Satiated Podcast

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...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I always knew my environment affected me and meeting my husband, Ethan who is in environmental design, brought that to a whole new level.  He looks up so much to see the structure of a building and the ceiling that even our dog Tato looks up as well.  Over the years, we've explored the intersection between architecture and our relationship with food. So I thought it...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Being stuck in patterns of binging, emotional eating, and yo yo dieting can feel all consuming. You're either trying to heal from the food patterns, immersed in the food patterns, or recovering from a recent episode of the food patterns.  I know when my binge eating was at its worst, I felt like I had tunnel vision. All I could focus on was trying to stop the binge e...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  There is ongoing confusion around body acceptance, how to live in a body and be at peace with it, and pressure that you need to figure out body appreciation all on your own. I personally don't believe in the saying, "you need to love yourself before anyone else can love you." I did NOT love my body when I met my husband over a decade ago. I was very open ab...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  In my early 20's, I used to get panic attacks. It's part of what led me to explore meditation to be able to befriend my body and make more space to sit with what is.  One of the very first suggestions I received to navigate panic attacks was to describe my environment. It was my first experience of a somatic concept called pendulation, where you acknowledge what...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I remember the first thing my parent's taught me how to cook in the kitchen. It was an omelet.  It was an amazing experience to take all these ingredients to form something delicious and that I was able to make for myself.  Over the years, I've felt incredible gratitude that there was a love of cooking and making recipes that have been passed down from generatio...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Here we are. Several hours left of 2022.  You may have started to feel the marketing from Wellness and Diet Culture already start to pick up steam and tomorrow is the day they've been waiting for.  There will be an increase in ads for diets, weight loss, detoxes, and cleanses. These ads will tap into your deepest fears about your body and this is why January needs to...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I have not engaged in a binge eating experience for over a decade now. But, prior to that, binge eating would come and go in my life. I would go through periods of binging and then utilize dieting as a way to put a stop to all of it. Of course, the binge eating would come back at some point because I had not addressed what was fueling my binging.  When I finally started t...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Have you felt that intense urge that going back on a diet would just solve everything? It may have felt that your needs, physically and emotionally, became too big and dieting would keep everything in check.  So you go on a diet, and for a while, you feel in control. All your needs can get shoved aside to only focus on the need to feel successful at this diet.  And the mo...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  The holidays can be one of the hardest times of year when it comes to food behaviors. Stuck in the restrict-binge cycle, so normalized around this time, it can be difficult to be in your body and fully present with those around you. Body image concerns, family, difficult conversations can make this a dysregulating time. And when you're trying to step off of the diet...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  When I was stuck in the restrict-binge cycle, Thanksgiving would be one of the times of the year I would allow myself to eat whatever I wanted in whatever quantity with no judgment afterward. The interesting thing I noticed was that I never ended up eating as much as I thought I would just by giving myself permission ahead of time to eat.  The relaxation I felt knowing I...