Happy Satiated Saturday! Are you confused about the difference between emotional eating, overeating, and binge eating? These terms are often used interchangeably and yet they actually have very different characteristics. Understanding the difference between these ways of eating can offer more personal awareness around what might be happening for you physically or emotionally in how you're showing up with your food and body. In this week’s episode, I explain how to identify the difference between...
Jun 27, 2021•8 min•Season 2Ep. 86
Happy Satiated Saturday! We have been living in a time where we have been more isolated than ever. This past year we have been told to stay away from one another, stay in our homes, and socially distance. Physical distance may have been necessary, yet social connection was and is more important than ever. Dr. Porges, who created the Polyvagal Theory says, “We as humans seek safety, and this feeling of safety is based on social connectedness, which provides both mental and physical health. Being ...
Jun 19, 2021•4 min•Season 2Ep. 85
Happy Satiated Saturday! Think about the last thing you learned. Maybe it was learning how to cook something new or trying out a new physical movement or practicing showing up for yourself or others in a new way. We often start out learning how to do something with little confidence. This thing you were learning is new and that means it is new to your body. Yet, how often do you hold yourself back from doing something, waiting to build confidence to be able to go do the thing you desire to do? I...
Jun 12, 2021•5 min•Season 2Ep. 84
Happy Satiated Saturday! I want you to think of a special relationship you have in your life. Maybe this is with a friend, a parent, a family member. It took time to build trust with this person. Every time they showed up for you, every time they picked up the phone when you needed them, every time they gave you a ride to the airport, every time they offered a shoulder to cry on, this was noted where they became someone you could trust. That trust can lead to feeling safe in the world. The same ...
Jun 06, 2021•7 min•Season 2Ep. 83
Happy Satiated Saturday! Dieting culture makes us believe that losing weight is the answer to everything. Want to find love? Just lose weight. Want more confidence? Lose weight. Want everlasting health? Losing weight is the way to get there. If we are made to believe that losing weight was the answer to everything, why would we let that go? In this week’s episode, I explain 3 reasons why you can't let go of the urge to lose weight and how those reasons are supporting you in some way. You can als...
May 30, 2021•5 min•Season 2Ep. 82
Happy Satiated Saturday! I remember going through an intense experience many years ago. I was in complete shut down mode and my husband offered to make me lunch. A balanced meal made with love brought me back online where I could start processing what was happening differently. Trauma is an emotional response to a distressing event. We cannot compare one person's trauma to another. It depends upon how your body processed that event. If a situation felt overwhelming, where you felt like you had t...
May 23, 2021•5 min•Season 2Ep. 81
Happy Satiated Saturday! Do you wake up thinking about food, think about food all day long, and go to sleep thinking about food? If this is something you have experienced or are currently going through, please know you're not alone. You're thinking about food constantly for a reason. This is your body's way of communicating with you. Thinking about food isn't wrong. It's guiding you toward something your body is needing physically or emotionally. In this week’s episode, we will explore 3 top rea...
May 16, 2021•5 min•Season 2Ep. 80
Happy Satiated Saturday! Have you ever been in the cycle of restricting your food and then finding yourself in a full on binge? There are so many reasons why this cycle can occur and a myriad of emotions that can arise when in this cycle. The diet culture fuels the binge-restrict cycle. When it comes to diets, usually it begins with some kind of restriction that is externally forced upon your body. It doesn’t matter what your body tells you, as long as you follow the rules. Restriction might sta...
May 08, 2021•8 min•Season 2Ep. 79
Happy Satiated Saturday! Lying down on a human sized piece of paper and having your body shape be outlined with a marker is an interesting experience. It was my first year of Graduate School for my Masters in Body Psychotherapy. One day in class, our teacher took out a human sized roll of paper. We each had to lie down on the paper and a piece was cut to our height. We then had to pair off and lie down on the paper and have the other person outline our body with a marker. When I got up, I though...
May 01, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 78
Because of the diet culture we live in, many many individuals are on the spectrum of disordered eating. The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders states that "Eating disorders affect at least 9% of the population worldwide. 9% of the U.S. population, or 28.8 million Americans, will have an eating disorder in their lifetime. Less than 6% of people with eating disorders are medically diagnosed as “underweight.” Disordered eating patterns can affect anyone regardless of ...
