Satiated Podcast

Happy Satiated Saturday! 

I would really like to say I'm a former People Pleaser, but that would just be a big lie. Instead, I would like to say that I've come to know the People Pleaser part of me and what they believe they would get from pleasing someone else. 

There are a lot of reasons why people pleasing tendencies can get cultivated. It can be a response to trauma that gives you some sense of control that if you can make everyone happy you won't be abandoned or harmed. It can be a response from what you learned from those around you that it's the "norm" to put everyone else before yourself. It can be learned from your culture and fears around being viewed as selfish. 

By saying yes to everyone else though, this can increase patterns of binge eating and emotional eating as food comes in to finally put yourself first. Food may be the only place you feel comfortable putting yourself first. To alter these food behaviors, your relationship with No and setting boundaries needs to be healed.

In this week’s episode, I chat with Suzanne Culberg, who is a Nope Coach, about how over-giving can lead to over-consumption. We explore what small steps anyone can take to begin to put themselves first so that food comes in less to do that for you. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/people-pleasing-is-feeding-your-emotional-eating

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With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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First 2 chapters of her book: www.suzanneculberg.com/book

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

I remember the first time a therapist assigned to me that I take myself out on a date. I spent the afternoon reading books in a local book store. I went to the movies by myself for the very first time. I bought myself dinner and ate it outside. 

It was the first time I truly experienced enjoying my own company after years of running away from myself. There can be so much focus in the body positivity movement on loving the external form of your body and yet who is the person inside of it? Could taking yourself out on a date and getting to know yourself inside and out lead to appreciating your body as it is?

In this week’s episode, I had an important and fascinating conversation with Perle Noire who is an intuitive healer, creative director, transformative coach, and the creator of The Healing Through Seduction program. She is an advocate for people searching for a community to reclaim their bodies and control over their sensuality. We will explore what seducing yourself means, acts you can engage in to romance yourself to feel appreciated in your body, and getting to know your body through discovering what turns it on. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/learning-to-love-your-body

As a heads up, we get into some conversation around sensuality and sexuality. I have found this is an important exploration when healing your relationship with your food and body. For many individuals, a difficult relationship with food can occur as a response to past sexual trauma or not getting your intimacy needs met in your life. This is a different kind of conversation than I've ever had on the podcast. If you notice reactions arise as you listen to this episode, take time to journal, reflect, and do what you need to do to take care of you. 

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

When I was in the thick of my emotional eating and binge eating patterns, food was often used to check out instead of check in. 

I would even wait days to check in with myself until I saw my therapist and then burst into tears expressing everything my body had been holding onto and then the pattern would repeat where all those emotions would build inside my body leading up to a binge and a release only at one point in time where I felt safe enough to let go. If this pattern sounds familiar to you, the work here is to start to use regular meal times as opportunities to check in with yourself. There needs to be more time incorporated into your day where you connect with your body, check in with what's there, and give it space to be expressed. 

In this week’s episode, I talk about a new routine you can create for yourself before or after you eat to start to incorporate more opportunities to self regulate throughout your day.

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/decrease-emotional-eating

I have some very exciting news! Satiated Podcast is on Patreon. You can now join the Satiated Podcast Membership. For only $19 a month, you will receive opportunities to connect with others listening to the podcast, receive content I will only post on Patreon, and be able to attend monthly live calls to ask questions you have about anything discussed here. If you sign up in the next two weeks, you will also receive the opportunity to have a session with me that will go live on the podcast. You can join the Satiated Podcast Membership here: https://www.patreon.com/stephaniemara and can't wait to see you over there! 

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

For many years of my life, I had a deep fear of gaining weight. 

My body shape had been connected to my ability to find love and be loved. 

My body had been connected to my worth. 

My body had been connected to my ability to be liked. Does this sound familiar at all? What has your body shape been connected to? Where did you learn that having a thinner body would be better?

 For myself, it came in from Seventeen Magazine. It came from my closest guy friends telling me to lose weight. It came from observation of how individuals in middle school, in high school were treated differently. It came from Disney movies. 

