Happy Satiated Saturday! Two decades ago, I was navigating being on and off diets, binge eating, emotionally eating, overexercising, and doing anything I could to run away from my body. My body was the place that was holding on to trauma and food was the answer to feeling regulated and safe. On my journey to healing my relationship with food and body, I explored yoga, multiple different therapeutic modalities, and experimented with various ways to eat to deepen into relationship and understandin...
Oct 29, 2022•8 min•Season 3Ep. 146
Happy Satiated Saturday! When it got to a point where I felt like something needed to change with my patterns of binge eating, one of the steps I took was when I felt the urge to binge I would put on music and move my body. At the time, I was living by myself in a small 1 bedroom apartment. I would put the music up as loud as I needed and move in ways that I probably would not do in front of other people. I would get down on the floor and throw a temper tantrum. I would cry and cry and cry. What...
Oct 23, 2022•6 min•Season 3Ep. 145
Happy Satiated Saturday! Have you ever felt like there was an internal war playing out about your body and its appearance? You have the thoughts that play out that judge and criticize your body. And then every now and then, you have another set of thoughts when you look in the mirror appreciating and liking your body. This can create the uncomfortable experience of cognitive dissonance where it feels like one of these body thoughts needs to win out. In this week’s episode, I discuss utilizing co...
Oct 16, 2022•8 min•Season 3Ep. 144
Happy Satiated Saturday! Yoga was my first entry into the world of the mind body connection. Since my early 20's, I have been curious about the body and what other modalities are out there that help tap us into the wisdom of our body and learn how to communicate with it. One of the interesting modalities that is out there is called EFT or Emotional Freedom Technique. It's also referred to as tapping as you tap certain parts of your body to help regulate and support your body in moving into a rel...
Oct 09, 2022•45 min•Season 3Ep. 143
Happy Satiated Saturday! I have noticed a war between the body acceptance/body positivity movements and the lose weight/change your body movements. I have even had those I work with me ask me, "If I want to change my body does that mean I don't love my body?" It can feel really confusing and you're just trying to do the best you can to take care of you and your body. The truth is, that only you will know what is best for you. If experimenting with different weight loss strategies lights you up, ...
Oct 02, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 142
Over the summer, I was interviewed by Raakhee Natha, who has her MS in journalism, over a decade of experience in behavior change, has certificates in Brain-based Coaching (ICF Accredited), NeuroLeadership, Mind Body Eating Coaching, and is writing a book. She wanted to hear my thoughts on Body Wisdom, Somatic Nutrition and my creation of Somatic Eating™. I loved this interview so much I wanted to share it. In this week’s episode, you will get the opportunity to listen to that interview where we...
Sep 26, 2022•52 min•Season 3Ep. 141
Happy Satiated Saturday! I spent years in patterns of binge eating and emotional eating. The healing path was messy and confusing. I figured out a lot on my own. Part of what drove me to create the Satiated Podcast was that I never wanted anyone to feel like they needed to navigate this journey alone. I wanted to create a space for others on a similar adventure to receive baby steps in creating the kind of relationship they wanted with their food. In this week’s episode, I talk with Jessie Jean,...
Sep 17, 2022•33 min•Season 3Ep. 140
Happy Satiated Saturday! As the movements of Health at Every Size and Body Positivity have grown, I have seen more and more confusion around how to have relationship with food. I've found myself in so many conversations that if a person wants to challenge their body, change their body, change their weight, does that mean they're no longer a person who is appreciating their body? It can be incredibly confusing! In this week’s episode, I talk with Michelle Shapiro, Integrative & Functional Reg...
Sep 11, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 139
Happy Satiated Saturday! We all have many parts of us. You have an inner child, an inner teenager, an inner perfectionist, an inner people pleaser, an inner worrier, and many more. Your parts were created at a time when you needed them. They were trying to support you, protect you, and make sure you would be alright. As you grow older, these parts show up when their beliefs about what will support them in feeling safe is threatened. In this week’s episode, I explore 4 different internal parts of...
Sep 03, 2022•7 min•Season 3Ep. 138
Happy Satiated Saturday! For a long time, I would rather feel uncomfortably full than feel my emotions. I would rather eat too much, than drop into my body. I would rather feel so hungry that I couldn't feel anything at all. When you're in the process of healing your relationship with food, often there can be an over focus on what is happening with food. Your relationship with food is a window into your relationship with your emotions. When your emotions and sensations feel safe to experience, t...
