Shows
Satiated PodcastRedefining "Health" and Decoding Symptoms as Body Communication with Tamar SamuelsHappy Satiated Saturday! Every semester in my undergraduate studies, I would receive all my coursework & experience a full-body panic. I would look at all that was due & some perfectionistic part of me thought I needed to hand in everything tomorrow. This typically led to a phone call to my mother who would say, "Stephanie, you eat an elephant a bite at a time."This would often remind me that when faced with big tasks, you can only make it to the end one step at a time. On a food...
2025-01-2651 minSatiated PodcastWhat Your Food Urges Will Reveal To You About Your Relationship with Money with Sheridan RuthHappy Satiated Saturday! A few weeks ago, my husband and I were reflecting on a research study that shows that making around $80,000 a year in the United States is the general amount that leads to emotional wellbeing and safety and anything above that doesn't actually lead to more happiness. When I looked this up, the optimal income name was called the Satiation Point and it suggests that beyond a certain level of income or wealth, additional money doesn't significantly contribute to being happier. I had to laugh at the overlaps in the concept of...
2024-05-0540 minSatiated PodcastAre You Overexercising? Discover How To Choose The Exercises That Will Regulate Your Body with Stephanie Roth-GoldbergHappy Satiated Saturday! As a kid, you couldn't get me to move. My mom tried to put me in dance and gymnastics and while I enjoyed both, neither stuck. I tried soccer and tennis. In soccer, I ended up kicking the ball to my best friend who was on the other team. In tennis, my favorite part was walking through the tunnels at the back of the indoor court. The joy of moving started to come in when I got into musical theater and had to dance my way through shows. And then, in college, I...
2023-12-1038 minSatiated PodcastBuilding a Relationship with Judgment That's Protecting You From Your BodyHappy Satiated Sunday! I have often found the days after Thanksgiving to be harder than the days leading up. The days leading up, you may have had an inner planner making all of these strategies for you about what you were or were not going to eat, how you were going to respond to different people, what you were going to practice differently this year.Then, you go through the actual holiday. To quote Ram Dass, “If you think you are enlightened, go and spend a week with your family.”Now, you're...
2023-11-2606 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 166: Somatic Journaling and Giving Your Body a Voice to Cultivate Safety To Be With What IsHappy 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, wishes, fears, loves and disappointments. They are all precious and uniquely yours! With best wishes as you start your new adventure.
2023-04-0941 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 163: Breaking Up With Diet Culture, The Illusion of Body Control, and What's Really On The Other Side of HealingHappy 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 some sense of control, but really these things are controlling you and keeping you at a...
2023-03-1847 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 155: What is Somatic Healing? How Do you Make your Body a Safe Place to Inhabit?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 is happening in your body and then create distance between yourself and the intense sensation and attend to something ex...
2023-01-1544 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 154: Heal Your Relationship with Food by Creating a Safe, Attuned, and Loving KitchenHappy 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 generation to generation in my family. What memories do you have arou...
2023-01-0844 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 153: Ditch Wellness and Diet Culture and Enter the New Year with Body TrustHappy 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 become a month where you're showing your body daily it is safe to be as it is. In this week’s episod...
2023-01-0152 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 152: How to Be With The Intense Longing and Desire for Your Binge Eating To Go Away NowHappy 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 to heal the dysregulation in my body, I was also at a point where I no longer had it...
2022-12-1805 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 151: How to Make the Scary Act of Breaking up with Dieting Feel Safe and RegulatingHappy 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 moment that you crave something off the diet, when you've spent several days or weeks eating all those foods tha...
2022-12-1104 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 150: How to Eat with Full Permission and Set Boundaries with Family During the HolidaysHappy 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 culture wheel, it can feel confusing when to stick up for yourself, when to set boundaries, and when to change the topic of conversation when diet conversations c...
2022-12-0442 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 149: Stop Overeating During the Holidays by Setting Food Intentions SomaticallyHappy 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 was going into a situation allowing myself to do whatever I wanted and needed to do supported me in feeling connected and actually ab...
2022-11-2006 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 148: Decrease the Restrict-Binge Cycle During the Holidays with these 3 Somatic ToolsHappy 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 your body to get what it needs nutritionally. You may then find yourself stuck in a cycle of restricting and binging on food throughout the hol...
