Happy Satiated Saturday! I've been speaking up a lot more about my thoughts on Intuitive Eating. First, I'm grateful for Intuitive Eating as it was a starting point in guiding many people into a more peaceful relationship with food. And, with any modality, over time we've seen that there are gaps in Intuitive Eating, yet it's been the predominant approach to healing patterns of disordered eating and eating disorders for decades. When it was first created it was revolutionary and healing approach...
Mar 31, 2024•13 min•Season 5Ep. 206
Happy Satiated Saturday! After traveling to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands for almost 2 weeks, many of you requested that I share some tips on how to navigate food fears and body image concerns while traveling. There's this messy middle part when you're healing from disordered eating where you won't know what your body is trying to tell you and when you travel, your sympathetic nervous system can be triggered easily where it's even more difficult to hear what your body has to say and what it ...
Mar 24, 2024•15 min•Season 5Ep. 205
Happy Satiated Saturday! Did you know being entrenched in diet culture for decades can affect your bodily expression? One way this can show up is through tightening and sucking in your belly for years. I know this was something I used to do and sometimes have to remind my belly that's not something we need to do anymore. When you've received messages about how your body is supposed to look, your body can start to try to shape itself to the images you show it and the messages it's receiving. If y...
Mar 17, 2024•45 min•Season 5Ep. 204
Happy Satiated Saturday! As many of you know, I adore my dog, Tato. He's taught me a lot over the years about unconditional love, how to stop and literally smell the roses, and about boundaries. When Tato was 6 months old, we started taking him to puppy school to get some training. We learned early on that Tato gets overwhelmed easily and gets scared of other dogs. So what the trainers started to do when we arrived, is they would set us up in a corner and put a gate in front of him. Now, he had ...
Feb 25, 2024•10 min•Season 5Ep. 203
Happy Satiated Saturday! When everything goes haywire in your life, what's your first impulse? Do you isolate yourself from your friends, family, and those who love you when your stress levels reach a critical point? Self isolating can feel like a wise strategy in the moment. When you disconnect from those around you, it can feel like it's protecting you from being in your body and how you feel. Connection brings sensation. If sensation feels like too much to digest then distancing from yourself...
Feb 18, 2024•8 min•Season 5Ep. 202
Happy Satiated Saturday! After I was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome around the age of 20, I dove deep into the holistic health world. I was not going to settle with the doctor's suggestion of just managing my stress and watching out for my triggers. I discovered so many resources to support my digestion and feel more at ease when eating any meal. Herbs continued to support me after a big binge. This is why I've always fallen in the middle of that food matters and food doesn't matter whe...
Feb 04, 2024•48 min•Season 5Ep. 201
Happy Satiated Saturday! I first started learning about the vagus nerve when I did research for my published thesis on how to cultivate a relationship with the gut brain. The vagus nerve plays a role in hunger, satiation, cravings, taste buds, and digestion. So you can imagine that having a toned vagus nerve is highly important when you're trying to cultivate a peaceful and regulating relationship with food. In this week’s episode, you'll learn about what the vagus nerve is and 5 ways you can st...
Jan 28, 2024•7 min•Season 5Ep. 200
Happy Satiated Sunday! I remember during my binge eating years that at times I would be like, "What is going onnnnn!?!?!" Binge eating can be confusing and disorienting. It can at times be an out-of-body experience. Yet, sometimes, the emotions and sensations showing up in your body may feel like too much (I know at times they were for me) that you don't want to be IN your body. I often like to rename binge eating to protective eating. This kind of eating behavior is trying to protect and suppor...
Jan 21, 2024•9 min•Season 5Ep. 199
Happy Satiated Saturday! More and more adults in the U.S. are being diagnosed with adult ADHD. For many with adult ADHD, there is an overlap in struggling in their relationship with food. The impulsiveness that comes with ADHD can lead to binge eating or emotional eating behaviors and the time blindness can lead to restriction as a person forgets to eat which can spark the restrict-binge cycle. For some (not all), ADHD can be a reaction to past trauma. If it didn’t feel safe to be here, your min...
Jan 14, 2024•36 min•Season 5Ep. 198
Happy Satiated Sunday! With my feeling word of 2024 being vulnerable, this will be one of the most vulnerable things I've put out since starting the Satiated Podcast. I often share stories of the distant past and rarely share what's currently going on in my life or what I'm navigating. Yet, it is my life experiences that have cultivated so much of my wisdom and so I'll be sharing what I've been going through for the past two years with you all and also what I've learned about food and body along...
