Hello and Welcome to the Redwood Wellbeing Podcast, where each week I am dedicated to supporting parents on the journey of nurturing their child's healthy relationship with food and their body image.

Through practical, everyday strategies and tips, I help you to become empowered to make a lasting difference in your child's wellbeing journey.

In this episode, I'm joined by dietician and founder of Explore Nutrition, Kim Lawler.

Kim talks to us about her book she co wrote called 'Fat is Fat and That is That', which helps parents and children to neutralise the word 'fat', and move away from the negative connotations long associated with the word.

She discusses the importance of exposing children as early as possible to neutral language to describe bodies, to give them the best possible chance at growing up to not fear fat on their bodies, and know a long term positive body image.

You can purchase Fat is Fat and That is That from:

https://www.findingyourpathbooks.com/books/fatisfat

and contact Kim in her Explore Nutrition practice at:

https://www.explorenutrition.net

If you'd like to be a part of the Redwood Wellbeing community, you can subscribe to my podcast, and follow me on Instagram @redwoodwellbeing

You can also book in a free 1:1 consult for your own or your child's body image/intuitive eating on my website www.redwoodwellbeing.com.au

To get in touch, please email info@redwoodwellbeing.com.au

If you like what you hear and you want to support me to keep this podcast going, you can give me a tip here https://redwood-wellbeing.captivate.fm/support

Happy listening!

Lyss :)

Hello and Welcome to the Redwood Wellbeing Podcast, where each week I am dedicated to supporting parents on the journey of nurturing their child's healthy relationship with food and their body image.

Through practical, everyday strategies and tips, I help you to become empowered to make a lasting difference in your child's wellbeing journey.

In this episode I'm joined by my old friend Hannah, who has been on a journey of healing her poor body image since childhood. She shares with us;

• Her insight into how we can make supportive choices as parents so that our children hopefully don't go down that same path of body dissatisfaction.
• How she felt like she had to hide her struggle from her friends and family and portray confidence instead.
• How throughout her childhood there were constant messages about bodies that made her feel unworthy in hers.
• How she began to rebel with food.
• How her insecurity impacted her relationships
• The mental and emotional work she has done to begin healing, and the inner dialogue shifts she is still working on.
• Her hopes for the future as she continues to heal.

If you'd like to be a part of the Redwood Wellbeing community, you can subscribe to my podcast, and follow me on Instagram @redwoodwellbeing

You can also book in a free 1:1 consult for your own or your child's body image/intuitive eating on my website www.redwoodwellbeing.com.au

To get in touch, please email info@redwoodwellbeing.com.au

If you like what you hear and you want to support me to keep this podcast going, you can give me a tip here https://redwood-wellbeing.captivate.fm/support

Happy listening!

Lyss :)

Hello and Welcome to the Redwood Wellbeing Podcast, where each week I am dedicated to supporting parents on the journey of nurturing their child's healthy relationship with food and their body image.

Through practical, everyday strategies and tips, I help you to become empowered to make a lasting difference in your child's wellbeing journey.

In this episode I discuss;

• Some common comments parents receive from extended family about their child's eating.
• How we need to be understanding of other people's perspectives when they disagree with our parenting decisions.
• To be united with your spouse or partner about your mealtime philosophy.
• To be confident in your parenting choices as the authority over your child.
• Understanding the comment, the commenter and the recipient.
• Examples of comments from family and ways to respond to them.

If you'd like to be a part of the Redwood Wellbeing community, you can subscribe to my podcast, and follow me on Instagram @redwoodwellbeing

You can also book in a free 1:1 consult for your own or your child's body image/intuitive eating on my website www.redwoodwellbeing.com.au

To get in touch, please email info@redwoodwellbeing.com.au

If you like what you hear and you want to support me to keep this podcast going, you can give me a tip here https://redwood-wellbeing.captivate.fm/support

Happy listening!

Lyss :)

Hello and Welcome to the Redwood Wellbeing Podcast, where each week I am dedicated to supporting parents on the journey of nurturing their child's healthy relationship with food and their body image.

Through practical, everyday strategies and tips, I help you to become empowered to make a lasting difference in your child's wellbeing journey.

In this episode, I'm joined by Psychologist Jemma Doley, who discusses with me;

• The harms of social media on a child's body image and food relationship
• The addictive nature of social media
• How restriction is not always the answer
• What parents can do to collaborate with their child on social media use
• Modelling our own positive use of our phones to our child
• The importance of having real life connections
• What parents can do when they feel a loss of control over their child's social media use

If you'd like to be a part of the Redwood Wellbeing community, you can subscribe to my podcast, and follow me on Instagram @redwoodwellbeing

You can also book in a free 1:1 consult for your own or your child's body image/intuitive eating on my website www.redwoodwellbeing.com.au

To get in touch, please email info@redwoodwellbeing.com.au

If you like what you hear and you want to support me to keep this podcast going, you can give me a tip here https://redwood-wellbeing.captivate.fm/support

Happy listening!

