Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD - Episode #24!

You know what's different in helping parents who are worried about their kids' weight? Having conversations like these: not about cutting calories and increasing movement, but using the tools of connection, openness and learning. Join me - and let me know how you apply for yourself and your family and community: [email protected].

Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD.

Today we dive into Responsibility when it comes to helping kids navigate weight concerns.

What are we controlling?

Where is the finger-pointing?

Where are the opportunities to take ownership?

Dive in and let me know what you see as your responsibility in your home. And the downloadable Division of Responsibility sheet (all thanks to Ellyn Satter's work) is available here.

Drop me a line [email protected] and let me know how you're applying this in your home.

Welcome to Episode #22!

My son's at it again: giving me material for the podcast! And that's not a bad thing. I appreciate the opportunity to choose to focus on our conversations. You see, the brain is hard-wired to find problems and to focus on them until fixed. So we are ALWAYS looking for danger, problems, and pain. It's about ensuring our survival.

But we have the option - the choice - to focus upon what is going well. And yes, our relationship is going well.

Take a listen, and the challenge at the end. Drop me a line at [email protected] and let me know what you noticed about 3 Things That Went Well.

Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD Episode #21!

My love-hate relationship with Halloween has a lot to do with my experience as a pediatrician and the "sugar-gorge-fest," as I saw it. In this episode, I talk about how MISERABLE that made me feel, every year, and what I did to make peace with Halloween. While you may not take the same approach I did, what is possible for you to make peace with Halloween too?

Join me at www.wendyschofermd.com and find out more about my group and 1:1 coaching options for parents who are worried about their children's weight and obesity. We are building stronger, healthier families, one parent at a time. Join me.

 

Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD

Episode #20 (woo-hoo!)

A mom used her example of making mac and cheese dinner as evidence that she isn't the one to lead her family to healthy habits.

Hold.the.phone.

Today we dive into why we serve the foods we do. And dare I say, the energy behind that - when you're having mac & cheese - what energy do you want to serve with it? It's your choice - and makes a tremendous difference!

Join me at www.wendyschofermd.com and find out more about my group and 1:1 coaching options for parents who are worried about their children's weight and obesity. We are building stronger, healthier families, one parent at a time. Join me.

Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD, Episode #19.

Did you realize you have a say in the questions that you ask yourself?

We have trained our brains to keep looking for something else, the next notification, all the things that need to be on the to-do list, all the things that require our time and attention and energy.

It's hard to see the forest through the trees. Especially when it's your family -- seeing them through all the things to do, all the things vying for your attention.

Today I touch on starting to ask your brain - not what else needs to be done (and always adding to the list), but choosing - deciding -  where you want to focus.

I'd love to hear from you. [email protected]

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Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD.

Episode #18

A gymnastics-tricks session with my niece this weekend left her amazed: her mom and I jumped right in.

She hadn't seen adults jump in to play like that at the gym and it begged the question: why?

Why aren't parents playing?

In today's episode, we dive into this further - and I ask of you: how can you let go and allow your brain and body to play?

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Welcome to Family in Focus with Dr Wendy Schofer.

Episode #17: 

The final step in my Go S.L.O.W. process for creating healthy family habits: 

Water.

So powerful, essential (as per my father-in-law... and biology!) and yet so easily overlooked.

Today I talk about the things that get in the way of adopting water into our regular habits - and why it is deserving of more attention.

Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD.

Today we continue on the Go S.L.O.W. framework:

Observe your body.

Get all busy asking it two really important questions:

Am I hungry? 

Have I had enough?

We go through a whole bunch o' stuff that gets in the way of asking the questions and listening to the answers.

I'd love to hear what you're learning for yourself. What are the messages you are hearing from your body about hunger and enough-ness? And how are you modeling it for your kids?

Drop me a line at [email protected].

 

Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD.

Today we continue on the steps of Going SLOW to instill healthy habits for the whole family around meals:

Lose the Distractions.

Yeah, I don't like having steps that speak in the negative, but with the number of distractions that we have nowadays, it begs particular attention. TVs, computers, scrolling on phones and endless notifications -- these all distract us from being able to truly nourish our bodies as well as each other in social connection during meals.

Let's dive into more about losing the distractions.

And come on over to www.wendyschofermd.com where you can learn about my next group coaching cohort, launching in October!!!