2022-11-1308 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 147: What's Fueling your Eating Disorder? Diet Culture, Body Image Pressure, Religion, and TraumaHappy 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 cause that is fueling your food and body behaviors. It's not really about the food. It will be about addressing what your body is hol...
2022-11-0642 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 145: Urge Surfing. The Tool You Need to Learn to End Binge EatingHappy 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 other people. I would get down on the floor and throw a te...
2022-10-2306 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 141: How Your Relationship with Food is a Window into the Wisdom of your BodyOver 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 to share it.In this week’s episode, you will get the opportunity to listen to that interview where we talk about what Somatic Eating™ is, what body listenin...
2022-09-2652 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 140: Heal Impulsive Tendencies with Food with these 5 Brain Based TechniquesHappy 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 the kind of relationship they wanted with their food.In this week’s episode, I talk with Jessie Jean, Certified Mind...
2022-09-1733 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 139: The Difference Between Coddling and Compassion in Nutrition. Discover a Healing Relationship with Food and be a Nutrition RebelHappy 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 be incredibly confusing!In this week’s episode, I talk with Michelle Shapiro, Integrative & Functional Registered Dietitian, about the difference between coddling and compassion when...
2022-09-1140 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 138: What Part of You is Choosing to Binge Eat? Discover the Part of you That Chooses Food to Self SootheHappy 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 support them in feeling safe is threatened. In this week’s episode, I explore 4 different internal parts of you that urge y...
2022-09-0307 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 137: Stop Self Soothing with Food by Healing Your Relationship with Your EmotionsHappy 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 is a window into your relationship with your emotions. When your emotions and sensations feel safe to experience, then your relat...
2022-08-2839 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 136: Want to Stop Binge Eating? Learn About the Power of Nervous System RegulationHappy 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 its in based on your food urges. This is something over the past several years I have been teaching every single person I work with. As soon as...
2022-08-2037 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 133: Decrease Emotional Eating by Effectively Self Regulating with your MealsHappy 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 up to a binge and a release only at one point in time where I felt safe enough to let go. If this pa...
2022-07-3106 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 132: Do You Fear Gaining Weight? Try These 3 Somatic PracticesHappy 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? For myself, it came in from Seventeen Magazine. It came from my close...
2022-06-1206 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 131: How Your Developmental Stages and Current Food Habits Are ConnectedHappy 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 influence our actions and sense of self in the world. These developmental movement patterns were all important ways that you as a baby experienced the world through your body. An...
2022-06-0509 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 128: Coming to Food Fed: Discovering Pleasurable, Intimacy, and Safety with Food and BodyHappy 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 week’s episode, I talk with Lacou Flipse about coming to food fed, meaning that we need to feel close and connected and intimate with ourselves first before eating. This can alter how, when, and why...
2022-05-1541 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 127: The Power of Choice When Healing Patterns of Binge EatingHappy 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 when you might come back into your body and wonder what just happened, where did you go? You have maybe been engaging in thi...
2022-05-0807 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 125: Why Diets Don't Work and How To Do a Diet Culture DetoxHappy 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 have been working on releasing yourself from diet culture's rules and regulations.In this week’s episode, I had an enlightening chat with...
2022-04-2435 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 123: Why Regulating Your Nervous System and Co-regulating With Nature is The Crucial Piece To Decrease Your Emotional Eating PatternsHappy 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 weakness, you're not doing anything wrong. These food patterns are often the only way your body knows how to r...
2022-04-0939 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 122: Religion, Disordered Eating, Jewish Upbringing, and a Forever Changed Relationship With FoodHappy 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 talking about my own experiences. Being Jewish though and everything I navigated in relationship with food is informed by my Jewish upbringing and shaped who I am as...
2022-04-0306 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 121: What is Mental Health Nutrition? And How Can It Help With Your Sugar Cravings?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 week’s episode, I talk with Stephanie Small, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Nutritionist, about what Mental Health Nutrition is, how addressing our rhythm to...
2022-03-2640 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 120: When You Need To Use Food As A Tool To HealHappy 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 tell me. And as my gut healed, I later needed to invite all of these foods back in to see these foods as not good or ba...
2022-03-1936 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 119: Perfectly Timed Food Experiments When Breaking Free From DietingHappy 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 for years to provide you with the "rules" on how to eat, it can bring up all sorts of emotions no longer having those regulations to abide by when eating. T...
