The Self Led Woman Podcast: emotional eating and nervous system healing for self-leadership
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.
The Self Led Woman Podcast: emotional eating and nervous system healing for self-leadership
Latest Episodes
Episode 42: Why Internal Family Systems Therapy Works for Healing Emotional Eating
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 ...
Episode 41: Food Is Not the Problem. It's the Message - Somatic Eating, Trauma and Nervous System Healing with Stephanie Mara Fox
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 Somat...
Episode 40: Comparison, Belonging and Coming Home to Yourself | Part 2
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 ...
Episode 39: Comparison, Belonging and Coming Home to Yourself | Part 1
Comparison isn't about vanity. It never was.It's about belonging. It's about safety. It's about what your nervous system learned was acceptable, what got praised, what got rejected, and what got mirrored back to you when you were too you...
Episode 38: Why Ignoring Your Cravings Makes Emotional Eating Worse, Not Better
You wanted the chocolate. You chose the rice cake instead. And an hour later you were still thinking about the chocolate and probably ate more than you would have if you'd just had it in the first place.This episode is about why that kee...