#212: Finding the wisdom in emotional eating with Stephanie Mara Fox
Let’s talk about binge eating and trauma… In this latest podcast episode, Stephanie, a somatic eating counselor for over a decade, unveils the intricate emotional factors involved in binge eating.
Emotional eating and binge eating can actually be a message from your body, signaling dysregulation of some kind. Yet, we often simply beat ourselves up when we overindulge in ice cream, cookie, chips, etc. So, here’s what you can do instead to overcome binge eating once and for all!
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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’s 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 has been working for over the past decade to guide women in feeling empowered in their relationship with their food and body. Stephanie is published in the International Body Psychotherapy Journal, featured in Somatic Psychotherapy Today, VoyageDenver, Elephant Journal, Authority Magazine, and Your Recovery Revealed Summit. 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.
Websites: https://www.stephaniemara.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephaniemara/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephmara/
Contact: [email protected]
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SHOW NOTES
02:44 - Stephanie's background, practicing as a Somatic Nutritional Counselor
03:37 - Emotional eating and underlying trauma
05:10 - Physical hunger vs emotional hunger
07:17 - Binge and comfort eating
08:47 - Window of tolerance
10:42 - Alcohol consumption
11:17 - Fight or flight response
12:18 - Protective eating
14:36 - Fear response
14:58 - Connecting with food
18:45 - Interrupting emotional eating before it happens
21:01 - Bringing language to emotions
23:40 - Our TTC Journey
26:05 - Feeling your emotions
27:44 - Flowing with yourself with where you're at
29:06 - Starting to see our relationship with food as a doorway
29:45 - Trusting your body
31:10 - Stephanie's programs
32:12 - Working in baby steps
