Body Reclamation Podcast: Recent Episodes
Nazira Sacasa
The Body Reclamation Podcast is a space for women who are ready to end the battle with body shame + food guilt and experience an authentic, unapologetic, pleasure-filled life. Join host Nazira Sacasa, Body Image + Embodiment Coach, and her guests to explore in-depth conversions and unpack the many layers that impact our relationship with our bodies and food. We bring forth much-needed conversations about diet culture, body image, Intuitive Eating, embodiment, mental health, self-care, sexuality, menstrual cycles, and all that it means to live in a woman's body. Get ready to reclaim your body as a source of wisdom, power, pleasure, and aliveness. New episodes are released every Thursday. Show notes: https://www.nazirasacasa.com/podcast
Stefanie Michele is a Binge Eating Recovery & Body Image Coach specializing in helping women overcome food and body image issues. She holds degrees in Human Development Psychology and Occupational Therapy with a certification in Integrative Health Coaching and Intuitive Eating Counseling, and is currently in training as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. After struggling with multiple eating disorders for 25 years, Stefanie experienced her own recovery with the help of a coach and plenty of self-exploration. She considers her "boots-on-the-ground" experience of recovery her most teachable asset.
In this episode, we explore:
- Stefanie’s journey of recovering from disordered eating
- 3 Pillars of restriction that can fuel a binge
- Why our behaviors around food can be an attempt to regulate
- Intuitive Eating Misconceptions
Connect With Stefanie Michele:
Stefanie’s Instagram
Stefanie’s Website
Connect with Nazira Sacasa:
Nazira's Instagram
Nazira’s Website
Book a free 30 minute discovery call with Nazira
Haley Nichole is a Holistic Womb Healer, Women's Mentor & the Visionary of Root & Womb Collective - a Women's Community in Devotion to the Feminine Healing Journey. She supports Women through her 1:1 Mentorship Program to Heal their Womb, Reconnect to their Cycle & Return to their Feminine Body. In addition to her 1:1 Client Work, Haley guides Transformative Group Courses & is the Host of the Root & Womb Collective Podcast where she shares a variety of conversations with other Women who are supporting, uplifting & elevating the Feminine heartbeat of the World.
In this episode, we explore:
- Haley’s journey of recovering from disordered eating and over exercising
- Effects of being on hormonal birth control
- How the seasons of the earth mirror the phases of our menstrual cycle
- Feminine embodiment as an orientation to life
- How to connect with your womb and begin the healing process
Connect With Haley Nichole:
Haley’s Instagram
Haley’s Website
Connect with Nazira:
Nazira's Instagram
Book a free 30 minute discovery call with Nazira
Join SOFTEN - Free Workshop 10/15
In 2005, Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant, co-founded the Center for Body Trust, a community based outpatient clinic and professional training institute that created Body Trust - a strength-based, trauma-informed, scientifically grounded healing modality that encourages movement toward a compassionate, weight-inclusive model of radical self-care to address body oppression, heal body shame and associated patterns of chronic dieting and disordered eating. Their book Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing and Liberation is available now.
In this episode, we explore:
- What is body trust and what repurtures our body trust
- Phases of body trust: rupture, reckoning, reclamation
- Reclaiming joy and pleasure
- The role embodiment plays in body trust
- Why the BMI is not an indicator of health
- Letting go of perfectionism and going for C work
Connect with Hilary and Dana:
Center for Body Trust Website
Order Book - Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing and Liberation
You have a right to refuse to be weighed blog post
Center for Body Trust’s Instagram
Connect with Nazira:
Nazira's Instagram
Book a free 30 minute discovery call with Nazira
Join the 2-Day Body Love Online Retreat on October 15-16
Isabel Foxen Duke is the creator of Stop Fighting Food, a Video Training Series & Master Class for women who want to "stop feeling crazy around food." After years of trying to overcome binge eating disorder through weight-normative approaches, Isabel discovered the critical role of acceptance, surrender and social inquiry in the binge eating recovery process—and has been sharing her insights with clients and professionals ever since.
In this episode, we explore:
- How to stop feeling crazy around food
- Emotional eating vs binge eating
- The role surrender plays in healing
- How fatphobia shows up
- Why people struggle with Intuitive Eating
Connect With Dr. Isabel Foxen Duke:
Stop Fighting Food - Free video training series
Isabel’s Website
Isabel’s Instagram
Connect with Nazira:
Nazira's Instagram
Book a free 30 minute discovery call with Nazira
Join the 2-Day Body Love Online Retreat on September 24-25
In this solo episode, I am talking about the practice of embodiment. This is one of my favorite topics because when I really understood embodiment and started putting it into practice, it completely shifted my relationship with my body. The reason I teach embodiment is because you have to be in the body to heal your relationship with your body. You can’t do it from the mind.
In this episode, we explore:
- Why negative body image is a disruption in embodiment.
- Why it’s important to talk about embodiment rather than focusing on body image.
- What it means to be embodied.
- Why most women are living a disembodied life.
- A practice that will support you to start to come home to your body.
Connect with Nazira:
Nazira's Instagram
Book a free 30 minute discovery call with Nazira
Join the 2-Day Body Love Online Retreat on August 27-28
Dr. Anita Johnston is a Depth Psychologist and storyteller. She is the Executive Director of ‘i Pono Hawaii Eating Disorders Programs which has a Residential Program in Maui. She is the co-creator of the Light of the Moon Café, an online resource with interactive and self-study courses for women wanting to heal their relationships with food and their bodies. And she is the author of Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationships with Food Through Myth, Metaphor, and Storytelling.