2022-03-1307 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 117: Stepping Into More: More Food, More Muscle, More PresenceHappy 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. There was no actual class. You just had to show up at the gym regularly lift weights and fill out a form on wh...
2022-02-2639 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 115: How To Re-Build Body TrustHappy 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?Whatever answer comes back is alright. Change starts with awareness. We cannot change what we are not aware of....
2022-02-1334 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 114: See A Picture Of Yourself And Judge What You See? Here's What To DoHappy 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 for this new podcast cover you can look out for when you search for the Satiated Podcast. Every first Saturday of the mon...
2022-02-0608 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Episode 111: Healing Your Relationship With Food With Ayurveda (Marissa Angeletti)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 want to bring in these other incredible teachers, counselors, practitioners, coaches, therapists to diversify the support you receive here. Each month, you will now receive new interviews and still solo episodes with me. I'm th...
2022-01-1629 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 110: 3 New Messages To Feed Your Body This Holiday Season To Decrease Emotional EatingHappy 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 you? There has been a lot of societal norms created around the holiday season. One of those can be the holidays is a time where you spend it with family. Yet...
2021-12-1907 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 109: How To Use Food As a Somatic Co-regulatorHappy 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 system. Have you ever noticed how you feel different in your body when someone speaks to you in a calm, compassionate way? Or have you noticed how you feel in your body when so...
2021-12-1107 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 108: How Your Relationship With Food Mirrors Your Relationship With Your ParentsHappy 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're looking for. This all starts with how you were supported in the early stages of your life. Your first life expe...
2021-12-0506 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 107: Creating Your Post Holiday Somatic Eating™ PlanHappy 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 afterWorries about your body's healthFear around weight changesTrying to navigate bodily discomfort with more easeIn this week’s episode, I will explain how to n...
2021-11-2705 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 106: How Your Attachment Style Affects Your Relationship With FoodHappy 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 food as well. There are 3 different insecure attachment styles that include: Anxious, Avoidant, and Disorganized. In this week’s episode, let's dive into each insecure attachment style and how they can show up in y...
2021-11-2106 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 105: This Is What Your Inner Child Needs To Hear This Holiday SeasonHappy 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 the holidays is also happening to protect and support your Inner Child in many different ways. In this week’s episode, I wanted to write a lov...
2021-11-1406 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 104: 3 Reasons Why Cravings Increase During The HolidaysHappy 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 spend Thanksgiving with my husband's family, my craving for sweet potato casserole shot up. I would re-make this recipe the best I could and yet I could never quite make it th...
2021-11-0607 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 102: 4 Tricks To Stop Binging On Halloween Candy This YearHappy 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 that this joyful experience as children changes as we age? Suddenly, candy is labeled as "bad" and something we should never eat by diet culture st...
2021-10-2307 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 101: Three Unexpected Eating On The Road GuidelinesHappy 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 amazing fall foliage on the east coast. Every time we have hit the road, others keep telling me to do an episode about eating while traveling. When you look up the...
2021-10-1707 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 100: The Emotional Stages of Healing Your Relationship With FoodHappy 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 focusing on your food actually felt safer in your body to ruminate on. Healing your relationship with food can be experienced as in service to creating more emotional space...
2021-10-0909 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 99: How Eating Environment Impacts Emotional EatingHappy 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 images. Your environment then plays a huge role in making a meal feel satiating and satisfying. In this week’s episode...
2021-09-2505 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 98: How To Somatically Identify The Difference Between Physical And Emotional HungerHappy 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 hungers to get crossed at a young age. Because food becomes something that supports you in feeling safe and attuned to from the time yo...
2021-09-1807 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 97: New Ways To Respond To Food FOMOHappy 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 food. The experience of Food FOMO is then perpetuated by the sensations of fear in the body. In this week’s episode, we w...
2021-09-1206 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 96: What To Do If You're Not Enjoying Your MealHappy 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 just not resonating with you. It happens. Sometimes, even with all the eating tools you may have, your body will speak up and let you kn...
2021-09-0405 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 95: What Part of You Emotionally Eats?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 show up. During my teenage years, when my emotions felt too big to navigate, my inner child would come in with, "Alright, I...
