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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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You know what's hard in a life after diets? When people comment on your body or your food choices. How are we supposed to respond? It is a tough balance between setting boundaries, managing conflict, and not feeling triggered.
The conversation starts out with a reflection of Stef's conversation the previous day with her Mom, but moves through different scenarios that we might run up against in our non-diet culture driven life. Some scenarios include: what if someone asks me if I'm pregnant? What if someone is just ignorant or making a non-critical observation? What if their comment triggers my own self doubt?
Tune in now!
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Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon
If we're not dieting, won't we just be completely out of control with food? That's the risk when we feel like we can't trust ourselves.
In this episode, we talk about what self-trust is -- including how we thought about it before recovery and how we think about it now. And maybe most importantly, how we developed more of it!
This episode was livestreamed to our private community so we also answer some listener questions about personal experiences with self-trust.
We discuss:
Join our growing support community. This community is for you if you want a safe space to work through your daily struggles with food and body image. Community membership includes livestream episode recordings (online), monthly Zoom support meetings, a private Facebook group and member-only Q&A episodes. For more information go to: https://www.patreon.com/lifeafterdiets
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Connect with Sarah Dosanjh, Author & Psychotherapist
Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com
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YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist
Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon
How do other people make decisions about what to eat? Have you ever been interested in understanding what makes a person choose the breakfast or lunch or snack that they choose? Sarah and Stef offer their personal decision making processes of the meals they ate the day of recording this podcast. From there, the conversation branches off into topics like practical hunger, interoception (a principle of Intuitive Eating), cravings, habits, and preferences.
We also ask ourselves the question: what do you do when nothing sounds good?
Finally, we talk about what strategies you might use to make decisions about food if you're still in the middle of disordered thoughts and behaviors around food.
Join our growing support community. This community is for you if you want a safe space to work through your daily struggles with food and body image. Community membership includes livestream episode recordings (online), monthly Zoom support meetings, a private Facebook group and member-only Q&A episodes. For more information go to: https://www.patreon.com/lifeafterdiets
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/lifeafterdietspodcast
Email – hello@lifeafterdietspod.com
Connect with Stefanie Michele, Food & Body Image Coach, Somatic Therapist IT
Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com
Instagram – www.instagram.com/iamstefaniemichele
Work with Stefanie - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application
Stef's body image workshop – https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/bodyimageworkshop2024
Connect with Sarah Dosanjh, Author & Psychotherapist
Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com
Instagram – www.instagram.com/the_binge_eating_therapist
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist
Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon
This week we are talking to Sam Abbott, RD about PCOS! Many of our listeners have been diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovarian sydrome) and medical recommendations to manage symptoms are usually geared towards weight loss and food restrictions. How does someone with PCOS balance this condition within a nondiet value system? We'll look at:
Resource: Ferriman-Gallwey Score for Hirutism
Contact Sam:
Join our growing support community. This community is for you if you want a safe space to work through your daily struggles with food and body image. Community membership includes livestream episode recordings (online), monthly Zoom support meetings, a private Facebook group and member-only Q&A episodes. For more information go to: https://www.patreon.com/lifeafterdiets
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/lifeafterdietspodcast
Email – hello@lifeafterdietspod.com
Connect with Stefanie Michele, Food & Body Image Coach, Somatic Therapist IT
Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com
Instagram – www.instagram.com/iamstefaniemichele
Work with Stefanie - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application
Stef's body image workshop – https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/bodyimageworkshop2024
Connect with Sarah Dosanjh, Author & Psychotherapist
Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com
Instagram – www.instagram.com/the_binge_eating_therapist
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist
Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon
Sarah's Connect and Recover groups: https://thebingeeatingtherapist.com/connect-recover-groups/
This episode is all about relapse in the context of eating disorder recovery. We cover topics such as shame, self-awareness, boundaries, dopamine regulation, catastrophization, and the impact of life circumstances on relapse.
Relapses can be very distressing; it's tempting to think we've failed or that we'll "never really get better." In the second half of this episode, we talk about the idea of "remembering and forgetting" as a muscle that actually builds resilience over time in eating disorder recovery -- even if the "forgetting" is relapsing.
Join our growing support community. This community is for you if you want a safe space to work through your daily struggles with food and body image. Community membership includes livestream episode recordings (online), monthly Zoom support meetings, a private Facebook group and member-only Q&A episodes. For more information go to: https://www.patreon.com/lifeafterdiets
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/lifeafterdietspodcast
Email – hello@lifeafterdietspod.com
Connect with Stefanie Michele, Food & Body Image Coach, Somatic Therapist IT
Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com
Instagram – www.instagram.com/iamstefaniemichele
Work with Stefanie - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application
Stef's body image workshop – https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/bodyimageworkshop2024
Connect with Sarah Dosanjh, Author & Psychotherapist
Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com
Instagram – www.instagram.com/the_binge_eating_therapist
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist
Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon
Sarah's Connect and Recover groups: https://thebingeeatingtherapist.com/connect-recover-groups/
This week we are talking about attachment styles.
The psychological concepts of anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, and disorganized attachment have been used to understand our relationship dynamics with other people, but can it also be used to understand our relationship dynamics with food?
