Those body-focused memes are everywhere… Have you noticed the ‘eat right, exercise right, don’t let yourself go, because who wants to put on weight in a pandemic’ posts that are flying around right now? One of the things so many whip-smart mothers tell me is that they don’t want their kids to have the same […]

“How am I going to keep my kids out of the pantry?!” She lamented. “I’m going to have to put a lock on the fridge” I’m not an expert in many things, but this much, I can tell you… putting lock-down on food in your house, during times of high stress, is only going backfire […]

I want you to know I think you are doing an amazing job right now.  It’s okay to feel overwhelmed. …I want to remind you… ….There are a lot of unhelpful memes and messages out there about how to keep our kids healthy during this time (a lot of ‘immunity boosting’ and making sure they […]

In this blog post, I’m going to take you through one very short exercise and tell you about one simple action that will help build the confidence to act like a leader for our family’s health and wellbeing and for our community.  Before we dive in, I want to talk about leadership in general. The […]

Here’s the thing about kids saying they hate their bodies that nobody talks about…it’s not their size, in a vacuum, that triggers it.  It’s knowing that being over a certain size makes life a lot harder, that triggers their sense of not fitting in, that triggers it. Every time I tell a room of parents, […]

The only time children feel the need to “sneak food behind our back”… is when they live in an environment of restriction,  and the restrictions we set are almost always driven from, ….wanting our kids to stay at a ‘healthy weight’ and avoid weight & food related diseases… …plus … how judged we feel by […]

To many people, weight loss before and after pictures might seem harmless or even inspirational. Suggesting they can be harmful can appear nitpicky or even a bit ridiculous, particularly in circles that don’t realize intentional weight loss comes with some serious potential side effects. If you’ve lived on this planet for more than a minute […]

Most people I talk to have heard of bulimia and anorexia. That’s a great thing, given eating disorder prevalence has doubled globally since 2000. What’s not so great is that many parents I talk to have only heard of the ‘top two’. On top of that, very few know that eating disorders don’t discriminate between […]

When I was growing up I heard the comments about my body. Legs up to my armpits. She could wear a paper bag and look great. Oh, what I wouldn’t give to look like that again.I also heard adults tell each other how amazing and healthy they looked because they’d lost weight. Well done! You […]

When my first child was born, I promised her she was going to avoid all the body image issues I had. She was going to be slim and fit and eat healthy and everyone would know I was doing an amazing job.  So I read everything I could get my hands on about kids’ healthy […]