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Life After Diets

Life After Diets

By: Sarah Dosanjh / Stefanie Michele
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Not dieting? Now what? Hosted by Sarah Dosanjh (psychotherapist and author) and Stefanie Michele (coach and somatic therapist), Life After Diets explores what it really takes to heal your relationship with food and body image. Through personal stories, professional insights, and candid reflections, Sarah and Stefanie unpacks the messy, nonlinear process of recovery: the relief of food freedom, the discomfort of identity shifts, and the challenge of living in a culture obsessed with thinness.Copyright Life After Diets Podcast © 2025 Hygiene & Healthy Living Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
Episodes
  • Full But Not Finished...
    Oct 8 2025

    In this (for real for real) final episode of Life After Diets, host Stefanie Michele explains how recovery taught her how to understand the call for change. She shares why letting go of the familiar—even when it's scary—is essential for growth, and how that insight is leading her to close this chapter and launch her new show, Full But Not Finished.

    The Life After Diets archive will remain here as a resource and you can now find Stefanie Michele on her new show: Full But Not Finished. Subscribe now to listen to the pilot episode!

    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@iamstefaniemichele

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    3 mins
  • Travel Triggers: Fear of Flying, Eating Around Others, and Transitioning Home
    Oct 1 2025

    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 challenge of feeding yourself in a group.

    In this episode, I talk about a recent trip with college friends and the layers that came with it:

    • Flight anxiety and how I work with my body in real time when panic hits mid-air

    • The anticipatory dread before seeing old friends (and why it often feels worse than the reality)

    • Navigating group meals without abandoning your own needs

    • The strange crash that happens when you come home and how to soften that landing

    • What it takes to speak up when diet culture sneaks into social situations

    If you've ever come back from a trip feeling heavy, disconnected, or like you lost your footing with food, you're not alone. This conversation unpacks why travel brings all of this to the surface and how to move through it without betraying yourself.

    Connect with Stefanie:

    Website: www.iamstefaniemichele.com

    Instagram: www.instagram.com/iamstefaniemichele

    Substack: www.substack.com/@iamstefaniemichele

    Email: stefanie@iamstefaniemichele.com

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    50 mins
  • A Somatic Practice for Feeling Full But Not Finished; Q&A: Body Image Overstimulation while traveling
    Sep 24 2025

    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 still wants more. What does that reveal about the way we relate to food, our emotions, and ourselves?

    Rather than reducing the issue to hunger and fullness cues alone, this conversation looks at the cultural "shoulds" that hover over eating, the rebellion that comes from restriction, and the nervous system's role in making food feel safe or unsafe. Stefanie unpacks why stopping at the first sign of fullness often backfires, and why the experience of eating can be as much about psychology and emotional regulation as it is about physiology.

    The episode also weaves in a listener story about body image distress in an unexpected setting, highlighting how struggles with food are rarely isolated—they echo into how we manage overwhelm, shame, and self-perception in everyday life.

    The episode asks bigger questions about what we're really hungry for, how permission changes the eating experience, and what it takes to feel truly satisfied—not just physically, but emotionally too.

    binge eating recovery, intuitive eating, somatic practices, body image healing, nervous system regulation, food freedom, eating disorder recovery, fullness vs satisfaction, self-trust with food, emotional eating, diet culture recovery, Life After Diets

    Connect with Stefanie:

    Website: www.iamstefaniemichele.com

    Instagram: www.instagram.com/iamstefaniemichele

    Substack: www.substack.com/@iamstefaniemichele

    Email: stefanie@iamstefaniemichele.com

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    41 mins
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Sarah and Steph share their stories and experiences, exploring different topics each episode. I can't tell you how many 'lightbulb' moments I've had while listening to it, there are just far too many to count!! As someone with an eating disorder diagnosis and my own food struggles it's hard to find people who truly knows what it's like. Listening to this podcast has given me a chance to not just reflect on my journey so far but to also understand it better, to know my thoughts and feelings are shared and 'normal'. I feel like I'm part of a bigger conversation and it's given me hope, support, a greater appreciation for how far I've come and most importantly to me, helped me explore aspects of my journey that I hadn't considered before. Thanks to this podcast I've even pinpointed where and when it all began! Thank you both for sharing so much of yourselves, you'll probably never really know the extent of the impact you're having!

This podcast has had such a positive impact on me!

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loving this podcast ..a refreshing free-ing take on how to approach food and how different diets just trap us and make us continually unhappy with ourselves..and the binge restrict cycle..some episodes go into more detail about intuitive eating and dealing with binge urges..I hope they continue to do many more episodes :)

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I'm just making my way through these podcasts after hearing about Sarah on a Google search. I was really happy to discover a podcast and see the titles of the episodes and how much they resonate with me and my experience. I've read lots of things over the years which have helped tremendously but I think these ladies are the final pieces of my puzzle. They are both really inspiring and have come from a place where they each know their own struggles with binge eating that I can relate and learn from. I'm also listening to Sarah's book on YouTube which is fab. I've struggled with the control i have around food for years. I've lost weight but found the brain impulses still to be so strong on a daily basis. I'm now taking time to get to know myself again and make connections between my psychology and physiology so that I can make peace with myself. Thanks very much ladies - keep believing in yourselves and what you're doing.

Really lovely listen! Great facts and advice.

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