2021-08-2806 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 94: Why Your Food Habits Aren't ChangingHappy 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. Suddenly, at 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 9:00, or 11:00 pm, as if you had blacked out, you find yourself stewing over how you ate the entire bag of this or a...
2021-08-2205 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 93: How Eating Ice Cream For Dinner Healed My Relationship With Food And It Can For You TooHappy 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. I knew that to deepen into healing my relationship with all food I needed to also have neutral eating experiences wi...
2021-08-1505 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 92: 3 Signs That You Need To Stop Focusing On What You're EatingHappy 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 with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and given no guidance whatsoever about what to do with the symptoms I was experiencing. In this week’s episode, I sha...
2021-08-0807 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 91: How Simone Biles Is A Role Model For Body ListeningHappy 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 the world's hardest gymnastics routines. All over social media this past week, individuals have been cheering her on as a role model for women all around the world an...
2021-08-0105 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 90: Why The Desire To Lose Weight Needs To Take A Backseat For Your Health And HealingHappy 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? In this week’s episode, I discuss some of the outcomes you might believe you will receive from losing weight and challenge them. I...
2021-07-2507 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 89: Want To Step Out Of Your Food And Body Struggles For Good? It's Time To Get Into Your BodyHappy 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 satiation and being a Somatic Eater. Intellectually understanding why you reach for food or judge your body can only take you so far o...
2021-07-1806 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 88: What Is Your Relationship Status With Food?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, you will have many. Take a moment to reflect on your journey with food. Think back to how you used to relate to food perhaps during your teenage years or in your 20's. I...
2021-07-1106 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 87: Having Trouble Feeling Full? Your Vagus Nerve May Be Asking For SupportHappy 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 the end of a meal. If you're one of those individuals who has always felt unclear as to what feeling satiated and satisfied at the end of a...
2021-07-0405 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 86: The Difference Between Emotional Eating, Overeating, and Binge EatingHappy 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 showing up with your food and body. In this week’s episode, I explain how to identify the difference between these 3 types of eating and offer new definitions for each.You can also read the trans...
2021-06-2707 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 85: How Social Isolation Increases Your Disordered Eating PatternsHappy 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 feeling of safety is based on social connectedness, which provides both mental and physical health. Being safe is not the equivalent of removing a threat.” Something that c...
2021-06-1904 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 84: Why Looking For Confidence Is Holding You Back From Success With Your Food, Body, and BusinessHappy 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 back from doing something, waiting to build confidence to be able to go do the thing you desire to do? If we re...
2021-06-1205 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 83: Why We Don’t Trust Our Bodies And What To Do To Build ItHappy 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 where they became someone you could trust. That trust can lead to feeling safe in the world. The s...
2021-06-0607 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 82: Why You Can't Let Go Of The Urge To Lose WeightHappy 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 you can't let go of the urge to lose weight and how those reasons ar...
2021-05-3005 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 81: How To Eat When Processing TraumaHappy 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 upon how your body processed that event. If a situation felt overwhelming, where you felt like you had to abandon your body, you have navigated a traumatic situation. Experiencing...
2021-05-2305 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 80: This Is Why You Can't Stop Thinking About FoodHappy 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 guiding you toward something your body is needing physically or emotionally.In this week’s episode, we will explore 3 top reasons you can't stop thinking about food.You can...
2021-05-1605 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 79: Ask These 5 Questions To Break The Binge-Restrict CycleHappy 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 body. It doesn’t matter what your body tells you, as long as you follow the rules. Restriction might start with cutting out certain foo...
2021-05-0808 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 78: Discover The Wisdom of Your Eating Patterns Through Drawing Your Body's StoryHappy 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 down on the paper and have the other person outline our body with a marker. When...
2021-05-0106 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 77: The 3 Somatic Eating Phases to Healing from Disordered EatingBecause 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 disorders are medically diagnosed as “underweight.” Disordered eating patterns can affect anyone regardless of what one looks like externally. The difference between disordered eating and eating disorders can be the severity of the habits and patterns with one's...
2021-04-2408 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 76: Why Emotional Eating Is Not The ProblemHappy 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 are! What a potent way for your body to get your attention. Let's reframe that choosing food for emotional hunger reasons is not "wrong" or "...
2021-04-1806 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 75: Mealtime Inner Child HealingHappy 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? Did you feel pressure to show up a certain way? Was there fighting? W...
