Satiated Podcast

Happy Satiated Saturday! 

In my early 20's, I went on a journey to heal my gut. After years of being in pain, I got a colonoscopy and endoscopy completed to check to make sure I didn't have a digestive disorder. 

The only thing the doctor prescribed me with at the time was IBS or Irritable Bowel Syndrome and told me to watch my triggers and that was it. I felt frustrated and confused. And so I dove into everything I could learn about the gut. 

Now, I know many of you have heard me talk about how it's often not about food yet rather the state you're eating food in that affects how food is digested and assimilated. AND, I have a very sensitive digestive tract. I discovered along the way that there were some foods that absolutely did not work with my body and left me feeling pain, bloated, mentally foggy, digestively uneasy, and drastically affected my bowel movements.

If you're someone who has some kind of medical food guidance AND you're trying to heal your relationship with food to experience food as safe, this can be difficult to navigate. Having been on this exploration myself and supported others when they discover a food does not resonate with their body or needs to be taken out to support the body with a particular symptom, I wanted to offer some support if you find yourself on a similar path.

In this week’s episode, I share four somatic approaches to food when you need to take certain foods out of your daily eating for medical or body listening purposes. You will learn about Boundary Mentality, the healing nature of choice, and what to do if you're not ready to let a certain food go that doesn't resonate with your body.

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode  here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/feeling-safe-and-empowered-with-food

There are 20 days left to sign up for the Somatic Eating® Program! If you're tired of being on this food healing journey alone, come join this amazing community with others that will truly get what you're going through. Click  HERE to learn more and looking forward to connecting with you soon! https://www.somaticeating.com/

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

When I was diving deeper into healing my relationship with food, my therapist at the time suggested I read  Eating in the Light of the Moon  by Anita Johnston. 

I was living by myself for the first time, trying to practice slowing down, and enjoying spending time with myself. I would do this through snuggling up on my couch and picking up this book. 

Not only is it an amazing read, but this book holds a special place in my heart for this time I spent with it and myself. So...

In this week’s episode, I had the honor to chat with Dr. Anita Johnston, author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, Co-creator of the Light of the Moon Cafe, and Executive Clinical Director of 'Ai Pono Hawaii Eating Disorder Treatment Program, about how metaphor will help you to heal your relationship with food, what you will need to learn to release food from the job of helping you self soothe, and how to crack the code of your food cravings. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode  here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/healing-food-and-body-issues

You will continue to learn about interpreting your food impulses in the Somatic Eating® Program! We start on April 20th and will spend 11 weeks together creating a more regulating relationship with food and your body. Go to somaticeating.com to learn more and sign up today. If you have any questions, email me back anytime.

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy 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 distance from yourself (and for good reason!) 

So when the urge arises to take back your life, we sometimes have to work it backward. It can start with breaking up with dieting, healing your relationship with food, and then slowly (very slowly) coming back into your body to feel what's there and has been there all along.

In this week’s episode, I chat with Saskia Carr, Intuitive Eating, Body Image, and Mindfulness Coach, about what diet culture is, what the process of breaking up with dieting looks like, the illusion of body control, that healing our relationship with our bodies does NOT need to include loving our bodies, and on your healing journey what comes after no longer worrying about your food or body. 

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

This healing adventure takes time. It took me about a decade to feel like I have a regulating and safety producing relationship with my food and body. Now, you might be thinking, "Stephanie, I don't have that amount of time. I need to heal this yesterday." 

I get it. I had those thoughts too. And, taking your time will be worth it. You won't be at a standstill. Small increments of change will occur every day, every week, every month. If I can be of support in any way on this path, reach out anytime. 

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

It's truly amazing how many body based healing modalities are out there now. 

I've been involved in the somatic world way before somatics was "in" and cool. Most of my family probably thought I was going into some fake psychotherapy degree, but as soon as I read the description of the classes, I knew that was the path for me. I came in to my somatic psychotherapy program loudly declaring I was going to be the one who combines somatics and nutrition. 

And now, I see others doing this more and more. It's wonderful that so many practitioners are learning about and infusing somatic work into their practices and it can also feel overwhelming with all the suggestions out there. 

This is why I'm excited for you to listen to today's podcast episode with a practitioner who has been diving into and teaching brain retraining and nervous system regulation also before it exploded in popularity the past few years.

In this week’s episode, I chat with Lindsay Mitchell, PA-C, Brain Retraining Coach and the founder & CEO of Vital-Side, about what brain retraining is, how food sensitivities can have nothing to do with the food itself, and brain retraining exercises. We break things down in this episode into bite sized pieces of practical actions you can explore to step into a different relationship with food. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode  here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/healing-food-sensitivities-and-fear-of-food-with-brain-retraining

Many of the things we discussed today are also explored in the Somatic Eating® Program. I will be sharing a special offer to those on the waitlist this upcoming Tuesday. So be sure you've joined and I'll be in touch more soon! https://www.somaticeating.com/

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

As I move closer to my 40's, I've noticed many changes in my body. A few more gray hairs. Some distinguishing wisdom wrinkles. 

I'm excited to see that the changes a woman's body goes through in her life is becoming more openly discussed and normalized. Your body is going to change as you transition from your menstrual years, to peri-menopause, and into menopause. 

I like to think of it like a play (for those of you that don't know, I was a former actress and have been in more plays than I can count). 

Act 1: pre-menstrual years. Act 2: menstrual years. Act 3: post menstrual years. 

In each act, your body is going to need different kinds of support. It will ask for different forms of physical movement and have changing nutritional needs. 

I know you've heard me often say that we cannot change what we're not aware of. So, the more awareness you have, the more you can prepare yourself for each act of your life. 

In this week’s episode, I chat with Kitty Blomfield, cofounder of NuStrength and Saturee, about the importance of weight lifting as you transition into perimenopause, how to step off the restrict-binge cycle, eating more (not less!) including carbs and sugar, and committing to the journey with your ever changing body. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode  here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/supporting-your-body-through-menstrual-cycle-changes

As a heads up, a few F-bombs are dropped in this episode so if you have little one's around, be sure to put on headphones. Additionally, we do discuss a bit on tracking your intake. We make it clear in this episode that if you're someone who has a history if disordered eating or an eating disorder that tool will not be one that you will want to utilize. 

If you have any questions after listening to this episode, email me at [email protected] anytime!

With Compassion and Empathy,
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

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. 

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

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! 

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

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.

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

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

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

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.

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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