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Hosted by Sarah Dosanjh (psychotherapist and author) and Stefanie Michele (coach and somatic therapist), Life After Diets explores what it really takes to heal your relationship with food and body image. Through personal stories, professional insights, and candid reflections, Sarah and Stefanie unpacks the messy, nonlinear process of recovery: the relief of food freedom, the discomfort of identity shifts, and the challenge of living in a culture obsessed with thinness.
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This episode discusses several aspects of mental hunger including its relationship to physical hunger. It emphasizes how mental hunger can feel like an insatiable desire for food, often arising from emotional and psychological factors rather than physical need. We also touch upon the significance of nervous system regulation and the complexities of achieving satisfaction while eating. The conversation highlights the role of satisfaction and self-compassion in dealing with the challenges of mental hunger.
Highlights include:
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In this episode, we dive into the concept of self-abandonment and the journey towards self-compassion. We explore the role of shame and the profound loneliness that often accompanies self-abandonment. By learning to separate feelings from shame and embracing self-care, we can navigate life's challenges without losing ourselves. Topics include:
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Embracing your inner child is a concept that you might see coming up when you work on ditching diet culture and embracing a nondiet or intuitive eating approach to disordered eating recovery.
What is this all about? Do we need to do this in order to heal?
This conversation explores:
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Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage
Do you want to eat intuitively but find yourself only wanting "junk food"?
This is a common thing to hear from people trying healing their relationship with food.
A caveat to this conversation -- depending on where you are in this process, the approach to this conflict will be different. For example, wanting fun foods (and ONLY fun foods) at the beginning of recovery can be a really normal part of the healing process.
This conversation also considers the more chronic, ongoing experience of wanting only fun foods all the time.
We discuss:
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Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage
Please read time stamps carefully and skip any segments, which might be triggering or unhelpful for you in your recovery. This video is an honest account of two mental health practitioners who are in recovery from food and body image issues sharing the challenges they faced in this area during yoga teacher training in Rishikesh India.
2:35 – 13:23 : Self-induced vomiting / vamen douhti practices 13:23 – 23:10 : Moralisation of food and purity in yogic tradition 23:10 – 33:09 : Pushing our bodies and minds, plus comparison 33:09 – 36:36 : Feeling unsatisfied, appetite upon return from training 36:36 – 49:15 : Complex feelings about weight loss and stepping on the scales
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This episode was recorded after Sarah's return home from yoga teacher training in India.
Sarah explores some of the human ups and downs (including body image and food difficulties) she experienced while away during training.
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Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse
Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage
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Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon
If you're not in diet culture, you're probably in anti-diet culture.
Diet culture is the water we swim in. If you're learning about the ways in which dieting and thinness-as-idol has harmed you, chances are you've also been embracing new ways of thinking espoused by the "anti-diet mindset." Weight and body neutrality, fatphobia, health at every size, and intuitive eating are some of the terms and concepts you might be familiar with.
With this new approach comes a lot of good, good stuff.
So good that we can recover in it!
But what happens when we start over-identifying with it? Is that even possible?
This episode looks at:
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Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon
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Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse
Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage
In a world of technology, how many of us find it easy to sit down to eat without the distraction of a screen? Is there a difference between eating in front of a TV versus eating in front of a laptop or cell phone? And more importantly, how is this impacting us? How do we work on Intuitive Eating if we feel like we need this type of distraction, or can't break the habit? We'll also talk about:
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Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist
Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon
Connect with Stefanie Michele
Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com
Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse
Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage
Eating is more than just eating. It's also all of the things surrounding eating -- like thinking of what to buy; actually going out and buying it; bringing it home, unpacking it, cooking it. What do we do if it's all too much? This episode also looks at:
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Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist
Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon
Connect with Stefanie Michele
Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com
Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse
Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage
When we stop trying to control food and body size, it can feel unfair. It's not fair that some people are smaller and others aren't. It's not fair that some people can "eat normally" and others can't. In this episode, Stef & Sarah talk extensively about their feelings of resistance around various topics related to their bodies, plus...
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Connect with Stefanie Michele
Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com
Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse
Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage
Connect with Sarah Dosanjh
Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist
Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon
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