Satiated Podcast

Restrictive Diets Are Traumatic and a Response To Trauma

If someone had told me the truth that going on Weight Watchers at 13 years old would lead to a lack of trust in your body, obsession with food for years to come, an inten

Interoception: Get To Know Your Body's Internal Dashboard For Better Regulation with Alyssa Chang

About a year ago in one of my PhD classes, I voiced a huge gripe I had about somatic and nervous system practices.  I shared that my friction with them was that they hav

How Embracing Rage Fuels Body Liberation and Heals Diet Trauma with Paula D. Atkinson

One underdiscussed aspect of a body image or food recovery adventure is the importance of rage.  What can occur is that all the anger that might be felt about how you we

Use These Somatic Tools During and After Tough Times with Laurie James

You may have picked this up by now about how passionate I am about the field of somatic psychology. Learning about how to experience my body on all levels and build aware

Rebuilding Body Trust After Decades of Dieting with Amber Caudle

Your history with food and dieting didn't start with you. You saw your mothers or fathers diet and their grandparents also dieted and their grandparents also dieted.

How The Five Tastes Calm or Energize Your Nervous System with Michelle Brown

Something I learned from diet culture was that the taste of sweet was "bad." If I craved sweetness then something must be out of balance. There was probably a period of t

Reading Reddit Stories: Body Image Edition

It is difficult to talk about food without talking about body image. The two are intertwined.  For many of you, it was your body's appearance that started the dieti

Game Changing Body Based Strategies for Binge Eating Recovery with Dr. Kristina Dobyns

This is actually a pretty wild story.  During my first year in my PhD, a woman reached out to me through the contact form on my website and was like, "Hey, we're do

4 Teens On A Mission To Revolutionize Teen Health with The Holistic Kids

As many of you know, I went on my first diet when I was 13 years old.  It was Weight Watchers and it shifted how I viewed my body for a decade. I saw it as something wea

Breaking Free from Diet Culture Toward Body Liberation with Savala Nolan

Diets teach us to view the body as a project. You can tinker with what you're eating and transform your body into something different.  Then fitness culture doubles

What Self Love Really Is And How To Embody It Every Day with Lulu Essey

I have often felt like talking about self love can feel frustrating and confusion. What does loving oneself actually mean and look like?  Early in my twenties, I think I

Regulate Your Nervous System, Reframe Your Reflection: A Guide to Somatic Body Image Healing

I've been through a similar trajectory that so many have in food and body image recovery.  In my twenties, I got to a place where food was less of a concern. I wasn

Reading Reddit Stories: Food Recovery Edition

In this week's episode, I chat about:  I read 3 different food recovery Reddit stories I talk about recovery into a world that is just going to want to push you bac

Breakthrough Food Recovery Stuckness With Psychedelics and Movement with Francesca Annenberg

My current perspective on eating disorders is that labeling food behaviors as a disorder has kept the field of food recovery distracted, continuing to focus on that food

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

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 ab

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

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 th

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, actua

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