Jan 08, 2024•36 min•Season 5Ep. 197
Happy Satiated Saturday! This holiday season, I've been offering the somatic resources I wish I'd had when I was healing my relationship with my food and body and one's that I've discovered along the way. Holidays had always brought up so much for me emotionally that I found myself binging or restricting to try to manage all of the emotions and sensations arising in my body. Think of the holidays as the Olympics of practicing staying in relationship with yourself through every family, friend, an...
Dec 24, 2023•6 min•Season 4Ep. 196
Happy Satiated Saturday! What does the holiday season mean to you? What memories do you have around this time of year? The holiday season can be associated with warmth, joy, and togetherness. However, when you've experienced past trauma with family or in the environment you grew up in, this time of year can be a source of stress, triggering your body's survival states. This can also be a time when you're face to face with your body's memories of being around specific environments, homes, or peop...
Dec 16, 2023•11 min•Season 4Ep. 195
Happy Satiated Saturday! As a kid, you couldn't get me to move. My mom tried to put me in dance and gymnastics and while I enjoyed both, neither stuck. I tried soccer and tennis. In soccer, I ended up kicking the ball to my best friend who was on the other team. In tennis, my favorite part was walking through the tunnels at the back of the indoor court. The joy of moving started to come in when I got into musical theater and had to dance my way through shows. And then, in college, I was required...
Dec 10, 2023•39 min•Season 4Ep. 194
Happy Satiated Saturday! I remember when I started to really slow down with my food. I would imagine where all the pieces of my meal came from to end up on my plate to support me in feeling vibrant in my body. I would picture the seed, the soil, the sun, the rain, and all of the people who tended to this food. It was an incredibly powerful experience. Consuming a meal present in your body can bring an immense joy in feeding your body, respecting it, and giving it exactly what it needs. Plus, the...
Dec 03, 2023•52 min•Season 4Ep. 193
Happy Satiated Sunday! I have often found the days after Thanksgiving to be harder than the days leading up. The days leading up, you may have had an inner planner making all of these strategies for you about what you were or were not going to eat, how you were going to respond to different people, what you were going to practice differently this year. Then, you go through the actual holiday. To quote Ram Dass, “If you think you are enlightened, go and spend a week with your family.” Now, you're...
Nov 26, 2023•7 min•Season 4Ep. 192
Happy Satiated Saturday! With Thanksgiving right around the corner, this is a time when food coping mechanisms can increase. Thanksgiving has become a Hallmark holiday of family peacefully gathering around a table to express their gratitude for each other while eating a beautifully cooked meal. When in reality, it can be filled with dysregulating conversation, overwhelming environments, and societally accepted binge eating. You may be picking up more cues of threat during this time, which can in...
Nov 19, 2023•30 min•Season 4Ep. 191
Happy Satiated Sunday! I grew up with certain family members always making comments on other's appearance. I know very well how frustrating it can feel to constantly have your body talked about or be around people who talk about other's bodies as if this is a normal thing that we do. During the holiday season, receiving or hearing comments about what you’re eating or how you look can put your body into a fight, flight, freeze, or flop state. When you’re around people you once relied on to surviv...
Nov 13, 2023•9 min•Season 4Ep. 190
Happy Satiated Saturday! There is a reason that processed foods can create a perceived sense of safety in your body. You can rely on processed foods. They’re consistent. They’re unwavering. They show up for you and taste exactly the same every. single. time. When you’ve experienced trauma, processed foods can provide you with short term security that you’re needing to feel like there’s some order in an uncontrollable world. If your mind has told you that you’re weak or addicted to eating process...
Nov 04, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 189
Happy Satiated Saturday! Halloween candy was so important to me from a young age that on my very first Halloween I fell asleep with my plastic pumpkin full of candy next to me. There can be so much emotionally connected to candy. There can be joyful memories, regulating experiences with friends, and pleasure from eating it. And when you've been in a binge-restrict cycle, candy can bring up fear, anxiety, overwhelm, and even terror. In this week’s episode, I talk about how it's not really about t...
Oct 29, 2023•10 min•Season 4Ep. 188
Happy Satiated Saturday! “WHO is choosing your food?” is one of the most powerful questions you can ask yourself when trying to cultivate an empowering and regulating relationship with food. Your internalized mother, father, siblings, family, teachers, culture can be choosing your food at any meal instead of your present day self. It’s important to get to know your internal voices to distinguish who is with you when you’re interacting with food. Our internal dialogues can be cultivated at such a...
