Happy Satiated Saturday! 

How do you currently view symptoms or impulses in your body?

Are they something to be fixed? Are they wrong or bad? Are you afraid of them when they increase? 

If you said yes to these questions, you might notice how does it feel in your body to view the body's symptoms and impulses as wrong, bad, fearful, and need of fixing? Something I've been teaching for a while is that your food coping mechanisms are not a problem. 

Often, what needs to be updated is how you respond to your body when it is sending you communication through a symptom or urge. What if you started to invite that reaction to the table and make it alright that this is what you're experiencing? 

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Ali Damron, Hormone Expert, Licensed Acupuncturist, and Certified Personal Trainer, about: 

• Understanding neuroplastic pain
• The complexity of emotions in healing
• Updating your relationship to stress
• Updating your body's story
• Understanding the role of fear in physical symptoms
• Embracing discomfort
• Anxiety as a messenger of information
• The importance of naming your feelings and emotional check-ins

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

I just created a brand new workshop called Move Through Binge Urges and Binge Pitfalls with Somatic Eating®, and I will be teaching it live on Wednesday, April 30th at 1:30 pm ET. You can learn more and sign up ​here​.

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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While trauma-based food coping mechanisms, like binge eating, can feel dramatic, healing can sometimes (not always) be incredibly boring. 

Decreasing food patterns can look like simple acts of body care, like:

• Eating consistent, balanced meals
• Moving your body in nourishing ways
• Taking time to breathe and enjoy a moment
• Fostering a validating inner dialogue 
• Finding ways to laugh and have fun 

These are the non-sexy, simple, not marketable ways of what it can look like to take care of your body and reconnect with yourself. 

In this week's episode, I chat with Ashley Fillmore, Coach, Metabolism Expert, and the founder of Metabolic Fix™, about: 

• Shifting from reactive actions for your health to preventative
• The role of stress, mindset, and burnout in your health and food behaviors
• Finding the right practitioner to work with for you and how to state your needs with them
• Identifying progress beyond the scale

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/lasting-body-wellness

The doors to the Somatic Eating® Program open on Tuesday, April 29th! If you're on the waitlist, you'll receive an email that day with a special waitlist only offer. If you're not on the waitlist yet, you can sign up now at ​somaticeating.com​.

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

I have one published article in a journal titled, The Enteric Nervous System and Body Psychotherapy: Cultivating a Relationship with the Gut Brain.

I have a fascination and curiosity about the gut. The gut contains about 100 trillion bacteria that contribute to your mood, mental health, immune system, cravings, and nervous system.

Some studies have found that there are some missing microbes in the guts of people who are struggling with binge eating, which provides another example of how binge eating is not your fault but a response to what is happening inside your body. 

About 95% of serotonin is made in your gut, making it a part of your experience of joy and happiness. You can imagine that if your gut bacteria are out of balance, you may feel inexplicably sad, leading you to reach for food to feel better. 

In this week's episode, I chat with Martha Carlin, microbiome researcher, founder of The BioCollective, and speaker about: 

• The importance of understanding the microbiome
• The connection between Parkinson's and gut health
• The impact of food and stress on the gut and mental health
• Where gut research may be heading with probiotics, fecal transplants, and nutrition 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/understanding-your-gut-and-its-role-in-your-mood-and-cravings

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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When I started to learn about the mind-body connection through yoga, I dove deep into all things yoga. I became a bit of a yoga fanatic and that led me to learn about Ayurveda, which is yoga's sister science. 

Ayurveda is a whole-body system of medicine. Rather than seeing symptoms as problems to be fixed, Ayurveda approaches symptoms as imbalances that can be brought into balance with foods, movements, and self-care routines. Ayurveda gave me a new lens to see my body through. I got to experience the exquisite wisdom in my body. I learned that food can be an ally helping to bring me into balance rather than what diet culture taught me was that food was something to be controlled and to eat as little of it as possible. 

In this week's episode, I chat with Dr. Shivani Gupta, Ayurvedic practitioner and inflammation expert, about: 

• What Ayurveda is
• The 3 doshas and how to determine which one you might be
• What foods and actions support your unique dosha
• The importance of eating seasonally
• What we can learn from an Ayurvedic approach to food and our bodies

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/an-ayurvedic-perspective-on-food-as-medicine

Hope you all enjoy this week's episode!

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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Website: www.shivanigupta.com 

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Have you ever noticed that the strongest memories are the ones where you felt the most presence and embodiment? I will never forget my first yoga class because when I was shaking while holding a plank, I couldn't be anywhere else but in my body. 

At the beginning of your eating recovery, you may feel disconnected and dissociated. Your body has felt like an unsafe place to inhabit. Food has served as a wise strategy to create distance from your body or a micro-moment of feeling alive. Creating safety with food is less about food and more about expanding your capacity to be in your body while you eat, feel, and live. Embodiment is often the missing piece in healing your food coping mechanisms. 

