Satiated Podcast

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• Reading Reddit Stories: Body Image Edition 28.06.2026 28min

  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 dieting, restricting, and binge eating. It was the internalized messages from a culture that wants to control women's bodies that shaped how you interacted with food. And for many, you may create a stabilizing relationship with food and the body image worries may continue because food was helping to cover up the lack of safet...
• Game Changing Body Based Strategies for Binge Eating Recovery with Dr. Kristina Dobyns 21.06.2026 1u 4min

  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 doing similar work! I would love to connect." I starred the email as something I needed to follow up on and then it got completely buried in my inbox. Then, several months later, one of my teachers emailed me and said, "Did you see this dissertation defense coming up? It is on binge eating." I immediately marked it i...
• 4 Teens On A Mission To Revolutionize Teen Health with The Holistic Kids 14.06.2026 41min

  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 weak and that I could control. It would take years of nutritional, mind, and body studies to realize my body was never the enemy I was taught to see it as. I sometimes wonder how things might have been different if I had learned as a kid and teenager how to interact with my body and food from a place of trust. I eventu...
• Breaking Free from Diet Culture Toward Body Liberation with Savala Nolan 07.06.2026 54min

  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 down and provides the message that you can shape your body to be whatever you want it to be, you just have to put up with messages like no pain, no gain and a complete disconnection from your body, how it feels, and what resonates with it. I know I spent years and years in this ping pong game of diets and body shaping. ...
• What Self Love Really Is And How To Embody It Every Day with Lulu Essey 31.05.2026 51min

  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 thought self love looked and felt like self discipline. I went to yoga and meditated almost every day, I was strict with myself on what and when I would eat, I went to bed early and woke up early. From the outside, it looked like I deeply loved myself through how I cared for myself but that it not the way it felt. ...
• Regulate Your Nervous System, Reframe Your Reflection: A Guide to Somatic Body Image Healing 24.05.2026 9min

  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't skipping meals anymore and I was balancing those meals and eating all macronutrients. I felt much more grounded and regulated. But, the body image struggles continued to hang around. I felt good in my body but I still hated the way my body looked. So, I tried every mainstream approach. I tried the stronger over skinny...
• Reading Reddit Stories: Food Recovery Edition 17.05.2026 33min

  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 back into your food behaviors Grieving the time that has passed since your food coping behaviors began The comfort with being in the sympathetic nervous system making it difficult to recover The optimal pace of food recoveryThere are 4 days left to sign up for the Somatic Eating® Program! 🌀 You will lear...
• Breakthrough Food Recovery Stuckness With Psychedelics and Movement with Francesca Annenberg 03.05.2026 55min

  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 is the problem. Patterns of binge eating, restriction, yo yo dieting, food noise, and body image struggles need to be re-labeled as nervous system dysregulation or a trauma response. Food, for many, was never actually the problem, but it was the strategy to support the nervous system, to cultivate safety, and to p...
• How a Feldenkrais Practice Can Improve Body Image and Relationship with Food with Beverly Atkins 26.04.2026 57min

  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 through what is going on. When that part of your brain is diminished, it can be much harder to try to understand what message your body is trying to send you through food cravings or body image worries. At this point, what is often needed is non-verbal connec...
• How to Use Food Cravings as Feedback of Your Nervous System States with Luis Mojica 19.04.2026 53min

  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. In my PhD interview, I passionately shared that I believe there is a need to bring the field of nutrition into somatics. This has been a 20-year journey where I'm seeing that others have also been trying to combine these fields. One of those people...
• Create Your Eating Timeline to Understand Your Food Story with Dr. Deanna Minich 12.04.2026 1u 8min

  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 affects and shapes our food interactions. I was a member at the Denver Botanic Gardens and found out they were holding an all day nutrition workshop with Dr. Deanna Minich. I had been following her work for a long time and was so excited to learn from ...
• Busting Detox Myths and Revealing Wellness Realities with Michele Scarlet 05.04.2026 53min

  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 detox foot baths, the energy work, and the elimination diets. Now, if you're thinking, "Wait. I have done some of those things and they were helpful to me." That is great! But, what I've noticed is that wellness culture has commodified health to sell ...
• You Are Not Your Body…Or Are You? A Missing Piece in Food and Body Image Recovery 22.03.2026 5min

  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 safely inhabiting the body. René Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am,” reinforced a mind-body split. This contributed to the belief that the body is meant to be transcended and translated to: don’t listen to your body, hunger, fatigue, needs, or sensat...
• Get Unstuck From a Sympathetic State and Increase Energy with Dr. Scott Sherr 14.03.2026 48min

  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. This isn't something we're often taught as a kid and would be a game changer to learn earlier on in life. You may just be learning this language of your body and nervous system now though and feel exhausted from living in sympathetic nervous system dominance....
• Reading Reddit Stories: Binge Eating Edition 08.03.2026 41min

  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!!!" I was ready to call it and my brain started quickly going through my options. As I went through my options, I paused and wanted to connect with my experience of this. I felt the sadness of these words I took the time to speak would be lost forever. I took a mo...
• Making Empowered Food Choices Beyond Diet Culture with Bonnie Roney 01.03.2026 53min

  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 connected to deprivation and restriction. Your body tenses, your breath gets shallow, you feel tight, and you hear an internal, "NO, don't eat that." You might find yourself questioning if you're on a diet if you choose the salad over the burger. T...
• Simplifying Nutrition and Movement For Enhanced Wellness with Dr. Aleksandra Gajer 15.02.2026 42min

  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. It can feel like you’re not allowed to say no because now all you feel is tight, tense, and constricted. And then anti diet culture swoops in and tells you that you’re allowed to eat and to eat everything and this can push you further away from lis...
• Reading Reddit Stories: Body Image Edition 08.02.2026 34min

  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 in questions, but I got very few responses. So I decided to move forward on this anyway and find my own Reddit stories to read and share my thoughts on how I might support that person in their situation. In this week's Satiated Podcast episode: I ...
• Bioindividual Approach to Nutrition for Neurodiversity and ADHD with Dr. Miguel Toribio-Mateas 01.02.2026 1u 10min

  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 bodily changes that can occur as a response to trauma can already be happening in someone's brain when in the spectrum of neurodiversity. This can include quicker shifts into activated or collapsed nervous system states, less dopamine and time sp...
• How To Choose Foods Based On Your Body's Constitution with Dr. Shivani Gupta 24.01.2026 48min

  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 because there is something “wrong” with the food or your gut, but because your digestion has shut down to prepare you for battle. You can start to see that every food behavior you have is trying to do something FOR you. Your body needs attunement, comp...