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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!

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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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

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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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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​. 

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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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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Every semester in my undergraduate studies, I would receive all my coursework & experience a full-body panic. 

I would look at all that was due & some perfectionistic part of me thought I needed to hand in everything tomorrow. 

This typically led to a phone call to my mother who would say, "Stephanie, you eat an elephant a bite at a time."

This would often remind me that when faced with big tasks, you can only make it to the end one step at a time. 

On a food recovery journey, there can be a desire to end binging or any food coping mechanism immediately. Yet, trying to eliminate your binging is too large of a step to take.

You've got to look out for the action step that feels doable & manageable. There are countless smaller steps before addressing food's role as an emotional regulator. You can begin by finding the action that brings a sense of calm to your nervous system. That’s the first step on your path forward.

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Tamar Samuels, registered dietitian nutritionist & the co-founder of Culina Health about: 

• The gut brain connection
• How stress influences food behaviors
• The physical and emotional factors to healing
• Rethinking food labels
• Understanding nutritional research
• Building your support team
• Navigating health care with empowerment

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/redefining-health-and-decoding-symptoms

Hope you enjoy this episode and talk with you all next week!

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Body shame is body communication. 

If body shame could speak, it might say, “It doesn’t feel safe to be as you are. I’m trying to protect you from the pain you’ve already endured.”

Body shame often acts as a shield, guarding against judgment and rejection. No one could be as cruel to you as you are to yourself. This can feel like a defense, ensuring that no one else’s words can hurt you more than your own.

Body shame can create a thick impenetrable wall around you that no one can get in but neither can you. It can lead to feeling disconnected from yourself where your body becomes a tool rather than a living being that allows you to experience sights, sounds, smells, textures, and tastes. 

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Marla Mervis-Hartmann, coach, speaker, and author about: 

• The journey toward self love takes
• Navigating diet culture
• Entering this new year with an intention toward self compassion and self care rather than weight loss
• The role of pleasure and emotional expression in healing

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/befriend-your-body-and-rediscover-pleasure

Always here for you.

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Stephanie Mara Fox

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Your struggles with food rooted in a lack of safety in your body are not just a response to trauma, they're also shaped by the commodification of health. 

The idea that a product, supplement, protocol, or routine could "fix" you and make you feel safe often triggers your fight-or-flight response. This constant sense of danger can intensify binge or restrictive food behaviors as your body seeks regulation. 

When health is commodified, it can never feel like enough. There’s always another longevity bio-hack, another supplement, another "should" to do for your health that your body never gets the chance to feel safe and relax into the health that is here right now.

There were a lot of health trends in 2024 including ozempic, cortisol face, the continued focus on eating enough protein, lifting weights, and the demonization of foods like hyper-palatable foods, seed oils, and sugar. So what's to come in 2025?

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with my dear friend and colleague Michelle Shapiro, Integrative & Functional Registered Dietitian and the host of the Quiet the Diet Podcast about: 

• The evolving landscape of wellness and diet culture
• The commodification of health practices
• The trends of 2024 and what we hope to see in 2025
• Healing from long covid and other health issues
• Creating the foundations of health
• The role of self authority and curiosity in your healing
• And so much more....

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/2025-forecast-of-trends

We go deep in this episode! Hope you enjoy it and see you next week!

With Compassion and Empathy,
Stephanie Mara Fox

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Podcast: https://www.quietthediet.com/podcast

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