Satiated Podcast

Happy Satiated Saturday!  The first form of love you receive in life is often from food.  Being fed as a baby provides attunement, regulation, soothing, and being held, seen, and cared for. For the rest of life, food can then be connected to am I safe, seen, and heard. It makes sense that if you're not feeling these things as an adult, food would then come in to provide you with what you&apos...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  In the US, we just celebrated Thanksgiving, the day where restricting your intake all day and then overeating and binge eating is normalized as something you just do on this holiday.  The day after a holiday, after potentially eating a lot of food, there may be an urge to not eat. This impulse can arise for many reasons. Some may be: Still feeling full the morning after W...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Attachment theory explores the relationship between a parent and child and how that relationship affects future development and behavior. Insecure attachment has been found in many research studies to be connected with higher rates of disordered eating.  Your attachment style can reveal itself in how you relate with others and can also show up in your relationship with fo...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  How old were you when you started to choose food to self soothe? Sometimes this can happen later in life and what I often hear with those that I work with is that it started very young. The overeating, emotional eating, binge eating, undereating, restriction all came into your younger you's life for a reason.  And what plays out in your relationship with food during...

Happy Satiated Saturday! Thanksgiving is my mother's favorite holiday. She loves food, cooking, gathering, and feeding others. Like many, we have our Thanksgiving dish staples that she makes every single year. One of those is sweet potato casserole.  When I met my husband, we began alternating which family we would spend Thanksgiving with. Something I started noticing is the years I would spe...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Binge eating​ is different than emotional eating and overeating. We all overeat and eat to emotionally self soothe at times. Binging includes eating a large amount of food, often very quickly, and to the point of feeling uncomfortable. ​Binging can feel confusing and disorienting.  Today, let's reframe that binging is happening for a reason. It is there to protect yo...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I loved everything about Halloween growing up. I loved dressing up. I loved going out with my family and friends. I loved watching movies and eating candy with them afterward. There is an amazing picture of me after my first Halloween asleep in bed with my plastic pumpkin full of candy next to me because I didn't want my brothers to steal it.  Have you ever noticed t...

Happy Satiated Saturday!   My husband and I bought an airstream over a year ago. Right now, we're on our second trip driving across the United States. So far we have driven through Montana, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, North Carolina, Maryland, New York, and Vermont. Next up is Massachusetts and Connecticut. We have been on the road for about a month now and currently seeing some ama...

Happy Satiated Saturday!   I have seen over the years when healing your relationship with food, there is a point many realize when it's not really about the food anymore.  The focus on what, when, and how you're eating came in as protection. This protection was keeping you safe from addressing other areas, beliefs, perspectives that may have felt too emotionally intense to look at where...

Happy Satiated Saturday!   I want you to imagine eating a meal in a loud, bustling restaurant. Notice how you feel in your body.  Now imagine your eating at a quaint quiet cottage. Again, notice how you feel.  Imagine you're eating a meal standing up at the sink. Now imagine you're eating a meal in your favorite part of your home.  Notice the different sensations that arose through these...

Happy Satiated Saturday!   Food is often the first form of love we receive as a baby from a parent or caretaker. While you're being fed, often there is eye contact, touch, and nourishment. This can leave a baby feeling heard, seen, acknowledged, loved, and cared for. Emotional and physical hungers are being satiated at the same time. This can lead to the signals for emotional and physical hun...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  FOMO was first popularized in 2004 and means fear of missing out. FOMO can play out in our relationship with food as the fear of missing out on tastes, textures, certain foods around specific times of year, or the pleasure from a food. Often, the moment of Food FOMO has little to do with the food itself and more to do with the attachment and meaning we have put on that fo...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  You're hungry. You recognize your body needs food. You have taken all the best steps before your meal. You checked in with yourself. You asked your body what foods might feel most supportive to it. You made your meal or ordered it at a restaurant. You chose what you thought would feel satisfying to your body and then you start eating and something about the food is j...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  We have many different parts of us. These inner parts of us all feel as though they are serving us in some way. When in relationship with food, it can be supportive to get curious about who's choosing your food, who's doing the eating, what is that part of you desiring to receive from food, where do they live in your body, and what does it feel like when they sh...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  It's the morning. You're feeling a new resolve that today is the day you're going to have the most joyous and smoothest day with food. You feel calm and connected and feel like you know what you need to do to make new food decisions.  Breakfast is a breeze and you continue on with your day. As the hours tick by, you start to notice familiar urges arise. Sud...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  It was my first year of Graduate School and my first time living by myself in my own apartment. I was experimenting with applying the somatic tools I was learning in relationship with food. Up until that point in time, I had also labeled foods as good or bad, something that if you have been with me for a while I'm very clear now that there are no good or bad foods. ...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  When I was 21 years old, I was sick and tired of being in severe digestive pain. Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis runs in my family. To make sure I wasn't going down the same path I went in for a colonoscopy and endoscopy to check out what might be going on inside.  The great news was that everything looked perfect. The confusing news was being diagnosed w...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  On July 27th, 2021 Simone Biles, stepped up to do her vaulting routine at the Olympics. Mid-air, she got what gymnasts call the twisties when your brain feels disconnected from your body. She luckily landed safely on the ground.  Immediately after, she left the room and came back to announce she was pulling out of the Olympics. Simone Biles is known for performing some of...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  About 45 million Americans go on a diet each year. The diet industry instills the message that if you just follow them perfectly you will obtain everything you desire.  It's kind of like a romantic movie where the couple finally ends up together in the end but what happens after that?  What happens after you lose the weight?  Is that way of eating feel sustainable? ...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I remember a time where I thought if I just figured out what to eat and how to move my body all the symptoms I was experiencing would be healed. I'll give a sneak peak into the future...food and movement contributed to less than 50% of what needed to be attended to for healing to occur. If you have been here for awhile, you have maybe learned quite a lot about satiat...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  You will have many different kinds of relationships throughout your life. Friends, intimate relationships, mentors, teachers, coaches. Every relationship will teach you something about you, about what you deserve, about what you desire. We can apply the same idea to our relationship with food.  You will not have just one kind of relationship with food throughout your life...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I started off this week's episode with the intent to discuss how to tell when you're satiated to stop eating. One research study, led me to another, led me to another. Suddenly, I no longer felt like I could make the experience of satiation come across as simple. There are just so many factors that can actually affect what supports you in feeling satisfied at th...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Are you confused about the difference between emotional eating, overeating, and binge eating? These terms are often used interchangeably and yet they actually have very different characteristics.  Understanding the difference between these ways of eating can offer more personal awareness around what might be happening for you physically or emotionally in how you're s...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  We have been living in a time where we have been more isolated than ever. This past year we have been told to stay away from one another, stay in our homes, and socially distance. Physical distance may have been necessary, yet social connection was and is more important than ever. Dr. Porges, who created the Polyvagal Theory says, “We as humans seek safety, and this feeli...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Think about the last thing you learned. Maybe it was learning how to cook something new or trying out a new physical movement or practicing showing up for yourself or others in a new way. We often start out learning how to do something with little confidence. This thing you were learning is new and that means it is new to your body.  Yet, how often do you hold yourself ba...