Satiated Podcast

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Has anyone ever told you to just stop your emotional eating and binge eating? Like that's the easiest thing to do is to just stop.  I get so frustrated when I hear these stories. I know that the #1 thing you would want to stop in your life are these patterns.  We have to shift the dialogue that these food behaviors are not about willpower, they are not a sign of weak...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I'm Jewish. Some of you may know this. Some of you may not. While I would like to imagine this wouldn't change anyone's perception about who I am, for some individuals meaning is made for them out of this information.  So as a desire grew to talk about the connection between religion and disordered eating patterns, I noticed and observed some fear arise tal...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I remember the first time I read Julia Ross's book The Mood Cure in 2009. It was the first time learning that what I was eating and when I was eating affected how I felt in my body. Since then, the field of Mental Health Nutrition has exploded as more information has emerged on how our hormones, neurotransmitters, and stress affect our relationship with food. In this...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  When I was in the process of healing my gut from severe digestive pain, I had to do a lot of food experiments. This included taking out some foods I suspected were correlated with the digestive pain I was experiencing and noticing and observing if I felt any different.  These food experiments were crucial to deeply understand my body and what my symptoms were trying to te...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I remember the period of time when I stopped dieting, quit following diet culture, and removed myself from the whole dieting world. I'll be honest, it was messy!  The thing is the rules and regulations of dieting can create a sense of safety that you're doing something "right" and you're in control. When you have potentially been relying on a diet...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I remember a time in my life when I lived across the street from a gym. This was a time when I was diving deeper into my own personal growth and healing, working with a somatic therapist, and binging regularly to try to regulate as looking at these dark things in my life was not easy.  I would eat to the point of feeling so uncomfortably full I couldn't attend to or...

Happy Satiated Saturday! At my undergraduate school, I was required to take 2 physical movement/gym classes as one of the requirements to graduate.  I despised gym class growing up. I was always last on any run, could never climb a rope, and hand eye coordination to hit a volleyball was never my strong suit.  I heard through some friends that the weight lifting class was the easiest class to take....

Happy Satiated Saturday!  This upcoming week is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.  The National Eating Disorder Association lists the warning signs of an Eating Disorder as: Preoccupation with weight, food, calories, dieting, and/or body image. Development of abnormal, secretive, extreme, or ritualized food or eating habits. Withdrawal from usual friends and activities. Evidence of binge ea...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Body trust can get disrupted for many reasons often beginning at a young age.  I know for myself, my body trust was gone the moment I went on my first diet at 13 years old. For the next decade of my life, hunger and satiation cues were drowned out by numbers and by shoulds and shouldn'ts. If you paused right now and asked yourself honestly, do you trust your body? Wh...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  How have you been enjoying the podcast guests so far? I would love to hear your reactions and insights. Respond back to this email with any new pieces of wisdom that have been cultivated for you. And, if there is a specific topic you would like explored with a specific guest, reach out anytime and let me know.  And exciting news! Satiated Podcast has a new look. Thrilled...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I truly believe our bodies love being in movement. Yet, movement or exercise has become synonyms with losing weight and changing our bodies. This has made it that physical movement is now either worth it or not worth it, beneficial or pointless, effective or ineffective. ALL movement can be supportive to the body, even if you're just sitting in a chair swaying to mus...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  This episode of the Satiated Podcast we're going deep! I talk with Lauren Merklin, who is a fat Anti Diet Coach for women. She helps women unlearn diet culture and fatphobia, to live beyond the scale and view their body as an ally instead of an enemy.  Lauren's passionate about creating a safe space for women, especially plus size, to heal away from diet culture...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  This past year, the Satiated Podcast has doubled its number of downloads. We're growing and it's exciting! With growth comes change.  There are so many incredible practitioners out there with a similar passion to support you in your relationship with your food and body, challenge diet culture, and support you in cultivating a deeper connection with yourself. I w...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  What have you connected with the holiday season?  Has this time of year been connected with an increase in stress, financial concerns, family wounds, loneliness or perhaps connection, gratitude, giving, traditions, and rituals?  When the holiday you celebrate starts to get closer and closer, how do you feel in your body? As New Year's Day approaches what comes up for...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  When healing your relationship with food, often healing your relationship with your emotions, and feeling safe in your body, needs to be attended to. This can be a journey that takes time and, on this adventure, food can be consciously utilized as a co-regulator.  Co-regulation occurs when in relationship with another human being. Their nervous system affects your nervous...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  The first form of love you receive in life is often from food.  Being fed as a baby provides attunement, regulation, soothing, and being held, seen, and cared for. For the rest of life, food can then be connected to am I safe, seen, and heard. It makes sense that if you're not feeling these things as an adult, food would then come in to provide you with what you&apos...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  In the US, we just celebrated Thanksgiving, the day where restricting your intake all day and then overeating and binge eating is normalized as something you just do on this holiday.  The day after a holiday, after potentially eating a lot of food, there may be an urge to not eat. This impulse can arise for many reasons. Some may be: Still feeling full the morning after W...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Attachment theory explores the relationship between a parent and child and how that relationship affects future development and behavior. Insecure attachment has been found in many research studies to be connected with higher rates of disordered eating.  Your attachment style can reveal itself in how you relate with others and can also show up in your relationship with fo...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  How old were you when you started to choose food to self soothe? Sometimes this can happen later in life and what I often hear with those that I work with is that it started very young. The overeating, emotional eating, binge eating, undereating, restriction all came into your younger you's life for a reason.  And what plays out in your relationship with food during...

Happy Satiated Saturday! Thanksgiving is my mother's favorite holiday. She loves food, cooking, gathering, and feeding others. Like many, we have our Thanksgiving dish staples that she makes every single year. One of those is sweet potato casserole.  When I met my husband, we began alternating which family we would spend Thanksgiving with. Something I started noticing is the years I would spe...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Binge eating​ is different than emotional eating and overeating. We all overeat and eat to emotionally self soothe at times. Binging includes eating a large amount of food, often very quickly, and to the point of feeling uncomfortable. ​Binging can feel confusing and disorienting.  Today, let's reframe that binging is happening for a reason. It is there to protect yo...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I loved everything about Halloween growing up. I loved dressing up. I loved going out with my family and friends. I loved watching movies and eating candy with them afterward. There is an amazing picture of me after my first Halloween asleep in bed with my plastic pumpkin full of candy next to me because I didn't want my brothers to steal it.  Have you ever noticed t...

Happy Satiated Saturday!   My husband and I bought an airstream over a year ago. Right now, we're on our second trip driving across the United States. So far we have driven through Montana, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, North Carolina, Maryland, New York, and Vermont. Next up is Massachusetts and Connecticut. We have been on the road for about a month now and currently seeing some ama...

Happy Satiated Saturday!   I have seen over the years when healing your relationship with food, there is a point many realize when it's not really about the food anymore.  The focus on what, when, and how you're eating came in as protection. This protection was keeping you safe from addressing other areas, beliefs, perspectives that may have felt too emotionally intense to look at where...

Happy Satiated Saturday!   I want you to imagine eating a meal in a loud, bustling restaurant. Notice how you feel in your body.  Now imagine your eating at a quaint quiet cottage. Again, notice how you feel.  Imagine you're eating a meal standing up at the sink. Now imagine you're eating a meal in your favorite part of your home.  Notice the different sensations that arose through these...