Family in Focus®

What's the link?

Yes, I do believe there is one, one that is particularly seen through the eyes of a pediatrician who has struggled with stress, burnout and personal and professional struggles to create whole family health.

What could it be?

Seriously, it's time to take a listen.

Learn about the missing link and how to use it for health, decreasing stress and addressing burnout.

Full show notes available here.

Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup

 Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.

Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.

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I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!

And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.

Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!

 

This is the real-deal of parenting. Our kids have big feelings. And we haven't learned how to deal with our own, let alone help them.

Until today. Let's do this, together.

Ten minutes to review the prior episodes on emotions (check out Episodes #93 & 94), AND go through the foundations of how to help your child feel their feelings, today.

If this is completely new to you, take a few minutes to practice for yourself first.

It's well worth the time.

And, here's the link to connect with me for an introductory session to talk about how we can work together.

Full show notes available here.

Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup

 Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.

Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.

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I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!

And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.

Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!

 

Emotions are the fuel for our lives: they drive everything that we do (and what we don't do). Let's explore more, along with a particular example with a feeling I know very well: frustration.

As mentioned in the episode, here is the feelings wheel.

Full show notes available here.

Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup

 Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.

Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.

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I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!

And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.

Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!

 

Let's talk emotions: Why are they important, where do they come from, how are they made?

It's the first in our series on emotions.

Getting vulnerable here with the real deal about my struggles with sadness and depression in medical school, as well as the way to NOT deal with it.

Full show notes available here.

Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup

 Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.

Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.

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I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!

And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.

Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!

 

Sleep.Comes.First.

Let's talk about all the ways that getting better ZZZZ's can help you and your kids with better health

AND

What's getting in the way of the sleep you need.

Learn about how much sleep our kids need

The impact of sleep-deprivation upon many aspects of health

AND 

Why we can address sleep before we see external signs of sleep-deprivation.

Complete with the stories of how this is something my family is still working on - we all are, as we are a work in progress!

Reference the CDC recommended hours of sleep per day for babies to adults.

Full show notes available here.

Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup

 Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.

Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.

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I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!

And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.

Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!

 

Hold on, we were just talking about relationships with food, and now we're talking about efficiency?

Yup. This is real-deal life as a parent.

It's all the things. The mental burden. The many-tabs open at once.

In today's episode, we're going to talk about where that mental burden comes from, how our socialization contributes to it, and how it is intertwined with struggles around efficiency.

You'll learn the questions to ask to start untangling the grip that these expectations have upon our lives.

And of course, a real story that may involve a real husband and his beautiful approach to efficiency, and why I'm calling BS. A lot.

Episode rated explicit for... actually saying what BS is. ;-) 

And enjoy the artwork.... with my many tabs open right now. The struggle is real, my friends. AND we can make it what works for us.

Full show notes available here.

Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup

 Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.

Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.

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I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!

And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.

Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!

 

"I just want my kid to have a healthy relationship with food."

What does that even mean? It's a new approach, better than the whole let's-just-focus-on-changing-body-size, and yet I sure didn't learn about cultivating healthy relationships with food growing up. In fact, I share stories about how I messed it up with my own kids and what we can do right now as parents to start helping our kids.

• Understand our own relationship with food
• Why it's not about the way they eat
• How to find out more about your child's relationship with food

 

Full show notes available here.

Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup

 Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.

Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.

---------------------

I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!

And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.

Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!

 

Brains, Pandemics, Weight, and Trauma...

Ooph - yeah, it sounds like a hard topic, but we're going to explore today a few concepts that have been spinning through my head and readings, of course with laughter, stories, analogies and (once again) Allen Iverson references.

Let's talk about the very important function of 2 different parts of our brain: amygdala and prefrontal cortex (aka downstairs and upstairs brains)

with a nod to Daniel Siegel, MD and Tina Bryson, PhD wh wrote "The Whole-Brain Child".

We explore the increasing rates of overweight and obesity from 2020 onward, with a different perspective about the why.

And most importantly, what we can do to address the chronic activation we have of our threat detection centers, and why "feeling better" with food and electronics isn't actually helping to heal the underlying wounds.

Full show notes available here.

Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup

 Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.

Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.

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I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!

And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.

Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!

 

Seriously, y'all, if you're gonna have your first-ever podcast guest, who are you gonna have?

P!nk? Yup, thought about it.

My sister? She's coming...

And Corinne Freaking Crabtree!

The Queen Bee of the No BS Weight-loss Program, host of Losing 100 lbs with Corinne, she is a force to be reckoned with, and one down-to-Earth woman.

And that's what I love about her: talking real-talk about raising healthy families, building the whole family up instead of all that crappy judgy bologna, and how we're only doing things that can be done by the whole family, at every age.

Sound familiar? I know. She's my peeps. Take a listen. And you can find Corinne just about everywhere:

Losing 100 Podcast/No BS Weightloss Program
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/losing100podcast/
Instagram - @Corinne_Crabtree
No BS Business Women
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NoBSBusinessWomen
Instagram - @NoBSBusinessWomen

Listen and Subscribe to the Losing 100 Pounds Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/losing-100-pounds-with-corinne/
id1233384453

Link to Corinne's Free Weightloss Course & Website
www.nobsfreecourse.com

 

Full show notes available here.

Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup

 Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.

Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.

---------------------

I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!

And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.

Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!

 

"This is just the way I am."

That is THE biggest obstacle to change: thinking that you are your habits, your actions, your thoughts and feelings. Thinking that they are set in stone.

Nope, they are just practiced a lot. And when we practice things they become relatively automatic, Default Mode is activated in our brains.

What to do?

Take a listen about how to detect default mode and the three steps I'm using right now (complete with a fun adult soccer story) to create change.

Full show notes available here.

Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup

Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings  available here.

Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.

---------------------

I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!

And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.

Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!