Turn Down the Noise

Turn Down the Noise

Hosted by: Sonja Irina Johansen

That relentless mental chatter about food — what to eat, what you ate, what you shouldn't have — has a name: the Noise. And it was never a character flaw. It's biology, doing exactly what it was trained to do. I'm...

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The Fire Extinguisher

"There's a sentence I hear more often than almost any other: 'Food was never my friend.'" This episode is for the people who never related when someone said food was their comfort. If food only ever brought mess and...
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A Body Scan for the Grip ♥

EPISODE TITLEA Body Scan for the Grip ♥ A quieter episode. Come as you are — this one is for doing, not just hearing. Before I tell you one single thing: stop moving, right where you are. Check your jaw. Your...
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Food Was the Solution

Food showed up first, and it worked — and we've spent years lashing out at the solution. Recorded live in the Quiet Season room: why the reach was never a flaw in you, and a pocket practice for the moment at the...
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The Ultimate Reframe — A Walk in the Woods

EPISODE TITLEThe Ultimate Reframe — A Walk in the Woods Come walk with me. These woods are right behind my house, and I recorded this one on the trail — birds, air, sunset and all. I want to say something that might...
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What’s Possible This Season (Quiet Season Special — the free hour)

EPISODE TITLEWhat's Possible This Season A seat in the room from the free hour that opened The Quiet Season — the whole teaching, with the room alive around it. This isn't a webinar where I talk at you and then show...
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The Ledger, the Noise, and the Hum (Quiet Season Special)

EPISODE TITLEThe Ledger, the Noise, and the Hum Recorded live on the opening night of The Quiet Season — a seat in the room, kept warm for you. If you've done food work for any length of time, you've been trained to...
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The Grip and the Two Yokes

EPISODE TITLEThe Grip and the Two Yokes Your body was not disobeying you. Your body was going back home. The braced state is the state it has practiced the longest — so it's the state it returns to. That's all a habit...
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It Was Never Willpower

It was never willpower. What a generation of diet-recovery science got wrong about why you reach for food — and what is actually happening. For decades, the story was simple: willpower is a tank, it runs dry by...
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The Friend Who Always Showed Up

Food was the friend who always showed up. It never canceled. It never judged. It never needed you to be okay first. Before anything else changes, this episode says thank you to that friend — out loud — for what it...
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"Why Accompanied? — What Hills Look Like When Someone's Beside You"

Researchers took people to the bottom of a hill and asked one question: how steep is this? Standing beside a friend, people saw a gentler hill. Same hill. Same legs. The only thing that changed was company.   In this...
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The Handrail

The aisles are already turning orange. October through January — the loudest months of the whole food year — and the old bracing has already started. Every other voice this season will tell you to grip harder or give...
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Ledger Your Body Keeps

You kept a ledger for years — the tracker, the app, the little grade at the end of the day. Your body was keeping one too, the whole time. And the two ledgers disagree about almost everything: yours graded the...
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