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When you're struggling with binging or restricting, all the power can feel like it is in the food. Like the food has some captivating hold that no matter your best attempts to break it, nothing seems to work. 

Often this is because your food coping mechanisms aren't about the food. So the more focus there is on the food, the further away you might feel from the root cause of your food behaviors. One root cause can be feeling like your ability to step into self leadership has been taken away. 

When you experience trauma, it can start to feel like you can't trust yourself or your body. Your trust starts to be put into diets, other practitioners, and eating strategies. They become the leader of you and your body. But, no one else lives in your body but you. You are the only one who will know what satiates you physically and emotionally. 

So the practice can be to put that trust back in yourself and become a leader of you. Stepping into self leadership is a practice of slowing down to hear all of your parts and then making a decision that feels in alignment with your present and future self. 

In this week's episode, I chat with Pavini Moray, author and Somatic Relationship Coach about: 

• What is needed to explore and cultivate when stepping into a position of self leadership
• The presence of grief on this journey and any healing path s
• Somatic practices to start to connect with yourself
• Breaking free from your lineage
• and so much more...

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/self-leadership-and-grieve-past-selves

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Website: www.pavinimoray.com 

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As many of you know, this Somatic Eating® journey all started for me when I began to have severe digestive issues in my teenage years and early 20's. 

During that time, I was doing everything I could. I explored Ayurveda, cleansing, detoxing, the GAPS diet, the low FODMAP diet, I cut out gluten and dairy, and while some of these things helped or at least taught me something about my body, the digestive issues continued. It wasn't until I started somatic therapy that things began to change. As I came to terms with what I grew up around was traumatic, I had more compassion for my body and my digestive issues that were my body's way of telling me all along it didn't feel safe. What I have seen is that somatics, trauma work, and nervous system healing are missing pieces on a digestive and food healing adventure

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Miriam Jacobson, triple board-certified functional medicine dietitian, breathwork facilitator, and the founder of Every Body Bliss about: 

• The connection between digestive issues and trauma
• The impact of trauma on the vagus nerve
• How to support your vagus nerve
• How our pace and environment can affect the function of our digestive tract
• The importance of tears when healing

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/trauma-digestive-issues-and-the-vagus-nerve

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

It has become this norm that we "should" all be trying to lose weight all the time. And because of this, of course, you would want to lose weight. Your body seeks attunement with other bodies. 

When everyone around you is also trying to lose weight, your body interprets this as the path to safety and connection. Releasing the need to change your body’s weight can feel scary and even threatening to your well-being. We need others to survive. If those you rely on connect with you over dieting and losing weight, an association can occur that not dieting is dangerous to your survival.

It can take time and practice to question the impulse to change your body's appearance. By practicing this though, you will start to be the person who sends a message to other bodies that safety and belonging can occur simply through being together as we are.

In this week's episode, I chat with Dr. Alexis Conason, Clinical Psychologist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist about: 

• The anti-diet movement and what it is
• Diet culture trying to co-opt mindful eating
• Body image challenges
• Building resiliency against diet culture
• The importance of self compassion
• Navigating food choices mindfully
• What eating what you want actually means
• Action steps you can take to practice anti-dieting

You can read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/what-it-means-to-love-your-body-and-eat-what-you-want

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

Have you ever wondered why your friend can seem to eat a piece of chocolate like it's no big deal and move on with their life while you sit in agony over eating one piece, wanting more, and feeling like you're in a battle with yourself about not binging on chocolate?

 We receive all these stories about what that means from family, friends, and culture. You may start to create a story that you're weak, lack willpower, or can't control yourself around certain foods. With Halloween coming up in about two weeks, I wanted to offer a different explanation to why you may find yourself struggling with binging on Halloween candy. 

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

• the nervous system reasons you feel the pull to binge on candy
• what happens in your brain when you feel the desire to overeat on Halloween
• a somatic practice to navigate candy binge urges 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​:  https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/stop-struggling-with-your-halloween-candy-binge-urges

There are 9 more days to sign up for the Somatic Eating® Program!!! I will be announcing a scholarship next week on my social media channels so be sure you're following me on Instagram ​here​. And if you're ready to sign up, click ​here​: https://www.somaticeating.com/

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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I've been reading more research than I have in years because of my PhD and it is connecting so many dots. 

Research confirming how much changes in your body due to trauma. Research showing the connection between brain alterations after a traumatic event that fuels your food behaviors. Research revealing not only is what and when you eat a reaction to what is happening inside your body, but also that what you eat can increase or decrease your food coping mechanisms.

I'll be sharing more in future podcast episodes and today I'm excited to have a returning guest to the podcast.

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Michelle Brown, Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner and Clinical Herbalist, about: 

• the biology of trauma
• what happens to the nervous system after a traumatic experience
• nutrient deficiencies that occur when living in a trauma response
• herbal resources for nervous system regulation
• creating nervous system regulation routines
• and so much more!

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/healing-trauma-through-nutrition

The next class of the Somatic Eating® Program starts in 16 days!!! I've added so much more into this next class to explore every layer of what's happening in your relationship with food somatically and nutritionally. You can learn more and sign up ​here: https://www.somaticeating.com/​. Email me anytime if you have any questions!

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

Satiated Podcast is back!!!! 

