Satiated Podcast

Happy Satiated Saturday! Body hate is rampant all over the world. We judge our bodies, pick on them, tell them they should be different, underfeed them, and overexercise them. The messages we have received for a long time have been that we need to love our bodies and appreciate them to thrive in our lives.  If this strategy worked though, would we still be talking about how much we dislike our bod...

Happy Satiated Saturday! I first learned of the vagus nerve when I was researching for my published thesis, Cultivating a Relationship with the Gut Brain . Learning about this amazing wandering nerve in our body was a game-changer for me and optimizing my digestion.  The vagus nerve runs through our intestines, stomach, up into our lungs, heart, throat, esophagus, and into our brain. You can think...

Happy Satiated Saturday! We all have them. Those days where it just feels a little harder, a little more intense to be in a body. Everyone experiences "bad" body image days every now and then. I'm putting "bad" in parentheses because what I have discovered is these days actually have a lot to teach us. I want to reframe that these days don't have to be "bad.&quot...

Happy Satiated Saturday! Self care is quite a buzz word. Recommending self care is something that, at some point in time, may have been suggested to you by a friend, family member, even maybe a doctor or a wellness practitioner. When I enter into a dialogue with someone around their self care there is often this idea that self care is only defined by things like meditation or bubble baths, which m...

Happy Satiated Saturday! It was my Junior year of Undergrad. I was going to the University of Vermont that required we take two physical movement classes within your 4 years. I chose to take weight lifting. I was told that it was the easiest class to take even though I had never lifted weights before.  I did actually learn a lot about how to properly lift weights in that class but the class did no...

Happy Satiated Saturday! Nighttime used to be a difficult time of the day to navigate for me. I was GREAT when I was going going going all day long. Then nighttime would hit and all the emotions I didn't want to feel by keeping myself that busy were like, "Hey! Ya you! Are you going to pay attention to me now?" Nope! Instead here came my friend food to continue to run away from my e...

Happy Satiated Saturday! Those parts and pieces of yourself that you judge? Those parts of you can be deeply accepted and appreciated.  I know, I know. You might be saying, "No Stephanie. These parts of me, they deserve to be judged."  I want to offer a different approach to those parts of you that you feel like you need to hide. Interacting with your inner judger, criticizer, perfection...

Happy Satiated Saturday! I used to put a lot of pressure on every meal to get it "right." I had to make sure I ate something that didn't upset my sensitive digestive tract, supported me in feeling energetic, helped me stabilize my mood if I was cranky, replenished my body if I had physically moved, and on and on and on.  Wow!!! That is A LOT of expectations to have on one meal.  Our...

Happy Satiated Saturday! I like to think of our internal world like Knights of the Round Table. We have many different parts and pieces of us that make up the whole of who we are.  The more awareness we have around all of our parts, the more consciousness we can bring in around who is speaking up when and how to respond to these parts of ourselves in nourishing ways.  Each part of us also plays ou...

Happy Satiated Saturday! I truly believe that to heal anything in our lives the way OUT is THROUGH .  We need to go into the symptom, the habit, the pattern, the belief and we need to get into our body to hear the lessons we were meant to learn. For many that can be the scariest place to be. I know it was for me for a long period of time. I would have done anything to not be in my body.  I have bi...

Happy Satiated Saturday! What drives your food decisions?  Do you eat because you're hungry?  Do you eat because it is time?  Do you eat because you think you're supposed to?  Do you eat because you're committed to a certain routine?  Do you eat because you're bored, stressed, anxious, or worried? There are many many reasons why we eat.   What happens when we eat, for any reaso...

Happy Satiated Saturday! Wooohooo! It is 2021. Happy New Year to you. I'm excited to see what this new year brings forth for all of us.  Yesterday, it felt like a blast of social media posts from those in the anti-diet, health at every size, and body positivity movements screaming, "please do not go on a diet!"  We're now at that time of year where we're bombarded with com...

