When the focus is always on finding a root cause, it keeps you looking for the next answer and the next answer and the next answer to your food issues. This can keep you stuck in a survival response. This constant searching sends signals of danger to the body that something is wrong, and it has to keep the sympathetic nervous system turned on (where food behaviors intensify).

What if there is no root cause to your binge eating or emotional eating or body image concerns or chronic dieting or restricting? What if this is a natural impulse when you don’t feel safe? What if this all made A LOT of sense and there is nothing to fix or change or heal, but rather to explore how you could respond to a food or body impulse differently?

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Shannon Salge, founder of The Wellness Paradigm, Functional Nutritionist and Bioresonance Practitioner about: 

• Understanding bioresonance
• The role of generational trauma and energy in healing 
• Exploring emotional connections to symptoms 
• Understanding the body's communication 
• Identifying when you need to stop looking for the next treatment to "fix" yourself 
• Daily practices to regulate 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/unraveling-the-hidden-energetic-effects-of-generational-trauma

Hope you enjoy this week's episode and see you all next week! 

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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I wanted to approach the transition into a new year differently. 

For the past couple of years, I felt like it was more somatically aligned to explore a feeling word for the year rather than resolutions. This feeling word could then be a guiding light throughout the year toward actions or food or environments or hobbies that support you in feeling the way you want to feel. 

But, I decided to move away from that this year because I sensed it could be used as another way to disembody and to try to force the body into a state or way of being that is mentally desired but not actually what the body wants or needs. 

So, I'm moving in a different somatic direction this year.

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat about: 

• The history of a New Year 
• What it means to live somatically
• What this looks like as an ongoing practice 
• And how this could all lead to decreasing food behaviors and increasing the creation of living the life you want to be living

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/the-death-of-new-years-resolutions

I'm excited to explore somatics, trauma, and nutrition more with you over this next year and one exciting piece of news is that the Satiated Podcast has been chosen as one of the Top 40 Women In Food Podcasts by FeedSpot. 

So thank you for being here, for continuing to be here, and for leaving such amazing reviews on how much you love the podcast!

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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This holiday week might have been really hard. Surrounded by family, arguments, familial patterns, working on staying connected, trying to enact different patterns with food, and feeling overwhelmed and dysregulated. 

And for others, ​this week may have included huge wins. You noticed yourself regulating your nervous system, staying connected, choosing other options besides food to connect with yourself, and you got to witness just how far you've come in your food recovery. 

​But today, three days after the actual holiday, it may feel like food is even more of a struggle than it was a few days ago. The​ experience of joy, connection, stress, exhaustion, social pressure, and emotional intensity of the day ​may be ove​r, ​but the food is still here.

​Maybe you had a plan leading up to the holiday. You had your friends on stand by via text, you had your somatic practices you've learned here or in a session, you showed up for yourself, you tried to stay connected, and so now you may feel utterly confused that you got through the holiday just fine, but want to binge on every holiday leftover food you can find. 

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat about: 

• Why leftovers can feel like a threat
• What has changed in your nervous system the day after a holiday
• Making sense of your urge to binge leftovers 
• How to somatically process the leftover food binge 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/when-holiday-leftovers-feel-like-a-threat

I'll be putting out a special New Years' episode next week so if there is anything you'd like me to add to this episode on how to somatically enter the new year without diet promises and exercise rules, respond to this email with any questions you have! 

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One of the aspects of food recovery I wished that I had greater guidance around (and had to learn for myself) was discovering how to listen to my body. 

 Even within different food recovery approaches, there are still all of these rules about what to eat to "prove" recovery or what to do to ensure recovery. 

I've seen more confusion over the years about what will or will not lead toward a decrease in food coping mechanisms because there is still this idea that there is a right way and a wrong way to recover. 

When embodiment increases, food behaviors can decrease. When you can hear, understand, and interpret your body's feedback, food impulses don't have to feel so scary to experience anymore because you get what your body is trying to relay. 

It was the practice of yoga that taught me how to get into my body. 

In this week's episode, I chat with Jeanie Manchester, founder of Anjaneya Yoga Shala, Master Yoga and Meditation Instructor, about: 

• The impact of doubt on self perception
• Being guided by your inner voice
• How we are shaped by our life experiences
• Listening to body wisdom
• The connection between lineage and personal identity
• Embracing ourselves
• And so much more! 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/the-power-of-finding-and-trusting-your-inner-voice

Wishing you a restful, easy holiday week and see you all next week! 

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) are traumatic events that occur in childhood and affect your sense of safety. 

ACEs have been found to be higher in prevalence among those who struggle with food and body image. As the experience of safety diminishes, the likelihood of binge eating increases.

This is why you can't shame yourself for your food behaviors. They are not your fault. You’ve been made to believe that your food choices are your decision and that if you can’t “control” yourself with food, then that is your fault. Yet, this couldn’t be further from the truth. 

Your food and body image behaviors are a response to how your body is digesting your life experiences, not something you're actively choosing or out of a lack of willpower, or self sabotage. 

