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Something I learned from diet culture was that the taste of sweet was "bad." If I craved sweetness then something must be out of balance. There was probably a period of time where craving sweetness sent me into a panic where I had to become a detective to understand why I wanted something sweet. 

Learning about the five tastes changed my perspective. We have 5 basic tastes that include sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savory. Experiencing all five tastes can make a meal feel more satisfying and even regulating to your nervous system. Wanting to taste sweetness doesn't mean there is something wrong with you, but that your body is always looking for a balanced, well rounded eating experience. 

Additionally, the demonization of sweet foods has led to a complete disconnect from the body. One of the first tastes we experience as a baby is sweet. Sweet can be connected to care, warmth, attention, attunement, and connection. What if you’re not out of control with eating sweets, but starving for the bodily experience that sweets provide?

In this week's episode, I chat with Michelle Brown, Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner and clinical herbalist, about: 

• The somatic experience of food
• The five tastes and how they affect your nervous system
• Understanding sweetness and its role in nutrition
• Balancing taste for inner harmony
• Cravings as body communication
• The connection between taste and emotions
• The importance of enjoying your meals

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/five-tastes-calm-or-energize-your-nervous-system

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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It is difficult to talk about food without talking about body image. The two are intertwined. 

For many of you, it was your body's appearance that started the dieting, restricting, and binge eating. It was the internalized messages from a culture that wants to control women's bodies that shaped how you interacted with food. 

And for many, you may create a stabilizing relationship with food and the body image worries may continue because food was helping to cover up the lack of safety to live in your body. 

So today, we're going to read some body image Reddit Stories to support you in how you may somatically navigate body image concerns when they arise. 

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

• How nervous system states shape your perception of your body
• Body image concerns can be an attempt at trauma resolution 
• Explorations on the somatic meaning of body image struggles 
• Grief over previous expressions of the body 
• The sensory integration that needs to occur to experience the body differently

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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This is actually a pretty wild story. 

During my first year in my PhD, a woman reached out to me through the contact form on my website and was like, "Hey, we're doing similar work! I would love to connect." 

I starred the email as something I needed to follow up on and then it got completely buried in my inbox. Then, several months later, one of my teachers emailed me and said, "Did you see this dissertation defense coming up? It is on binge eating." 

I immediately marked it in my calendar as something I had to attend. I arrived at the Zoom dissertation defense and as soon as I see this woman's name I was like, "Why is this person's name sound so familiar?" 

I sneak off into my inbox and look up her name and lo and behold, it was the same person who emailed me a few months prior. Honestly, I initially felt mortified I had not followed up with her sooner, but I immediately emailed her after the defense was over. 

We scheduled a Zoom chat and it was amazing how much we had in common. We come from a similar lens that binge eating recovery needs a body-based approach. It is the body and experiencing it internally and externally that is missing from most recovery modalities. 

In this week's episode, I chat with Dr. Kristina Dobyns, PhD, MS, Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, and certified Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention facilitator, about: 

• What worked and didn't work in Kristina's binge eating recovery journey
• What she discovered in her research on binge eating
• The importance of building somatic awareness and interoception
• The role of sensory strategies
• Utilizing nutrition as a part of binge eating recovery
• Challenging conventional recovery approaches

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/body-based-strategies-for-binge-eating

You're about to receive some game changing binge eating recovery strategies and I hope it feels helpful!

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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Website: https://www.BeyondBingeEating.com

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As many of you know, I went on my first diet when I was 13 years old. 

It was Weight Watchers and it shifted how I viewed my body for a decade. I saw it as something weak and that I could control. It would take years of nutritional, mind, and body studies to realize my body was never the enemy I was taught to see it as. I sometimes wonder how things might have been different if I had learned as a kid and teenager how to interact with my body and food from a place of trust. 

I eventually would see a nutritionist when I was twenty years old and it was she who told me sometimes you will overeat and sometimes you may undereat but when you zoom out over a month you'll see that your body got the nutrition it needed. 

Learning this bodily trust at a younger age might have offered a framework for how to safely land inside of my body rather than constantly leaving it. 

