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45: When You're Afraid Of Passing Off Disordered Eating Habits To Your Child - Dr. Jillian Murphy

Jan 13, 2020

Parents simply want the best for their kids. They want to protect them. They want them to be happy. And they want them to be healthy, so they can live a long, enriching life with as little bumps in the road as possible. 

And so, many parents do their best to provide this. They do so by keeping “bad” foods out of the house, by emphasizing the harmful effects of sugar, by forbidding them of certain foods that are assumed to result in weight gain and encouraging exercise from an early age.

All of this might not seem very harmful, but what’s happening is that many parents with unresolved disordered eating habits of their own are subconsciously passing off their disordered eating habits to their children, which negatively impacts their relationship with food and could possibly set them up for a lifetime of unhealthy habits around food if not intervened otherwise. 

Here to teach us how we can be more mindful of the “healthy habits” we are passing off to our children is Dr. Jillian Murphy, who is a licensed Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine. Dr. Murphy works with families who have children who are struggling to eat competently. Dr. Murphy offers up the most sound, healthful and researched-validated advice for families looking to raise children who are a joy to feed, who grow well and have a great relationship with their bodies.

In this episode we discuss:

  • Why forbidding foods from your kids is doing more harm than good
  • Understanding your influence as a parent in terms of food and body 
  • Step-by-step process to raise healthy eaters as per Ellyn Satter’s model
  • The division of responsibility 
  • Engaging in healthy habits as a parent that won’t negatively impact your child 
  • How to recognize if you’re projecting your own disordered eating habits
  • Healing our own relationship with food before teaching others 
  • Understanding your parent’s parenting to better understand your relationship with food 
  • Shifting the conversation from being aesthetically focused when speaking with kids

 

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