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Allen Berger PhD

Allen Berger, Ph.D. is a popular public speaker and nationally recognized expert on the science of recovery. His passion for expanding on the idea of Emotional Sobriety, first proposed by Bill Willson, a founder of AA, in a letter to AAGrapevine in 1953, has led to him becoming the most recognized thought leader on the methods to practicing Emotional Sobriety. He is the author of six published books (links below), cohost of the podcast Start Right Here: Conversations About What Matters Most, and facilitator of Emotional Sobriety Meetings held virtually every Thursday

• 12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety: Getting Your Recovery Unstuck

• 12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery: Avoiding Relapse Through Self Awareness & Right Action

• 12 More Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery: Navigating Common Pitfalls on Your Sobriety Journey

• 12 Smart Things to Do When the Booze and Drugs Are Gone: Choosing Emotional Sobriety through Self-Awareness and Right Action

• 12 Hidden Rewards of Making Amends: Finding Forgiveness and Self-Respect by Working Steps 8-10

• Love Secrets Revealed: What Happy Couples Know About Having Great Sex, Deep Intimacy, and a Lasting Connection

Emotional Sobriety Meetings

Zoom in for the weekly Emotional Sobriety meeting, and find the latest news and information, on Thursdays at 7 pm Pacific Time.
ZOOM Meeting ID: 330 149 513 Passcode: 375986

For more information visit https://abphd.com

Podcast: Start Right Here: Conversations About What Matters Most, with Allen Berger & Thom Rutledge

**Podcast Description:** Welcome to the "Inspired Living" podcast, where we delve into the depths of emotional healing and personal growth. I'm Dr. Shawn Horn, your host, and a licensed clinical psychologist known as the shamebusting psychologist. In each episode, we explore profound topics to help you navigate life's challenges, fostering emotional clarity and personal transformation. **Episode Title: Mastering Binge Thinking: Understanding, Conquering, and Thriving** In this insightful episode, we address the pervasive issue of binge thinking—a pattern of relentless overthinking that robs us of life's joy and moments. Join us as we dissect the roots of binge thinking, unveil its emotional toll, and equip you with practical strategies to liberate yourself from its grip and attain emotional clarity. From the power of mindfulness techniques to the art of cognitive restructuring, we'll guide you through steps to challenge negative thought patterns and replace them with constructive, compassionate perspectives. We'll also explore setting aside dedicated "thinking time," immersing in meaningful activities, and seeking professional support when needed. Drawing inspiration from a powerful passage in "The emotional sobriety II: The Next Frontier," we'll examine how emotional turmoil can be transcended to pave the way for a journey of personal growth, inner peace, and authentic living. Whether you're seeking to conquer overthinking, strengthen your emotional well-being, or simply embrace a life of inspired living, this episode holds insights that can propel you forward on your journey of growth. Tune in to "Inspired Living" and take the first step toward mastering binge thinking, understanding its intricate nature, conquering its hold, and thriving in a world of emotional clarity and empowerment. **YouTube Description:** Welcome to the "Inspired Living" podcast, hosted by Dr. Shawn Horn, a licensed clinical psychologist celebrated as the shamebusting psychologist. In this episode, titled "Mastering Binge Thinking: Understanding, Conquering, and Thriving," we delve into the world of relentless overthinking—a challenge many of us grapple with. Join us as we dissect the roots of binge thinking, its impact on emotional well-being, and most importantly, equip you with actionable strategies to break free and flourish. From mindfulness techniques that help anchor you in the present moment to cognitive restructuring that transforms negative thought patterns, we'll guide you through powerful tools that foster emotional clarity. Whether you're seeking to overcome overthinking, strengthen your emotional resilience, or embark on a journey of personal growth, this episode offers insights to inspire positive change. Tune in and embark on a path to master binge thinking, cultivate emotional sobriety, and embrace an inspired life. Subscribe, like, and share with friends and loved ones to spread the message of growth and transformation. Stay tuned for more episodes that empower your journey toward emotional well-being.

Dr. Shawn: (00:02)
Have you ever wondered? What do these people know that I don't know. How do I do it? How do I find my purpose, my passions? What if you could sit down with some of the wisest experts, everyday leaders and inspirational people who can answer your deepest questions. That is what we do here on the inspirational living podcast. We invite you to join us as we hold conversations, share wisdom, tips, and tools to inspire you, ignite your passions and vision for your life to awaken your sense of purpose and hope and leave. You inspired to design your best life. Join me, your host psychologist, Dr. Sean Horn, as we take you on an inspirational motivational and educational journey. So you can inspire by living an inspired life 

TRANSCRIPT

Dr. Shawn: (01:01)
Today. Talking with Stephanie Mara Fox, a sematic nutritional counselor, who helps us look at our relationship with food from a whole different perspective than what we typically are hearing out there in the community. I loved this message. I thought it was so full of wisdom and nuggets that we can take away to help us on our health journey. Let me share with you a little bit more about Stephanie. Before we begin. Stephanie Mara Fox supports women coaches and wellness professionals and feeling empowered and satiated in their relationship with their food body and business, to cultivate more confidence and create the life they desire to be living. She teaches the tools as sematic eating and her eating needing sensing system to support individuals with weight and body image concerns, stress eating, binge eating digestive issues, and creating peace around old wounds. She has worked with health coaches and wellness professionals and bolstering their confidence to create successful businesses. 