Aug 27, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 137
Happy Satiated Saturday! I'm sitting here trying to find a way to express in words just how powerfully transformative it is to learn about your nervous system. If you've been navigating patterns of binge eating or emotional eating and have tried every trick, tip, and strategy out there, the missing piece is learning about your nervous system and how your body lets you know what state its in based on your food urges. This is something over the past several years I have been teaching every single ...
Aug 20, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 136
Happy Satiated Saturday! I would really like to say I'm a former People Pleaser, but that would just be a big lie. Instead, I would like to say that I've come to know the People Pleaser part of me and what they believe they would get from pleasing someone else. There are a lot of reasons why people pleasing tendencies can get cultivated. It can be a response to trauma that gives you some sense of control that if you can make everyone happy you won't be abandoned or harmed. It can be a response f...
Aug 13, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 135
Happy Satiated Saturday! I remember the first time a therapist assigned to me that I take myself out on a date. I spent the afternoon reading books in a local book store. I went to the movies by myself for the very first time. I bought myself dinner and ate it outside. It was the first time I truly experienced enjoying my own company after years of running away from myself. There can be so much focus in the body positivity movement on loving the external form of your body and yet who is the pers...
Aug 06, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 134
Happy Satiated Saturday! When I was in the thick of my emotional eating and binge eating patterns, food was often used to check out instead of check in. I would even wait days to check in with myself until I saw my therapist and then burst into tears expressing everything my body had been holding onto and then the pattern would repeat where all those emotions would build inside my body leading up to a binge and a release only at one point in time where I felt safe enough to let go. If this patte...
Jul 31, 2022•7 min•Season 3Ep. 133
Happy Satiated Saturday! For many years of my life, I had a deep fear of gaining weight. My body shape had been connected to my ability to find love and be loved. My body had been connected to my worth. My body had been connected to my ability to be liked. Does this sound familiar at all? What has your body shape been connected to? Where did you learn that having a thinner body would be better? For myself, it came in from Seventeen Magazine. It came from my closest guy friends telling me to lose...
Jun 12, 2022•7 min•Season 3Ep. 132
Happy Satiated Saturday! Have you ever felt like your patterns with food are all you have ever known? Like you can't remember a time when you weren't doing the eating behaviors that you would love to change? The Satisfaction Cycle is a concept that comes from Body Mind Centering and has impacted the field of Somatic Psychology. It describes how our developmental movement patterns influence our actions and sense of self in the world. These developmental movement patterns were all important ways t...
Jun 05, 2022•9 min•Season 3Ep. 131
Happy Satiated Saturday! As I have been navigating some health issues for over a month now, I have been reflecting on what is health? We're given a lot of different messages from diet culture or fitness culture around various different definitions of health. There are also many different kinds of health. Mental health. Physical health. Emotional health. Spiritual health. Honestly, I don't think anyone can define health for you. Only you're going to know what health feels like in your unique body...
May 28, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 130
Happy Satiated Saturday! We are at that time of year where you may find yourself pulling out your summer clothing and having all sorts of judgments arise around clothes that perhaps don't fit anymore or needing to change your body to wear that bathing suit you want to wear at the beach. The idea of a "summer body" or a "bikini body" is a creation of the diet and fitness industries. Think about it...if you didn't feel like you needed to change your body for warmer weather, diet programs and summe...
May 22, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 129
Happy Satiated Saturday! I remember coming home from parties in my college years and binging on food. It was a fast, disembodied, deep longing experience. I felt emotionally malnourished. Emotional satiation can come from feeling attuned to, understood, connected, appreciated, and heard. When this isn't happening, food can be a placeholder for all you're desiring emotionally. In this week’s episode, I talk with Lacou Flipse about coming to food fed, meaning that we need to feel close and connect...
May 15, 2022•42 min•Season 3Ep. 128
Happy Satiated Saturday! When you feel the urge to binge or emotionally eat, it can feel like you have no other option but to do it. The urge to self-soothe with food can feel like someone else has inhabited your body, you have disappeared and taken a vacation somewhere else. As you eat more and more and your body sensations grow of perhaps feeling bloated, uncomfortable, and overly full, is when you might come back into your body and wonder what just happened, where did you go? You have maybe b...
