utilizing food as a way to try to help myself feel better, safer, more grounded and I felt so much grief that this strategy was never going to work.Over the years in private practice, I noticed almost every single person I worke
How Your Body Remembers The Environments Where You've Binge
I'm currently visiting family in Connecticut where I grew up. I was here until I went off to college and then I moved back for about a year before I moved west to go to graduate school. Connecticut has been a witness to every stage of my food recovery. From the beginnings of starting to choose food to self soothe, my diet culture years, stuck in the binge-restrict cyle, a short stint into ort
Building Self Trust To Move From Doubt to Decisive with Jay Moon Fields
In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Jay Moon Fields, MA, Coach, and author about: How to build more self trustThe felt sense of self worthEnhancing your decision making skillsThe embodiment of emotionsThe process of stepping into self trust: presence, guidance, service, and trust, and how these elements contribute to personal growth and emotional regulationYou can also read t
Breaking Free from Emotional Outsourcing and Reclaiming Your Life with Béatriz Victoria Albina
In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Béatriz Victoria Albina, MA, Somatic Master Coach, and author about: What emotional outsourcing isHow it affects physical and mental healthThe impact of codependencyThe journey toward self acceptanceUnderstanding emotionsHow to approach change through gentle regulation and kitten sized stepsYou can also read the transcript to this week’s ep
How Food Choices Can Remind Your Body How To Feel Safe
I've been reflecting recently on how much I talk here about the reasons food behaviors like binge eating have nothing to do with the food, but the state you're eating the food in. As I've explored here many times, there are so many somatic, trauma, and nervous system layers to your food patterns. But part of food recovery has to include explorations around food itself. In this week&
How Trauma Alters Your Sense of Self and Eating Habit
Happy Satiated Saturday! I find it fascinating to explore the layers and layers of connections between trauma and food behaviors. Trauma alters the way you experience bodily sensations. A racing heart can feel like panic rather than excitement. An empty stomach might trigger fear rather than curiosity about food. Over time, the body learns to suppress or disconnect from these cues in an attempt to
Understanding the Science Behind Food Cravings with Jenn Trepeck
Happy Satiated Saturday! After years and years of navigating food cravings, it was the field of somatics that started to shift my perception of them. I used to think of cravings as something I had to do battle with and couldn't listen to until I realized that I was defining listening to cravings as abiding by them and that listening to my craving meant I needed to eat the food some part of me
Break Free From Food Obsession and Orthorexic Behaviors with Sabrina Magnan
Happy Satiated Saturday! When a focus on food and nutrition feels like it starts to take over your life, where you're not eating if you can't find what you've been taught are the cleanest, purest foods, and experience high anxiety whenever interacting with foods outside a set list of internally approved foods, you might be navigating orthorexia. In this week's episode, I chat
Navigating the Complexities of Body Image in a GLP-1 Era with Anna Sweeney
Happy Satiated Saturday! Something I've noticed in any body image healing exploration is how private body image concerns are. About 84% of women struggle with body image, yet something so prevalent is often kept hidden. I wonder what could change if how hard it is to live in a body could be openly discussed and supported, where conversations could look like: Person 1: How are you today?Person
Building Muscle, Self Worth, and Body Confidence with Kitty Blomfield
Happy Satiated Saturday! Fitness culture has made body image recovery even more confusing. I've seen people year after year question if it is alright to want to lose weight, or lift weights, or increase muscle. What I like to return to is the intention behind these desires and how they feel in your body. Any intention approached from a place of self hate, of disrespecting the body, or pushing
Embodying Your Vacations and Overcoming Body Image Anxiety with Dr. Rachel Evans
Happy Satiated Saturday! At twenty-one, when traveling abroad, I was so nervous about what to eat and eating around others that I did not nourish myself well. I flew home on an 8 hour flight with a fever of 103. Talking about regulating your nervous system and eating to support your body during travel and vacations is now one of my favorite things to share. So, I knew in this body image series tha
