The Vital Side Podcast 93. Healing Disordered Eating Through Somatic Work & Nervous System Regulation with Stephanie Mara Fox
Themes: Eating Disorders/Disordered Eating, Relationships with food, Trauma Healing, Nervous System Regulation
Trigger warning: This episode is an open discussion with a mental health professional that includes the topics of disordered eating, eating disorders, diet culture, and trauma around food.
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Episode details:
How often do you reflect on your relationship with food? Somatic Nutritional Counselor Stephanie Mara Fox joins Lindsay and Cait to discuss the importance of this relationship. Hear Stephanie’s story of working through her own patterns of disordered eating and how that led her to the work she does today. Stephanie gives compassionate insight to how our past traumas can contribute to the development of disordered eating, and how somatic work can help us heal from them.
Stephanie Mara Fox, MA, CMBEC, CHC, CYT, is a Somatic Nutritional Counselor and Mentor with a Master’s Degree in Somatic Psychotherapy. She is the creator of Somatic Eating®, a body-oriented, sensation focused therapeutic approach to eating. She has supported women, coaches, and wellness professionals all over the world, helping them to heal from disordered eating patterns, binge eating, emotional eating, chronic dieting, and body image concerns. She is a teacher at the Institute for the Psychology of Eating and has supervised thousands of mind body eating coaches. Stephanie is on a mission to guide others into a safe and regulated relationship with food so they can go out and create their Satiated Life.
Show Notes:
-Reminder to sign up for the Reboot waitlist
-Meet Stephanie and hear her story; starting at a young age with her desire to heal her digestive pain, and how this turned into learning about somatic work, gut health, nervous system regulation, and a psychotherapeutic approach to healing disordered eating
-Discussing pivotal moments in Stephanie’s healing journey
-The difference between an eating disorder, and disordered eating; examples of disordered eating
-The trauma responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) and how they relate to disordered eating
-How trauma and disordered eating are related; how they similar messages to your brain; why you might be more prone to developing disordered eating patterns if you have unprocessed traumas
-Recognizing the signs of disordered eating; specific examples of how they manifest and how you can reflect personally on your own eating behaviors
-Tools to help regulate yourself (and foster safety in your body) before meals
-The importance of the nervous system in relation to eating, and learning to listen to the information your body is trying to tell you
Resources:
-Click here to visit Stephanie’s website
-Click here to receive 50% off Stephanie’s Intro to Somatic Eating® Mini Course
-Click to follow Stephanie on: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Tiktok
-Click here to sign up for the Reboot waitlist
-Visit the Vital-Side Homepage here
-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside
-Visit Lindsay’s Website
-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco
-Visit Cait’s Website
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