2021-04-1005 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 74: Why Intuitive Eating ISN'T working for you.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 bodies. Yet, when you have experienced past situations that made your body unsafe to be in, it can feel intense to be in your body to know what you’re...
2021-04-0405 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 73: Stop Trying To Love Your Body. Do This Instead.Happy Satiated Saturday!Body hate is rampant all over the world. We judge our bodies, pick on them, tell them they should be different, underfeed them, and overexercise them. The messages we have received for a long time have been that we need to love our bodies and appreciate them to thrive in our lives. If this strategy worked though, would we still be talking about how much we dislike our body shape?You might even feel frustrated. You have been trying to love your body as it is for yearssss and yet t...
2021-03-2007 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 72: Create Peaceful Eating Experiences with Vagus Nerve StimulationHappy Satiated Saturday!I first learned of the vagus nerve when I was researching for my published thesis, Cultivating a Relationship with the Gut Brain. Learning about this amazing wandering nerve in our body was a game-changer for me and optimizing my digestion. The vagus nerve runs through our intestines, stomach, up into our lungs, heart, throat, esophagus, and into our brain. You can think of the vagus nerve as the highway of communication between the gut brain and the head brain. The vagus nerve plays a role in our Parasympathetic Nervous System ak...
2021-03-1406 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 71: "Bad" Body Image Day Thrival PackHappy Satiated Saturday!We all have them. Those days where it just feels a little harder, a little more intense to be in a body. Everyone experiences "bad" body image days every now and then.I'm putting "bad" in parentheses because what I have discovered is these days actually have a lot to teach us. I want to reframe that these days don't have to be "bad." These days happen for many reasons and we can view them more as opportunities for self connection. We can even enjoy these days as they're usually a...
2021-03-0706 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 70: What is Somatic Self Care?Happy Satiated Saturday!Self care is quite a buzz word. Recommending self care is something that, at some point in time, may have been suggested to you by a friend, family member, even maybe a doctor or a wellness practitioner. When I enter into a dialogue with someone around their self care there is often this idea that self care is only defined by things like meditation or bubble baths, which may not resonate with you. I know for a long time I used to spend my free time the way I thought I was "s...
2021-02-2706 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 69: What To Do After A Binge or Overeating ExperienceHappy Satiated Saturday!It was my Junior year of Undergrad. I was going to the University of Vermont that required we take two physical movement classes within your 4 years. I chose to take weight lifting. I was told that it was the easiest class to take even though I had never lifted weights before. I did actually learn a lot about how to properly lift weights in that class but the class did not include instructions on how to nourish one's body when doing this kind of physical movement. I ended up with all sorts o...
2021-02-2006 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 68: Your Food Decisions Are Protecting You From SomethingHappy Satiated Saturday!Nighttime used to be a difficult time of the day to navigate for me. I was GREAT when I was going going going all day long. Then nighttime would hit and all the emotions I didn't want to feel by keeping myself that busy were like, "Hey! Ya you! Are you going to pay attention to me now?"Nope! Instead here came my friend food to continue to run away from my emotions. Our Food Decisions are protecting us from something. It could be an emotion, another decision, processing a d...
2021-02-1305 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 67: Owning The Parts of You That You JudgeHappy Satiated Saturday!Those parts and pieces of yourself that you judge? Those parts of you can be deeply accepted and appreciated. I know, I know. You might be saying, "No Stephanie. These parts of me, they deserve to be judged." I want to offer a different approach to those parts of you that you feel like you need to hide. Interacting with your inner judger, criticizer, perfectionist, workaholic, and dramatizer in new ways can actually translate into a change in your relationship with food. Self judgment fuels the food and body habits an...
2021-02-0709 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 66: Achieve Mealtime Success with One IntentionHappy Satiated Saturday!I used to put a lot of pressure on every meal to get it "right." I had to make sure I ate something that didn't upset my sensitive digestive tract, supported me in feeling energetic, helped me stabilize my mood if I was cranky, replenished my body if I had physically moved, and on and on and on. Wow!!! That is A LOT of expectations to have on one meal. Our mealtime experiences can impact our entire day, not just by what we're eating, but also how we ap...