May 08, 2022•7 min•Season 3Ep. 127
Happy Satiated Saturday! In the process of writing my book on Somatic Eating™, I interviewed my mom about my food habits growing up. I was quite a "picky" eater. While plenty of different foods were offered to me, my favorite thing was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and buttered noodles. It's funny to reflect on this because as an adult, I have more of the philosophy of I'll try anything once. I have worked with a lot of parents over the years that are just trying to do the best they can to ...
Apr 30, 2022•54 min•Season 3Ep. 126
Happy Satiated Saturday! I went on my first diet when I was 13 years old. Weight Watchers. That single year of my life set up a decade of mistrust in my body. Sound familiar? What was the first diet you went on? Weight Watchers? Whole 30? Jenny Craig? The Grapefruit Diet? Noom? Saying goodbye to dieting and diet culture takes time and practice. The fact that you're here already shows you have been working on releasing yourself from diet culture's rules and regulations. In this week’s episode, I ...
Apr 24, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 125
Happy Satiated Saturday! I navigated patterns of binge eating for about a decade of my life. Decreasing these food behaviors took time, patience, and practice. It was messy. It was non-linear. It was intense and at times even fun. I remember the first time I binged in front of my now husband and he looked at me with no judgment whatsoever and said, "well, how was that?" You might be thinking, "Wait. You binged in front of someone!?!?!" Binge eating behavior perpetuates when it stays in the dark ...
Apr 16, 2022•49 min•Season 3Ep. 124
Happy Satiated Saturday! Has anyone ever told you to just stop your emotional eating and binge eating? Like that's the easiest thing to do is to just stop. I get so frustrated when I hear these stories. I know that the #1 thing you would want to stop in your life are these patterns. We have to shift the dialogue that these food behaviors are not about willpower, they are not a sign of weakness, you're not doing anything wrong. These food patterns are often the only way your body knows how to reg...
Apr 09, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 123
Happy Satiated Saturday! I'm Jewish. Some of you may know this. Some of you may not. While I would like to imagine this wouldn't change anyone's perception about who I am, for some individuals meaning is made for them out of this information. So as a desire grew to talk about the connection between religion and disordered eating patterns, I noticed and observed some fear arise talking about my own experiences. Being Jewish though and everything I navigated in relationship with food is informed b...
Apr 02, 2022•7 min•Season 3Ep. 122
Happy Satiated Saturday! I remember the first time I read Julia Ross's book The Mood Cure in 2009. It was the first time learning that what I was eating and when I was eating affected how I felt in my body. Since then, the field of Mental Health Nutrition has exploded as more information has emerged on how our hormones, neurotransmitters, and stress affect our relationship with food. In this week’s episode, I talk with Stephanie Small, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Nutritionist, about what...
Mar 26, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 121
Happy Satiated Saturday! When I was in the process of healing my gut from severe digestive pain, I had to do a lot of food experiments. This included taking out some foods I suspected were correlated with the digestive pain I was experiencing and noticing and observing if I felt any different. These food experiments were crucial to deeply understand my body and what my symptoms were trying to tell me. And as my gut healed, I later needed to invite all of these foods back in to see these foods as...
Mar 19, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 120
Happy Satiated Saturday! I remember the period of time when I stopped dieting, quit following diet culture, and removed myself from the whole dieting world. I'll be honest, it was messy! The thing is the rules and regulations of dieting can create a sense of safety that you're doing something "right" and you're in control. When you have potentially been relying on a diet for years to provide you with the "rules" on how to eat, it can bring up all sorts of emotions no longer having those regulati...
Mar 13, 2022•8 min•Season 3Ep. 119
Happy Satiated Saturday! I remember a time in my life when I lived across the street from a gym. This was a time when I was diving deeper into my own personal growth and healing, working with a somatic therapist, and binging regularly to try to regulate as looking at these dark things in my life was not easy. I would eat to the point of feeling so uncomfortably full I couldn't attend to or focus on anything else. Some nights, I just did not want to sit with that fullness and so I would walk over...
Mar 05, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 118
Happy Satiated Saturday! At my undergraduate school, I was required to take 2 physical movement/gym classes as one of the requirements to graduate. I despised gym class growing up. I was always last on any run, could never climb a rope, and hand eye coordination to hit a volleyball was never my strong suit. I heard through some friends that the weight lifting class was the easiest class to take. There was no actual class. You just had to show up at the gym regularly lift weights and fill out a f...
Feb 26, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 117
