Happy Satiated Saturday! 

We are at that time of year where you may find yourself pulling out your summer clothing and having all sorts of judgments arise around clothes that perhaps don't fit anymore or needing to change your body to wear that bathing suit you want to wear at the beach. 

The idea of a "summer body" or a "bikini body" is a creation of the diet and fitness industries. Think about it...if you didn't feel like you needed to change your body for warmer weather, diet programs and summer workout bootcamps would potentially go out of business. You would find clothes that feel comfortable on your current body and go on your merry way.

In this week’s episode, I talk with Cherie Miller about transitioning into summer with more discernment and curiosity around the external messages you receive at this time of year, what quasi-healing is when it comes to healing patterns of disordered eating, and how getting comfortable with discomfort and compassion are huge components on this food and body healing adventure.

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/transitioning-into-summer-with-body-compassion-and-confidence

You may have a routine of how you transition into summertime. Get curious this year if those thoughts or judgments or inner dialogues bring you into closer connection with you and the kind of relationship you want to be having with your body. You can catch those habitual reactions to your body, pause, and redirect. You get to choose how you want to be relating to yourself in any moment. 

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Kristin Neff: https://self-compassion.org/

Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

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Happy 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 you eat. We also explore authentic vs inauthentic pleasure when it comes to food and so much more.

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/coming-to-food-fed

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy 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 this food coping mechanism for decades of your life and so it will take time to shift this behavior. It has been supporting you in so many different ways. 

In this week’s episode, I share my own experience with binge eating and how the power of choice can begin to transform these food behaviors. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/the-power-of-choice-when-healing-patterns-of-binge-eating

If you're looking for more support on this journey, email me at [email protected] anytime. I'm here for you on this food and body adventure.

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

In the process of writing my book on Somatic Eating™, I interviewed my mom about my food habits growing up. I was quite a "picky" eater. While plenty of different foods were offered to me, my favorite thing was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and buttered noodles. It's funny to reflect on this because as an adult, I have more of the philosophy of I'll try anything once. 

I have worked with a lot of parents over the years that are just trying to do the best they can to feed their children and it can be confusing! Allow sugar or don't allow sugar? Force them to eat their vegetables? Rules around dessert? Your kid's relationship with food can be a strong mirror back to you and reflect back everything you might be working on in your relationship with your food and body as well.

In this week’s episode, I loved my conversation with Nicole Cruz, Registered Dietitian specializing in disordered eating and family feeding, about food freedom foundations for you and your kids, how to navigate sugar with kids (and for yourself), and looking inside self when you have reactions around your kid's (or anyone's) food behaviors. Even if you don't have kids, you were once a kid and listening to this episode can raise awareness around what you potentially grew up with that affected your relationship with food and begin to support your inner child in new ways.

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here:  https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/food-freedom-foundations-for-you-and-your-children

As a reminder, never forget that you have always been doing the best you can to take care of you and your family. Take some time today to acknowledge yourself for one small thing that you have done to show up for you or your significant others or your kids.

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy 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 Mya Kwon, Anti-Diet Dietitian and Food+Body Therapist, about why diets don't work, set point weight range, intuitive eating, and diet culture detoxing. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/why-diets-dont-work-and-how-to-do-a-diet-culture-detox

As a reminder, the first launch of the Somatic Eating™ Program will be coming up this summer!!! If you want to receive all the satiating updates on the Somatic Eating™ Program go to somaticeating.com and join the waitlist. 

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

I navigated patterns of binge eating for about a decade of my life. Decreasing these food behaviors took time, patience, and practice. It was messy. It was non-linear. It was intense and at times even fun. 

I remember the first time I binged in front of my now husband and he looked at me with no judgment whatsoever and said, "well, how was that?" 

You might be thinking, "Wait. You binged in front of someone!?!?!" 

Binge eating behavior perpetuates when it stays in the dark where it can feel like a shameful act. Part of healing can be engaging in the food behaviors you normally do by yourself with a regulating presence around. 

Binging in front of someone shifted something inside of me. It made me slow down and get really curious. Here I was choosing food to try to regulate my body and I noticed that what felt MORE regulating was talking and connecting with the person in front of me. I got the opportunity to observe how ineffective this food pattern was at giving me the sense of safety I was looking for. 

Of course, just because I was aware of this didn't change the binging right away. That took time to transform. 

In this week’s episode, I had an incredibly honest, inspirational, and profound conversation with Sarah Dosanjh, Psychotherapist and author, about her creative and messy journey to heal patterns of binge eating, ways to begin this binge eating healing adventure, and what this path actually looks like. Get ready. We go deep! 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/i-cant-stop-binge-eating-help

Last, I have some exciting news! The first launch of the Somatic Eating™ Program will be coming up this summer!!! If you want to receive all the satiating updates on the Somatic Eating™ Program go to somaticeating.com and join the waitlist. 

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy 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 regulate and feel safe. To change patterns of emotional eating and binge eating means that nervous system regulation will need to occur BEFORE your food behaviors can transform.

In this week’s episode, I talk with Aisha Tambo, Personal Trainer for the Spirit and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner about why regulating your nervous system is so important and a plateful of different tips and trick on how to regulate your nervous system. I LOVEDDDD this conversation and if you're someone who has been curious about how to feel more grounded and less stressed in your life this is a must listen.

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/regulating-your-nervous-system-and-co-regulating-with-nature

Once you're done listening to this episode, take some time to journal about what people, environments, nature, pets, places support you in feeling regulated, calm, and connected. 

With Compassion and Empathy,
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy 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 a practitioner. I grew up surrounded by foods having meaning and so I have had an ongoing fascination with how we all relate with food in different ways for so many different reasons.

In this week’s episode, I talk about how Judaism shaped my relationship with food. I discuss why it's so important to reflect on your own religious upbringing and how it may have affected your relationship with your food and body so you're aware of the beliefs you bring to the table every time you eat. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/religion-disordered-eating-jewish-upbringing-and-a-forever-changed-relationship-with-food

I provide a list of journaling questions in this episode. If it feels safe and comfortable to you, feel free to email me back any insights you have from these reflections! 

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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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 eating, gut health, and optimal functioning of our neurotransmitters can affect your sugar cravings and binge eating experiences, and so much more! 

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

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health by Leslie Korn

The Antianxiety Food Solution by Trudy Scott

Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Natasha Campbell-Mcbride

The Mood Cure by Julia Ross

The Diet Cure by Julia Ross

A Mind of Your Own by Kelly Brogan

WomanCode by Alisa Vitti

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Happy 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 bad, rather foods that my body simply responds to differently in different moments. 

Using food as a tool to heal your body can be a multi-faceted process, especially when you're also trying to heal your relationship with food as well. 

In this week’s episode, I talk with Sarah Sherwood, Embodiment Coach and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, about her Lyme Disease healing journey, her relationship with food throughout that process, the body respect boundaries with food she needed to set, and the conversations she needed to have with others to make her healing path as smooth as possible. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/when-you-need-to-use-food-as-a-tool-to-heal

With Compassion and Empathy,
Stephanie Mara Fox

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