2021-01-3107 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 65: Are you on the Drama Triangle with Your Food and Body?Happy Satiated Saturday!I like to think of our internal world like Knights of the Round Table. We have many different parts and pieces of us that make up the whole of who we are. The more awareness we have around all of our parts, the more consciousness we can bring in around who is speaking up when and how to respond to these parts of ourselves in nourishing ways. Each part of us also plays out a different relationship with food. So being aware of who is making our food decisions can be...
2021-01-2407 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 64: What is Embodiment? The Key to Somatic Eating™Happy Satiated Saturday!I truly believe that to heal anything in our lives the way OUT is THROUGH. We need to go into the symptom, the habit, the pattern, the belief and we need to get into our body to hear the lessons we were meant to learn. For many that can be the scariest place to be. I know it was for me for a long period of time. I would have done anything to not be in my body. I have binged to the point of feeling un...
2021-01-1707 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 63: How To Start Eating Somatically with the 3 T'sHappy Satiated Saturday!What drives your food decisions? Do you eat because you're hungry? Do you eat because it is time? Do you eat because you think you're supposed to? Do you eat because you're committed to a certain routine? Do you eat because you're bored, stressed, anxious, or worried? There are many many reasons why we eat. What happens when we eat, for any reason, in a disembodied way is that we can miss the eating experience entirely. In this week’s episode, y...
2021-01-1007 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 62: Body Image GrievingHappy Satiated Saturday!Wooohooo! It is 2021. Happy New Year to you. I'm excited to see what this new year brings forth for all of us. Yesterday, it felt like a blast of social media posts from those in the anti-diet, health at every size, and body positivity movements screaming, "please do not go on a diet!" We're now at that time of year where we're bombarded with commercials and social media posts about changing your body, losing weight, getting in shape and "fixing" yourself. Some of the marketing you may see will be ve...
2021-01-0206 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 61: The Nutritional Health Nut PhaseHappy Satiated Saturday!Do you know there are many Nutritional Phases we will go through in our lifetime?A year ago, I wrote about The Nutritional F#!K It Phase. As we approach the new year, I wanted to dive a little deeper into a different kind of phase that many individuals can feel a pull toward as they enter into a new year.This phase is called The Nutritional Health Nut Phase. As with all phases, they often teach us a lot about ourselves and our body. And this particular phase can b...
2020-12-2608 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 60: How To Work Through Resistance When Changing Food HabitsHappy Satiated Saturday!You know the saying, "what we resist persists." I've been reflecting on this saying recently. The thing about this statement is that if you're playing out a habit with your food or body that on some level you know isn't supporting you long term, you might feel shame or judgment for resisting changing the pattern. What this saying can instill is that it is on you that your patterns are persisting and it is "your fault."What if you need your resistance? What if it is there for a reason? W...
2020-12-2006 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 59: Why Fat Is Not A FeelingHappy Satiated Saturday!One of the predominant thoughts going through my head throughout my 20's was, "I feel fat."Have you said this to yourself before? What does this statement mean to you? When have you said this to yourself?It is not just our thoughts that play a powerful effect on our ability to accept and appreciate ourselves, it is also our interpretation of our thoughts. In this week’s episode, we will explore how fat is not a feeling and saying, "I feel fat" puts a judgment on fat as...
2020-12-1307 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 58: Healing Body Image Doesn't Start With Self LoveHappy Satiated Saturday!How long have you judged your body? 5? 10? 15? 20 years? More?I get it. It can take a really long time to step into body acceptance. We are in the act of healing body image as a culture. Think of how long you have received messages around how you're "supposed" to look? Think of how long you have been reading articles and magazines and emails telling you what you need to do to lose weight or love your body? A focus on your body image is so much bigger than yourself.To...
2020-12-0607 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 57: Setting Boundaries is the Key to Healing Binge EatingHappy Satiated Saturday!I'm here today to admit, I'm Stephanie and I'm a recovering People Pleaser. 🙃I used to say yes to everything. I would often overextend myself and drain my own energy just to make sure you liked me. That is really what is often at the core of people pleasing. There is a belief that if we're always there for everyone else we will be loved, accepted, appreciated, and worthy to be alive here in this world. When you put everyone and everything before yourself, food can often come in as...
