About

Hiya! I'm Stephanie Mara Fox, Somatic Nutritional Counselor and Mentor.

I support women, coaches, and wellness professionals in 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.

Your guide to leading a Satiated Life.

Since 2009 I have supported individuals with weight and body image concerns, emotional eating, binge eating, digestive issues, relationship issues, and creating peace around old wounds.

In addition, I’ve guided Health Coaches and Wellness Professionals in bolstering their confidence to create successful businesses since 2011.

I have my Masters Degree in Body Psychotherapy from Naropa University. I am also a certified Health Coach, Mind Body Eating Coach, and Yoga Instructor. I’ve been published in the International Body Psychotherapy Journal, featured on VoyageDenver, TheLiveFitNow Podcast and the Your Recovery Revealed Summit.

This work is so very important to me because I’ve been there.

I spent years judging my body, worrying about what to eat, healing from intense digestive pain, and holding myself back professionally.

Now, with my personal healing experience, a Masters Degree in Body Psychotherapy, and certifications in Health Coaching, Mind Body Eating Coaching, and Yoga Instruction, I’m here to support you on your healing journey.

There is usually a moment in time we can remember where we began to judge our bodies.

Mine occurred around the age of 13. I remember walking through the halls of my school. I was looking around and noticed that my clothes were baggier than other girls and I perceived my body as bigger. I want to put an emphasis on perceived. We can be comfortable with any body shape and our body image can be affected by how we perceive that shape.

When I became aware that I had a body and that it was different than other bodies around me, I did not have the reaction of “how incredibly unique I am!” I hope as a culture, we can get there one day. No, instead I had the reaction:

“I’m different. Different is bad. I need to change.”

To navigate an intense inner dialogue arising, food became an ally.

I have experienced within myself and with others how the numbing effect of food can support, for a moment, in cultivating the peace, relaxation, comfort, and calm we’re looking to feel.

We’re not often taught how to be with our emotions from a young age. Emotions can be experienced as foreign, scary, and dangerous.

Throughout middle school, I would come home and use food as a way to numb out around all the different emotions I was feeling.

The more I ate, the more uncomfortable I felt and the more uncomfortable I felt in my body the more I ate.

The summer before my freshman year of high school, I joined Weight Watchers and dove into the world of dieting.

What Weight Watchers, or any diet, does not teach effectively is how to take care of our body long term. Yes, I did lose weight initially and I was more confused than ever about how to eat.

If all of this sounds familiar to you, you may resonate that after going on and off diets, food is warped into both your friend and your enemy in how it changes your body. And, the body has been connected to your ability to be liked, appreciated, love, respected, and worthy.

Even after I lost weight, I still felt disconnected and my emotions were still not being expressed. This is when the digestive issues started.

I was in horrible pain and experienced intense bloating after eating. The pain intensified during my first year at college as stress levels increased. When I had to leave a class early because of digestive pain, I knew something had to change.

A colonoscopy and endoscopy were completed and these procedures did not reveal anything. I was diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). All my doctor left me with was to manage my stress and notice what caused flare-ups.

Lost and confused about my next steps, I took the diagnosis of IBS as BS. I embarked on a new path.

Through exploring and experimenting with many different healing modalities, my gut began to heal and I started to experience my body as my friend and not something I needed to fight.

In healing from digestive pain, I have experienced food as medicine and that the health of our gut can be connected to the health and well being of our entire system. When our digestion is working smoothly, we’re also digesting our life experiences with more ease.

I now have a different relationship with my emotions as my allies.

Passing on the tools of my own healing to you. The more we give our emotions space to be heard and seen, the easier it becomes to hear bodily messages in what foods resonate with our unique system and what foods do not.

I have now been supporting others with their relationship with food and body since 2009. I’m incredibly grateful for every experience I went through. I empathize with those in pain, confused, disconnected, frustrated, and stuck. If you have been reading this story, nodding along, understanding every twist and turn we can go through with our food and body, I want you to know that you’re not alone.

I’m here to guide you on that same path in healing from old wounds, discovering what foods are going to make you feel vibrant, experiencing your beautiful body as your friend, and embracing your emotions and bodily shape just as it is.

I have experienced that self understanding, self acceptance, and self compassion can be transformational in meeting whatever comes our way in life with more equanimity. I’m looking forward to connecting with you to discover your unique physical and emotional satiation.