Satiated Podcast

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 w...

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 meals Moving your body in nourishing ways Taking time to breathe and enjoy a moment Fostering a validating inner dialogue  Finding ways...

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 s...

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 brough...

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 pla...

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 wee...

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...

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...

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. ...

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 sh...

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 oft...

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 wor...

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 restrict...

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 t...

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...

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&apo...

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...

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 favori...

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.  Fo...

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...

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 so...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  It has become this norm that we "should" all be trying to lose weight all the time. And because of this, of course, you would want to lose weight. Your body seeks attunement with other bodies.  When everyone around you is also trying to lose weight, your body interprets this as the path to safety and connection. Releasing the need to change your body’s weight ca...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Have you ever wondered why your friend can seem to eat a piece of chocolate like it's no big deal and move on with their life while you sit in agony over eating one piece, wanting more, and feeling like you're in a battle with yourself about not binging on chocolate?  We receive all these stories about what that means from family, friends, and culture. You may s...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I've been reading more research than I have in years because of my PhD and it is connecting so many dots.  Research confirming how much changes in your body due to trauma. Research showing the connection between brain alterations after a traumatic event that fuels your food behaviors. Research revealing not only is what and when you eat a reaction to what is happenin...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Satiated Podcast is back!!!!  One thing you're going to receive in the upcoming interviews is more exploration of nutrition. When I went through my Master's Degree in Somatic Psychotherapy, I was consistently surprised that there was no class on nutrition. This feels like a missing piece in the therapeutic world. I feel therapists would benefit from being aware...