THE BINGE EATING EPISODE - addressing the root causes of disordered eating through nervous system regulation with Stephanie Mara Fox
What's The Juice
Olivia Amitrano
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Ep 87. Welcome back to another episode of “What’s the Juice?”!. This week I’m chatting with Stephanie Fox, a Somatic Nutritional Counselor who has spent the past decade guiding women to feel empowered in their relationships with their food and their bodies. Stephanie specializes in disordered eating patterns, binge eating, emotional eating, chronic dieting, and body image concerns. She is the creator of Somatic Eating®, a body-oriented, sensation-focused therapeutic approach to connecting to your body while you are eating.
Here’s the juice:
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how all of the gut protocols in the world couldn’t cure Stephanie’s chronic gut issues and what finally helped her
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why if you're coming from a history of past trauma it’s hard to practice intuitive eating and how somatic eating must come first
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how binge eating is really just your body communicating to you how unsafe it feels
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it’s not about the food that we’re eating; it’s about the state that we’re in while we’re eating
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how somatic psychotherapy is communicating with the body and learning the body’s language through sensation, emotion, urges, and impulses.
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the questions we should be asking ourselves when we are feeling triggered
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why we need to create “micromoments” of safety to slowly introduce that it’s okay to feel safe in our bodies
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how we can confuse our own inner voice with the voices of others
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why dieting is black and white and keeps us stuck in a box
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ending relationships that don’t feel safe to our nervous systems can be pivotal in healing our guts
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another beautiful week of What's the Juice. I am so grateful to share your headphones with you this week and every week. Thank you guys so much for tuning into the show. It is truly my life's joy to make this show and to interview guests like today's guest, Stephanie Fox. She's absolutely incredible. And I know that you guys are going to get so much value out of this episode because we |
| 0:24.2 | are talking about binge eating, something that I bet you almost everyone listening right now |
| 0:29.9 | has personal experience with. |
| 0:31.7 | And it's so rare to find an expert out there who approaches it in such a kind, compassionate, holistic, but also just |
| 0:40.0 | very methodical and intelligent way. Like she knows all the tricks that your mind is going to play |
| 0:45.5 | on you. She knows all of the emotional roots. She knows all of the physical roots. In this episode, |
| 0:50.5 | Stephanie is going back to the beginning. And she's talking about how when you were a kid at |
| 0:55.6 | the dinner table and you were told that you couldn't get up until you finished your food, that could |
| 0:59.7 | have been where your relationship with food and your body and the fact that you cannot trust yourself |
| 1:05.3 | and your own hunger cues began. She explains that binge eating is a really complex and universal topic |
| 1:10.7 | that has impacted so |
| 1:12.6 | many of us on a personal level. And she explains it as your body communicating to you how unsafe it |
| 1:18.8 | feels. And my inner child when I heard that just melted away. We talk about all of the root cause |
| 1:25.0 | contributors to binge eating and binge eating triggers, including |
| 1:29.0 | unresolved trauma from our childhood, our own relationship with our weight, and even our |
| 1:33.8 | own coping mechanism to deal with weight stigma and society in the world. And then she gives |
| 1:38.8 | us the solution, which is her method of somatic eating, which is a body-oriented, sensation-focused, therapeutic |
| 1:45.6 | approach to connecting with your body while you are eating. I love that she digs into the issue |
| 1:51.9 | and the root causes and we talk about how much it sucks, but then she also ends on this |
| 1:56.7 | note with a solution and just has so many more resources for us to discover. So I highly recommend |
| 2:01.4 | that you check her out. But I just think this is a conversation that a lot of women need and will |
| 2:05.6 | hopefully enjoy. So as always, I hope you guys love this episode. I hope that you get a ton of value out |
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