Apr 24, 2021•9 min•Season 2Ep. 77
Happy Satiated Saturday! I want to offer a different perspective on "emotional eating." Choosing food to emotionally self soothe is showing up for a reason. If we don't pay attention to what our body is trying to tell us, then our body is going to take over at some point to try and speak to us in louder ways. Think of how powerful your emotional eating or binge eating experiences are! What a potent way for your body to get your attention. Let's reframe that choosing food for emotional hunger rea...
Apr 18, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 76
Happy Satiated Saturday! When I was a kid, my two older brothers would have a contest at the dinner table who could get me to laugh first and spew the drink in my mouth out all over the table. To this day, if someone tries to get me to laugh at a meal, I get nervous about what is going to happen next. What were meals like in your family when you were a kid? Were they hectic? Did you feel heard? Did you feel pressure to show up a certain way? Was there fighting? Was there any fear that you wouldn...
Apr 10, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 75
Happy Satiated Saturday! The word Intuition has always rubbed me the wrong way. When you're someone who has experienced past wounds and traumas, intuition is not something that comes so easily. One of the definitions of intuition is a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning. To be aware of our feelings means we have to be in our bodies. Yet, when you have experienced past situations that made your body unsafe to be in, it can feel intense...
Apr 03, 2021•5 min•Season 2Ep. 74
Happy Satiated Saturday! Body hate is rampant all over the world. We judge our bodies, pick on them, tell them they should be different, underfeed them, and overexercise them. The messages we have received for a long time have been that we need to love our bodies and appreciate them to thrive in our lives. If this strategy worked though, would we still be talking about how much we dislike our body shape? You might even feel frustrated. You have been trying to love your body as it is for yearssss...
Mar 20, 2021•7 min•Season 2Ep. 73
Happy Satiated Saturday! I first learned of the vagus nerve when I was researching for my published thesis, Cultivating a Relationship with the Gut Brain . Learning about this amazing wandering nerve in our body was a game-changer for me and optimizing my digestion. The vagus nerve runs through our intestines, stomach, up into our lungs, heart, throat, esophagus, and into our brain. You can think of the vagus nerve as the highway of communication between the gut brain and the head brain. The vag...
Mar 14, 2021•7 min•Season 2Ep. 72
Happy Satiated Saturday! We all have them. Those days where it just feels a little harder, a little more intense to be in a body. Everyone experiences "bad" body image days every now and then. I'm putting "bad" in parentheses because what I have discovered is these days actually have a lot to teach us. I want to reframe that these days don't have to be "bad." These days happen for many reasons and we can view them more as opportunities for self connection. We can even enjoy these days as they're...
Mar 06, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 71
Happy Satiated Saturday! Self care is quite a buzz word. Recommending self care is something that, at some point in time, may have been suggested to you by a friend, family member, even maybe a doctor or a wellness practitioner. When I enter into a dialogue with someone around their self care there is often this idea that self care is only defined by things like meditation or bubble baths, which may not resonate with you. I know for a long time I used to spend my free time the way I thought I wa...
Feb 27, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 70
Happy Satiated Saturday! It was my Junior year of Undergrad. I was going to the University of Vermont that required we take two physical movement classes within your 4 years. I chose to take weight lifting. I was told that it was the easiest class to take even though I had never lifted weights before. I did actually learn a lot about how to properly lift weights in that class but the class did not include instructions on how to nourish one's body when doing this kind of physical movement. I ende...
Feb 20, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Happy Satiated Saturday! Nighttime used to be a difficult time of the day to navigate for me. I was GREAT when I was going going going all day long. Then nighttime would hit and all the emotions I didn't want to feel by keeping myself that busy were like, "Hey! Ya you! Are you going to pay attention to me now?" Nope! Instead here came my friend food to continue to run away from my emotions. Our Food Decisions are protecting us from something. It could be an emotion, another decision, processing ...
Feb 13, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 68
Happy Satiated Saturday! Those parts and pieces of yourself that you judge? Those parts of you can be deeply accepted and appreciated. I know, I know. You might be saying, "No Stephanie. These parts of me, they deserve to be judged." I want to offer a different approach to those parts of you that you feel like you need to hide. Interacting with your inner judger, criticizer, perfectionist, workaholic, and dramatizer in new ways can actually translate into a change in your relationship with food....
