Satiated Podcast

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Being around certain people and foods during the holidays can bring up all sorts of reactions. These family members and friends and food can be perceived as threatening to your well being and safety and so your body moves into a fight or flight response.  In this state, you might find yourself trying to gain control by restricting your intake and then binging later for yo...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I have said this before and I'll say it again. Your food behaviors are happening for a reason. Binging, restricting, chronic dieting, and body image concerns all come up to support you and satisfy a need that is not being met.  They are there to help you feel safe and in control.  And so, healing disordered eating or an eating disorder will mean addressing the root c...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Two decades ago, I was navigating being on and off diets, binge eating, emotionally eating, overexercising, and doing anything I could to run away from my body. My body was the place that was holding on to trauma and food was the answer to feeling regulated and safe.  On my journey to healing my relationship with food and body, I explored yoga, multiple different therapeu...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  When it got to a point where I felt like something needed to change with my patterns of binge eating, one of the steps I took was when I felt the urge to binge I would put on music and move my body.  At the time, I was living by myself in a small 1 bedroom apartment. I would put the music up as loud as I needed and move in ways that I probably would not do in front of oth...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Have you ever felt like there was an internal war playing out about your body and its appearance?  You have the thoughts that play out that judge and criticize your body. And then every now and then, you have another set of thoughts when you look in the mirror appreciating and liking your body. This can create the uncomfortable experience of cognitive dissonance where it...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Yoga was my first entry into the world of the mind body connection. Since my early 20's, I have been curious about the body and what other modalities are out there that help tap us into the wisdom of our body and learn how to communicate with it.  One of the interesting modalities that is out there is called EFT or Emotional Freedom Technique. It's also referred...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I have noticed a war between the body acceptance/body positivity movements and the lose weight/change your body movements.  I have even had those I work with me ask me, "If I want to change my body does that mean I don't love my body?"  It can feel really confusing and you're just trying to do the best you can to take care of you and your body. The tru...

Over the summer, I was interviewed by Raakhee Natha, who has her MS in journalism, over a decade of experience in behavior change, has certificates in Brain-based Coaching (ICF Accredited), NeuroLeadership, Mind Body Eating Coaching, and is writing a book.  She wanted to hear my thoughts on Body Wisdom, Somatic Nutrition and my creation of Somatic Eating™.  I loved this interview so much I wanted...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I spent years in patterns of binge eating and emotional eating. The healing path was messy and confusing. I figured out a lot on my own.  Part of what drove me to create the Satiated Podcast was that I never wanted anyone to feel like they needed to navigate this journey alone. I wanted to create a space for others on a similar adventure to receive baby steps in creating...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  As the movements of Health at Every Size and Body Positivity have grown, I have seen more and more confusion around how to have relationship with food.  I've found myself in so many conversations that if a person wants to challenge their body, change their body, change their weight, does that mean they're no longer a person who is appreciating their body? It can...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  We all have many parts of us. You have an inner child, an inner teenager, an inner perfectionist, an inner people pleaser, an inner worrier, and many more.  Your parts were created at a time when you needed them. They were trying to support you, protect you, and make sure you would be alright.  As you grow older, these parts show up when their beliefs about what will supp...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  For a long time, I would rather feel uncomfortably full than feel my emotions.  I would rather eat too much, than drop into my body.  I would rather feel so hungry that I couldn't feel anything at all.  When you're in the process of healing your relationship with food, often there can be an over focus on what is happening with food. Your relationship with food i...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I'm sitting here trying to find a way to express in words just how powerfully transformative it is to learn about your nervous system.  If you've been navigating patterns of binge eating or emotional eating and have tried every trick, tip, and strategy out there, the missing piece is learning about your nervous system and how your body lets you know what state i...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I would really like to say I'm a former People Pleaser, but that would just be a big lie. Instead, I would like to say that I've come to know the People Pleaser part of me and what they believe they would get from pleasing someone else.  There are a lot of reasons why people pleasing tendencies can get cultivated. It can be a response to trauma that gives you so...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I remember the first time a therapist assigned to me that I take myself out on a date. I spent the afternoon reading books in a local book store. I went to the movies by myself for the very first time. I bought myself dinner and ate it outside.  It was the first time I truly experienced enjoying my own company after years of running away from myself. There can be so much...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  When I was in the thick of my emotional eating and binge eating patterns, food was often used to check out instead of check in.  I would even wait days to check in with myself until I saw my therapist and then burst into tears expressing everything my body had been holding onto and then the pattern would repeat where all those emotions would build inside my body leading u...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  For many years of my life, I had a deep fear of gaining weight.  My body shape had been connected to my ability to find love and be loved.  My body had been connected to my worth.  My body had been connected to my ability to be liked. Does this sound familiar at all? What has your body shape been connected to? Where did you learn that having a thinner body would be better...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Have you ever felt like your patterns with food are all you have ever known? Like you can't remember a time when you weren't doing the eating behaviors that you would love to change? The Satisfaction Cycle is a concept that comes from Body Mind Centering and has impacted the field of Somatic Psychology. It describes how our developmental movement patterns influe...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  As I have been navigating some health issues for over a month now, I have been reflecting on what is health?  We're given a lot of different messages from diet culture or fitness culture around various different definitions of health. There are also many different kinds of health. Mental health. Physical health. Emotional health. Spiritual health.  Honestly, I don&ap...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  We are at that time of year where you may find yourself pulling out your summer clothing and having all sorts of judgments arise around clothes that perhaps don't fit anymore or needing to change your body to wear that bathing suit you want to wear at the beach.  The idea of a "summer body" or a "bikini body" is a creation of the diet and fitness...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I remember coming home from parties in my college years and binging on food. It was a fast, disembodied, deep longing experience. I felt emotionally malnourished. Emotional satiation can come from feeling attuned to, understood, connected, appreciated, and heard. When this isn't happening, food can be a placeholder for all you're desiring emotionally. In this we...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  When you feel the urge to binge or emotionally eat, it can feel like you have no other option but to do it. The urge to self-soothe with food can feel like someone else has inhabited your body, you have disappeared and taken a vacation somewhere else.  As you eat more and more and your body sensations grow of perhaps feeling bloated, uncomfortable, and overly full, is whe...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  In the process of writing my book on Somatic Eating™, I interviewed my mom about my food habits growing up. I was quite a "picky" eater. While plenty of different foods were offered to me, my favorite thing was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and buttered noodles. It's funny to reflect on this because as an adult, I have more of the philosophy of I'...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I went on my first diet when I was 13 years old. Weight Watchers. That single year of my life set up a decade of mistrust in my body.  Sound familiar? What was the first diet you went on? Weight Watchers? Whole 30? Jenny Craig? The Grapefruit Diet? Noom? Saying goodbye to dieting and diet culture takes time and practice. The fact that you're here already shows you ha...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I navigated patterns of binge eating for about a decade of my life. Decreasing these food behaviors took time, patience, and practice. It was messy. It was non-linear. It was intense and at times even fun.  I remember the first time I binged in front of my now husband and he looked at me with no judgment whatsoever and said, "well, how was that?"  You might be t...