Satiated Podcast

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I always knew my environment affected me and meeting my husband, Ethan who is in environmental design, brought that to a whole new level.  He looks up so much to see the structure of a building and the ceiling that even our dog Tato looks up as well.  Over the years, we've explored the intersection between architecture and our relationship with food. So I thought it...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Being stuck in patterns of binging, emotional eating, and yo yo dieting can feel all consuming. You're either trying to heal from the food patterns, immersed in the food patterns, or recovering from a recent episode of the food patterns.  I know when my binge eating was at its worst, I felt like I had tunnel vision. All I could focus on was trying to stop the binge e...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  There is ongoing confusion around body acceptance, how to live in a body and be at peace with it, and pressure that you need to figure out body appreciation all on your own. I personally don't believe in the saying, "you need to love yourself before anyone else can love you." I did NOT love my body when I met my husband over a decade ago. I was very open ab...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  In my early 20's, I used to get panic attacks. It's part of what led me to explore meditation to be able to befriend my body and make more space to sit with what is.  One of the very first suggestions I received to navigate panic attacks was to describe my environment. It was my first experience of a somatic concept called pendulation, where you acknowledge what...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I remember the first thing my parent's taught me how to cook in the kitchen. It was an omelet.  It was an amazing experience to take all these ingredients to form something delicious and that I was able to make for myself.  Over the years, I've felt incredible gratitude that there was a love of cooking and making recipes that have been passed down from generatio...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Here we are. Several hours left of 2022.  You may have started to feel the marketing from Wellness and Diet Culture already start to pick up steam and tomorrow is the day they've been waiting for.  There will be an increase in ads for diets, weight loss, detoxes, and cleanses. These ads will tap into your deepest fears about your body and this is why January needs to...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I have not engaged in a binge eating experience for over a decade now. But, prior to that, binge eating would come and go in my life. I would go through periods of binging and then utilize dieting as a way to put a stop to all of it. Of course, the binge eating would come back at some point because I had not addressed what was fueling my binging.  When I finally started t...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Have you felt that intense urge that going back on a diet would just solve everything? It may have felt that your needs, physically and emotionally, became too big and dieting would keep everything in check.  So you go on a diet, and for a while, you feel in control. All your needs can get shoved aside to only focus on the need to feel successful at this diet.  And the mo...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  The holidays can be one of the hardest times of year when it comes to food behaviors. Stuck in the restrict-binge cycle, so normalized around this time, it can be difficult to be in your body and fully present with those around you. Body image concerns, family, difficult conversations can make this a dysregulating time. And when you're trying to step off of the diet...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  When I was stuck in the restrict-binge cycle, Thanksgiving would be one of the times of the year I would allow myself to eat whatever I wanted in whatever quantity with no judgment afterward. The interesting thing I noticed was that I never ended up eating as much as I thought I would just by giving myself permission ahead of time to eat.  The relaxation I felt knowing I...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Being around certain people and foods during the holidays can bring up all sorts of reactions. These family members and friends and food can be perceived as threatening to your well being and safety and so your body moves into a fight or flight response.  In this state, you might find yourself trying to gain control by restricting your intake and then binging later for yo...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I have said this before and I'll say it again. Your food behaviors are happening for a reason. Binging, restricting, chronic dieting, and body image concerns all come up to support you and satisfy a need that is not being met.  They are there to help you feel safe and in control.  And so, healing disordered eating or an eating disorder will mean addressing the root c...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Two decades ago, I was navigating being on and off diets, binge eating, emotionally eating, overexercising, and doing anything I could to run away from my body. My body was the place that was holding on to trauma and food was the answer to feeling regulated and safe.  On my journey to healing my relationship with food and body, I explored yoga, multiple different therapeu...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  When it got to a point where I felt like something needed to change with my patterns of binge eating, one of the steps I took was when I felt the urge to binge I would put on music and move my body.  At the time, I was living by myself in a small 1 bedroom apartment. I would put the music up as loud as I needed and move in ways that I probably would not do in front of oth...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Have you ever felt like there was an internal war playing out about your body and its appearance?  You have the thoughts that play out that judge and criticize your body. And then every now and then, you have another set of thoughts when you look in the mirror appreciating and liking your body. This can create the uncomfortable experience of cognitive dissonance where it...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Yoga was my first entry into the world of the mind body connection. Since my early 20's, I have been curious about the body and what other modalities are out there that help tap us into the wisdom of our body and learn how to communicate with it.  One of the interesting modalities that is out there is called EFT or Emotional Freedom Technique. It's also referred...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I have noticed a war between the body acceptance/body positivity movements and the lose weight/change your body movements.  I have even had those I work with me ask me, "If I want to change my body does that mean I don't love my body?"  It can feel really confusing and you're just trying to do the best you can to take care of you and your body. The tru...

Over the summer, I was interviewed by Raakhee Natha, who has her MS in journalism, over a decade of experience in behavior change, has certificates in Brain-based Coaching (ICF Accredited), NeuroLeadership, Mind Body Eating Coaching, and is writing a book.  She wanted to hear my thoughts on Body Wisdom, Somatic Nutrition and my creation of Somatic Eating™.  I loved this interview so much I wanted...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I spent years in patterns of binge eating and emotional eating. The healing path was messy and confusing. I figured out a lot on my own.  Part of what drove me to create the Satiated Podcast was that I never wanted anyone to feel like they needed to navigate this journey alone. I wanted to create a space for others on a similar adventure to receive baby steps in creating...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  As the movements of Health at Every Size and Body Positivity have grown, I have seen more and more confusion around how to have relationship with food.  I've found myself in so many conversations that if a person wants to challenge their body, change their body, change their weight, does that mean they're no longer a person who is appreciating their body? It can...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  We all have many parts of us. You have an inner child, an inner teenager, an inner perfectionist, an inner people pleaser, an inner worrier, and many more.  Your parts were created at a time when you needed them. They were trying to support you, protect you, and make sure you would be alright.  As you grow older, these parts show up when their beliefs about what will supp...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  For a long time, I would rather feel uncomfortably full than feel my emotions.  I would rather eat too much, than drop into my body.  I would rather feel so hungry that I couldn't feel anything at all.  When you're in the process of healing your relationship with food, often there can be an over focus on what is happening with food. Your relationship with food i...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I'm sitting here trying to find a way to express in words just how powerfully transformative it is to learn about your nervous system.  If you've been navigating patterns of binge eating or emotional eating and have tried every trick, tip, and strategy out there, the missing piece is learning about your nervous system and how your body lets you know what state i...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I would really like to say I'm a former People Pleaser, but that would just be a big lie. Instead, I would like to say that I've come to know the People Pleaser part of me and what they believe they would get from pleasing someone else.  There are a lot of reasons why people pleasing tendencies can get cultivated. It can be a response to trauma that gives you so...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I remember the first time a therapist assigned to me that I take myself out on a date. I spent the afternoon reading books in a local book store. I went to the movies by myself for the very first time. I bought myself dinner and ate it outside.  It was the first time I truly experienced enjoying my own company after years of running away from myself. There can be so much...