Family in Focus®
Family in Focus®
Are you feeling stuck around your child’s eating, weight, or health? Are food struggles or mixed messages about “doing it right” creating stress in your home? Family in Focus is a podcast for parents navigating family health, especially when concerns about food, body, and emotional well-being start to strain relationships at home. Hosted by Dr. Wendy Schofer, the pediatrician who helps parents lead meaningful change without harm, this podcast approaches family health in a very different way, by prioritizing connection, trust, and emotional health over control or pressure. Family in Focus centers parent-led shifts that actually last. Conversations explore how change can happen without shame, how emotions shape health behaviors, and why protecting the parent-child relationship is essential to supporting children’s well-being. This is a space for parents who want to support their child’s health without sacrificing connection along the way.
Nov. 23, 2021

Episode 25: Teaching Gratitude for the Pain

Episode 25: Teaching Gratitude for the Pain
Family in Focus®
Episode 25: Teaching Gratitude for the Pain

Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD, Episode #25!

It's Thanksgiving week! It's that time of year where we renew our gratitude practices - and yet, how do we reconcile having gratitude amidst so much pain?

Today's episode dives deeper into how do we embrace the pain, fear, uncertainty, grief - and open up the possibility for experiencing gratitude FOR the pain?

So timely in 2020, 2021... and a good time to start modeling for our kids for 2022!

This is getting personal - my examples come from my own mourning of a beloved family member, the pain that our family experienced with the pandemic, and this is an ongoing practice for me. Join me and drop me a line - let me know what you think about practicing gratitude for the pain. wendy@wendyschofermd.com

I'm grateful for you, my friends. Happy Thanksgiving.