In this episode, we explore:
- Food as a metaphor and how to decode your cravings
- Reclaiming you sensitive and intuition
- Emotional vs spiritual hunger
- Why assertive communication is the #1 skill you need to develop
- Feminine archetypal work
Connect With Dr. Anita Johnston:
Dr. Anita Johnston’s Website
Light of the Moon Cafe’s Website
Dr. Anita Johnston’s Instagram
Light of the Moon Cafe’s Instagram
Connect with Nazira:
Nazira's Instagram
Book a free 30 minute discovery call with Nazira
Join the 2-Day Body Love Online Retreat on August 27-28
Bri Campos is a licensed mental health counselor based in New Jersey. As a body image educator and the founder of Body Image With Bri, she’s passionate about all things body image and practices through the lenses of Health at Every Size® and Intuitive Eating. Utilizing a weight-inclusive approach, she combines her clinical skills and lived experience to teach others how to maneuver through their own unique body image journeys.
In this episode, we explore:
- What is body grief and why it’s the missing link when it comes to body image.
- How to begin to move through body grief.
- What’s below the surface of “low self esteem”.
- The freedom that is available when we stop trying to change or fix our body.
Connect With Bri:
Bri’s Instagram
Bri’s Website
Connect with Nazira:
Nazira's Instagram
Book a free 30 minute discovery call with Nazira
Join the 2-Day Body Love Online Retreat on August 27-28
Allyson Inez Ford is a licensed therapist specializing in Eating Disorders and OCD; she utilizes a justice and liberation informed approach to my work. Her mission is to create a world where all bodies can thrive by promoting messages of food and body justice, accessible recovery education and mental health skills from the perspective of an ED/OCD therapist, survivor and activist.
In this episode, we explore:
- How diet culture and wellness culture play a role in our relationship with food and body
- Ways to detach weight from your worth
- Links between OCD and Eating Disorders
- Body justice
- The systems of oppression that influence the development of disordered eating
Connect With Allyson:
Allyson’s Instagram
Allyson’s Website
Connect with Nazira:
Nazira's Instagram
Book a free 30 minute discovery call with Nazira
Sign up for the 2-Day Body Love Online Retreat on August 27-28
Kayleen Mesa is a Holistic Sexuality Coach, Self Love & Feminine Embodiment Mentor. Her work is an invitation to create a life aligned with your deepest truth. She supports women to unleash their sensual radiance, so they can embody their unique flavor of the feminine, rooted in pleasure, purpose, and power.
In this episode, we explore:
- How sensuality and pleasure can support you in healing or relationship with your body.
- Cultural beauty ideals and how they disconnect us from our authentic selves.
- Kayleen also shares some of her favorite pleasure practices that you can try right now!
Connect With Kayleen:
Kayleen’s Instagram
Kayleen’s Website
Connect with Nazira:
Nazira's Instagram
Book a free 30 minute discovery call with Nazira
Learn more about Nazira’s Group Coaching Programs
Sarah Dosanjh is a psychotherapist and author of the book I Can’t Stop Eating. After her own recovery from binge eating disorder she has gone on to help thousands of other people do the same. Sarah is also the co-host of the Life After Diets podcast.
In this episode, we explore:
- The different types of binges and what causes them.
- What to do when you fear weight gain.
- What to expect when you ditch diets.
- How to use Sarah's RALIC method to free yourself from compulsive eating.
Connect with Sarah:
Sarah's YouTube Channel
Sarah's Instagram
Life After Diets podcast
Sarah's Website
Sarah's book: Can't Stop Eating
Connect with Nazira:
Nazira's Instagram
Book a free 30 minute discovery call with Nazira
Learn more about Nazira’s Group Coaching Programs
One of the questions I get asked a lot is, how do I not eat my feelings?
When my clients come to me and say they are struggling with emotional eating, they usually mean that they are eating for reasons other than hunger. This might include eating when they are feeling sad, angry, stressed, lonely, happy or even excited - and this is because food can be a source of pleasure, connection, and yes, even comfort.
What we explore in this episode:
- The 5 types of emotional eating that exist on a continuum - Sensory Gratification/Pleasure, Comfort, Distraction, Sedation/Numbing, and Punishment
- Why so many of us turn to food as a coping strategy
- Why emotional eating isn’t always a bad thing
- Tools and strategies to support you to feel your feelings instead of using food to numb or cope.
Let’s connect on Instagram.
Book a free 30 minute discovery call with Nazira.
Learn more about Nazira’s Group Coaching Programs.
Welcome to the Body Reclamation Podcast! I am so excited you are here. Today I want to take some time to share my personal story and my body reclamation journey and how I became a body image and embodiment coach.
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Book a free 30 minute discovery call with Nazira.
Learn more about Nazira’s Group Coaching Programs.
Welcome to the Body Reclamation Podcast. A space for women who are ready to end the battle with body shame + food guilt and experience an authentic, unapologetic, pleasure-filled life.
I’m your host Nazira Sacasa, Body Image and Embodiment Coach. I’m here to support you to come home to your body and heal from emotional and binge eating.
Get ready to reclaim your body as a source of wisdom, power, pleasure, and aliveness, and finally move beyond the restrict-binge eating cycle.
Your body reclamation journey starts now…
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Show notes: https://nazirasacasa.com/podcast