The Connection Between Your Nervous System and Body Image Struggles
Happy Satiated Saturday! I'm excited to tell you that today marks a month long focus on the podcast on body image healing. Every summer, I have noticed an uptick in body image conversation on social media and in my sessions and programs. So last summer, I started a little podcast tradition of offering a whole series focused and dedicated to supporting you in navigating body image during the m
Stop Being Confused About Health, Boost Your Metabolism, Energy, and Eat More Carbs with Kate Deering
Happy Satiated Saturday! Anyone else notice how much noise there has been recently about carbohydrates and protein? Protein has to be in everything. I literally just got an email this morning from a company that is now making protein granola. 🤦🏻♀️And the continued arguments between those giving nutrition advice about eat carbs, don't eat carbs, don't eat the wrong kind of carbs, don&apo
No-Nonsense Approach To Navigating Stress Eating with Melissa McCreery
Happy Satiated Saturday! Labels like stress eating and emotional eating need some updating. By tacking on the words stress or emotional to eating, it gives the perception that the "problem" is stress or emotions, and if you can fix being a stressed person or person who feels (an impossible task), THEN the food behavior might go away. Stress and emotions are a part of life. Because of thi
The Need For Women-Centric Medicine and Connection For Better Health with Kymber Maulden
Happy Satiated Saturday! Making friends as an adult can be hard! Not only can it be difficult to find people you truly connect with, but it can also be hard to put yourself out there when you've experienced trauma in relationships with others. There can be fear that you will be hurt again, as you were in the past. Yet, while trauma can occur in relationships, healing relational wounds can occ
The Somatic Reasons It's Terrifying to Eat With Friends and Family
Happy Satiated Saturday! How do you feel about eating around others?I remember in my years of struggling with food how scary it would feel to eat with others. There was a constant inner dialogue about eating the "right" things in the "right" amount. I would find myself consistently undereating when going out and then overeating or binge eating when I would get home, as I felt s
How To Trust Your Body Through Every Life Phase with Natalie Rose
Happy Satiated Saturday! A common theme I've seen over the years working with women 1:1 is that for many (myself included), body image concerns started during teenage years. Ugh, a shifting and changing body is so difficult to be with, to trust, and to come home to. Your body is going to change again and again throughout your life. That can feel terrifying. When you've experienced past t
The Importance of Touch for Healing Pain and Decreasing Cravings with Dr. Njideka Olatunde
Happy Satiated Saturday! Many of you may know that touch has been linked to the release of oxytocin. Oxytocin is a hormone related to reproduction, social bonding, stress regulation, and promotes feelings of love, trust, attachment, intimacy, and calm. Ya know what else stimulates the release of oxytocin? Eating. Research studies have found that an increase in oxytocin can decrease the urge to eat
Sail Through Food Cravings with Self-Hypnosis Resources with Caroline McNally
Happy Satiated Saturday! It can be confusing what path to choose for your food recovery when there are many different paths you can walk. When exploring all the various avenues, you can focus on your experience of choice. There is no "right" way to decrease your food coping mechanisms. It gets to be unique to you, your body, and what supports you in feeling the way you want to feel in yo
Why You're Afraid of Feeling Hungry
Happy Satiated Saturday! When you're feeling threatened in your body, hunger and fullness cues can feel wonky and also frightening. Hunger can come out of nowhere and remind you how little control you may feel in your life right now. The felt sense of hunger can be similar to past experiences you've had that left you feeling unsafe. The empty feeling may remind you of being abandoned as
How Society Shapes Our Health Beliefs and Dieting Behaviors with Abbie Attwood
Happy Satiated Saturday! What if diet culture wasn't actually the "problem"? Focusing on diet culture can become a distraction. It keeps the conversation circling around the same point—being controlled around our food choices is the problem, and we need to regain our experience of choice with food. Yet, when all of our attention stays on food, we miss out on exploring the deeper lay
Discover Your Inner Wisdom and Body Intuition On A Food Recovery Journey with Katie Beecher