Lyss :)

Hello and Welcome to the Redwood Wellbeing Podcast, where each week I am dedicated to supporting parents on the journey of nurturing their child's healthy relationship with food and their body image.

Through practical, everyday strategies and tips, I help you to become empowered to make a lasting difference in your child's wellbeing journey.

In this episode, primary school counsellor Lauren Gough joins me to discuss;

• Her role as a counsellor and the prevalence of anxiety in children
• The characteristics of a child with poor resilience and strong resilience
• Understanding the connection between resilience and body image
• Strategies she uses to support students to strengthen their resilience
• Strategies that parents can use to support their child's resilience

If you'd like to be a part of the Redwood Wellbeing community, you can subscribe to my podcast, and follow me on Instagram @redwoodwellbeing

You can also book in a free 1:1 consult for your own or your child's body image/intuitive eating on my website www.redwoodwellbeing.com.au

To get in touch, please email info@redwoodwellbeing.com.au

If you like what you hear and you want to support me to keep this podcast going, you can give me a tip here https://redwood-wellbeing.captivate.fm/support

Happy listening!

Lyss :)

Hello and Welcome to the Redwood Wellbeing Podcast, where each week I am dedicated to supporting parents on the journey of nurturing their child's healthy relationship with food and their body image.

Through practical, everyday strategies and tips, I help you to become empowered to make a lasting difference in your child's wellbeing journey.

In today's episode, I talk about;

• What emotional eating means and why it's not all bad
• Examples of emotional eating on both ends of the continuum
• Why it's important to have a healthy emotional connection to food
• How to support your child's emotional connection to food through -

1. Meeting their emotional needs
2. Avoiding using food to regulate your emotional child
3. Avoid using food to reward/punish or manipulate
4. Helping them to create a toolkit of coping strategies during emotional distress

If you'd like to be a part of the Redwood Wellbeing community, you can subscribe to my podcast, and follow me on Instagram @redwoodwellbeing

You can also book in a free 1:1 consult for your own or your child's body image/intuitive eating on my website www.redwoodwellbeing.com.au

To get in touch, please email info@redwoodwellbeing.com.au

If you like what you hear and you want to support me to keep this podcast going, you can give me a tip here https://redwood-wellbeing.captivate.fm/support

Happy listening!

Lyss :)

Hello and Welcome to the Redwood Wellbeing Podcast, where each week I am dedicated to supporting parents on the journey of nurturing their child's healthy relationship with food and their body image.

Through practical, everyday strategies and tips, I help you to become empowered to make a lasting difference in your child's wellbeing journey.

In this episode I'm having a casual chat with Naturopath and Nutritionist Bec Axon about better understanding of our child’s gut health and what it means for their eating habits and food relationship. We talk about the common wrestle parents have between wanting to support our child’s body through gut nourishing foods but also support their relationship with sweet food, and how with a lot of topics about parenting, there’s not always a one size fits all answer.

You can get in touch with Bec for a consult or questions through her email or website:

hello@becaxon.au

www.becaxon.au

If you'd like to be a part of the Redwood Wellbeing community, you can subscribe to my podcast, and follow me on Instagram @redwoodwellbeing

You can also book in a free 1:1 consult for your own or your child's body image/intuitive eating on my website www.redwoodwellbeing.com.au

To get in touch, please email info@redwoodwellbeing.com.au

If you like what you hear and you want to support me to keep this podcast going, you can give me a tip here https://redwood-wellbeing.captivate.fm/support

Happy listening!

Lyss :)

Hello and Welcome to the Redwood Wellbeing Podcast, where each week I am dedicated to supporting parents on the journey of nurturing their child's healthy relationship with food and their body image.

Through practical, everyday strategies and tips, I help you to become empowered to make a lasting difference in your child's wellbeing journey.

In this episode I discuss;

• How despite well meaning intentions from anti diet coaches to 'ditch the scales', this doesn't help you make peace with them because keeping them out of sight isn't a long term healing strategy.
• How our ultimate goal with the scales should be neutrality, where we will be able to see the number without a strong emotional response.
• My personal tumultuous journey with the scales and how I healed my relationship with them through exposure therapy and mental discomfort.
• If you need to work on your relationship with the scales, shield your child from your journey, and ensure they see a neutral response from you when you see the number.
• How children have no meaning attached to scales until people provide meaning, so we can choose what meaning we give the number on the scales, to help our child remain neutral about the number.
• How to talk to your child about bathroom scales and what to say if they begin their own preoccupation with weighing themselves.
• How scales can have a peaceful place in a home, but it's not helpful for a child to be weighed at school, because of the connection to health status, and student comparisons.

If you'd like to be a part of the Redwood Wellbeing community, you can subscribe to my podcast, and follow me on Instagram @redwoodwellbeing

You can also book in a free 1:1 consult for your own or your child's body image/intuitive eating on my website www.redwoodwellbeing.com.au

To get in touch, please email info@redwoodwellbeing.com.au

If you like what you hear and you want to support me to keep this podcast going, you can give me a tip here https://redwood-wellbeing.captivate.fm/support

Happy listening!

Lyss :)