Happy Satiated Saturday! Do you know there are many Nutritional Phases we will go through in our lifetime? A year ago, I wrote about The Nutritional F#!K It Phase .  As we approach the new year, I wanted to dive a little deeper into a different kind of phase that many individuals can feel a pull toward as they enter into a new year. This phase is called The Nutritional Health Nut Phase. As with al...

Happy Satiated Saturday! You know the saying, "what we resist persists." I've been reflecting on this saying recently.  The thing about this statement is that if you're playing out a habit with your food or body that on some level you know isn't supporting you long term, you might feel shame or judgment for resisting changing the pattern. What this saying can instill is th...

Happy Satiated Saturday! One of the predominant thoughts going through my head throughout my 20's was, "I feel fat." Have you said this to yourself before? What does this statement mean to you? When have you said this to yourself? It is not just our thoughts that play a powerful effect on our ability to accept and appreciate ourselves, it is also our interpretation of our thoughts. ...

Happy Satiated Saturday! How long have you judged your body? 5? 10? 15? 20 years? More? I get it. It can take a really long time to step into body acceptance. We are in the act of healing body image as a culture. Think of how long you have received messages around how you're "supposed" to look? Think of how long you have been reading articles and magazines and emails telling you wha...

Happy Satiated Saturday! I'm here today to admit, I'm Stephanie and I'm a recovering People Pleaser. 🙃 I used to say yes to everything. I would often overextend myself and drain my own energy just to make sure you liked me.  That is really what is often at the core of people pleasing. There is a belief that if we're always there for everyone else we will be loved, accepted, ap...

Happy Satiated Saturday! Have you ever noticed how easy it is to play out familiar patterns when you're around your parents or family or the home you grew up in? Being around familiar people and environments spark our habitual responses that we may not even be conscious of what is happening. Creating these habits in familiar environments actually frees up our brain power. An environment that...

Happy Satiated Saturday! Have you ever said, "I've just got too much on my plate right now." How does it feel when you say this to yourself?  Does it calm you down or increase your stress and anxiety? This is such an interesting saying. We all understand how it feels to feel physically over full. To process the sensations of feeling overly full often just takes time as our body work...

Happy Satiated Saturday! I couldn't stop crying this morning. I didn't expect it. Once I heard the news that this United States will no longer be bombarded with disrespectful behavior from our own president, I cried. I cried for those voices who have not been heard for the past 4 years. I cried for those who have felt unsafe and unseen in this country. I cried for feeling renewed hope. ...

Happy Satiated Saturday! Daylight savings time, full moon, election season, pandemic, mercury in retrograde... We're navigating an intense time in the world right now. Have you been feeling tense, tight, and jittery lately? Do you feel this way at random moments in the day?  I wanted to offer something that you could listen to throughout this week (or whenever you need it) to guide your body...

Happy Satiated Saturday! Have you ever noticed that your relationship with food changes when self judgment increases? Perhaps the foods you choose to eat change or you notice you eat more or potentially stop eating at all. How we're interacting with our food can be a strong mirror reflecting back to us how we're interacting with ourselves. In this week’s episode, you will learn about DIS...

Happy Satiated Saturday! Growing up, my mom would make this amazing Taco Platter that became pretty famous in my family. It was made on many special occasions and had layers and layers of yummy goodness.  As a kid, I asked for this Taco Platter numerous times on birthday celebrations. Because this food became something that was only made every now and then, I always overate when it was offered. Un...

Happy Satiated Saturday! At the beginning of every podcast episode, I mention that I'm a Somatic Nutritional Counselor. Have you been wondering what that is? In this week’s episode, I explain what Somatic Psychotherapy and Somatic Nutrition is and how this approach to your food and body can be so incredibly healing.  You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here .  I know this...

Happy Satiated Saturday! What have you been taught around self care?  Is it selfish?  Are you "supposed" to spend every hour of every day supporting everyone around you?  If you engage in self care acts do you feel guilty?  Does it feel uncomfortable? In this week’s episode, I'm sharing tricks to my self care routine that you can use to support in creating your own satiating self ca...