​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

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

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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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In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Béatriz Victoria Albina, MA, Somatic Master Coach, and author about: 

• What emotional outsourcing is
• How it affects physical and mental health
• The impact of codependency
• The journey toward self acceptance
• Understanding emotions
• How to approach change through gentle regulation and kitten sized steps

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: www.stephaniemara.com/blog/breaking-free-from-emotional-outsourcing

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In this 3 month class, we spend 12 weeks together increasing your bodily experience of safety, security, and satiation to decrease patterns of binge eating, chronic emotional eating, yo yo dieting, food compensatory behaviors, and body image struggles. 

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I've been reflecting recently on how much I talk here about the reasons food behaviors like binge eating have nothing to do with the food, but the state you're eating the food in. As I've explored here many times, there are so many somatic, trauma, and nervous system layers to your food patterns. But part of food recovery has to include explorations around food itself. 

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

• How food can be a role model for the felt sense of safety
• Why eating is a somatic practice 
• What to look out for when using food as a safety cue 
• How to know when you're ready for this kind of somatic practice 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/how-food-choices-can-remind-your-body-how-to-feel-safe

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• Increase your understanding of your body through my Safety-Satiety Sequence to create a safe, secure, and satiated relationship with food

If you can't attend the live classes, all calls are recorded to watch the replay and you can reach out between classes in a group space for additional support.

There are 12 days left to sign up and I would love to get to connect with you for the next 3 months exploring your food patterns together. 

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

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

I find it fascinating to explore the layers and layers of connections between trauma and food behaviors. 

Trauma alters the way you experience bodily sensations. A racing heart can feel like panic rather than excitement. An empty stomach might trigger fear rather than curiosity about food. 

Over time, the body learns to suppress or disconnect from these cues in an attempt to stay safe. ​Body detachment provided you​ with short term safety, but affected your ability to know how you feel, to understand if you’re hungry or full, or to know what you need and when.​ 

This lowered your interoception or ability to sense and interpret your internal signals in your body. 

In this week's episode, I chat about: 

• Interoceptive confusion
• How low interoception effects food behaviors
• Trauma and interoception connection
• Interoception practices you can start today

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/how-trauma-alters-your-sense-of-self-and-eating-habits

I also provide some updates at the end of this episode so be sure to listen to the end! 

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

After years and years of navigating food cravings, it was the field of somatics that started to shift my perception of them. 

I used to think of cravings as something I had to do battle with and couldn't listen to until I realized that I was defining listening to cravings as abiding by them and that listening to my craving meant I needed to eat the food some part of me was telling me to eat. 

I now experience and teach that cravings are bodily messengers. Cravings are meant to be listened to by bringing in curiosity about what the body might be trying to relay through having you want to eat a particular food. 

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Jenn Trepeck, Certified Health & Nutrition Coach, about: 

• Decoding cravings
• The nutritional and blood sugar aspects to cravings
• The role of guilt in cravings
• Practical strategies to navigating your food cravings

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: www.stephaniemara.com/blog/understanding-the-science-behind-food-cravings

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

When a focus on food and nutrition feels like it starts to take over your life, where you're not eating if you can't find what you've been taught are the cleanest, purest foods, and experience high anxiety whenever interacting with foods outside a set list of internally approved foods, you might be navigating orthorexia. 

In this week's  episode, I chat with Sabrina Magnan, Certified Holistic Health Coach founder of the Food Freedom Academy, about: 

• The impact of orthorexia
• Identity and control that gets wrapped up in food
• Intention in food decisions
• Navigating fear and change in food recovery
• Understanding the cycles of food healing 
• And so much more!

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/food-obsession-and-orthorexic-behaviors

✨ Reminder that Wednesday, August 27th at 5:00 pm ET is the LIVE Reclaiming Your Body Image with Somatic Eating® Practices Workshop. You can learn more and sign up ​HERE​: https://satiated.mykajabi.com/offers/EkFBjX2Q/checkout

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

Something I've noticed in any body image healing exploration is how private body image concerns are. About 84% of women struggle with body image, yet something so prevalent is often kept hidden. 

I wonder what could change if how hard it is to live in a body could be openly discussed and supported, where conversations could look like: 

Person 1: How are you today?

Person 2: I'm actually having a really hard time with my body image today.

Person 1: Thanks for letting me know. I struggle a lot too. Is there anything you need in this experience today? 

I want to normalize body image struggles because I sense this might be the first step toward changing the conversations around living in a body. 

Rather than beginning with body acceptance or body love, sometimes you first just need to be with that, sometimes, because of a million different reasons, it is hard to be in your body and to like the way your body looks. 

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Anna Sweeney, Nutrition Therapist and Registered Dietitian, about: 

• The complexities of body image healing
• The impact of societal messaging and social media
• Challenging body image norms
• The GLP-1 craze we're in right now
• Medical stigma
• Finding safety in the body

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/navigating-the-complexities-of-body-image

I hope you can join me Wednesday, August 27th at 5:00 pm ET for my upcoming Befriending Your Body Image Challenges with Somatic Eating® Practices Workshop. You can learn more and sign up ​HERE​: https://satiated.mykajabi.com/offers/EkFBjX2Q/checkout

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

Fitness culture has made body image recovery even more confusing. I've seen people year after year question if it is alright to want to lose weight, or lift weights, or increase muscle. 

What I like to return to is the intention behind these desires and how they feel in your body. Any intention approached from a place of self hate, of disrespecting the body, or pushing the body beyond what it can handle, compromising its health, is not a goal that will lead to nervous system regulation and bodily safety. 

First and foremost though, I believe in body autonomy and for you to choose for yourself what adventures you'd like to take with your body. What we typically need to explore is how to embark on those adventures that respects your body, takes care of your body, and supports your body along the way. 

In this week's episode, I chat with Kitty Blomfield, cofounder of NuStrength and Saturee, about: 

• Balancing body goals and self worth
• Body acceptance and desires for fat loss
• Empowerment through strength training
• Navigating body image across different life stages
• Approaching nutrition with curiosity 
• Finding your Goldilocks spot with food

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/building-muscle-self-worth-and-body-confidence

There is one more month until the Befriending Your Body Image Challenges Workshop happening on Wednesday, August 27th at 5:00 pm ET. At the end of this live 2 hour workshop, you will have a somatic plan to navigate the most difficult body image moments such as seeing yourself in pictures, interacting with the scale, and struggles with clothes. 

You can sign up ​HERE​: https://satiated.mykajabi.com/offers/EkFBjX2Q/checkout

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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