Oct 22, 2023•30 min•Season 4Ep. 187
Happy Satiated Saturday! I'll be honest, this first episode back of the Satiated Podcast is going to be an edgy one. I chat with my dear friend Michelle Shapiro and we dive deep into, not only challenging diet culture but also anti-diet culture. I invited her back on the podcast because I kept seeing this divide happening that a person is either following the "rules" of diet culture or anti-diet culture. So when those I work with come to me and ask me if it's alright to want to lose weight or ch...
Oct 15, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 186
Happy Satiated Saturday! I really got to see my nervous system in action this past week. I spilled a whole bowl of soup onto myself, the couch, the floor, and into my computer. My body went into a freeze response, which took about 24 hours to come out of. During that time, I had very little appetite and it made me reflect on other times of my life where the trauma response felt so big in my body that it felt incredibly difficult to eat. I've been in more conversations with others lately about th...
Aug 27, 2023•11 min•Season 4Ep. 185
Happy Satiated Saturday! I remember the first time I had a mindful eating experience. I was in an all day meditation class and we did the raisin exercise. This is a practice of taking a single raisin and feeling it in your fingers, smelling it, putting it up to your ear, and listening to it crinkle before eating it to bring in all of your senses. Then, very slowly eating the raisin to actually taste it, as this is a food that is typically consumed in mindless handfuls. Over the years, I've explo...
Aug 20, 2023•7 min•Season 4Ep. 184
Happy Satiated Saturday! Something I've noticed lately in the field of disordered eating recovery is that everyone has their beliefs on what they think is the optimal path you've got to start with to heal. For example, the approach that you need to be able to eat all foods can sometimes push you further away from your body as now you're following a rule that you need to be able to eat all foods instead of listening to what foods ground and regulate you. On this healing adventure, you will need t...
Aug 06, 2023•9 min•Season 4Ep. 183
Happy Satiated Saturday! Sometimes I feel like the aftermath of a binge is a more intense moment to manage than the binge itself. Afterward is when all the shame, harsh internal criticism, and self-judgment come in. The inner dialogue is loud and mean. This can send you in all sorts of directions, making promises you know will feel hard to keep, and engaging in compensatory actions that don't align with your values of who you want to be. In this week’s episode, I discuss the three parts of a bin...
Jul 30, 2023•7 min•Season 4Ep. 182
Happy Satiated Saturday! The field of somatics has revolutionized trauma healing by bringing a greater understanding of the mind-body connection and the role of the body in trauma recovery. Traditionally, trauma healing focused primarily on addressing the psychological and cognitive aspects of trauma, often neglecting the physiological and somatic manifestations of trauma in the body. Somatics, on the other hand, recognizes the inseparable link between the mind and body and the significant impac...
Jul 22, 2023•27 min•Season 4Ep. 181
Happy Satiated Saturday! While the field of somatics is the study of the body, we cannot understand the body without its connection and integration with the mind. The field of somatics has evolved from what we have discovered from neuroscience. In this week’s episode, we explore some fascinating realms of neuroscience such as affective neuroscience, somatic markers, polyvagal theory, and much more and how they have informed and shaped somatic approaches. You can also read the transcript to this ...
Jul 16, 2023•25 min•Season 4Ep. 180
Happy Satiated Saturday! You may hear bodywork and think of massages. Yet, hands-on bodywork can be so much more than this. Physical touch can be therapeutic in that it has a calming effect on the nervous system, helps to reduce stress, and promote physical relaxation. It can lower heart rate, blood pressure, cortisol levels, and supports the body with entering into a state of deep relaxation and rest. Therapeutic touch can release endorphins and help alleviate physical pain and discomfort. Touc...
Jul 09, 2023•19 min•Season 4Ep. 179
Happy Satiated Saturday! There were two tracks at my graduate school in Somatic Psychotherapy. One was the Body Psychotherapy track, which is what I took, and the other was Dance Movement Therapy (DMT). The classes that I was able to take in DMT sometimes made me wish I had chosen that track of studies. The fitness culture has warped our beliefs around the purpose of movement. I've had clients say to me what's the point of moving their bodies if they're not trying to change their bodies. I get i...
Jul 02, 2023•36 min•Season 4Ep. 178
Happy Satiated Sunday! I'm so excited for you to listen to the first episode on the history of somatics. It is fascinating to see just how far we've come in the world of somatics. When the idea that the body has wisdom to offer was first introduced, some of the original pioneers of somatics came out with some wild ideas. In this week’s episode, we will explore 7 pioneers who created and grew the field of somatics. I will talk about what they created and how they practiced with others to support ...
Jun 25, 2023•28 min•Season 4Ep. 177
