Satiated Podcast
Episodes
290 episodes
How a Feldenkrais Practice Can Improve Body Image and Relationship with Food with Beverly Atkins
I have a saying, Embody first, Examine later.When you're feeling like you're drowning in body image concerns or food impulses, your prefrontal cortex is shut down. This is the part of your brain where you rationalize and can think...
How to Use Food Cravings as Feedback of Your Nervous System States with Luis Mojica
Since my time in graduate school for somatic psychotherapy, I have shared with anyone who would listen about the connection between somatics and nutrition. It has felt absurd to me that food was never talked about in my somatic studies.
Create Your Eating Timeline to Understand Your Food Story with Dr. Deanna Minich
Around 2018, I was living in Denver, Colorado and I was in my ongoing process of combining the fields of somatics, nutrition, nervous system, and trauma. I've wanted to learn as much as I can about all of the possible perspectives of what affec...
Busting Detox Myths and Revealing Wellness Realities with Michele Scarlet
When I first entered into the world of wellness culture, I was swept up in the promise of health, vibrancy, and fixing every symptom I had and could ever have. I did the detoxes, the cleanses, the supplements, the colonics, the deto...
You Are Not Your Body…Or Are You? A Missing Piece in Food and Body Image Recovery
The statement, “You are not your body,” needs some somatic updating. This statement, which has been said countless of times to try to decrease body image struggles, actually guides you in detaching from the body, further causing separation from...
Get Unstuck From a Sympathetic State and Increase Energy with Dr. Scott Sherr
Once I started to connect the dots that the sympathetic nervous system plays a prominent role in food impulses and behaviors, I began teaching everyone I work with how to identify when their sympathetic nervous system is activated. ...
Reading Reddit Stories: Binge Eating Edition
As I was editing this week's podcast episode, I accidentally deleted half of it and thought it was gone forever. At first, my heart sank, I was in shock, the blood drained from my face, and I literally said out loud, "Nooooooo!!!"
Making Empowered Food Choices Beyond Diet Culture with Bonnie Roney
Something I've noticed in food recovery is that certain foods and meals become associated with dieting. Suddenly, you're afraid or feeling resistance to eating certain vegetables or fruits because these foods have been somatically c...
Simplifying Nutrition and Movement For Enhanced Wellness with Dr. Aleksandra Gajer
Diets can be a reminder of what no can feel like. The issue occurs that over time a no somatically gets connected with deprivation and restriction. So when you really don’t want to eat something, a no sends your body into a survival response. I...
Reading Reddit Stories: Body Image Edition
Every Saturday, my husband and I listen to a podcast that reads Reddit stories. For a long time, I have wanted to do something similar but with a focus on food and body image behaviors. I even set up a whole form for people to send ...
Bioindividual Approach to Nutrition for Neurodiversity and ADHD with Dr. Miguel Toribio-Mateas
Over the past few years, I've become more interested in neurodiversity. I've had more people come to work with me navigating being on the ADHD or autism spectrums and telling me that intuitive eating didn't work for them. I saw that many of the...
How To Choose Foods Based On Your Body's Constitution with Dr. Shivani Gupta
Digestion and cravings can all start in your nervous system. Food decisions made from a stressed, sympathetic nervous system state will lead you to specific foods for your survival. You then struggle to digest those foods, not becau...
Uncomplicating Wellness and Redefining Personal Wellness with Jenn Trepeck
Wellness culture teaches you how to NOT feel enough. It is never enough biohacking, protein, red light therapy, organic, sprouted, activated, pure, lectin free food. Feeling like you’re never going to get it “right” does not create wellness. Wh...
Unraveling the Hidden Energetic Effects of Generational Trauma with Shannon Salge
When the focus is always on finding a root cause, it keeps you looking for the next answer and the next answer and the next answer to your food issues. This can keep you stuck in a survival response. This constant searching sends signals of dan...
The Death of New Year's Resolutions and What To Replace It With
I wanted to approach the transition into a new year differently. For the past couple of years, I felt like it was more somatically aligned to explore a feeling word for the year rather than resolutions. This feeling word could then ...
When Holiday Leftovers Feel Like a Threat
This holiday week might have been really hard. Surrounded by family, arguments, familial patterns, working on staying connected, trying to enact different patterns with food, and feeling overwhelmed and dysregulated. And for others,...
The Power of Finding and Trusting Your Inner Voice with Jeanie Manchester
One of the aspects of food recovery I wished that I had greater guidance around (and had to learn for myself) was discovering how to listen to my body. Even within different food recovery approaches, there are still all of the...
The Impact of Food Trauma on Your Eating Behaviors with Rachel Hobbs
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) are traumatic events that occur in childhood and affect your sense of safety. ACEs have been found to be higher in prevalence among those who struggle with food and body image. As the experience o...
Why Your Food Behaviors Are NOT the Problem. Here's the Real Culprit...
The number one question I often get asked in sessions is, "What is the somatic practice I should be doing to calm myself down?"Somatic and nervous system work has been completely misconstrued and misrepresented, and I get why. <...
Revolutionize your Health Through Learning Self Leadership with Courtney Townley
We were all taught how to eat and move and exist in our bodies. The “shoulds” that you learn from your parents, diet/wellness/fitness culture, magazines, media, movies, family and friends can keep your nervous system stuck in a symp...
Why Learning To Be With Grief is Crucial for Trauma Recovery with Syanna Wand
I remember the very slow realization as I started to embody my binges that food was never going to give me what I was looking for. It felt crushing to face. I'd been utilizing food as a way to try to help myself feel be...
How Your Body Remembers The Environments Where You've Binge
I'm currently visiting family in Connecticut where I grew up. I was here until I went off to college and then I moved back for about a year before I moved west to go to graduate school. Connecticut has been a witness to every stage ...
Building Self Trust To Move From Doubt to Decisive with Jay Moon Fields
In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Jay Moon Fields, MA, Coach, and author about: How to build more self trustThe felt sense of self worthEnhancing your decision making skillsThe embo...
Breaking Free from Emotional Outsourcing and Reclaiming Your Life with Béatriz Victoria Albina
In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Béatriz Victoria Albina, MA, Somatic Master Coach, and author about: What emotional outsourcing isHow it affects physical and mental healthThe impact of cod...
How Food Choices Can Remind Your Body How To Feel Safe
I've been reflecting recently on how much I talk here about the reasons food behaviors like binge eating have nothing to do with the food, but the state you're eating the food in. As I've explored here many times, there are so many somatic, tra...