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with The Holistic Kids, four brothers on a mission to educate and empower kids from the inside out, about: 

• Their journey to learning more about holistic health
• Discovering the impact of food on their health and wellbeing
• Their revolutionize acronym
• The importance of mindfulness
• How they have navigated technology and social media when everyone around them is using it more and more
• The role of nature, stress management, and play in health

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/4-teens-on-a-mission-to-revolutionize-teen-health

I found it fascinating to hear from four teens about what they're noticing about what it is like to be a teenager these days. So whether you're in the process of supporting a teenager or remember what it was like to be a teen, this episode will give you a peek into what the younger generations are currently navigating. 

Hope you enjoy it!

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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Diets teach us to view the body as a project. You can tinker with what you're eating and transform your body into something different. 

Then fitness culture doubles down and provides the message that you can shape your body to be whatever you want it to be, you just have to put up with messages like no pain, no gain and a complete disconnection from your body, how it feels, and what resonates with it. 

I know I spent years and years in this ping pong game of diets and body shaping. Then, saying F this, swinging the pendulum to the opposite side and eating everything I had deprived and barely moving my body, only to still feel horrible that I went crawling back to a diet again because I had no clue what else to do. 

There is a lot that gets sacrificed seeing the body as a project and this realization often only occurs after months and years when you realize you don't know who you are anymore, how to exist in your body, or what it actually needs. 

Yet, releasing the habitual relationship with the body as something to change and alter will also potentially change your relationships, the environments you've been interacting with, and the conversations you engage in. It isn't that easy when everyone around you is also in their own body project to say, "hey, ya know what, I'm done working on my body." 

In this week's episode, I chat with Savala Nolan, writer, author, public speaker, and professor at UC Berkeley about: 

• The journey of recovering from diet culture
• Understanding the language and psychological impact of dieting
• Ending the body project and facing the fears and cost of body liberation
• Questioning societal norms
• Practical steps toward body liberation

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

This was such a fantastic conversation. Savala describes exiting diet culture in a way that I've never heard someone capture what it is actually like and what a person may come to face in the process. 

If you have any insights from this episode, let me know!

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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I have often felt like talking about self love can feel frustrating and confusion. What does loving oneself actually mean and look like? 

Early in my twenties, I think I thought self love looked and felt like self discipline. I went to yoga and meditated almost every day, I was strict with myself on what and when I would eat, I went to bed early and woke up early. 

From the outside, it looked like I deeply loved myself through how I cared for myself but that it not the way it felt. I felt trapped, depressed, and disconnected. My routine wasn't bringing me joy or love, it brought short term safety. And that bubble would burst if I did anything outside of that routine where I would then be so cruel with myself. 

Self love may show up as an act, but now I experience it as a felt sense. It feels like a warmth, a closeness, and an appreciation of my body for all that it does and navigates every day.

In this week's episode, I chat with Lulu Essey, Speaker, Mindset Advisor, and host of The Lulu Essey Podcast , about: 

• Understanding the difference between self love and self care
• The practice of staying with yourself in all emotions, sensations, and reactions
• Navigating discomfort
• The role of safety in self love
• The courage to face inner struggles and the importance of asking for support

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/what-self-love-really-is-and-how-to-embody-it-every-day

Hope you enjoy this week's episode and talk to you more soon! 

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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I've been through a similar trajectory that so many have in food and body image recovery. 

In my twenties, I got to a place where food was less of a concern. I wasn't skipping meals anymore and I was balancing those meals and eating all macronutrients. I felt much more grounded and regulated. 

But, the body image struggles continued to hang around. I felt good in my body but I still hated the way my body looked. So, I tried every mainstream approach. I tried the stronger over skinny approach where I lifted a lot of heavy weights and gained a lot of muscle. Yet still, it felt like it was never enough. 

So, I tried the unconditional body love approach and tried to love my body as it was. No matter how much I tried to challenge my internalized beliefs about my body, nothing would budge. 

I still looked in the mirror every day and internally said, "ick". 

When I started somatic therapy, it wasn't with the intention of trying to heal my body image. I was focused on healing from a trauma response. What I wasn't expecting was that I would find myself caring less and less about how my body looked the safer I felt. 

In this week's episode, I chat about: 

• A somatic, nervous system, attachment perspective to body image struggles 
• Research that points to body image struggles are more about alterations in your brain and nervous system than it is about your body 
• Strategies to increase interoception, a key part of body image recovery

You can read the transcript to this episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/reframe-your-reflection

I've opened the doors back up for the next 48 hours until midnight on Tuesday 5/26 to the Somatic Eating® Program. 

The first class has already occurred so you will be able to watch the replay of the first class and reach out in the already active community to ask questions and receive support. 

Something I wished I had as I navigated my food and body image interactions was someone who would have guided me on how to listen to myself, rather than give me a bunch of advice that didn't work for my body. That is what I do in the program: support you in cultivating trust in yourself that you know what is best for you and how to discover that for yourself after you've been away from your body for years. Join now here: https://www.somaticeating.com/#ready

If you have any questions, respond to this email anytime! 

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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In this week's episode, I chat about: 

• I read 3 different food recovery Reddit stories 
• I talk about recovery into a world that is just going to want to push you back into your food behaviors 
• Grieving the time that has passed since your food coping behaviors began 
• The comfort with being in the sympathetic nervous system making it difficult to recover 
• The optimal pace of food recovery

There are 4 days left to sign up for the Somatic Eating® Program! 

🌀 You will learn my Safety-Satiety Cycle

🌀 Receive unlimited support by me for three months

🌀 Discover the somatic wisdom to your food behaviors

🌀 Learn how to grow your capacity to be with your body

🌀 Practice somatic resources that help you to connect with your body in food and non-food ways

You can join at somaticeating.com and if you have any questions about the program, email me at [email protected] anytime! 

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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My current perspective on eating disorders is that labeling food behaviors as a disorder has kept the field of food recovery distracted, continuing to focus on that food is the problem. 

Patterns of binge eating, restriction, yo yo dieting, food noise, and body image struggles need to be re-labeled as nervous system dysregulation or a trauma response. 

Food, for many, was never actually the problem, but it was the strategy to support the nervous system, to cultivate safety, and to produce specific neurotransmitters. 

The safer you feel in your body, the less you can experience food or body image impulses that are trying to facilitate safety.

In this week's episode, I chat with Francesca Annenberg, Eating Disorder Recovery, Somatic Practitioner, and Psychedelic Integration Guide, about: 

• How psychedelic assisted therapies can be utilized in food recovery
• How movement, sensory awareness and reconnecting with the body can transform food and body image issues
• Building safety and trust in the body
• The connection between food, relationships, and self worth

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

I truly believe somatic psychology has been the missing piece for many people struggling for decades with their food and body image. This is why I'm passionate about teaching my three month live Somatic Eating® Program to be able to reach more people with this work. You can learn more at ​somaticeating.com​. The doors are open to join now and I would love to connect with you more in the program.

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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I have a saying, Embody first, Examine later.

When you're feeling like you're drowning in body image concerns or food impulses, your prefrontal cortex is shut down. This is the part of your brain where you rationalize and can think through what is going on. 

When that part of your brain is diminished, it can be much harder to try to understand what message your body is trying to send you through food cravings or body image worries.

At this point, what is often needed is non-verbal connection with your body. Your body needs support in assessing that it is safe.

In this week's episode, I chat with Beverly Atkins, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and the founder of Pauseture, about: 

• The impact of movement on body awareness
• Navigating body image and self perception
• Cultural influences on body image and how the practice of Feldenkrais can support in updating your experience of your body
• How to shift focus from appearance to sensation
• Understanding food behaviors through movement and nervous system attunement

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

Lastly, the doors to the Somatic Eating® Program are officially open!!! 

Early bird pricing of $150 off goes until Tuesday, April 28th. Enter EARLY (or EARLY30 for the payment plan) at checkout at somaticeating.com.

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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