Satiated Podcast

Happy Satiated Saturday!  More and more adults in the U.S. are being diagnosed with adult ADHD. For many with adult ADHD, there is an overlap in struggling in their relationship with food. The impulsiveness that comes with ADHD can lead to binge eating or emotional eating behaviors and the time blindness can lead to restriction as a person forgets to eat which can spark the restrict-binge cycle. ...

Happy Satiated Sunday!  With my feeling word of 2024 being vulnerable, this will be one of the most vulnerable things I've put out since starting the Satiated Podcast.  I often share stories of the distant past and rarely share what's currently going on in my life or what I'm navigating. Yet, it is my life experiences that have cultivated so much of my wisdom and so I'll be sha...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  This holiday season, I've been offering the somatic resources I wish I'd had when I was healing my relationship with my food and body and one's that I've discovered along the way.  Holidays had always brought up so much for me emotionally that I found myself binging or restricting to try to manage all of the emotions and sensations arising in my body. ...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  What does the holiday season mean to you? What memories do you have around this time of year? The holiday season can be associated with warmth, joy, and togetherness. However, when you've experienced past trauma with family or in the environment you grew up in, this time of year can be a source of stress, triggering your body's survival states. This can also be...

Happy Satiated Saturday! As a kid, you couldn't get me to move. My mom tried to put me in dance and gymnastics and while I enjoyed both, neither stuck. I tried soccer and tennis. In soccer, I ended up kicking the ball to my best friend who was on the other team. In tennis, my favorite part was walking through the tunnels at the back of the indoor court.  The joy of moving started to come in w...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I remember when I started to really slow down with my food.  I would imagine where all the pieces of my meal came from to end up on my plate to support me in feeling vibrant in my body. I would picture the seed, the soil, the sun, the rain, and all of the people who tended to this food. It was an incredibly powerful experience.  Consuming a meal present in your body can b...

Happy Satiated Sunday!  I have often found the days after Thanksgiving to be harder than the days leading up.  The days leading up, you may have had an inner planner making all of these strategies for you about what you were or were not going to eat, how you were going to respond to different people, what you were going to practice differently this year. Then, you go through the actual holiday. To...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  With Thanksgiving right around the corner, this is a time when food coping mechanisms can increase.  Thanksgiving has become a Hallmark holiday of family peacefully gathering around a table to express their gratitude for each other while eating a beautifully cooked meal.  When in reality, it can be filled with dysregulating conversation, overwhelming environments, and soc...

Happy Satiated Sunday!  I grew up with certain family members always making comments on other's appearance. I know very well how frustrating it can feel to constantly have your body talked about or be around people who talk about other's bodies as if this is a normal thing that we do.  During the holiday season, receiving or hearing comments about what you’re eating or how you look can p...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  There is a reason that processed foods can create a perceived sense of safety in your body. You can rely on processed foods. They’re consistent. They’re unwavering. They show up for you and taste exactly the same every. single. time. When you’ve experienced trauma, processed foods can provide you with short term security that you’re needing to feel like there’s some order...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Halloween candy was so important to me from a young age that on my very first Halloween I fell asleep with my plastic pumpkin full of candy next to me.  There can be so much emotionally connected to candy. There can be joyful memories, regulating experiences with friends, and pleasure from eating it. And when you've been in a binge-restrict cycle, candy can bring up...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  “WHO is choosing your food?” is one of the most powerful questions you can ask yourself when trying to cultivate an empowering and regulating relationship with food. Your internalized mother, father, siblings, family, teachers, culture can be choosing your food at any meal instead of your present day self. It’s important to get to know your internal voices to distinguish...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I'll be honest, this first episode back of the Satiated Podcast is going to be an edgy one.  I chat with my dear friend Michelle Shapiro and we dive deep into, not only challenging diet culture but also anti-diet culture.  I invited her back on the podcast because I kept seeing this divide happening that a person is either following the "rules" of diet cult...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I really got to see my nervous system in action this past week. I spilled a whole bowl of soup onto myself, the couch, the floor, and into my computer. My body went into a freeze response, which took about 24 hours to come out of. During that time, I had very little appetite and it made me reflect on other times of my life where the trauma response felt so big in my body...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I remember the first time I had a mindful eating experience. I was in an all day meditation class and we did the raisin exercise. This is a practice of taking a single raisin and feeling it in your fingers, smelling it, putting it up to your ear, and listening to it crinkle before eating it to bring in all of your senses. Then, very slowly eating the raisin to actually ta...

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...