Parent Support

You may be worried about your child’s weight and unsure how to help. Maybe you are concerned about their health. Maybe you are afraid they will be teased, judged, excluded, or treated unfairly at school because of their size. Maybe you just want to protect them from a world that can be cruel to people in larger bodies.

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Those fears come from love. However, commenting on a child's weight, monitoring their food, encouraging dieting, or pushing more exercise unfortunately often only create shame, anxiety, secrecy, disconnection from hunger cues, and a painful belief that their body is a problem.

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Family therapy and parent support can help parents support their children around food, movement, body image, teasing, health concerns, and self-worth without making body size the focus or creating shame at home.

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Together, we can explore how to talk about bodies, food, health, teasing, movement, and self-worth in ways that reduce shame rather than increase it. We can also focus on helping children stay connected, or reconnect, with hunger, fullness, body trust, enjoyable movement, and the belief that their worth is never defined by their size.

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