Dr. Shawn: (02:10)
She has her master's degree and body psychotherapy is a certified mind body eating coach and a yoga instructor. She has been published in the international journal of body psychotherapy and somatic psychotherapy. Today. She is the creator of the program, satiated satisfying or physical and emotional hungers and the host of the podcast. Satiated. You can find her on her social media, her website, her podcast, where she offers all sorts of services to her audience, whether it is listening to her podcasts, participating in her groups, taking an online class or working with her one-on-one she has so much to offer. I hope that you enjoy this episode and please at the end, so you can hear more about what services she has to offer you. 

Dr. Shawn: (03:04)
I'm going to jump right in and begin this conversation with Stephanie. 

Dr. Shawn: (03:10)
What is Somatic nutrition first? 

Stephanie Mara Fox: (03:14)
What is the word somatic like? That's probably the first question that I get asked a lot. So somatic means relating to the body as something separate from the mind. And so a lot of the work that I do around teaching individuals, the tools of somatic eating means tuning into your body to discover what foods resonate with your unique system, by attending to your sensations and bodily reactions. So what I often find is that we are so bombarded with mixed messages on what to eat, how to eat when deed that we've kind of lost a connection with our body and our bodily cues, and actually relying more on ourselves and trusting our body that it's going to tell us when and why and how, and what is going to be most supportive to our unique system so that you actually don't ever have to rely on an external cue ever again, because only your body can tell you what it needs. And when the 

Dr. Shawn: (04:16)
Key that you mentioned there is to trust your, yourself and your body. I know coming out of a lifetime of dieting, I was given this message that I cannot trust my body, that my body will hijack me. It will take me down a road that somehow, and this is where the shame comes in. Somehow I'm unique in that I can not eat that cake, or I cannot have those chips because I will gain 15, 20 pounds or so. And then we experience this, yo-yo stuff losing weight, gaining weight. So then we believe what we're told that we can't trust ourselves to gain that trust or to even consider it. It's such a stretch for those that believe they can not trust their body. 

Stephanie Mara Fox: (04:58)
Yeah. You know, everything that kind of the dieting world has set up is that we can't trust our body. I saw a meme at one point, that was like, the dieting industry is the greatest gas lighter. Just like, you know, they always say that like, we're the fault that if we try something and it's not working that actually that's on us, not on like this diet will never ever work for you. I mean, if diets worked, we wouldn't be talking about this anymore. That's why I really love to teach those I work with is okay, how do we come back into the body and even cultivate a sense of safety and the system that we're in so that you can start to hear the bodily cues again, because it can actually take time. So what I'm talking about, I'm like, oh, just listen to your body. 

Stephanie Mara Fox: (05:45)
Like also kind of a hard thing to do. So it can actually take time to be like, okay, what are all of the factors that are maybe getting in the way of hearing your bodily messages so that we get to kind of work through those first, you know, a sense of shame. That's a big one, you know, of all of the beliefs that you may be received from childhood and early on in your life and have built up to today of like, why it feels hard to trust yourself and listen to your body. We kind of have to sometimes work through those first so that you can start hearing your bodily messages again. 

Dr. Shawn: (06:19)
Yes. And is there a chemical component to that too, where the body loses its way so to speak and we have to help it to become sensitive to those cues, those chemical cues of hunger and being full. 

Stephanie Mara Fox: (06:32)
Yes. Like, uh, obviously, you know, individuals have heard her probably about like Greenland and leptin and all of these things that, yes, there are many things that can throw those things off. Uh, what I often think of. So, uh, my background is I've done a lot of research on the gut brain. And so we have, what's called the vagus nerve in our body. And it's kind of like the highway of communication between our head brain and our gut brain. And this highway can get hijacked, basically it's connected to our parasympathetic nervous system. And so if we are not in a relaxation response, if we have experienced trauma in our life, if we have experienced, uh, situations, uh, that have kind of, it hasn't felt safe to be in our body. So it feels actually safer to beat disembodied. It actually is harder for our body to communicate with each other, to actually feel those fullness and hunger cues. And so, yes, there is something physiologically happening in the body. And a lot of the time when I'm supporting my clients with is like, okay, how do we do some like vagel toning and like actually support the body and feeling safe again so that we can more easily hear our hunger and fullness cues. And it starts with just feeling safe in this system. If we cannot feel safe, if we are in a fight or flight response, and we feel like we need to be running from a tiger, it just throws everything off. 

Dr. Shawn: (07:57)
Yeah. So you're talking about when we're under trauma, we program ourselves to numb out to our body could disconnect from it. So then we don't recognize when we're full, hungry, tired, stress, tension, those kinds of things. So you are bringing in that con that polyvagal theory about the vagus nerve and how it relates to the nervous system and how we can use that to bring our defenses down and reconnect in a safe way with o

A shame attack is similar to a panic attack. It activates a trauma response, fires up one's thoughts, feelings and fuels our reactions. Learn how shame trauma syndrome gets activated, how to recognize the symptoms of a shame attack, and what you can do to calm the storm!

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Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Shawn Horn, is busting shame once again as she discusses shame, sin and God. We can't get away with talking about shame without addressing religion's shaming and how that effects our view of God and relationship with our creator. Dr. Shawn shares a Judeo/Christian perspective as well as incorporating concepts of DBT to help one understand how to think about shame so we can heal from toxic shame.

In this episode Psychologist Dr. Shawn Horn defines Microshames and discusses how they show up in our lives. She provides specific mindsets and tools to help over come the shame triggers and set the path toward healing.