Food issues.
Allergies, aversions, addictions, obsessions, habits.
Who doesn’t have something? We all do.
Sometimes it starts as a physical issue, but ultimately these things become something with “feelings”around it.
It is my life’s passion to help children and teens manage these feelings into productive and healthy eating habits, for life. I believe that a family that models healthy behaviors together allows for better habits down the road as children and teens embark on independent journeys into adulthood.
I ask my teenage clients to think about it this way:
We all have a mind, a belly, a digestive system, a heart, a soul, bones, nerves, muscles. A whole entire body! Ok – now every food choice you make comes from where? The brain (and sometimes the gut who likes to be heard sometimes). Most of the eating habits (good & bad) are rooted in some sort of habit created at home (don’t worry mom & dad not blaming you, I did/do it too!). But if we could train our brain to be in touch with our whole body, including the heart, and feelings, it enables us to make different choices. Choices that benefit our physical body.
After years of professional concierge-level nutritional counseling, I have developed an approach that:
honors and empowers the child / teen (“my client”)
taps into and acknowledges the underlying issues in order to create an opening for results
includes the family as a support system, eliminating the ‘blame game’
all with a clinical approach for sustainable results