Satiated Podcast

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Something I've noticed lately in the field of disordered eating recovery is that everyone has their beliefs on what they think is the optimal path you've got to start with to heal.  For example, the approach that you need to be able to eat all foods can sometimes push you further away from your body as now you're following a rule that you need to be able to...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Sometimes I feel like the aftermath of a binge is a more intense moment to manage than the binge itself.  Afterward is when all the shame, harsh internal criticism, and self-judgment come in. The inner dialogue is loud and mean.  This can send you in all sorts of directions, making promises you know will feel hard to keep, and engaging in compensatory actions that don&apo...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  The field of somatics has revolutionized trauma healing by bringing a greater understanding of the mind-body connection and the role of the body in trauma recovery. Traditionally, trauma healing focused primarily on addressing the psychological and cognitive aspects of trauma, often neglecting the physiological and somatic manifestations of trauma in the body.  Somatics,...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  While the field of somatics is the study of the body, we cannot understand the body without its connection and integration with the mind.  The field of somatics has evolved from what we have discovered from neuroscience.  In this week’s episode, we explore some fascinating realms of neuroscience such as affective neuroscience, somatic markers, polyvagal theory, and much m...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  You may hear bodywork and think of massages. Yet, hands-on bodywork can be so much more than this. Physical touch can be therapeutic in that it has a calming effect on the nervous system, helps to reduce stress, and promote physical relaxation.  It can lower heart rate, blood pressure, cortisol levels, and supports the body with entering into a state of deep relaxation an...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  There were two tracks at my graduate school in Somatic Psychotherapy. One was the Body Psychotherapy track, which is what I took, and the other was Dance Movement Therapy (DMT). The classes that I was able to take in DMT sometimes made me wish I had chosen that track of studies.  The fitness culture has warped our beliefs around the purpose of movement. I've had clie...

Happy Satiated Sunday!  I'm so excited for you to listen to the first episode on the history of somatics.  It is fascinating to see just how far we've come in the world of somatics. When the idea that the body has wisdom to offer was first introduced, some of the original pioneers of somatics came out with some wild ideas.  In this week’s episode, we will explore 7 pioneers who created a...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I will be brief here except to share that I'm excited about a new mini-series on the podcast. In this week’s episode, I'll share with you the inspiration behind this series and what we will explore for the next several episodes. You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here : https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/introduction-to-the-history-of-somati...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I explore a lot here on the nervous system dysregulation, trauma impacts, and emotional reasons that binge eating can occur.  Yet, sometimes, binge eating has more to do with physical imbalances that have nothing to do with your emotional body. Or, as you cultivate more regulation and safety in your system, the physical realm is just as important to address as the emotion...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  For the first about 20 years of my life, I experienced my body as the enemy. I did battle with it. I numbed out to it. I didn't know how to listen to it.  It felt overwhelming, unexpected, and uncontrollable.  I know it's going to sound incredibly cliché, but being introduced to yoga helped me to start experiencing my body as wise. I read book after book on yoga...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  It took me about a decade to heal patterns of disordered eating. I've had about every comment made on my body during that time. Whether I was too thin, whether I'd gained weight, what I was eating, how much I was eating, and on and on.  A very important part of healing your relationship with food is learning the skills that food was trying to help you with. This...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  It's been a slow awakening for me over the years to realize that food can only take me so far.  Before I embraced my sensitivities, I thought that if I could just practice every "self care" thing, like eating perfectly, getting outside, socializing, moving my body regularly, that I could "fix" the sensitive body I was born with.  What I have seen...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  How many people have you told about your challenges with food? Have you let anyone know about your patterns of binge eating, emotional eating, restricting, and struggles with your body image? Toxic shame, the kind of shame that leaves you feeling like you're worthless, breeds in the darkness. The longer food and body coping mechanisms are kept out of the light of oth...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  There are many many approaches to navigating a harsh internal critic. With myself and those I work with, I like to teach to see it as a part of you that is saying such cruel things because it's trying to get your attention. Often even negative attention is still attention.  Once you've heard this part out, then you can explore what it needs, how it's feelin...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I have so so many memories around clothing store fitting rooms. The most interesting thing to do where I grew up in Connecticut was often to go to the mall with friends. Laughing, crying, and feeling stuck on the floor in despair all occurred within the walls of a fitting room.  We learn that clothes have meaning from a young age. The size we can fit into becomes symbolic...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I've had many nights where I was at the gym at 11:00 pm or early mornings where I was at the gym by 5:00 am. My overexercising started in high school and ramped up through college.  After a binge eating experience was unsuccessful at supporting me in feeling regulated, I would head off to the gym and walk and walk and walk. Sweaty and exhausted, I would either get re...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I have a very special guest with me today on the podcast.  A little backstory first, I was chatting with a previous guest on the podcast a few months ago about my brother in law, who is a farmer and consultant to companies with natural climate solutions. He is passionate about teaching others on soil, food and the health of our environment.  After mentioning what he does,...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  The first time I went to therapy I was a senior in high school. I'm incredibly grateful that my first therapeutic experience was deeply beneficial and I worked with someone that was a great match for me at the time.  At the end of our work together, she gave me a journal. Inside she wrote a note that said:  For Stephanie: To keep track of all your thoughts, dreams, w...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  In my early 20's, I went on a journey to heal my gut. After years of being in pain, I got a colonoscopy and endoscopy completed to check to make sure I didn't have a digestive disorder.  The only thing the doctor prescribed me with at the time was IBS or Irritable Bowel Syndrome and told me to watch my triggers and that was it. I felt frustrated and confused. An...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  When I was diving deeper into healing my relationship with food, my therapist at the time suggested I read   Eating in the Light of the Moon   by Anita Johnston.  I was living by myself for the first time, trying to practice slowing down, and enjoying spending time with myself. I would do this through snuggling up on my couch and picking up this book.  Not only is it an a...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  If I look back on my healing journey and the paths of those I have worked with, I see similar themes. It can all start with some kind of trauma and insecure attachment in childhood that created dysregulation in the body. To manage that, a focus on food and body image came in. It can feel like the dieting, exercising, and hyper focus on your food and body are giving you so...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  It's truly amazing how many body based healing modalities are out there now.  I've been involved in the somatic world way before somatics was "in" and cool. Most of my family probably thought I was going into some fake psychotherapy degree, but as soon as I read the description of the classes, I knew that was the path for me. I came in to my somatic ps...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  As I move closer to my 40's, I've noticed many changes in my body. A few more gray hairs. Some distinguishing wisdom wrinkles.  I'm excited to see that the changes a woman's body goes through in her life is becoming more openly discussed and normalized. Your body is going to change as you transition from your menstrual years, to peri-menopause, and int...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Have you ever called your patterns of binge eating, emotional eating, restricting, yo-yo dieting self sabotage?  The idea of self sabotage means that you're doing something to block your success. I want to reframe that you are NOT getting in your own way when you play out your familiar food coping mechanisms again and again and again.  Defining them as self sabotage...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I started practicing yoga when I was 20 years old. It was the first practice I had ever engaged in that brought me closer into my body.  We often get these messages that embodiment practices will help us with mindfulness and find inner peace. But, the truth is that the act of doing something to bring you closer into your body can feel intense.  Food can often come in to s...