An incomplete list of great books, podcasts, substacks and other resources for our own food and body confidence. Please email me here to suggest a resource to add. THE BOOKS What we don’t talk about when we talk about fat by Aubrey Gordon Amazon | Book Depository | Fishpond Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet […]
A 25 min interview with Evelyn Tribole, the Intuitive Eating pro. Happy listening. Emma x PS Like what you’ve found here? Get the free Raising Body Confident Kids 3 part training series (5 mins each), plus weekly-ish coaching emails. Get the free Mini-series!
Books to read your kids, give as gifts and fill stockings when the season dictates. All these books promote the full gamete of body diversity. They are funny, beautifully written, tell amazing stories and kids/teens love them. Princess versus Dinosaurs by Linda Bailey and Joy Ang Amazon | Book Depository | Fishpond Fry Bread. […]
Kids need 5 + a day! Chances are, you’ve heard that phrase a million times. Every parent knows that kids need help from us to eat veggies and that most kids take a while to get used to them. We’re taught to use methods like: rewards – three more bites and you can have pudding […]
Over the last few weeks we’ve been talking about how to help our kids say NO or YES rather than please others. We’ve heard this heart-wrenching story and seen how much we need new parenting tools to teach our kids to respect their own values (and bodies!) when they are exploring sex and drinking (and other situations where […]
I had a heart-wrenching conversation the other day and I think it’s worth sharing. A couple weeks back, my daughter and I were getting our daily lockdown exercise when I bumped into (aka saw across the street) a local cop also out walking. He’s a guy who occasionally stands up on school stages around the […]
I often say that raising a child to eat well and feel good in their body is about empowering your child, not overpowering them with rules and discipline. The stand point that it’s a parents job to make their child eat right, doesn’t work. What does work is making the shift from believing our role is to ensure they eat the right food […]
Video interview with Melanie Medland – is part of the Expert Series in the Raising Body Confident Kids online course. Expert Interview with Melanie Medland a mum of three gorgeous adolescents. She is a master NLP practitioner and began coaching as a personal response to the teenage anxiety and depression her eldest daughter experienced. […]
Last week, I talked about a hidden challenge facing parents when it comes to Raising Body Confident Kids. The hidden challenge being: our fears about our children getting bigger, are caused, at least in part, by the pressure on us to make them fit within a so-called healthy weight range. We looked at how, even if we wanted […]
Video interview with Nicole Cruz, RD – is part of the Expert Series in the Raising Body Confident Kids online course. Nicole Cruz, MS, RDN is a registered dietitian nutritionist, mom of three, wife, and eating disorder specialist. She has a private practice located in Southern California, devoted to helping others reclaim their joy […]