Part of what’s been hard for me the last three years was I didn’t understand how drastically the hormonal shifts that start for women around 35 and accelerate in our mid-40s affects ALL THE THINGS. And I’m someone who knows that our physiology and psychology are in a constant feedback ...
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Alcohol, Food, and Body Image: Push Off From Here with Laura McKowen – Insatiable Special Episode
While Laura McKowen is known for her work around alcohol sobriety, her first coping strategy was food. Like Laura, I have many clients who come to me where their first “thing” was food. And after getting sober or soberish, their eating issues return or becomes a “thing”. In this special ...
Creating Safety for Sustainable Eating and Exercise Results – Insatiable Season 13, Episode 7
Download the transcript (PDF) Dr. Michelle Segar, one of the more progressive health behavioral change experts, says sustainable behavior change with eating and exercise is not a product of rule-following. In other words, trying so hard to perfectly stick to a plan is not an ...
Values-Gap Driven Body Discomfort – Insatiable Season 13, Episode 6
Download the transcript (PDF) When I surveyed my newsletter readers back in April, a common survey response theme was: “I feel uncomfortable in my body and feel ridiculous that I am focused on this when there is so much else that is so much more important to deal with.” I sooo get ...
Food, Stress, and Healing Your Nervous System with Stacey Ramsower – Insatiable Season 13, Episode 5
Download the transcript (PDF) A Truce with Food foundational focus is learning how to effectively respond to the stress that makes you eat. Because we are often reacting to the past when our sense of safety was compromised with our present stresses. For example, I used to binge on ...
Food, Feeling Fat, and Perfectionism: Protection Strategies with Sil Reynolds – Insatiable Season 13, Episode 4
Download the transcript (PDF) How many times have you thought: why do I self-sabotage with food? If those answers haven’t gotten you very far, I have a much better question for you. “How does my frustrating eating protect me?” is a question that will take you far and deep. To help ...
The Religion of Wellness Culture with Anne Helen Petersen – Insatiable Season 13, Episode 3
Download the transcript (PDF) The Wellness culture we see as we scroll through Instagram or listen to in our earbuds on the various wellness podcasts often casts itself as the opposite of Western Medicine. And yet, both industries overlap via the same value system of Puritans and ...
The Root Cause of Stress Eating: What’s Eating You? with Ali Shapiro – Insatiable Season 13, Episode 2
Download the transcript (PDF) “How can I stop stress eating? is a frequent question I get asked. In today’s episode, I share a more powerful question that’s necessary to ask - “What’s eating you?” - to get back in control of food for good. No white knuckling required. I share my own ...
Food, Conception + Birth: Safety Origins with Stacey Ramsower – Insatiable Season 13, Episode 1
Download the transcript (PDF) Have you ever thought about your birth? If you’re like most people, you probably haven’t. And yet, as Stacey shares, according to Ayverveda’s Sankyha philosophy, 25% of who we are comes from our conception and birth. This makes safety and food intimately ...
Insatiable Season 13 Sneak Peek
Download the transcript (PDF) The past few years have tested each of us. We’ve been immersed in Grief. Loss. Relationship fissures. Children’s developmental concerns. Money stress. And these individual challenges are nesting dolls of the escalating war on women’s bodies, caretaking, and the ...