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Full But Not Finished

Full But Not Finished

Di: Stefanie Michele
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 Full But Not Finished is for anyone who's tried to "just stop eating when you're full" and realized it's never that simple. Hosted by somatic and intuitive eating coach Stefanie Michele, this podcast dives into the ongoing work of recovery — where fullness doesn't always mean satisfaction, and where food, body image, and self-worth collide. Each episode unpacks the psychology, nervous system patterns, and cultural conditioning that shape eating behaviors, showing why willpower alone doesn't work and what real regulation looks like. If you've lived the binge–restrict cycle, felt trapped in body image spirals, or wondered why "normal eating" feels out of reach, this is where we make sense of it — not with rules, but with integration, somatic tools, and a more human way forward.2025 Igiene e vita sana Psicologia Psicologia e salute mentale Successo personale Sviluppo personale
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  • 14. Why Restriction Feels Calming: Nervous System Dysregulation + Food Control

    14. Why Restriction Feels Calming: Nervous System Dysregulation + Food Control
    Jan 7 2026

    For years I have talked about binge eating, compulsive eating, and the binge & restrict cycle — and how chaotic and dysregulated those patterns feel in the body. But what if restriction itself is also a form of nervous system dysregulation?

    In this episode, I break down how food restriction shows up inside the four trauma responses — fight, flight, freeze, and fawn — using polyvagal theory, nervous system regulation, and real lived experience to give it context.

    I also announce that my SENSR course is open for enrollment: all of the details are right here!

    In this episode, you'll learn:

    • why restriction can be an expression of anger and control (fight)
    • how chronic dieting becomes emotional avoidance and hyper-vigilance (flight)
    • why restriction is often about belonging, approval, and social safety (fawn)
    • how food restriction becomes self-punishment, penance, and disappearing after trauma (freeze)
    • how the body uses restriction to regulate overwhelm, threat, and emotional overload
    • why both binge eating and restriction are attempts at safety, not failures of character
    • how diet culture, weight stigma, and cultural power feed these nervous system loops
    • and why true healing requires learning how to complete stress cycles and build regulation without food control

    This conversation connects ED recovery, intuitive eating, body image, trauma, somatic therapy, and nervous system education — showing how our relationship with food is inseparable from how our body experiences safety, threat, and connection.

    If you struggle with restriction or periods of restriction, this episode offers a radically different lens — your nervous system is trying to protect you.

    Work with me

    If you want support applying these ideas to your actual life (not just your notes app), I offer 1:1 coaching for binge eating recovery, intuitive eating, and body image healing. Apply here!

    If this episode helps, subscribe and leave a rating or review—it's the best way to support the podcast and get this message out there!
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    39 min
  • 13. The January Trap: Last-Supper Eating, Gym Diet Culture, and Food Gifts [Q&A]

    13. The January Trap: Last-Supper Eating, Gym Diet Culture, and Food Gifts [Q&A]
    Dec 31 2025
    If you're already thinking about how to "fix" your eating in 2026, listen to this first. This Q&A episode covers three of the biggest pressure points people hit at the end of December and the start of January: Last Supper eating, diet-culture talk in fitness spaces, and the anger that can come from getting food gifts from friends in their own food dysfunction. I'm answering these questions with a grounded, anti-diet lens that helps you stay out of the reset → restrict → rebound cycle and move into the New Year in a more regulated way. Q&A topics in this episode: ⭐ New Year "start fresh" → Last Supper eating: why it happens, how it restarts the binge–restrict cycle, and what helps you stay out of the loop ⭐ Diet culture in fitness spaces: how to handle "work off the holiday calories" messaging, how to set boundaries, and what to look for in more weight-neutral/body-inclusive movement environments ⭐ Food gifts: when food gifts feel emotionally loaded, why that can be activating, and how to protect your relationship with food without turning it into a power struggle SENSR COURSE OPENS JANUARY 2026 -- Save your seat here: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/sensr You'll also hear... ✨ The "fishing rod" visualization: noticing when your mind is 50 feet in the future and reeling it back into today ✨ How to tell grounded goals from hype: the physical difference between calm steadiness vs. "jazzy" urgent energy ✨ A language swap for goals that doesn't turn into food rules ✨ The "spam filter" method for diet-culture talk ✨ What to do with the energy of anger If you're navigating binge eating recovery, chronic dieting history, emotional eating, or "healthy eating" obsession, this episode gives you a steadier way to approach the New Year. Subscribe for more Q&A episodes and conversations on binge eating recovery, body image, diet culture, nervous system regulation, and building a sustainable relationship with food. BODY INCLUSIVE FITNESS STARTER PACK Louise Green Jessamyn Stanley Amy Snelling of The Snack Pass Meg Boggs SITA Size Inclusive Training Superfit Hero Body Positive Fitness Joyful Inclusive Movement Search terms: weight inclusive fitness or body positive fitness Apply to work with me: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application
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    43 min
  • 12. Why Am I So Nostalgic? On being a highly sensitive person

    12. Why Am I So Nostalgic? On being a highly sensitive person
    Dec 24 2025

    Nostalgia, body image, and high sensitivity are connected—and this episode explains why.

    This is for highly sensitive people who experience nostalgia as a full-body emotional event. Do you notice that when the past gets stirred, food and body stuff gets louder? Songs, places, photos, endings, and transitions don't just bring up memories, they can trigger urges to control food, reconsider our appearance, check, plan, restrict, overeat, or isolate.

    In this episode, we cover:

    • Why highly sensitive nervous systems experience nostalgia as embodied memory, not just thought
    • How childhood and adolescence can leave open stress loops that keep pulling us back
    • Why food and body control can become a reliable way to contain emotional overwhelm
    • Why you can feel pulled toward a time in your life that was actually painful or unstable
    • Why longing for an old body and old coping patterns is often about unresolved emotional safety
    • What recovery looks like when the buffer is gone and emotions come back online
    • How to feel deeply without getting swallowed by it

    You'll also get a practical way to work with this when it hits: how to recognize the moment nostalgia arrives, how to give your body a short, contained window to feel what's there, and how to return to the present on purpose through simple routines that re-anchor you.

    Work with me

    If you want support applying these ideas to your actual life (not just your notes app), I offer 1:1 coaching for binge eating recovery, intuitive eating, and body image healing. Apply here!

    If this episode helps, subscribe and leave a rating or review—it's the easiest way to support the podcast and get this message out there!
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    39 min
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