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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 were treated in the past gets turned in on your body. Your body becomes the focus of all your rage rather than on a culture that ever taught you that your body should be different than it is. Your food behaviors become a way to express this anger when it doesn't feel like it has an outlet. 
Somatically, if your experience of rage is scary, overwhelming, and threatening, then it can also feel unsafe to feel and express rage. This is why I like to explore small, safe micro moments of feeling rage so that you get to slowly take it off of your body's appearance or express it with food. 
What this might look like is drawing rage, writing as if you were rage, putting on a song that taps you into rage and moving as rage would move for one song. This could look like throwing an egg against a tree or ripping a piece of paper. This is all about getting used to the felt sense of rage so that when you start to judge your body, you can feel the rage, express, move through it, and not blame your body for it. 
In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Paula D. Atkinson, liberation psychotherapist, body justice professor and activist, author, and podcast host, about: 
Trauma of diet culture
Impact of starvation
Embracing rage and how to use it as a tool for body liberation
History of fatphobia
The intersection between body image and social justice
Importance of experiencing pleasure and joy
You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/how-embracing-rage-fuels-body-liberation
This was an incredibly powerful episode and I hope you enjoy it! 
With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox
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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 awareness of my nervous system states felt like it was learning how to come home to myself. 
I have often joked that many people who are somatic practitioners were drawn to this work because they have lived much of their life disconnected from their own bodies and I'm no exception. 
I spent so much of my life outside of my body. It was in learning how to stay with myself in all emotions, sensations, and reactions that I felt like my body could be a home for myself again. This can be a lifelong practice and I feel as though somatics provides the resources on how to be in this practice day after day. 
Sometimes, the first step toward creating a new perception and sense of safety to come closer to your body is through curiosity and somatic tracking. It can be crucially important to start noticing how your body responds to various internal or external input because this will guide you toward undigested life experiences, nervous system states, and bodily needs. 
In this week's episode, I chat with Laurie James, author, certified somatic practitioner & coach, and podcaster, about: 
The power of body awareness
How to recognize overwhelm and stress
Understanding the spectrum of personal development
Including the importance of rest and integration
Navigating both needs for stillness and movement
The difference between somatic work and meditation
Building connection with your body
You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/use-these-somatic-tools-during-and-after-tough-times
If you have any insights from this recent episode, email me anytime and would love to hear from you! 
With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox
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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. 
There is a long history of diet culture passed down from generation to generation and expressed differently in the trendiest, most common diet of the time. This isn't about the food, but that nervous system states, traumas, and lack of safety is being expressed through food in family lineages. 
 Creating a safer and more stabilizing relationship with food can also be engaging in the healing of past generations who never got a chance to feel safe in their bodies and future generations to have that groundwork that you had to create for yourself. 
In this week's episode, I chat with Amber Caudle, chef, author, speaker, and coach, about: 
What a journey to food freedom actually looks like
How the nervous system plays a role in food recovery
The importance of self compassion, curiosity and creativity
The work of True Body Intelligence for trauma recovery
The impact of generational trauma on food behaviors, and steps to build trust in your body
You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/rebuilding-body-trust-after-decades-of-dieting
Hope you enjoy this week's episode and see you all next week! 
With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox
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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 time where craving sweetness sent me into a panic where I had to become a detective to understand why I wanted something sweet. 
Learning about the five tastes changed my perspective. We have 5 basic tastes that include sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savory. Experiencing all five tastes can make a meal feel more satisfying and even regulating to your nervous system. Wanting to taste sweetness doesn't mean there is something wrong with you, but that your body is always looking for a balanced, well rounded eating experience. 
Additionally, the demonization of sweet foods has led to a complete disconnect from the body. One of the first tastes we experience as a baby is sweet. Sweet can be connected to care, warmth, attention, attunement, and connection. What if you’re not out of control with eating sweets, but starving for the bodily experience that sweets provide?
In this week's episode, I chat with Michelle Brown, Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner and clinical herbalist, about: 
The somatic experience of food
The five tastes and how they affect your nervous system
Understanding sweetness and its role in nutrition
Balancing taste for inner harmony
Cravings as body communication
The connection between taste and emotions
The importance of enjoying your meals
You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/five-tastes-calm-or-energize-your-nervous-system
With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox
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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 safety to live in your body. 
So today, we're going to read some body image Reddit Stories to support you in how you may somatically navigate body image concerns when they arise. 
In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat about: 
How nervous system states shape your perception of your body
Body image concerns can be an attempt at trauma resolution 
Explorations on the somatic meaning of body image struggles 
Grief over previous expressions of the body 
The sensory integration that needs to occur to experience the body differently
With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox
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