Understanding ‘picky eating’
Hear the fear: a language tool for parents of anxious eaters
If your child finds eating hard, the chances are mealtimes are stressful and anxious… for both you AND them! Sometimes, your child will put that worry into words. I like to do live Q & A sessions in my private…
Driving in snow
I am a really, really REALLY nervous driver. I hate it and I am bad at it. I have a few very specific driving phobias too – including slip roads (US = ‘on ramp’ or ‘off ramp’) and perhaps my…
Three essential mindset shifts for parents of picky eaters
Mindset is everywhere now: the mindset you need to get rich (what did that involve, again??) the right mindset for being productive in the workplace… the mindset you have to have in order to reach your fitness goals… Usually I am…
Is anxiety behind your child’s eating problems?
Food-related anxiety is a reallly common cause of feeding problems. In this post, I discuss the research on anxiety and eating. Read to the end for my free guide to helping your food-anxious child.
Give your child the gift of self-regulation
Self-regulation, in relation to food and eating*, is the process whereby we listen our bodies’ cues; eating because we are hungry and stopping because we are full. Put simply, our bodies send signals to our brains which the brain translates into actions (the choice to eat or stop eating). This is actually an extremely complex and subtle system .
