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Have you ever called your patterns of binge eating, emotional eating, restricting, yo-yo dieting self sabotage? 

The idea of self sabotage means that you're doing something to block your success. I want to reframe that you are NOT getting in your own way when you play out your familiar food coping mechanisms again and again and again. 

Defining them as self sabotage interferes with gaining insight from your behavior as you're then seeing it as wrong, bad, or something to be "fixed." Start to see your patterns with food as information on the state of your body and parts of you that are needing to feel safe. 

In this week’s episode, I talk about what self sabotage is, why you need to stop thinking of your food coping mechanisms as self sabotage and what to do instead when you feel the familiar impulse to eat when you're not physically hungry. 

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

One of the pieces of feedback I've received from those who have gone through the Somatic Eating® Program is that they cultivated more compassion and awareness around their food patterns where they felt like even when they engaged in a familiar food coping mechanism they no longer self abandoned afterward. 

If you're curious about how to get to this place in your relationship with food, the next Somatic Eating® Program starts April 20th. Go to somaticeating.com to join the waitlist. Those on the waitlist will receive a special offer when doors open. 

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I started practicing yoga when I was 20 years old. It was the first practice I had ever engaged in that brought me closer into my body. 

We often get these messages that embodiment practices will help us with mindfulness and find inner peace. But, the truth is that the act of doing something to bring you closer into your body can feel intense. 

Food can often come in to support you in keeping yourself at a distance from your body that is holding on to past wounds, traumas, and emotions that feel too much to be with. Embodiment practices can also be a process of learning to sit in discomfort and make it more comfortable little by little. 

Just like an onion, there will be many many layers to this healing journey. 

In this week’s episode, I chat with Livia Shapiro, author of the Somatic Therapy Workbook, about what healing from an eating disorder can look like, what tools you will need to learn along the way, and the power of embodiment and movement practices. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode  here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/non-linear-healing-journey-from-an-eating-disorder

If you're on this healing journey and looking for more support, email me at [email protected] anytime. I'm here for you every step of the way! 

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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I always knew my environment affected me and meeting my husband, Ethan who is in environmental design, brought that to a whole new level. 

He looks up so much to see the structure of a building and the ceiling that even our dog Tato looks up as well. 

Over the years, we've explored the intersection between architecture and our relationship with food. So I thought it was about time to bring him on the podcast and dive in deeper.

In this week’s episode, Ethan and I talk about how our environment affects us, how we affect our environment, and how that can all affect our relationship with food and inform us of our bodily state based on the environments we feel drawn to being in. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode  here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/how-your-sensory-experience-of-an-environment-can-increase-or-decrease-patterns-of-emotional-and-binge-eating

The next Somatic Eating® Program is coming up in April. We further discuss your eating environment in the program. So, if you're curious about diving into this deeper, go to  somaticeating.com and join the waitlist. You will be first to hear when the doors open.

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Being stuck in patterns of binging, emotional eating, and yo yo dieting can feel all consuming. You're either trying to heal from the food patterns, immersed in the food patterns, or recovering from a recent episode of the food patterns. 

I know when my binge eating was at its worst, I felt like I had tunnel vision. All I could focus on was trying to stop the binge eating. There was little space for curiosity to explore why the binge eating was happening in the first place. 

The thing is no longer binging, emotionally eating, or dieting is NOT the final step to your healing. Once you stop reaching for food to support you in feeling safe, that will be the FIRST step on your healing adventure. You will then have space to explore why food came in to support you.

In this week’s episode, we're going to explore the wisdom in your food behaviors and reflect on what they've been supporting you with. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode  here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/heal-patterns-of-binge-eating-emotional-eating-and-chronic-dieting

Looking for more support on this journey? Schedule a free 20 minute Connect Call with me  here! https://www.stephaniemara.com/lets-chat

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There is ongoing confusion around body acceptance, how to live in a body and be at peace with it, and pressure that you need to figure out body appreciation all on your own.

I personally don't believe in the saying, "you need to love yourself before anyone else can love you."

I did NOT love my body when I met my husband over a decade ago. I was very open about that with him from the beginning. I was struggling to live in such a sensitive body that had curves in, what I perceived, as all the "wrong" places. 

One day, Ethan walked me into the bathroom and had me look at myself in a full length mirror. He put his hands on my waist and said, "These are where your hip bones are. You can't change that." 

