You don’t have to go far to find a lot of misunderstanding about the difference between binge eating and emotional eating. Many people seem to use them interchangeably, so I thought I’d take a moment to help you understand the difference, for yourself and for your family. Emotional eating is the act of eating food […]
Okay, let’s go there. Eating and feeding during a pandemic. It can mess with your head and you may find yourself going one of two ways. Going, on one hand, into – bracketing mode. Nothing about this is normal, so we’re going to suspend normal eating. We’ll bracket the time we’re in isolation and we’ll […]
Self-care comes from the believe that your body is precious and valuable and worth taking care of. It’s about making choices in line with the uniqueness of your body because you want it to last as well as it can. Self care is predicated on the notion that nothing is wrong with your body, but […]
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 […]