Happy Satiated Saturday!

Do you wake up thinking about food, think about food all day long, and go to sleep thinking about food? If this is something you have experienced or are currently going through, please know you're not alone. 

You're thinking about food constantly for a reason. This is your body's way of communicating with you. Thinking about food isn't wrong. It's guiding you toward something your body is needing physically or emotionally.

In this week’s episode, we will explore 3 top reasons you can't stop thinking about food.

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here. 

Thinking about food is your body's way of guiding you. Experience your body as your best friend who is on your team. When a teammate wants to give you feedback, you listen. When your body is giving you feedback, you can slow down and deeply listen to what it might be trying to tell you.

With Compassion and Empathy,
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Have you ever been in the cycle of restricting your food and then finding yourself in a full on binge? There are so many reasons why this cycle can occur and a myriad of emotions that can arise when in this cycle. 

The diet culture fuels the binge-restrict cycle. When it comes to diets, usually it begins with some kind of restriction that is externally forced upon your body. It doesn’t matter what your body tells you, as long as you follow the rules. Restriction might start with cutting out certain food groups without the internal information from your body telling you that food doesn’t work for you. 

When the body doesn’t get what it needs nutritionally and emotionally, at some point, your body is going to take over for you. It needs more food than you’re maybe giving it. It needs more macro and micronutrients than it's getting. It needs more attention and care. And then, the binge happens. At that point, it doesn’t matter what food you’re eating anymore. Your body has taken over and is urging you to eat to get what it needs. 

In this week’s episode, I discuss 5 effective Somatic Eating™ questions to begin asking yourself to learn what this cycle is here to teach you and break free from it.

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here. 

Slowing down and asking these questions with practice and time can facilitate showing up for yourself in new ways. Remember, you're never ever doing anything wrong. Healing from being in this cycle will not look linear. One day you may experiment with one of these questions and the next day you may want to feel the safety of the cycle. Just keep taking small bite sized steps forward and trust you're where you're meant to be each step of the way. 

With Compassion and Empathy,
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Lying down on a human sized piece of paper and having your body shape be outlined with a marker is an interesting experience.

It was my first year of Graduate School for my Masters in Body Psychotherapy. One day in class, our teacher took out a human sized roll of paper. We each had to lie down on the paper and a piece was cut to our height. We then had to pair off and lie down on the paper and have the other person outline our body with a marker. When I got up, I thought, "Yup. There I am. I've seen that shadow a million times."

Next, markers, colored pencils, and pens were brought out to choose what we wanted to draw on our body with. The activity was to draw our body's story visually. 

In this week’s episode, I share what I discovered in this body drawing experience and how you can replicate this experience for yourself to receive new insights on how your body is trying to talk to you.

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here. 

If you do your own body drawing feel free to take a picture of your drawing and send it to me at [email protected]! 

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Because of the diet culture we live in, many many individuals are on the spectrum of disordered eating. The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders states that "Eating disorders affect at least 9% of the population worldwide. 9% of the U.S. population, or 28.8 million Americans, will have an eating disorder in their lifetime. Less than 6% of people with eating disorders are medically diagnosed as “underweight.” Disordered eating patterns can affect anyone regardless of what one looks like externally. ​

The difference between disordered eating and eating disorders can be the severity of the habits and patterns with one's food and body. Disordered eating can include:

•  Food restriction
• Binge eating
• Unexplained digestive issues
• Changes in skin and hair Chronic dieting Self-worth connected to body shape and weight
• Preoccupation with body image Excessive or rigid exercise routine
• Calorie counting
• Fear and anxiety about certain foods or food groups
• A rigid approach to eating
• Relying on specific food rituals
• Withdrawing from social activities around food 

In this week’s episode, we're going to go on a journey exploring the 3 Somatic Eating phases to healing disordered eating patterns. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here. 

The patterns you have been playing out with your food and body for potentially years and years have become a part of your comfort zone and maybe even your identity. At first, it may feel uncomfortable or disorienting to experiment with new food and body habits. You get to trust that you're always exactly where you're meant to be, learning what you're meant to be learning. Take all the time you need on this healing adventure. 

With Compassion and Empathy,
Stephanie Mara Fox

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I want to offer a different perspective on "emotional eating."

Choosing food to emotionally self soothe is showing up for a reason. If we don't pay attention to what our body is trying to tell us, then our body is going to take over at some point to try and speak to us in louder ways. Think of how powerful your emotional eating or binge eating experiences are! What a potent way for your body to get your attention. Let's reframe that choosing food for emotional hunger reasons is not "wrong" or "bad." It is your body's way of communicating to you that it needs your attention. Our body can't speak with words and so this is the way it talks to you through cravings and urges and impulses. 

In this week’s episode, we will discuss a new way to navigate your eating experiences when you choose food to satiate an emotional hunger. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here. 

Emotional Eating is not the problem. It is a surface level symptom asking you to come a little closer, dive a little deeper, and explore what is underneath. I'm here for you on this adventure into the unknown. 

