Happy Satiated Saturday! This upcoming week is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. The National Eating Disorder Association lists the warning signs of an Eating Disorder as: Preoccupation with weight, food, calories, dieting, and/or body image. Development of abnormal, secretive, extreme, or ritualized food or eating habits. Withdrawal from usual friends and activities. Evidence of binge eating, such as the disappearance of a large amount of food. Evidence of purging behaviors, including fr...
Feb 20, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 116
Happy Satiated Saturday! Body trust can get disrupted for many reasons often beginning at a young age. I know for myself, my body trust was gone the moment I went on my first diet at 13 years old. For the next decade of my life, hunger and satiation cues were drowned out by numbers and by shoulds and shouldn'ts. If you paused right now and asked yourself honestly, do you trust your body? Whatever answer comes back is alright. Change starts with awareness. We cannot change what we are not aware o...
Feb 13, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 115
Happy Satiated Saturday! How have you been enjoying the podcast guests so far? I would love to hear your reactions and insights. Respond back to this email with any new pieces of wisdom that have been cultivated for you. And, if there is a specific topic you would like explored with a specific guest, reach out anytime and let me know. And exciting news! Satiated Podcast has a new look. Thrilled for this new podcast cover you can look out for when you search for the Satiated Podcast. Every first ...
Feb 05, 2022•8 min•Season 3Ep. 114
Happy Satiated Saturday! I truly believe our bodies love being in movement. Yet, movement or exercise has become synonyms with losing weight and changing our bodies. This has made it that physical movement is now either worth it or not worth it, beneficial or pointless, effective or ineffective. ALL movement can be supportive to the body, even if you're just sitting in a chair swaying to music. Today, I talk with Kim Basler, Food Freedom and Mindset Coach, speaker and coauthor of the best sellin...
Jan 29, 2022•42 min•Season 3Ep. 113
Happy Satiated Saturday! This episode of the Satiated Podcast we're going deep! I talk with Lauren Merklin, who is a fat Anti Diet Coach for women. She helps women unlearn diet culture and fatphobia, to live beyond the scale and view their body as an ally instead of an enemy. Lauren's passionate about creating a safe space for women, especially plus size, to heal away from diet culture and weight bias so they can finally have a peaceful relationship with food and their body. She uses a non-diet ...
Jan 23, 2022•55 min•Season 3Ep. 112
Happy Satiated Saturday! This past year, the Satiated Podcast has doubled its number of downloads. We're growing and it's exciting! With growth comes change. There are so many incredible practitioners out there with a similar passion to support you in your relationship with your food and body, challenge diet culture, and support you in cultivating a deeper connection with yourself. I want to bring in these other incredible teachers, counselors, practitioners, coaches, therapists to diversify the...
Jan 16, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 111
Happy Satiated Saturday! What have you connected with the holiday season? Has this time of year been connected with an increase in stress, financial concerns, family wounds, loneliness or perhaps connection, gratitude, giving, traditions, and rituals? When the holiday you celebrate starts to get closer and closer, how do you feel in your body? As New Year's Day approaches what comes up for you? There has been a lot of societal norms created around the holiday season. One of those can be the holi...
Dec 19, 2021•7 min•Season 2Ep. 110
Happy Satiated Saturday! When healing your relationship with food, often healing your relationship with your emotions, and feeling safe in your body, needs to be attended to. This can be a journey that takes time and, on this adventure, food can be consciously utilized as a co-regulator. Co-regulation occurs when in relationship with another human being. Their nervous system affects your nervous system. Have you ever noticed how you feel different in your body when someone speaks to you in a cal...
Dec 11, 2021•7 min•Season 2Ep. 109
Happy Satiated Saturday! The first form of love you receive in life is often from food. Being fed as a baby provides attunement, regulation, soothing, and being held, seen, and cared for. For the rest of life, food can then be connected to am I safe, seen, and heard. It makes sense that if you're not feeling these things as an adult, food would then come in to provide you with what you're looking for. This all starts with how you were supported in the early stages of your life. Your first life e...
Dec 04, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 108
Happy Satiated Saturday! In the US, we just celebrated Thanksgiving, the day where restricting your intake all day and then overeating and binge eating is normalized as something you just do on this holiday. The day after a holiday, after potentially eating a lot of food, there may be an urge to not eat. This impulse can arise for many reasons. Some may be: Still feeling full the morning after Worries about your body's health Fear around weight changes Trying to navigate bodily discomfort with m...