In this week's episode, I chat with Rachel Hobbs, Clinical Dietitian, Personal Trainer and Certified Therapist about: 

• A compassion centered focused approach to nutrition
• How early childhood experiences affect your food interactions
• The role of shame in food behaviors
• How the nervous system and past trauma shapes food behaviors
• Seeing nutrition through a more nuanced perspective

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/the-impact-of-food-trauma-on-your-eating-behaviors

I hope that this episode reminds you to meet yourself with compassion these next couple of weeks as you navigate friends, food, and family this holiday season. 

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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The number one question I often get asked in sessions is, "What is the somatic practice I should be doing to calm myself down?"

Somatic and nervous system work has been completely misconstrued and misrepresented, and I get why. 

If all you're seeing on social media is a list of suggestions on practices you can do to make things better or calm yourself down, it can feel like there is some magical tool you can utilize to hack your body. Then all the discomfort would go away, which would perhaps decrease how much you're leaning on food.

But, what if you had the utmost confidence that you could be with and flow through any emotion, sensation, feeling, or state? Do you imagine you would have the same reactions you have now with food? 

What if your urges, impulses, and patterns with food had nothing to do with decreasing the food behavior, but rather increasing your capacity to embody?

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat about: 

• What is underlying food behaviors 
• How to navigate the root cause without any fancy somatic practices 
• What healing can actually look like 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/why-your-food-behaviors-are-not-the-problem

If there is any topic you'd like me to specifically cover on the podcast, email me at [email protected] anytime! 

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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We were all taught how to eat and move and exist in our bodies. 

The “shoulds” that you learn from your parents, diet/wellness/fitness culture, magazines, media, movies, family and friends can keep your nervous system stuck in a sympathetic response.

When you live in chronic stress or survival states, your system prioritizes safety over sensation. That means you may default to habits that feel familiar and not ones that feel nourishing. You may be engaging in “healthy” acts and feel absolutely horrible because they are not what your body may resonate with or need.

Yet, let's normalize that following rigid food or exercise rules can feel stabilizing. This is because they reduce uncertainty. Safety can then get connected to the felt sense of rigidity, where all other feedback from your body about what it needs for flow, play, and long term safety gets drowned out.

Exploring what would feel best to you and your present day body can be a journey into self leadership. 

In this week's episode, I chat with Courtney Townley, health and self-leadership coach, speaker, host of the top-rated Grace & Grit podcast, and author about: 

• Her 4-part Consistency Code framework
• Self leadership
• The misconceptions of self care and wellness
• The impact of societal expectations on women
• Navigating stress
• Practical steps toward self leadership

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: www.stephaniemara.com/blog/revolutionize-your-health

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​I remember the very slow realization as I started to embody my binges that food was never going to give me what I was looking for. 

It felt crushing to face. 

I'd been utilizing food as a way to try to help myself feel better, safer, more grounded and I felt so much grief that this strategy was never going to work.

Over the years in private practice, I noticed almost every single person I worked with experience this moment of deep grief. 

I now have a term for this called Food Grief. Food recovery is a process of saying goodbye to strategies that worked as a child and no longer work now as an adult.

Grieving any food coping mechanism is feeling the body unlearning an old survival pattern. Food Grief is your body reorienting to the present and that you no longer need to protect yourself like you did in the past.

In this week's episode, I chat with Syanna Wand, Certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and founder of Interpersonal Embodied Healing about: 

• Understanding grief in healing
• The somatic concept of armoring
• Navigating grief and relief
• The importance of resourcing yourself
• Building capacity to be with your emotions
• Generational grief
• Embracing grief and creating a relationship with it

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/grief-is-crucial-for-trauma-recovery

Reminder that my Somatic Eating® Intensive is on sale for 30% off until Tuesday, December 2nd. 

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I'm currently visiting family in Connecticut where I grew up. I was here until I went off to college and then I moved back for about a year before I moved west to go to graduate school. 

Connecticut has been a witness to every stage of my food recovery. From the beginnings of starting to choose food to self soothe, my diet culture years, stuck in the binge-restrict cyle, a short stint into orthorexia and over exercising, and now in full recovery. 

My body remembers where and what I used to binge on, but I have no nervous system activation that tells me to do these food behaviors again. 

This is what can occur in familiar binge or restrict environments.

Your body time travels to the past and recalls what you used to do with food in specific environments and, like a moth to a flame, you're drawn to the same food behavior. 

In this week's episode, I chat about: 

• What happens in your body when you're in your familiar binge eating environments 
• Why you find yourself binge eating at the same time of the day 
• The somatic practice you can start to update your body's memory

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/how-your-body-remembers-the-environments-where-youve-binged

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In the intensive, you receive a 2.5 hour class that includes the groundwork resources of Somatic Eating®, a Somatic Eating® experience to practice your new skills, and a week of Voxer support with me. 

At $251 that is only $36 a day for the 1:1 support, plus you get the 2.5 hour class. 

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Hope you're having a satiating weekend and talk to you more soon!

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Jay Moon Fields, MA, Coach, and author about: 

• How to build more self trust
• The felt sense of self worth
• Enhancing your decision making skills
• The embodiment of emotions
• The process of stepping into self trust: presence, guidance, service, and trust, and how these elements contribute to personal growth and emotional regulation

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/building-self-trust

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Hope to see you in the program soon and enjoy this week's episode! 

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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