Satiated Podcast

Happy Satiated Saturday!   Food is often the first form of love we receive as a baby from a parent or caretaker. While you're being fed, often there is eye contact, touch, and nourishment. This can leave a baby feeling heard, seen, acknowledged, loved, and cared for. Emotional and physical hungers are being satiated at the same time. This can lead to the signals for emotional and physical hun...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  FOMO was first popularized in 2004 and means fear of missing out. FOMO can play out in our relationship with food as the fear of missing out on tastes, textures, certain foods around specific times of year, or the pleasure from a food. Often, the moment of Food FOMO has little to do with the food itself and more to do with the attachment and meaning we have put on that fo...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  You're hungry. You recognize your body needs food. You have taken all the best steps before your meal. You checked in with yourself. You asked your body what foods might feel most supportive to it. You made your meal or ordered it at a restaurant. You chose what you thought would feel satisfying to your body and then you start eating and something about the food is j...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  We have many different parts of us. These inner parts of us all feel as though they are serving us in some way. When in relationship with food, it can be supportive to get curious about who's choosing your food, who's doing the eating, what is that part of you desiring to receive from food, where do they live in your body, and what does it feel like when they sh...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  It's the morning. You're feeling a new resolve that today is the day you're going to have the most joyous and smoothest day with food. You feel calm and connected and feel like you know what you need to do to make new food decisions.  Breakfast is a breeze and you continue on with your day. As the hours tick by, you start to notice familiar urges arise. Sud...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  It was my first year of Graduate School and my first time living by myself in my own apartment. I was experimenting with applying the somatic tools I was learning in relationship with food. Up until that point in time, I had also labeled foods as good or bad, something that if you have been with me for a while I'm very clear now that there are no good or bad foods. ...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  When I was 21 years old, I was sick and tired of being in severe digestive pain. Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis runs in my family. To make sure I wasn't going down the same path I went in for a colonoscopy and endoscopy to check out what might be going on inside.  The great news was that everything looked perfect. The confusing news was being diagnosed w...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  On July 27th, 2021 Simone Biles, stepped up to do her vaulting routine at the Olympics. Mid-air, she got what gymnasts call the twisties when your brain feels disconnected from your body. She luckily landed safely on the ground.  Immediately after, she left the room and came back to announce she was pulling out of the Olympics. Simone Biles is known for performing some of...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  About 45 million Americans go on a diet each year. The diet industry instills the message that if you just follow them perfectly you will obtain everything you desire.  It's kind of like a romantic movie where the couple finally ends up together in the end but what happens after that?  What happens after you lose the weight?  Is that way of eating feel sustainable? ...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I remember a time where I thought if I just figured out what to eat and how to move my body all the symptoms I was experiencing would be healed. I'll give a sneak peak into the future...food and movement contributed to less than 50% of what needed to be attended to for healing to occur. If you have been here for awhile, you have maybe learned quite a lot about satiat...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  You will have many different kinds of relationships throughout your life. Friends, intimate relationships, mentors, teachers, coaches. Every relationship will teach you something about you, about what you deserve, about what you desire. We can apply the same idea to our relationship with food.  You will not have just one kind of relationship with food throughout your life...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  I started off this week's episode with the intent to discuss how to tell when you're satiated to stop eating. One research study, led me to another, led me to another. Suddenly, I no longer felt like I could make the experience of satiation come across as simple. There are just so many factors that can actually affect what supports you in feeling satisfied at th...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Are you confused about the difference between emotional eating, overeating, and binge eating? These terms are often used interchangeably and yet they actually have very different characteristics.  Understanding the difference between these ways of eating can offer more personal awareness around what might be happening for you physically or emotionally in how you're s...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  We have been living in a time where we have been more isolated than ever. This past year we have been told to stay away from one another, stay in our homes, and socially distance. Physical distance may have been necessary, yet social connection was and is more important than ever. Dr. Porges, who created the Polyvagal Theory says, “We as humans seek safety, and this feeli...

Happy Satiated Saturday!  Think about the last thing you learned. Maybe it was learning how to cook something new or trying out a new physical movement or practicing showing up for yourself or others in a new way. We often start out learning how to do something with little confidence. This thing you were learning is new and that means it is new to your body.  Yet, how often do you hold yourself ba...

Happy Satiated Saturday! I want you to think of a special relationship you have in your life. Maybe this is with a friend, a parent, a family member. It took time to build trust with this person.  Every time they showed up for you, every time they picked up the phone when you needed them, every time they gave you a ride to the airport, every time they offered a shoulder to cry on, this was noted w...

Happy Satiated Saturday! Dieting culture makes us believe that losing weight is the answer to everything.  Want to find love?  Just lose weight.  Want more confidence?  Lose weight.  Want everlasting health?  Losing weight is the way to get there.  If we are made to believe that losing weight was the answer to everything, why would we let that go?  In this week’s episode, I explain 3 reasons why y...

Happy Satiated Saturday! I remember going through an intense experience many years ago. I was in complete shut down mode and my husband offered to make me lunch. A balanced meal made with love brought me back online where I could start processing what was happening differently. Trauma is an emotional response to a distressing event. We cannot compare one person's trauma to another. It depends...

Happy Satiated Saturday! Do you wake up thinking about food, think about food all day long, and go to sleep thinking about food? If this is something you have experienced or are currently going through, please know you're not alone.  You're thinking about food constantly for a reason. This is your body's way of communicating with you. Thinking about food isn't wrong. It's...

Happy Satiated Saturday! Have you ever been in the cycle of restricting your food and then finding yourself in a full on binge? There are so many reasons why this cycle can occur and a myriad of emotions that can arise when in this cycle.  The diet culture fuels the binge-restrict cycle. When it comes to diets, usually it begins with some kind of restriction that is externally forced upon your bod...

Happy Satiated Saturday! Lying down on a human sized piece of paper and having your body shape be outlined with a marker is an interesting experience. It was my first year of Graduate School for my Masters in Body Psychotherapy. One day in class, our teacher took out a human sized roll of paper. We each had to lie down on the paper and a piece was cut to our height. We then had to pair off and lie...

Because of the diet culture we live in, many many individuals are on the spectrum of disordered eating. The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders states that "Eating disorders affect at least 9% of the population worldwide. 9% of the U.S. population, or 28.8 million Americans, will have an eating disorder in their lifetime. Less than 6% of people with eating disord...

Happy Satiated Saturday! I want to offer a different perspective on "emotional eating." Choosing food to emotionally self soothe is showing up for a reason. If we don't pay attention to what our body is trying to tell us, then our body is going to take over at some point to try and speak to us in louder ways. Think of how powerful your emotional eating or binge eating experiences ar...

Happy Satiated Saturday! When I was a kid, my two older brothers would have a contest at the dinner table who could get me to laugh first and spew the drink in my mouth out all over the table. To this day, if someone tries to get me to laugh at a meal, I get nervous about what is going to happen next.  What were meals like in your family when you were a kid? Were they hectic? Did you feel heard? D...

Happy Satiated Saturday! The word Intuition has always rubbed me the wrong way.  When you're someone who has experienced past wounds and traumas, intuition is not something that comes so easily. One of the definitions of intuition is a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning. To be aware of our feelings means we have to be in our bodie...