What's the link? Yes, I do believe there is one, one that is particularly seen through the eyes of a pediatrician who has struggled with stress, burnout and personal and professional struggles to create whole family health. W...
This is the real-deal of parenting. Our kids have big feelings. And we haven't learned how to deal with our own, let alone help them. Until today. Let's do this, together. Ten minutes to review the prior episodes on emotions ...
Emotions are the fuel for our lives: they drive everything that we do (and what we don't do). Let's explore more, along with a particular example with a feeling I know very well: frustration. As mentioned in the episode, here...
Let's talk emotions: Why are they important, where do they come from, how are they made? It's the first in our series on emotions. Getting vulnerable here with the real deal about my struggles with sadness and depression in m...
Sleep.Comes.First. Let's talk about all the ways that getting better ZZZZ's can help you and your kids with better health AND What's getting in the way of the sleep you need. Learn about how much sleep our kids need The impac...
Hold on, we were just talking about relationships with food, and now we're talking about efficiency? Yup. This is real-deal life as a parent. It's all the things. The mental burden. The many-tabs open at once. In today's epis...
"I just want my kid to have a healthy relationship with food." What does that even mean? It's a new approach, better than the whole let's-just-focus-on-changing-body-size, and yet I sure didn't learn about cultivating healthy...
Brains, Pandemics, Weight, and Trauma... Ooph - yeah, it sounds like a hard topic, but we're going to explore today a few concepts that have been spinning through my head and readings, of course with laughter, stories, analog...
Seriously, y'all, if you're gonna have your first-ever podcast guest, who are you gonna have? P!nk? Yup, thought about it. My sister? She's coming... And Corinne Freaking Crabtree! The Queen Bee of the No BS Weight-loss Progr...
"This is just the way I am." That is THE biggest obstacle to change: thinking that you are your habits, your actions, your thoughts and feelings. Thinking that they are set in stone. Nope, they are just practiced a lot. And w...
"I'm only as happy as my unhappiest child." What on Earth?! With all the kid-angst and unhappiness that kids experience, it sounds crazy to think that we would tie our emotions to theirs. But do you see that happening? Do you...
Today, we celebrate. I'm celebrating the birth, evolution and growth of Family in Focus. I've been asked time and again, "What is the evidence that Family in Focus is effective?" I'm creating the evidence. It's been a labor o...
Have you heard the questions about identifying your kids' needs? It's really the heart to understanding their behavior, but let's not jump too far ahead: When's the last time you asked what YOU need? This is critical for heal...
"You're the worst parent in the world." "You've f'd me up." Ah, kids. Gotta love them. They sure know how to make us feel amazing. That's what we're talking about today: the explicit is for feeling "shitty" a few times, and "...
We've been working through a series on stress eating, and we need to understand the stress first. We've started with ourselves: understanding our stress, what we do with stress. Now we can start talking about helping our chil...
Continuing on from Episode #80, "How to deal with stress eating," we dive into 8 ways... yes 8, to address the stress. Please notice if there's stress about 8... you can try any one and see how it works for you. That's the ti...
Do you find yourself stressed out, collapsing on the couch with a bag of tortilla chips in exhaustion, and scrolling on social media? You are not alone: stress eating is so common for us and our kids. In order to address it w...
What happens when we focus on the scale? Finding it hard to NOT do it? In this episode, I share the story of how I smacked face-first into the reality that it is really hard to not focus on what the scale says. But also, what...
We think we need to focus on weight: after all, isn't that how we identify a problem and fix it? In today's episode, I start the conversation about how there's more to it. Our focus on weight has NOT been helping our families...
"And the reality of my weight is..." Let's talk about the facts of weight. How is the number on the scale impacting your reality? How do you determine what is possible for you and your family, given the reality? Much to discu...
Challenges! We've sure got them. What are the challenges you're facing right now? Work, stress, relationships, health, weight... What makes them challenging? Challenges are situations we don't know the outcome. It's stressful...
Do you have a plan for your family's health? How's it working? Want to throw it out? Or is it something that you hate the rules and structure of a plan? In today's episode we talk about how to create a plan for your own famil...
Previously we discussed doing a little sleuthing - observing behaviors. What is it that your kids are doing? What are you finding out about the patterns of their behavior? This week we are exploring what comes before the beha...
How often are you just too pooped to do anything? And yet, work, kids, email, dinner, life just keep making demands of you. It is further exhausting! Today we talk about my concept and PRACTICE of The Bare Minimum. We define ...