Happy Satiated Saturday! Intuition has been fascinating for me. I first started getting into the mind-body connection through practicing and learning about yoga and yoga philosophy. In yoga classes, I would often hear teachers talking about trusting your intuition. To be guided by your intuition. But, what I rarely heard was descriptions of how do you know something is intuition. Is what you'
Update Your Response to Stress, Stop the Symptom Reaction Cycle with Ali Damron
Happy Satiated Saturday! How do you currently view symptoms or impulses in your body?Are they something to be fixed? Are they wrong or bad? Are you afraid of them when they increase? If you said yes to these questions, you might notice how does it feel in your body to view the body's symptoms and impulses as wrong, bad, fearful, and need of fixing? Something I've been teaching for a whil
The Non-Sexy, Not Marketable Approach to Lasting Body Wellness with Ashley Fillmore
Happy Satiated Saturday! While trauma-based food coping mechanisms, like binge eating, can feel dramatic, healing can sometimes (not always) be incredibly boring. Decreasing food patterns can look like simple acts of body care, like:Eating consistent, balanced mealsMoving your body in nourishing waysTaking time to breathe and enjoy a momentFostering a validating inner dialogue Finding ways to laug
Understanding Your Gut and Its Role In Your Mood and Cravings with Martha Carlin
Happy Satiated Saturday! I have one published article in a journal titled, The Enteric Nervous System and Body Psychotherapy: Cultivating a Relationship with the Gut Brain.I have a fascination and curiosity about the gut. The gut contains about 100 trillion bacteria that contribute to your mood, mental health, immune system, cravings, and nervous system.Some studies have found that there are some
An Ayurvedic Perspective on Food as Medicine with Dr. Shivani Gupta
Happy Satiated Saturday! When I started to learn about the mind-body connection through yoga, I dove deep into all things yoga. I became a bit of a yoga fanatic and that led me to learn about Ayurveda, which is yoga's sister science. Ayurveda is a whole-body system of medicine. Rather than seeing symptoms as problems to be fixed, Ayurveda approaches symptoms as imbalances that can be brought
Reconnecting with Your Body and the Role of Embodiment in Eating Recovery with Ann Saffi Biasetti
Happy Satiated Saturday! Have you ever noticed that the strongest memories are the ones where you felt the most presence and embodiment? I will never forget my first yoga class because when I was shaking while holding a plank, I couldn't be anywhere else but in my body. At the beginning of your eating recovery, you may feel disconnected and dissociated. Your body has felt like an unsafe place
The Power of Proprioceptive Practices to Navigate Binge Urges with Dr. Satya Sardonicus
Happy Satiated Saturday! Proprioception is your body's ability to sense movement and know where you are in space. When you've experienced past trauma, you dissociate from your body out of protection. This can decrease your proprioceptive awareness where food comes in to experience movement, embodiment, and have a moment of presence to feel where you are right here and now. In this week&a
Understanding and Healing from Long Covid and Chronic Illness with Lily Spechler
Happy Satiated Saturday! In April of 2022, I went to Disney World with my family and came back with covid. It was, unfortunately, the Delta strain that left me with long covid. I had to use an oxygen concentrator while I slept for about a year while my lungs healed through nebulized steroids and inhalers. I also had the lovely long covid symptom of losing my ability to swallow where I was on an al
Unlock Your Body's Potential and Rediscover the Joy of Moving with DK Ciccone
Happy Satiated Saturday! Your body loves to be in movement. Yet, movement or exercise can also be a way to create distance between you and how you feel. There is a different felt sense when you move to express a fight or flight response or dissociate from the feeling of threat in your body. You can ask yourself before you move: Am I using movement as a way to push myself further away from me? Am I
Transform The Way You Experience Bad Body Image Moments with Deb Schachter
Happy Satiated Saturday! I take a different approach to body image healing. I apply the same explorations I do with food from a somatic perspective to body image. I started to wonder why is it that you can look in the mirror and love what you see one day and then later that day or the next day look in the mirror and feel like everything needs to change. Your body did not change within 24 hours. Th
Why Aren't My Somatic Practices Working to Stop Binge Eating?