For example, anxious attachment in relationships looks like constantly seeking validation and having porous boundaries with ourselves and others for fear of losing connection. Might this also translate to having porous boundaries with food? Would we consistently seek out and overeat because we have scarcity around that, too?
Tune in to see how an understanding of attachment theory might help you understand why Intuitive Eating feels difficult and binge eating, compulsive eating, and/or restricting feels so primal...
x Stef & Sarah
Join our growing support community. This community is for you if you want a safe space to work through your daily struggles with food and body image. Community membership includes livestream episode recordings (online), monthly Zoom support meetings, a private Facebook group and member-only Q&A episodes. For more information go to: https://www.patreon.com/lifeafterdiets
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/lifeafterdietspodcast
Email – hello@lifeafterdietspod.com
Connect with Stefanie Michele, Food & Body Image Coach, Somatic Therapist IT
Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com
Instagram – www.instagram.com/iamstefaniemichele
Work with Stefanie - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application
Stef's body image workshop – https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/bodyimageworkshop2024
Connect with Sarah Dosanjh, Author & Psychotherapist
Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com
Instagram – www.instagram.com/the_binge_eating_therapist
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist
Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon
Sarah's Connect and Recover groups: https://thebingeeatingtherapist.com/connect-recover-groups/
The world talks a lot about self-care, but many people in this community feel selfish taking care of themselves. It can be seen as indulgent to take the time to tend to our own needs, especially as mothers -- check out the second half of the podcast where Stef addresses this from her perspective as a parent (her take might surprise you). So what's the difference between self care and self indulgence?
Speaking of indulgence, we also look at the way we talk about food under this lens. Are the connotations of this word inherently problematic? Are we just gluttons or is there a case for the healthy pursuit of food as pleasure, or even as self-care?
Tune in...
Join our growing support community. This community is for you if you want a safe space to work through your daily struggles with food and body image. Community membership includes livestream episode recordings (online), monthly Zoom support meetings, a private Facebook group and member-only Q&A episodes. For more information go to: https://www.patreon.com/lifeafterdiets
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/lifeafterdietspodcast
Email – hello@lifeafterdietspod.com
Connect with Stefanie Michele, Food & Body Image Coach, Somatic Therapist IT
Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com
Instagram – www.instagram.com/iamstefaniemichele
Work with Stefanie - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application
Stef's body image workshop – https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/bodyimageworkshop2024
Connect with Sarah Dosanjh, Author & Psychotherapist
Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com
Instagram – www.instagram.com/the_binge_eating_therapist
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist
Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon
Sarah's Connect and Recover groups: https://thebingeeatingtherapist.com/connect-recover-groups/
This episode is a review of "The Hunger Habit" by Judson Brewer, MD, PhD. Is this a book that can help people who struggle with binge eating and disordered eating? Will Sarah and Stef come to the same conclusions about the book? Most importantly, will Stef remember her note-to-self about making her points of contention calmly?
I guess you'll have to tune in to find out!
Sarah's Connect and Recover groups: https://thebingeeatingtherapist.com/connect-recover-groups/
Join our growing support community. This community is for you if you want to improve your relationship with food and become more comfortable in your own skin. Community membership includes invites to live episode recordings (online), support meetings, a private Facebook group and monthly Q&As. For more information go to: https://www.patreon.com/lifeafterdiets
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/lifeafterdietspodcast
Email – hello@lifeafterdietspod.com
Connect with Stefanie Michele binge eating health coach
Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com
Instagram – www.instagram.com/iamstefaniemichele
Work with Stefanie - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application
Stef's body image workshop – https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/bodyimageworkshop2024
Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage
Connect with Sarah Dosanjh psychotherapist
Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com
Instagram – www.instagram.com/the_binge_eating_therapist
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist
Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon
We are back with another recovery story -- this time from Louise, a member of our community (which you can join here, by the way!) Louise explains her story of disordered eating and restriction starting in adolescence, eventually leading her to give up dieting to lean into an anti-diet approach. Like so many others in ED recovery, Louise had to deal with weight gain and body image issues in exchange for food freedom -- but came out with this story to tell. Listen to her inspirational message about sex, attraction, and empowerment in this very cool, real-story episode.
Email us @ lifeafterdietspodcast@gmail.com
Join Stef's Body Image Workshop! (click here)
Sarah's book, I Can't Stop Eating, is available on Amazon
This episode was a toughie, not gonna lie.
It's really, really hard to have this discussion without potentially triggering some folks -- and we only know that because at one time, it triggered us, too. But this podcast is valuable because it does explore nuances, including the things less talked about in the anti-diet world.
At the end of the day, the desire for weight loss remains after we stop dieting. And for some people the question of: can I pursue this intentionally without regressing or sacrificing my values and myself? comes up a lot.
This is an individual question with individual answers, and we're having the conversation for people who want to have the conversation. Please note that if you have found peace in the skin you're in, this episode may not be for you. It's for people who feel lost, confused, and stuck and want to explore more angles of weight concerns post-recovery.
We'll touch on:
Email us @ lifeafterdietspodcast@gmail.com
Join Stef's Body Image Workshop! (click here)
Sarah's book, I Can't Stop Eating, is available on Amazon
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