Satiated Podcast

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...

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...