Happy Satiated Saturday! Somatic practices have become a buzzword as the new supplement you can take to “calm” yourself down, to shake off a trauma response, and maybe not binge eat. They can feel alluring. When you’re struggling with food, you just want an answer. There can be panic and desperation at willing to try anything to make sure you won’t binge again. You may find yourself trying to shak
Redefining "Health" and Decoding Symptoms as Body Communication with Tamar Samuels
Happy Satiated Saturday! Every semester in my undergraduate studies, I would receive all my coursework & experience a full-body panic. I would look at all that was due & some perfectionistic part of me thought I needed to hand in everything tomorrow. This typically led to a phone call to my mother who would say, "Stephanie, you eat an elephant a bite at a time."This would often r
Befriend your Body and Rediscover Pleasure After Past Trauma with Marla Mervis-Hartmann
Happy Satiated Saturday! Body shame is body communication. If body shame could speak, it might say, “It doesn’t feel safe to be as you are. I’m trying to protect you from the pain you’ve already endured.”Body shame often acts as a shield, guarding against judgment and rejection. No one could be as cruel to you as you are to yourself. This can feel like a defense, ensuring that no one else’s words
2025 Forecast of Trends to Embrace and Abandon in Functional Medicine and Somatic Therapy with Michelle Shapiro
Happy Satiated Saturday! Your struggles with food rooted in a lack of safety in your body are not just a response to trauma, they're also shaped by the commodification of health. The idea that a product, supplement, protocol, or routine could "fix" you and make you feel safe often triggers your fight-or-flight response. This constant sense of danger can intensify binge or restrictiv
The Role of Narrative Medicine in Understanding Your Body's Story with Andrea Nakayama
Happy Satiated Saturday! Something I've been noticing is how much we're taught to see any symptom as a sign that something is "wrong" and that we have to embark on a "healing journey" to "fix" the symptom. For a moment, try this out on your body. Tell it that there is something wrong that you need to fix. What do you notice? How does your body respond to tha
Recover from Trauma and Food Struggles with Nutrition with Timothy Frie
Happy Satiated Saturday! As many of you know, I started my PhD in somatic psychology in September and just completed my first semester. 🎉While I initially wanted to research all eating disorders (which may still happen), I decided this first semester to focus on research surrounding binge eating disorders. Going through graduate school almost 15 years ago, I was often confused about why there was
Transform Body Image Worries with a Somatic and Nervous System Regulation Approach
Happy Satiated Saturday! Body image concerns are often one of the many challenges that fuel disordered eating and eating disorders and are one of the worries that continue to stick around long after you've found a safe relationship with food. There can be an expectation when you've healed your body image challenges that you'll never worry about the way your body looks, that you&apos
How Context and Personal Values Influence What You Eat with Josh Hillis
Happy Satiated Saturday! I've gone out to eat sushi many times. Several years ago, when I had to go to a sushi restaurant for a work meeting, I thought, "Sure, no problem."On this particular afternoon, the restaurant was loud and bustling. I could barely hear anyone down the table, and I was there with people who didn't necessarily put my body at ease. By the end of the meal, I
How To Create a Sustainable Diet That Includes Your Joy Foods with Dr. Sarah Ballantyne
Happy Satiated Saturday! Because of diet culture, I was scared of carbs for a long time. I barely ate them which ended up in binging on them. Thanksgiving became a time when I would eat as many sweet potatoes as I wanted only to feel sick the next day. One year I decided I was going to eat sweet potatoes every day while creating balanced meals around this food to experience that one of my favorite
Thrive Through the Holidays and Decrease Binge Eating with Somatic Practices
Happy Satiated Saturday! For soooooo many years Thanksgiving meant restricting all day and eating all night beyond what was comfortable.I always thought it was about the food. That was all I focused on as the day got closer so it had to be about the food, right?If you're currently going through this experience, I'm here to let you know that the focus on food is not about the food. Focusi
How To Step Into Self Leadership and Grieve Past Selves with Pavini Moray
Happy Satiated Saturday! When you're struggling with binging or restricting, all the power can feel like it is in the food. Like the food has some captivating hold that no matter your best attempts to break it, nothing seems to work. Often this is because your food coping mechanisms aren't about the food. So the more focus there is on the food, the further away you might feel from the ro
The Physiological Connection Between Trauma, Digestive Issues, and the Vagus Nerve with Miriam Jacobson
Happy Satiated Saturday! As many of you know, this Somatic Eating® journey all started for me when I began to have severe digestive issues in my teenage years and early 20's. During that time, I was doing everything I could. I explored Ayurveda, cleansing, detoxing, the GAPS diet, the low FODMAP diet, I cut out gluten and dairy, and while some of these things helped or at least taught me some
The Truth About What It Means To Love Your Body and Eat What You Want with Dr. Alexis Conason
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