Satiated Episode 160: Self Sabotage Doesn't Exist. Your Habitual Eating Challenges are Information From Your Body.

Happy Satiated Saturday! 

Have you ever called your patterns of binge eating, emotional eating, restricting, yo-yo dieting self sabotage? 

The idea of self sabotage means that you're doing something to block your success. I want to reframe that you are NOT getting in your own way when you play out your familiar food coping mechanisms again and again and again. 

Defining them as self sabotage interferes with gaining insight from your behavior as you're then seeing it as wrong, bad, or something to be "fixed." Start to see your patterns with food as information on the state of your body and parts of you that are needing to feel safe. 

In this week’s episode, I talk about what self sabotage is, why you need to stop thinking of your food coping mechanisms as self sabotage and what to do instead when you feel the familiar impulse to eat when you're not physically hungry. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode  here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/self-sabotage-doesnt-exist

One of the pieces of feedback I've received from those who have gone through the Somatic Eating® Program is that they cultivated more compassion and awareness around their food patterns where they felt like even when they engaged in a familiar food coping mechanism they no longer self abandoned afterward. 

If you're curious about how to get to this place in your relationship with food, the next Somatic Eating® Program starts April 20th. Go to somaticeating.com to join the waitlist. Those on the waitlist will receive a special offer when doors open. 

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox