Life After Diets Podcast
1) Travel Triggers: Fear of Flying, Eating Around Others, and Transitioning Home
Travel isn’t just about the logistics of getting from one place to another — it’s the nervous system spikes, the old body image stories that flare when you’re around people from your past, and the cha...Show More
2) A Somatic Practice for Feeling Full But Not Finished; Q&A: Body Image Overstimulation while traveling
In this episode of Life After Diets, host Stefanie Michele explores the strange tension of being “full but not finished.”Many people know the feeling: the body signals fullness, yet something inside s...Show More
3) Was All-In Recovery As Easy As It Looked? with Stefanie Michele
In this episode, Stefanie revisits the early days of her “all-in” recovery from binge eating and restriction. She shares raw excerpts from personal emails she wrote at the time, capturing the fear, do...Show More
4) 209. Navigating Loss of Identity (not like a Mean Girl); Q&A: How to cope with diet culture talk in the break room
In this solo episode of Life After Diets, Stefanie Michele takes a deeply personal look at identity — how it forms, how it gets tangled up with food and body image, and how it shifts in the process of...Show More
5) 208. Life After Life After Diets
A very special announcement to say that Life After Diets is closing a chapter to open some new ones. As Sarah makes room in her life for new endeavors (if you're in the UK area, be sure to subscribe t...Show More
6) 207. I'm Not Bingeing But I'm Not Healed, Either
Recovery from disordered eating doesn’t end the moment bingeing stops — that’s often where an entirely new phase begins. In this episode, Stef and Sarah unpack the often-overlooked “middle ground” of ...Show More
7) 206. What If Food Freedom Looks Different for Different Brains? Guest Marcus Kain is back!
Marcus returns as the only guest we’ve ever invited back to the podcast, and in this conversation, he opens up about his evolving understanding of neurodivergence — particularly through the lens of au...Show More
8) 205. But The Worse I Feel About My Body, the More I Want to Eat. (Make it make sense!)
You’d think feeling bad about your body would make you eat less. But often, it does the opposite — and no, you’re not broken for that. In this episode, we talk about the counterintuitive link between ...Show More
9) 204. But If I'm Not Obsessed With Food, What Will I Obsess About?
What takes up space in your mind when food no longer does? Â In this live episode with the Life After Diets community, we explore what happens when food obsession fades. Â Do we land in a new identity ...Show More
10) 203. But I Don't How to Rest so I End Up Eating
Ever feel like food is the only way you’re allowed to rest? In this episode, we dive into the complicated overlap between rest, productivity, and eating — especially when slowing down feels wrong. We...Show More