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The Self-Led Woman is a podcast about emotional eating, the experiences that shape our relationship with food, and the path back to self-leadership.These conversations explore emotional eating beneath behaviour, through trauma, the nervous system, nourishment, and lived experience, with deep respect for the intelligence of the body and what it learned to do to keep you going.This is a space for understanding, relief, and reconnecting with your inner world.Hosted by Megan Darnell, Internal Family Systems therapy practitioner and psychedelic-assisted therapy facilitator.
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What if your pattern around food wasn't the problem to solve, but the window into something much deeper? In this episode I take you through each of the layers that sit underneath emotional eating, not to give you more things to fix, but to help you get genuinely curious about what the pattern might be trying to show you about the rest of your life. We get into why overriding a craving is rarely about food and almost always about how you learned to relate to your own needs and desires, where t...
If you have tried everything and you keep finding yourself back at the beginning, starting again, I want you to understand something. This is not an accident. That is by design. In this episode I'm talking about something that doesn't get said nearly enough. Not about what you're eating or your nervous system, although we get there too. What I want to talk about is why you keep going back. I break down the psychology of intermittent reinforcement and why the wellness and diet industry runs on...
This isn't a surface level overview of IFS. This is the actual clinical and human reality of why this model reaches what other approaches miss. In this episode I'm breaking down why I believe Internal Family Systems therapy is one of the most effective frameworks available for healing a disordered relationship with food. Not because it's the latest trend in the wellness space, but because it goes underneath. Because it's body based. Because it works with the parts driving the pattern, not jus...
What if your food behaviors were never the problem — but the most intelligent thing your body could do in a moment that felt unsafe? In this episode Megan sits down with Stephanie Mara Fox, somatic nutritional counsellor, creator of Somatic Eating, and PhD candidate in somatic psychology. Stephanie has spent nearly two decades supporting women in healing from emotional eating, binge eating, chronic dieting, and body image concerns — and her approach will completely reframe the way you see you...
If you haven't listened to episode 39 yet, start there. This one picks up where that one left off. Last week I talked about comparison as a nervous system response and belonging as a biological need. This week I want to talk about what's actually on the other side of all of that. What it looks like when you stop trying to become someone else and start coming home to yourself. And I'm going to get into some things that might surprise you. Like why getting dressed in the morning is a nervous sy...
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