With Compassion and Empathy,
Stephanie Mara Fox

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When I was a kid, my two older brothers would have a contest at the dinner table who could get me to laugh first and spew the drink in my mouth out all over the table. To this day, if someone tries to get me to laugh at a meal, I get nervous about what is going to happen next. 

What were meals like in your family when you were a kid? Were they hectic? Did you feel heard? Did you feel pressure to show up a certain way? Was there fighting? Was there any fear that you wouldn't get the nourishment you needed?

These eating experiences when you were young can stay with you if they have not been digested, processed, assimilated, and released from your body. Your inner child can show up at each of your meals now still looking for the nourishing and satiating mealtime experiences they were looking for when you were younger. 

In this week’s episode, we will discuss signs your Inner Child is showing up at your meals and new ways to interact with them. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here. 

I would love to hear about your childhood mealtime experiences! Email me at [email protected] and let me know a particularly strong memory you have around your mealtime experiences with your family.

With Compassion and Empathy,
Stephanie Mara Fox

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The word Intuition has always rubbed me the wrong way. 

When you're someone who has experienced past wounds and traumas, intuition is not something that comes so easily. One of the definitions of intuition is a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning. To be aware of our feelings means we have to be in our bodies. Yet, when you have experienced past situations that made your body unsafe to be in, it can feel intense to be in your body to know what you’re feeling. 

To be able to get through that past situation, you might have needed to disembody as that experience felt too intense to process. Thank goodness you had this wise strategy to not be in your body so you could navigate that moment with as much ease as possible! 

In this week’s episode, we will discuss why Intuitive Eating may have felt more difficult to do and just isn't going to work for you with where you're at on your food and body healing journey. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here. 

Like with any relationship, it will take time to build up that trust again with your body. You get to take all the time you need here and simply commit to the practice of showing up for your body the best you can. 

With Compassion and Empathy,
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Body hate is rampant all over the world. We judge our bodies, pick on them, tell them they should be different, underfeed them, and overexercise them. The messages we have received for a long time have been that we need to love our bodies and appreciate them to thrive in our lives. 

If this strategy worked though, would we still be talking about how much we dislike our body shape?

You might even feel frustrated. You have been trying to love your body as it is for yearssss and yet there is still this small voice inside that tells you that this is not a body you can love. Many coaches, counselors, and therapists are often focusing on the end result without exploring what are the steps an individual needs to take to work toward body love. 

In this week’s episode, I will reveal what is the first step needed to be taken to actually step into body love over time. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here. 

You get to take all the time you need on this body love journey. You also don't have to navigate this journey alone. You can join my private Facebook Group called Satiated: A Hunger Healing Community. And, if you're wanting more one on one support, book a free 20 minute Connect Call with me today and let's chat about what is coming up for you on your unique body love journey.

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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I first learned of the vagus nerve when I was researching for my published thesis, Cultivating a Relationship with the Gut Brain. Learning about this amazing wandering nerve in our body was a game-changer for me and optimizing my digestion. 

The vagus nerve runs through our intestines, stomach, up into our lungs, heart, throat, esophagus, and into our brain. You can think of the vagus nerve as the highway of communication between the gut brain and the head brain. 

The vagus nerve plays a role in our Parasympathetic Nervous System aka our relaxation and rest and digest response. So if we have experienced a trauma or are processing wounds or even an increase in stress, this can affect our digestion and ability to assimilate any food with ease. 

You could be eating the "healthiest" foods in the world but if you're eating them in a stress response, ​digestion will shut down where it feels harder to assess our hunger and fullness cues leading to less satisfying meals. Lack of satiating eating experiences can lead us to overeat, binge, or self soothe with food because of the lack of pleasure we're receiving when we eat to fulfill our physical hungers. 

In this week’s episode, I offer 5 ways to stimulate your Vagus Nerve before or after you eat to create more satiating and peaceful eating experiences and enhancing your digestion. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here. 

If you play with some of these vagus nerve stimulation tools before or after you eat, email me at [email protected] and let me know how it went! 

With Compassion and Empathy,
Stephanie Mara Fox

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We all have them. Those days where it just feels a little harder, a little more intense to be in a body. Everyone experiences "bad" body image days every now and then.

I'm putting "bad" in parentheses because what I have discovered is these days actually have a lot to teach us. I want to reframe that these days don't have to be "bad." These days happen for many reasons and we can view them more as opportunities for self connection. 

We can even enjoy these days as they're usually a sign of needing to slow down and attend to something and we get to give ourselves the space to finally focus on our self care. 

In this week’s episode, I'm offering you a Body Image Thrival Pack so you can navigate these days with as much ease as possible. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here. 

You can utilize this Body Image Thrival Pack and explore what you would uniquely want in your Thrival Pack so that when these days come around you have trust and confidence within yourself that you can navigate these days with so much ease. 

With Compassion and Empathy,
Stephanie Mara Fox

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