Nov 27, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 107
Happy Satiated Saturday! Attachment theory explores the relationship between a parent and child and how that relationship affects future development and behavior. Insecure attachment has been found in many research studies to be connected with higher rates of disordered eating. Your attachment style can reveal itself in how you relate with others and can also show up in your relationship with food as well. There are 3 different insecure attachment styles that include: Anxious, Avoidant, and Dis...
Nov 21, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 106
Happy Satiated Saturday! How old were you when you started to choose food to self soothe? Sometimes this can happen later in life and what I often hear with those that I work with is that it started very young. The overeating, emotional eating, binge eating, undereating, restriction all came into your younger you's life for a reason. And what plays out in your relationship with food during the holidays is also happening to protect and support your Inner Child in many different ways. In this week...
Nov 14, 2021•7 min•Season 2Ep. 105
Happy Satiated Saturday! Thanksgiving is my mother's favorite holiday. She loves food, cooking, gathering, and feeding others. Like many, we have our Thanksgiving dish staples that she makes every single year. One of those is sweet potato casserole. When I met my husband, we began alternating which family we would spend Thanksgiving with. Something I started noticing is the years I would spend Thanksgiving with my husband's family, my craving for sweet potato casserole shot up. I would re-make t...
Nov 06, 2021•7 min•Season 2Ep. 104
Happy Satiated Saturday! Binge eating is different than emotional eating and overeating. We all overeat and eat to emotionally self soothe at times. Binging includes eating a large amount of food, often very quickly, and to the point of feeling uncomfortable. Binging can feel confusing and disorienting. Today, let's reframe that binging is happening for a reason. It is there to protect you, to support you, to regulate you. There can be many different reasons why binging is happening and keeps ...
Oct 31, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 103
Happy Satiated Saturday! I loved everything about Halloween growing up. I loved dressing up. I loved going out with my family and friends. I loved watching movies and eating candy with them afterward. There is an amazing picture of me after my first Halloween asleep in bed with my plastic pumpkin full of candy next to me because I didn't want my brothers to steal it. Have you ever noticed that this joyful experience as children changes as we age? Suddenly, candy is labeled as "bad" and something...
Oct 23, 2021•8 min•Season 2Ep. 102
Happy Satiated Saturday! My husband and I bought an airstream over a year ago. Right now, we're on our second trip driving across the United States. So far we have driven through Montana, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, North Carolina, Maryland, New York, and Vermont. Next up is Massachusetts and Connecticut. We have been on the road for about a month now and currently seeing some amazing fall foliage on the east coast. Every time we have hit the road, others keep telling me to do an episo...
Oct 17, 2021•8 min•Season 2Ep. 101
Happy Satiated Saturday! I have seen over the years when healing your relationship with food, there is a point many realize when it's not really about the food anymore. The focus on what, when, and how you're eating came in as protection. This protection was keeping you safe from addressing other areas, beliefs, perspectives that may have felt too emotionally intense to look at where focusing on your food actually felt safer in your body to ruminate on. Healing your relationship with food can be...
Oct 09, 2021•9 min•Season 2Ep. 100
Happy Satiated Saturday! I want you to imagine eating a meal in a loud, bustling restaurant. Notice how you feel in your body. Now imagine your eating at a quaint quiet cottage. Again, notice how you feel. Imagine you're eating a meal standing up at the sink. Now imagine you're eating a meal in your favorite part of your home. Notice the different sensations that arose through these images. Your environment then plays a huge role in making a meal feel satiating and satisfying. In this week’s epi...
Sep 25, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 99
Happy Satiated Saturday! Food is often the first form of love we receive as a baby from a parent or caretaker. While you're being fed, often there is eye contact, touch, and nourishment. This can leave a baby feeling heard, seen, acknowledged, loved, and cared for. Emotional and physical hungers are being satiated at the same time. This can lead to the signals for emotional and physical hungers to get crossed at a young age. Because food becomes something that supports you in feeling safe and at...
Sep 18, 2021•7 min•Season 2Ep. 98
Happy Satiated Saturday! FOMO was first popularized in 2004 and means fear of missing out. FOMO can play out in our relationship with food as the fear of missing out on tastes, textures, certain foods around specific times of year, or the pleasure from a food. Often, the moment of Food FOMO has little to do with the food itself and more to do with the attachment and meaning we have put on that food. The experience of Food FOMO is then perpetuated by the sensations of fear in the body. In this we...
