Forever seared in my memory is the time we were visiting my sister in Nashville and my normally easy-to-soothe baby just wouldn’t calm down. After a desperate hour of trying every baby-calming trick I could think of, panicking that she would wake her little cousins…
Have you made your New Year’s Resolutions yet? Are they to get fit? Eat healthier? Be happier with your body? If you’ve put “lose weight” on there, I want you to think carefully about that choice. A lot of teens will go into the New…
Some parents worry that they caused their child to develop an eating disorder. Current evidence does NOT support this view at all. Rather, eating disorders are complex mental illnesses with a multitude of contributing bio-psycho-social factors. For one, eating disorders are hereditary conditions that are…
In my last blog post, I talked about recognizing the signs of an eating disorder and what to do if you suspect your child may have one. If an eating disorder has been diagnosed by your child’s pediatrician, then you probably are feeling very scared…
If you have a teen (or tween) that you suspect may have an eating disorder, you likely have a lot of worries about them and just as many questions. Why won’t they just eat more? What will happen if they keep starving themselves like this?…
Have you tried breathing exercises with your child before? Or told your child to “take a deep breath” or “just breathe”? Do they tell you it doesn’t work? If you haven’t had much success teaching breathing exercises to your child, it is possible that they…
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