In this week's episode, I chat with Ann Saffi Biasetti, Transpersonal Psychologist and Eating Disorder Expert, about: 

• What embodiment is
• The importance of creating safe and comfortable embodying experiences
• The process of embodiment
• Creating a language for describing body sensations and emotions
• How embodiment can impact food behaviors
• What the ongoing journey of embodiment looks like

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

The next Somatic Eating® Program starts on May 22nd. If you're inspired by this conversation and want to learn the language of your body and how it speaks to you through your food behaviors, go to ​somaticeating.com​ to join the waitlist.

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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Website:​ www.anembodiedlife.com

Ann's next Befriending Your Body Program starts in April: www.befriendingyourbodyprogram.com
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Proprioception is your body's ability to sense movement and know where you are in space. When you've experienced past trauma, you dissociate from your body out of protection. 

This can decrease your proprioceptive awareness where food comes in to experience movement, embodiment, and have a moment of presence to feel where you are right here and now. 

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Dr. Satya Sardonicus, a leading expert in fascia and nervous system healing and the creator of NeuroFascial Flow, about: 

• What is proprioception and fascia
• How low proprioception and rigidity in your fascial system can lead to increased stress
• Proprioceptive and fascial exercises you can engage in that can help you to navigate food urges
• What somatic and nervous system practices could be making things worse and dysregulating you

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/the-power-of-proprioceptive-practices

Hope you enjoy this episode and see you all next week!

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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In April of 2022, I went to Disney World with my family and came back with covid. It was, unfortunately, the Delta strain that left me with long covid. 

I had to use an oxygen concentrator while I slept for about a year while my lungs healed through nebulized steroids and inhalers. I also had the lovely long covid symptom of losing my ability to swallow where I was on an all-liquid way of eating for almost two years. 

It's been quite a journey! While there are a few long covid symptoms I still navigate, I am now able to chew and swallow foods again, can sleep soundly, and generally feel much more grounded and stable in my body.

Along the way, I learned so much about how the body works and that food behaviors are multi-faceted and influenced by many different internal factors. 

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Lily Spechler, Long Covid Registered Dietician, about: 

• Our own long covid healing journeys
• What can happen in the body after getting long covid
• Navigating histamine, mcas, dysautonomia issues
• How food and supplements can play a role in increasing or decreasing bodily symptoms
• The non-food reasons you may overeat or gain or lose weight
• And a lot more!

Even if you don't have long covid there are so many gems in this episode to take away. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/healing-from-long-covid-and-chronic-illness

The next Somatic Eating® Program starts on Thursday, May 22nd. You can join the waitlist to be first to know when doors open and receive a waitlist only gift at ​somaticeating.com​. 

Always here for you in whatever you're navigating with your food and body. 

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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Website: https://www.longcoviddietitian.com/

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Your body loves to be in movement. Yet, movement or exercise can also be a way to create distance between you and how you feel. There is a different felt sense when you move to express a fight or flight response or dissociate from the feeling of threat in your body. 

You can ask yourself before you move: Am I using movement as a way to push myself further away from me? Am I using movement in a way that connects me back to myself?

In this week's episode, I chat with DK Ciccone, author and weight-neutral certified pilates instructor and pain specialist, about: 

• Befriending movement
• Redefining movement goals
• Challenging fitness culture
• Understanding chronic pain and the role of movement in pain management
• Listening to your body's wisdom
• Healing through movement

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/rediscover-the-joy-of-moving

In the Somatic Eating® Program, you'll learn how to gauge what and how much physical movement would work best for you. You can join the waitlist by going to ​somaticeating.com​. 

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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Website: https://movementremedies.org 

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I take a different approach to body image healing. I apply the same explorations I do with food from a somatic perspective to body image. I started to wonder why is it that you can look in the mirror and love what you see one day and then later that day or the next day look in the mirror and feel like everything needs to change. Your body did not change within 24 hours. 

The answer is your nervous system. You will perceive your body differently based on your nervous system state. Often body image worries increase when you don't feel safe. 

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Deb Schachter, author and Boston’s leading clinicians in body image and eating disorder recovery, about: 

• Navigating bad body image moments
• The role of relationships in body image
• What your body is trying to tell you through body image concerns
• An internal family systems perspective on body image
• The importance of connection and community on this healing path

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/bad-body-image-moments

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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Website: https://debschachterlicsw.com/ 

https://bodyimageinsideout.com/

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Somatic practices have become a buzzword as the new supplement you can take to “calm” yourself down, to shake off a trauma response, and maybe not binge eat. 

They can feel alluring. When you’re struggling with food, you just want an answer. There can be panic and desperation at willing to try anything to make sure you won’t binge again. You may find yourself trying to shake, or tap, or dunk your face in ice-cold water. This may feel calming for a few minutes and then you watch yourself walk into the kitchen and grab food.

Gah! So frustrating!

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat about: 

• The purpose of somatic practices
• Questions to ask yourself to choosing a somatic practice
• The difference between fixing and friending 
• Bodily feedback to look out for when a somatic practice resonates

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/why-arent-my-somatic-practices-working-to-stop-binge-eating

If you're ever looking for more 1:1 support with integrating somatics into your everyday life to decrease food coping mechanisms, you can book 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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