If you’re doing things differently from your parents, it’s my bet that you could still be doing the same thing as them. Even when, on the outside, it looks like a 180-degree turn. The core still turns around the same thing. I see this happen in feeding so often. And I know, because I did…
How do you define a healthy relationship with food? It’s a core question, as you might want to cultivate that for your kids. What I notice is that often this definition goes in the direction of being in a relationship with so-called healthy foods – meaning we actively push exposure, and even intake of greens,…
Different day, same sh*t.’ It was written in capital letters on the pencil case of one of the ‘bad’ guys when I was in high school. That phrase clearly left a mark, and I’m still unsure if that’s because I’m passionate about what drives human motivation, or because it was written so clearly, so real,…
Can parents really not know how to give food to their kids?’, a friend of mine casually shared with me. Her description of my work was deficit-based. She thought that parents reach out to me because they don’t know enough, and they need to know more. The reality is that most of the parents I…
‘Sofie, why are you advocating for junk food?’ is a question I often get. Let me be crystal clear: I’m not advocating for junk food out of some deep love for it. I don’t eat these so-called bad, unhealthy foods that much. But I do want my kids to have a healthy relationship with junk…
Emma Frisch – an amazing cookbook author, culinary educator and meal plan wizard – asked me to share three tips for parents on handling candy and stress around kids’ obsession with it during Halloween. Halloween, like many end-of-year traditions, is a time of food abundance, for which we’re not always in a mindset to manage.…
Weight stigma is discrimination based on your weight. You can come into contact with weight stigma at a very early age. Diet culture tells us that anyone who is overweight or obese is always unhealthy. Yet American research shows that nearly 30% of obese people are metabolically healthy. Conversely, more than 30% of normal-weight people…
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