Satiated Podcast

Happy Satiated Saturday! 

How do you feel about eating around others?

I remember in my years of struggling with food how scary it would feel to eat with others. There was a constant inner dialogue about eating the "right" things in the "right" amount. 

I would find myself consistently undereating when going out and then overeating or binge eating when I would get home, as I felt starving and dysregulated. 

Eating around other people can be filled with anxiety, overwhelm, and fear, where you may find yourself engaging in food behaviors afterward. 

If you grew up constantly criticized for your food choices, how much you ate, and your appearance, it can feel terrifying to eat around others.

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

• Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE)
• Why binge eating can increase after eating with others 
• Somatic practices to try before, during, and after eating with others

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/terrifying-to-eat-with-friends-and-family

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

A common theme I've seen over the years working with women 1:1 is that for many (myself included), body image concerns started during teenage years. 

Ugh, a shifting and changing body is so difficult to be with, to trust, and to come home to. 

Your body is going to change again and again throughout your life. That can feel terrifying. When you've experienced past trauma where everything felt unknown and unstable, a body that changes and has different daily needs can be triggering. It can remind you of all that you've gone through, where you felt out of control. 

When you’re in a time of transition with your body, there can be fear of the unknown. The anxiety is often less about what your body will look like, but about losing safety, acceptance, love, and respect. Your body will need your compassion, curiosity, and care as you navigate these scary changes.

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Natalie Rose, Eating Disorder Therapist and Coach, about: 

• How Natalie has navigated the bodily changes she has been going through in her pregnancy
• How she's kept her own food recovery intact along the way
• The journey of building trust in your body
• Navigating bodily discomfort
• Embracing an internal rebel
• Ebbing and flowing with body image challenges

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/how-to-trust-your-body-through-every-life-phase

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

Many of you may know that touch has been linked to the release of oxytocin. Oxytocin is a hormone related to reproduction, social bonding, stress regulation, and promotes feelings of love, trust, attachment, intimacy, and calm. Ya know what else stimulates the release of oxytocin? Eating. 

Research studies have found that an increase in oxytocin can decrease the urge to eat. So you can imagine that if you're lacking safe touch in your life and touch has felt invasive, where you stay away from touch, that your body needed to find another way to receive the oxytocin that it desires to feel calm and connected. It found a way to do that through food. This is another example of why food is not just about the food. We can continue to be curious about what food is doing for your body.

In this week's episode, I chat with Dr. Njideka Olatunde, author, Master Reflexologist, Pain Relief Educator, and founder of Focus On Healing Wellness Institute about: 

• The power of touch and re-defining what touch is
• Understanding the connection between stress and pain
• Refloxology
• Daily touch practices
• The importance of play and fun
• I also sprinkle in the connection between touch and your food behaviors

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/touch-for-healing-pain-and-decreasing-cravings

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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Website: https://focusonhealing.com/

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YouTube: www.youtube.com/@changingliveswithtouchology 

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

It can be confusing what path to choose for your food recovery when there are many different paths you can walk. When exploring all the various avenues, you can focus on your experience of choice. 

There is no "right" way to decrease your food coping mechanisms. It gets to be unique to you, your body, and what supports you in feeling the way you want to feel in your life. Your recovery resources are your choice (something that the experience of trauma can feel like it took away from you). 

When trying out any somatic, nervous system, trauma, parts practices, you can observe how you feel before, during, and after to discover which practices resonate with you. You will receive this bodily feedback by tracking your capacity to flow through dysregulation, big emotions and sensations, and what helps you to return to yourself again and again. 

In this week's episode, I chat with Caroline McNally, Hypnotherapist & Longevity Coach, about: 

• Hypnotherapy resources you can use on yourself to navigate food urges and impulses
• Utilizing visualization for navigating your relationship with food
• The importance of laughter on this healing journey 
• Reminding yourself that you have a choice

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/food-cravings-with-self-hypnosis-resources

6 more days to sign up for the Somatic Eating® Program! 

In three months together, you will walk away with an abundance of various somatic practices to navigate your food cravings with connection, embodiment, and experience of choice. Go to somaticeating.com to sign up today! 

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

When you're feeling threatened in your body, hunger and fullness cues can feel wonky and also frightening. 

Hunger can come out of nowhere and remind you how little control you may feel in your life right now. The felt sense of hunger can be similar to past experiences you've had that left you feeling unsafe. 

The empty feeling may remind you of being abandoned as a child and the hurt and pain of not feeling held the way you needed to be. If you ignore hunger, you can also ignore the pain that hunger reminds you of. 

In this week's episode, I chat about: 

• The somatic and cognitive influences on hunger
• How the felt sense of hunger gets paired with danger 
• Somatic practices to update your body's hunger story 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/why-youre-afraid-of-feeling-hungry

If you're looking for support to update your body's story of hunger, come join the Somatic Eating® Program. We start on May 22nd and spend three months together, where you will learn the language of your body and how it is speaking to you through your food impulses. 

Your food behaviors have never been the "problem," they have always been the answer. You will discover what your food patterns have been answering for you and how to meet the call in food and non-food ways. Go to somaticeating.com to learn more and sign up today! 

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

What if diet culture wasn't actually the "problem"? 

Focusing on diet culture can become a distraction. It keeps the conversation circling around the same point—being controlled around our food choices is the problem, and we need to regain our experience of choice with food. 

Yet, when all of our attention stays on food, we miss out on exploring the deeper layers of who we are, beyond what we eat. Staying locked in a battle with diet culture can distract us from stepping into our power. 

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with my dear friend and colleague, Abbie Attwood, Anti-diet Nutritionist, about: 

• Understanding health and nutrition messaging
• The complexity of trusting ourselves and science
• Challenging the notion of control over health
• Distractions from systemic issues in health
• The impact of socioeconomic factors on food choices
• Enhancing your critical thinking skills in nutrition and media

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/society-shapes-dieting-behaviors 

Doors to the Somatic Eating® Program are officially open!!! 🎉 🎉 🎉 

Go to somaticeating.com to join today.

With Compassion and Empathy,

Stephanie Mara Fox

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Substack: https://abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/
Website: https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/group-coaching 

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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

Intuition has been fascinating for me. 

I first started getting into the mind-body connection through practicing and learning about yoga and yoga philosophy. In yoga classes, I would often hear teachers talking about trusting your intuition. To be guided by your intuition. 

But, what I rarely heard was descriptions of how do you know something is intuition. Is what you're feeling intuition or fear? The more I learned about somatic work, the more I started to question the experience of intuition and where it comes from. 

When I finally discovered that intuitive processes are correlated with the activation of a part of the prefrontal cortex, called the orbitofrontal cortex, and that this part of your brain is diminished in activity after experience childhood trauma, I began to piece together that intuition is not something that everyone may easily be able to tap into based on their history. 

In this week's episode, I chat with Katie Beecher, Licensed Professional Counselor and Medical and Emotional Intuitive, about: 

• The difference between intuition and fear
• Practices to strengthen your intuition
• The healing power of movement and art
• Embracing your sensitivities
• Important factors to include in your food recovery journey

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

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

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Website: https://katiebeecher.com/

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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

Keep in touch with Ali: 

Website: www.alidamron.com
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Happy Satiated Saturday! 

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

Keep in touch with Ashley:

Website: https://www.metabolicfix.com/one
Podcast: https://www.metabolicfix.com/podcasts/cheers-to-your-success
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashley_fillmore1/

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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

Keep in touch with Martha:

Website: https://www.thebiocollective.com/
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BiotiQuest: https://biotiquest.com/products/sugar-shift

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