For some reason, on this particular day, it landed in a way it never had before. There is an exquisitely designed structure inside of me, that has been passed down to me, that is just me. I can fight it and create more ongoing internal unrest or I can choose to accept it and turn all that emotional anguish out at a world that taught me that my body shape should be different than what it simply is. 

In this week’s episode, I chat with Erica Mather, Embodiment Educator and author of Your Body, Your Best Friend about how to disconnect your body's image from your identity, how to begin perceiving your body with brand new eyes, and breaking down what we're taught to believe about our bodies. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/unraveling-body-and-its-image-from-your-sense-of-self-and-identity

I want you to know that you don't need to love your body. You can be at a place where you're still longing for it to be different. You can be grieving for the body that may never be. This will be a part of your ongoing journey in having a relationship with your body. That is the one thing that won't change is that this is your body and the only one you will have.

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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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 externally. 

This practice of describing my environment has stuck with me and something I offer to those I work with as well. When things feel like too much, you can zoom out and land your body in the safety of this exact second. 

In this week’s episode, I chat with Stephanie Scarminach, Somatic Intuitive Healer, about what somatic work is, how we learn from our environment to disembody, what supports with coming back into the body, very slowly, so you can start to cultivate more connection and trust within yourself. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode  here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/what-is-somatic-healing

If this is work you're curious about diving into, I wanted to let you know that I currently have openings in my private practice. You can schedule a 20 minute Connect Call with me to chat some more HERE: https://www.stephaniemara.com/lets-chat

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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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 around cooking and being in the kitchen growing up? Was cooking a joyous, connecting occasion? Or was cooking a disastrous, overwhelming experience that rarely occurred in your home growing up?

Feeling safe and empowered in the kitchen can start with our initial experiences cooking with our family. Cooking for yourself can be a way to attune to your body and explore what it needs. Making the exact meal, with the specific flavors and spices can be a regulating act of giving yourself what you want. 

In this week’s episode, I chat with Callie Cavanaugh, founder of The Eat In Method, about creating a kitchen that feels safe to be in so that you can find more play, attunement, and creativity with cooking for yourself. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/creating-a-safe-attuned-and-loving-kitchen

Cooking for yourself can be such a process. So many emotions can arise on this journey. The kitchen can be a strong mirror back to ourselves. Take all the baby steps you need. This can start with looking up recipes and seeing the ones you're drawn to so that beginning this adventure can be filled with connection, fun, and pleasure.

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox


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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 episode, I had an inspiring conversation with Abbie Attwood, Anti-diet Nutritionist, about why elimination diets don't work, how what we think about a food affects how we digest that food, and entering into the new year with body trust. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode  here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/ditch-wellness-and-diet-culture

If you want to learn three new somatic tools to support you in getting to know your body more when in relationship with food, my Intro to Somatic Eating™ mini course is on sale for 50% off until midnight on Tuesday 1/3. Learn more  HERE: https://satiated.mykajabi.com/offers/L2B45adz

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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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 in me to diet. I saw how ineffective, restrictive, and disconnecting dieting was and I didn't want to do it anymore. That meant though that I would find myself in binge eating behaviors several times every week with what felt like no out. It was deeply uncomfortable and I wasn't ready to let it go. 

In this week’s episode, I talk about how to be with the intense longing and desire for your binge eating to go away now. We will explore one powerful tool to support your body in feeling calm in the face of internal pressure to make a change immediately. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode  here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/how-to-be-with-the-intense-longing-and-desire-for-your-binge-eating-to-go-away-now

Satiated will be taking the next week off. 

No matter what happens in your relationship with food this next week, remember that you're always doing the best you can. If you're feeling overwhelmed and dysregulated around friends and family or reflecting on holiday events from the past and you find yourself reaching for food when you're not physically hungry, that is you doing the best you can in that moment. 

Your best doesn't mean that you're not engaging in your food and body coping mechanisms. Your best means that you're going to keep showing up for yourself again and again and again no matter what unfolds. 

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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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 that have been labeled as bad, you might hear an internal voice say, "F this" and you eat and eat and eat to try to satiate all those needs that were put aside. 

In this week’s episode, I talk about the process of breaking up with dieting and the first step to take to no longer have dieting be a part of your life. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode  here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/breaking-up-with-dieting

If you're looking for more support on this journey, respond back to this email anytime. I know this healing adventure as I've been through it and am here for you in every stage and phase. 

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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