In this week’s episode, I explore the wisdom in the fear around a weight change and offer 3 somatic practices you can experiment with when this fear comes up. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/do-you-fear-gaining-weight

As a reminder, my Intro to Somatic Eating™ mini course is on sale for 50% off for only 10 more days. 

Somatic Eating™ is my life's work. It is a body-oriented, sensation focused therapeutic approach to eating. This approach facilitates a decrease in patterns of emotional eating, binge eating, chronic dieting, binge-restrict cycle, and body image concerns. This mini course will provide you with three Somatic Eating™ tools that will begin to shift your relationship with food to one that feels more regulating, grounding, and connecting. 

 You can learn more by clicking here: https://satiated.mykajabi.com/offers/L2B45adz

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

Have you ever felt like your patterns with food are all you have ever known? Like you can't remember a time when you weren't doing the eating behaviors that you would love to change?

The Satisfaction Cycle is a concept that comes from Body Mind Centering and has impacted the field of Somatic Psychology. It describes how our developmental movement patterns influence our actions and sense of self in the world. 

These developmental movement patterns were all important ways that you as a baby experienced the world through your body. Any of these movement patterns that innately occur can get interrupted by your home life, traumatic experiences, and life situations.

In this week’s episode, I dive into what these developmental patterns are and what can happen in your relationship with food if any one of these is interrupted. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/how-your-developmental-stages-and-current-food-habits-are-connected

As a reminder, my Intro to Somatic Eating™ mini course is on sale for 50% off until midnight marking the Summer Solstice Tuesday June 21st. 

Somatic Eating™ is my life's work. It is a body-oriented, sensation focused therapeutic approach to eating. This approach facilitates a decrease in patterns of emotional eating, binge eating, chronic dieting, binge-restrict cycle, and body image concerns. This mini course will provide you with three Somatic Eating™ tools that will begin to shift your relationship with food to one that feels more regulating, grounding, and connecting. "Wonderful mini (huge) course. I LOVED it. And believe me, I have tried a LOT of approaches."

 Learn more by clicking here: https://satiated.mykajabi.com/offers/L2B45adz

And if you engage in the practices or journal about the questions offered in this episode, email me with any new insights that get cultivated for you!

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

As I have been navigating some health issues for over a month now, I have been reflecting on what is health? 

We're given a lot of different messages from diet culture or fitness culture around various different definitions of health. There are also many different kinds of health. Mental health. Physical health. Emotional health. Spiritual health. 

Honestly, I don't think anyone can define health for you. Only you're going to know what health feels like in your unique body and what facilitates that feeling. 

In this week’s episode, I talk with Brenna O'Malley about what is health, how to bring more focus to your mental health, and how your food and body patterns have been trying to support you in cultivating the health you're looking for.

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

If you're desiring further support on this food and body journey, I'm putting my Intro to Somatic Eating™ mini course on sale for 50% until midnight marking the Summer Solstice Tuesday June 21st. 

Somatic Eating™ is a body-oriented, sensation focused therapeutic approach to eating. This approach facilitates a decrease in patterns of emotional eating, binge eating, chronic dieting, binge-restrict cycle, and body image concerns. This mini course will provide you with three Somatic Eating™ tools that will begin to shift your relationship with food to one that feels more regulating, grounding, and connecting. "Wonderful mini (huge) course. I LOVED it. And believe me, I have tried a LOT of approaches."

 Learn more by clicking here: https://satiated.mykajabi.com/offers/L2B45adz

If you have any questions, email me at [email protected] anytime! 

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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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

Keep in touch with Cherie here:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foodfreedomtherapist/

Website: www.foodfreedomtherapy.com

Contact: [email protected]

Resources mentioned in this episode:

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

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

The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook

Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

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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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Special thanks to Bendsound for the intro music in this episode. www.bensound.com

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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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Resources mentioned in this episode:

Ellyn Satter Institute 

Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family by Ellyn Satter

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