Sep 11, 2021•7 min•Season 2Ep. 97
Happy Satiated Saturday! You're hungry. You recognize your body needs food. You have taken all the best steps before your meal. You checked in with yourself. You asked your body what foods might feel most supportive to it. You made your meal or ordered it at a restaurant. You chose what you thought would feel satisfying to your body and then you start eating and something about the food is just not resonating with you. It happens. Sometimes, even with all the eating tools you may have, your body...
Sep 04, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 96
Happy Satiated Saturday! We have many different parts of us. These inner parts of us all feel as though they are serving us in some way. When in relationship with food, it can be supportive to get curious about who's choosing your food, who's doing the eating, what is that part of you desiring to receive from food, where do they live in your body, and what does it feel like when they show up. During my teenage years, when my emotions felt too big to navigate, my inner child would come in with, "...
Aug 28, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 95
Happy Satiated Saturday! It's the morning. You're feeling a new resolve that today is the day you're going to have the most joyous and smoothest day with food. You feel calm and connected and feel like you know what you need to do to make new food decisions. Breakfast is a breeze and you continue on with your day. As the hours tick by, you start to notice familiar urges arise. Suddenly, at 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 9:00, or 11:00 pm, as if you had blacked out, you find yourself stewing over how you ate ...
Aug 21, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 94
Happy Satiated Saturday! It was my first year of Graduate School and my first time living by myself in my own apartment. I was experimenting with applying the somatic tools I was learning in relationship with food. Up until that point in time, I had also labeled foods as good or bad, something that if you have been with me for a while I'm very clear now that there are no good or bad foods. I knew that to deepen into healing my relationship with all food I needed to also have neutral eating exper...
Aug 15, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 93
Happy Satiated Saturday! When I was 21 years old, I was sick and tired of being in severe digestive pain. Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis runs in my family. To make sure I wasn't going down the same path I went in for a colonoscopy and endoscopy to check out what might be going on inside. The great news was that everything looked perfect. The confusing news was being diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and given no guidance whatsoever about what to do with the symptoms I was experienc...
Aug 08, 2021•7 min•Season 2Ep. 92
Happy Satiated Saturday! On July 27th, 2021 Simone Biles, stepped up to do her vaulting routine at the Olympics. Mid-air, she got what gymnasts call the twisties when your brain feels disconnected from your body. She luckily landed safely on the ground. Immediately after, she left the room and came back to announce she was pulling out of the Olympics. Simone Biles is known for performing some of the world's hardest gymnastics routines. All over social media this past week, individuals have been ...
Aug 01, 2021•5 min•Season 2Ep. 91
Happy Satiated Saturday! About 45 million Americans go on a diet each year. The diet industry instills the message that if you just follow them perfectly you will obtain everything you desire. It's kind of like a romantic movie where the couple finally ends up together in the end but what happens after that? What happens after you lose the weight? Is that way of eating feel sustainable? In this week’s episode, I discuss some of the outcomes you might believe you will receive from losing weight a...
Jul 24, 2021•8 min•Season 2Ep. 90
Happy Satiated Saturday! I remember a time where I thought if I just figured out what to eat and how to move my body all the symptoms I was experiencing would be healed. I'll give a sneak peak into the future...food and movement contributed to less than 50% of what needed to be attended to for healing to occur. If you have been here for awhile, you have maybe learned quite a lot about satiation and being a Somatic Eater. Intellectually understanding why you reach for food or judge your body can ...
Jul 18, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 89
Happy Satiated Saturday! You will have many different kinds of relationships throughout your life. Friends, intimate relationships, mentors, teachers, coaches. Every relationship will teach you something about you, about what you deserve, about what you desire. We can apply the same idea to our relationship with food. You will not have just one kind of relationship with food throughout your life, you will have many. Take a moment to reflect on your journey with food. Think back to how you used t...
Jul 11, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 88
Happy Satiated Saturday! I started off this week's episode with the intent to discuss how to tell when you're satiated to stop eating. One research study, led me to another, led me to another. Suddenly, I no longer felt like I could make the experience of satiation come across as simple. There are just so many factors that can actually affect what supports you in feeling satisfied at the end of a meal. If you're one of those individuals who has always felt unclear as to what feeling satiated and...
Jul 04, 2021•5 min•Season 2Ep. 87