Feb 07, 2021•9 min•Season 2Ep. 67
Happy Satiated Saturday! I used to put a lot of pressure on every meal to get it "right." I had to make sure I ate something that didn't upset my sensitive digestive tract, supported me in feeling energetic, helped me stabilize my mood if I was cranky, replenished my body if I had physically moved, and on and on and on. Wow!!! That is A LOT of expectations to have on one meal. Our mealtime experiences can impact our entire day, not just by what we're eating, but also how we approach our meals. I...
Jan 30, 2021•7 min•Season 2Ep. 66
Happy Satiated Saturday! I like to think of our internal world like Knights of the Round Table. We have many different parts and pieces of us that make up the whole of who we are. The more awareness we have around all of our parts, the more consciousness we can bring in around who is speaking up when and how to respond to these parts of ourselves in nourishing ways. Each part of us also plays out a different relationship with food. So being aware of who is making our food decisions can be a fasc...
Jan 24, 2021•7 min•Season 2Ep. 65
Happy Satiated Saturday! I truly believe that to heal anything in our lives the way OUT is THROUGH . We need to go into the symptom, the habit, the pattern, the belief and we need to get into our body to hear the lessons we were meant to learn. For many that can be the scariest place to be. I know it was for me for a long period of time. I would have done anything to not be in my body. I have binged to the point of feeling uncomfortably full. I have overexercised as a way to get out of my body n...
Jan 17, 2021•7 min•Season 2Ep. 64
Happy Satiated Saturday! What drives your food decisions? Do you eat because you're hungry? Do you eat because it is time? Do you eat because you think you're supposed to? Do you eat because you're committed to a certain routine? Do you eat because you're bored, stressed, anxious, or worried? There are many many reasons why we eat. What happens when we eat, for any reason, in a disembodied way is that we can miss the eating experience entirely. In this week’s episode, you will learn the 3 T's to...
Jan 10, 2021•8 min•Season 2Ep. 63
Happy Satiated Saturday! Wooohooo! It is 2021. Happy New Year to you. I'm excited to see what this new year brings forth for all of us. Yesterday, it felt like a blast of social media posts from those in the anti-diet, health at every size, and body positivity movements screaming, "please do not go on a diet!" We're now at that time of year where we're bombarded with commercials and social media posts about changing your body, losing weight, getting in shape and "fixing" yourself. Some of the ma...
Jan 02, 2021•7 min•Season 2Ep. 62
Happy Satiated Saturday! Do you know there are many Nutritional Phases we will go through in our lifetime? A year ago, I wrote about The Nutritional F#!K It Phase . As we approach the new year, I wanted to dive a little deeper into a different kind of phase that many individuals can feel a pull toward as they enter into a new year. This phase is called The Nutritional Health Nut Phase. As with all phases, they often teach us a lot about ourselves and our body. And this particular phase can be ut...
Dec 26, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Happy Satiated Saturday! You know the saying, "what we resist persists." I've been reflecting on this saying recently. The thing about this statement is that if you're playing out a habit with your food or body that on some level you know isn't supporting you long term, you might feel shame or judgment for resisting changing the pattern. What this saying can instill is that it is on you that your patterns are persisting and it is "your fault." What if you need your resistance? What if it is ther...
Dec 19, 2020•6 min•Season 1Ep. 60
Happy Satiated Saturday! One of the predominant thoughts going through my head throughout my 20's was, "I feel fat." Have you said this to yourself before? What does this statement mean to you? When have you said this to yourself? It is not just our thoughts that play a powerful effect on our ability to accept and appreciate ourselves, it is also our interpretation of our thoughts. In this week’s episode, we will explore how fat is not a feeling and saying, "I feel fat" puts a judgment on fat as...
Dec 12, 2020•7 min•Season 1Ep. 59
Happy Satiated Saturday! How long have you judged your body? 5? 10? 15? 20 years? More? I get it. It can take a really long time to step into body acceptance. We are in the act of healing body image as a culture. Think of how long you have received messages around how you're "supposed" to look? Think of how long you have been reading articles and magazines and emails telling you what you need to do to lose weight or love your body? A focus on your body image is so much bigger than yourself. To h...
Dec 06, 2020•8 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Happy Satiated Saturday! I'm here today to admit, I'm Stephanie and I'm a recovering People Pleaser. 🙃 I used to say yes to everything. I would often overextend myself and drain my own energy just to make sure you liked me. That is really what is often at the core of people pleasing. There is a belief that if we're always there for everyone else we will be loved, accepted, appreciated, and worthy to be alive here in this world. When you put everyone and everything before yourself, food can ofte...
Nov 28, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 57