One thing you're going to receive in the upcoming interviews is more exploration of nutrition. When I went through my Master's Degree in Somatic Psychotherapy, I was consistently surprised that there was no class on nutrition. This feels like a missing piece in the therapeutic world. I feel therapists would benefit from being aware that a person's nutritional status can also be contributing to their symptoms. 

This includes one of the many reasons why you might be binging. Binge eating isn't just a reaction to emotional or nervous system dysregulation. It can also be triggered by nutrient depletion from living in a trauma response. When your body is stuck in a state of chronic stress, it tries to compensate for the lost nutrients and minerals. Binging is your body’s best strategy to get its nutritional needs met.

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

• the connection between trauma and nutrient depletion 
• what nutrients get depleted because of ongoing high cortisol levels
• a baby step you can take to start to be in a new relationship with nutrition 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/trauma-response-and-your-binge-eating

As a reminder, doors to the Somatic Eating® Program are officially open!!! We start on October 28th and spend 3 months together learning the language of your body through your food impulses. You can learn more and sign up ​here​: https://www.somaticeating.com/

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! 

ALL of your food behaviors are a reflection of your nervous system state. This is why eating is a somatic practice. 

Every time you’re in relationship with food, it will reveal if your body is feeling safe or threatened by your food cravings, hunger and satiation cues, pace of eating, and digestion. Your food impulses are body communication and what we will continue to explore together is what your body is trying to tell you.

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

• what your nervous system consists of 
• your food impulses in each nervous system state 
• what foods will turn on or off different states 
• why eating is a somatic practice

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/how-exactly-is-your-nervous-system-connected-to-your-food-behaviors

I'm taking the next month off from putting out new podcast episodes. 

During that time I'll be doing interviews to share with you, revamping the ​Somatic Eating® Program​ (https://www.somaticeating.com) that will be occurring again at the end of October, working on the ​Somatic Eating® Coach Certification Training​ (https://www.somaticeating.com/certificationwaitlist), and starting my PhD in Somatic Psychology. So I will have A LOT to share with you when I return.

I put my whole heart and soul into this podcast. If you have a few bucks to spare, you can join ​Satiated+​ (https://www.buzzsprout.com/809987/support) and support the show, you can donate as little as $3.00 a month and help keep the show going.

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

I've had people close to me this past year finally receive their ADHD diagnosis as an adult after struggling since they were kids with ADHD behaviors. I witnessed how much compassion came in and a profound deep understanding of their patterns. 

One of the main characteristics of ADHD is having lower dopamine levels. I've previously discussed how those also navigating a trauma response in their body experience lower dopamine levels. Dopamine is crucial in feeling pleasure, motivation, focus, mood regulation, decision making, and alertness.

What happens in the body from trauma and genetic factors is that there is less circulating dopamine increasing the chances of binge eating or emotional eating to get the dopamine the body needs to feel good.

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I talk with Rebecca King, Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and the founder of The ADHD Nutritionist, about the connection between ADHD and binge eating, understanding the role of dopamine in binge eating, creating a dopamine menu, diverse hunger cues that don't show up as stomach gurgles, how masking can increase binge eating behaviors, the importance of self-care and aftercare around binges 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/binge-eating-and-the-adhd-dopamine-connection

(Heads up that there was some static on this recording so it can be supportive to have the transcript pulled up for this one to follow along with all the amazing gems shared!)

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Website: https://sites.google.com/adhdnutritionistllc.com/smallgroupcoaching/home 

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I wish financial literacy was taught in schools earlier on in life. I've had so many conversations with others about the deep shame and personal judgment that can arise when you feel unclear about how to navigate your money life. And how does this connect with food?

Well, often how we interact with one area of our life is how we respond to all other areas. Have you ever noticed that when you want to eat everything you also want to spend your money on things you potentially don't need? Have you ever noticed that when you're restricting your food intake you're worrying about not having enough money?

Both food and money are a reflection of what's going on inside your body. Just as I talk about eating is a somatic practice, you can approach your relationship with money in a similar somatic way.

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I talk with Bari Tessler, M.A. in Somatic Psychology, Financial Therapist and Author, about body check-ins when making financial decisions, money dates, emotional awareness in managing money, the connection between Enneagram types and money habits, and practical steps to start your journey toward a healthier relationship with money. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/revolutionize-your-money-habits

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Website: https://baritessler.com/ 

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I love astrology. When I was a kid, I was always drawn to reading my horoscope in the newspaper. I felt so seen every time I read anything about an Aries sun sign.

Then, in undergrad, I made new friends who were happy to chat about astrology over a cup of tea for hours. 

The year before I went to graduate school, I dabbled in reading charts for others and when I moved to Colorado, I found community in a weekly astrology class led by Debra Silverman.

I was thrilled Debra had time to come on and chat about the connection between different astrological signs and their relationship with food.

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I talk with Debra Silverman, astrologer, psychotherapist, and author of the book ​The Missing Element​, about what signs and chart placements can indicate struggles with food, the high road expression and the low road expression of any sign, the importance of self-compassion, the potential for healing and growth, and you're going to learn a lot more about me as Debra references my chart to explain some of what she's talking about.

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/astrology-and-discovering-star-solutions-to-your-food-struggles

If you love today's conversation, Debra has an Astrological Immersion coming up. Check that out ​the link below.

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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