2020-11-2909 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 56: How New Environments Create New Food HabitsHappy Satiated Saturday!Have you ever noticed how easy it is to play out familiar patterns when you're around your parents or family or the home you grew up in? Being around familiar people and environments spark our habitual responses that we may not even be conscious of what is happening. Creating these habits in familiar environments actually frees up our brain power. An environment that is predictable means we can rely on habits more, giving our brain space to focus on the important things in life.Thanksgiving might look different this year with everything...
2020-11-2205 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 55: Got Too Much On Your Plate? How To Emotionally Digest a Full PlateHappy Satiated Saturday!Have you ever said, "I've just got too much on my plate right now."How does it feel when you say this to yourself? Does it calm you down or increase your stress and anxiety?This is such an interesting saying. We all understand how it feels to feel physically over full. To process the sensations of feeling overly full often just takes time as our body works to process, assimilate, and digest all the nourishment we took in. So how do we process feeling emotionally over full?...
2020-11-1506 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 54: How Your Focus on Food and Body is Distracting YouHappy Satiated Saturday!I couldn't stop crying this morning. I didn't expect it. Once I heard the news that this United States will no longer be bombarded with disrespectful behavior from our own president, I cried. I cried for those voices who have not been heard for the past 4 years. I cried for those who have felt unsafe and unseen in this country. I cried for feeling renewed hope. And this is just one small tiny step toward the world we imagine we want to live in; one where everyone feels safe to be themselves, o...
2020-11-0805 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 53: Want to stop stress eating? Relaxation Meditation Inside.Happy Satiated Saturday!Daylight savings time, full moon, election season, pandemic, mercury in retrograde...We're navigating an intense time in the world right now. Have you been feeling tense, tight, and jittery lately? Do you feel this way at random moments in the day? I wanted to offer something that you could listen to throughout this week (or whenever you need it) to guide your body back into a relaxation response. In this week’s episode, I guide you through Relaxation Meditation to support your body in coming out of fight or f...
2020-11-0105 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 52: Are You Trapped In a Self Judgment Cycle?Happy Satiated Saturday!Have you ever noticed that your relationship with food changes when self judgment increases?Perhaps the foods you choose to eat change or you notice you eat more or potentially stop eating at all. How we're interacting with our food can be a strong mirror reflecting back to us how we're interacting with ourselves.In this week’s episode, you will learn about DIS: your Default Inner Statement, and how to get out of the self judgment cycle.You ca...
2020-10-2507 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 51: Owning OvereatingHappy Satiated Saturday!Growing up, my mom would make this amazing Taco Platter that became pretty famous in my family. It was made on many special occasions and had layers and layers of yummy goodness. As a kid, I asked for this Taco Platter numerous times on birthday celebrations. Because this food became something that was only made every now and then, I always overate when it was offered. Unknowingly, at the time, I had a lot of fear that I didn't know when I was going to get to eat that Taco Platter again s...
2020-10-1806 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 50: What is Somatic Nutrition?Happy Satiated Saturday!At the beginning of every podcast episode, I mention that I'm a Somatic Nutritional Counselor. Have you been wondering what that is?In this week’s episode, I explain what Somatic Psychotherapy and Somatic Nutrition is and how this approach to your food and body can be so incredibly healing. You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here. I know this time in the world has been intense. If you have found yourself trying to gain a sense of control through what and when and ho...
2020-10-1106 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 49: My Self Care Routine (and why creating one for yourself is so important)Happy Satiated Saturday!What have you been taught around self care? Is it selfish? Are you "supposed" to spend every hour of every day supporting everyone around you? If you engage in self care acts do you feel guilty? Does it feel uncomfortable?In this week’s episode, I'm sharing tricks to my self care routine that you can use to support in creating your own satiating self care routine. You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here.I would lov...
2020-10-0406 minSatiated PodcastSatiated Saturdays Episode 48: The #1 Strategy To Make A Breakthrough With Any Client (Or Within Yourself)Happy Satiated Saturday!I'm incredibly passionate about you creating a Satiated Life and if you're a coach or wellness professional, supporting your clients in creating their own Satiated Lives. What supports a person in feeling satiated, satisfied, and nourished is going to be unique to every individual. Have you noticed though how many articles there are saying how to eat, how to take care of your body, and what you're "supposed" to do to thrive? How can we ever cultivate a trusting relationship with ourselves with all of these conflicting messages we receive externally? ...
2020-09-2605 min