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Life After Diets

By: Sarah Dosanjh / Stefanie Michele
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  • Many people are waking up to the fact that diets don't work, but if we're not dieting, now what? How are we supposed to find balance with food and reach intuitive eating? Join Sarah and Stef, a psychotherapist and a health coach, as they talk about all things related to disordered eating, bad body image and creating a life that's free from food and body obsession. The hosts draw on their own eating struggles and openly share the highs and lows of pursuing food freedom over weight loss.
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  • 152. But How Do I Deal With a Relapse?

    152. But How Do I Deal With a Relapse?
    Jun 12 2024

    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/
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    43 mins
  • 151. But What Do Attachment Styles Have to Do With Food Boundaries?

    151. But What Do Attachment Styles Have to Do With Food Boundaries?
    Jun 5 2024

    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/
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    43 mins
  • 150. But Is It Self-Care or Self-Indulgence?

    150. But Is It Self-Care or Self-Indulgence?
    May 29 2024

    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/
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loving this podcast ..a refreshing free-ing take on how to approach food and how different diets just trap us and make us continually unhappy with ourselves..and the binge restrict cycle..some episodes go into more detail about intuitive eating and dealing with binge urges..I hope they continue to do many more episodes :)

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Really lovely listen! Great facts and advice.

I'm just making my way through these podcasts after hearing about Sarah on a Google search. I was really happy to discover a podcast and see the titles of the episodes and how much they resonate with me and my experience. I've read lots of things over the years which have helped tremendously but I think these ladies are the final pieces of my puzzle. They are both really inspiring and have come from a place where they each know their own struggles with binge eating that I can relate and learn from. I'm also listening to Sarah's book on YouTube which is fab. I've struggled with the control i have around food for years. I've lost weight but found the brain impulses still to be so strong on a daily basis. I'm now taking time to get to know myself again and make connections between my psychology and physiology so that I can make peace with myself. Thanks very much ladies - keep believing in yourselves and what you're doing.

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This podcast has had such a positive impact on me!

Sarah and Steph share their stories and experiences, exploring different topics each episode. I can't tell you how many 'lightbulb' moments I've had while listening to it, there are just far too many to count!! As someone with an eating disorder diagnosis and my own food struggles it's hard to find people who truly knows what it's like. Listening to this podcast has given me a chance to not just reflect on my journey so far but to also understand it better, to know my thoughts and feelings are shared and 'normal'. I feel like I'm part of a bigger conversation and it's given me hope, support, a greater appreciation for how far I've come and most importantly to me, helped me explore aspects of my journey that I hadn't considered before. Thanks to this podcast I've even pinpointed where and when it all began! Thank you both for sharing so much of yourselves, you'll probably never really know the extent of the impact you're having!

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