Family in Focus®

"I'm only as happy as my unhappiest child."

What on Earth?! With all the kid-angst and unhappiness that kids experience, it sounds crazy to think that we would tie our emotions to theirs. But do you see that happening? Do you try to make your kids feel better so you can feel better?

Let's talk about recognizing that there is an ongoing drive to have happy, healthy kids. And yet, it's not really helping them or 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!

 

Today, we celebrate. I'm celebrating the birth, evolution and growth of Family in Focus.   I've been asked time and again, "What is the evidence that Family in Focus is effective?" I'm creating the evidence. It's been a labor of love, seeing the problems with the traditional approach to weight in the medical office, the community and my own home.   And now, I'm proud to announce that I have a collaboration that is specifically collecting the evidence of the effectiveness of Family in Focus to improve health at home, one parent, one family at a time.   Take a listen to hear about how we're collecting the evidence, growing and celebrating along the way.  

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

Join 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!

Have you heard the questions about identifying your kids' needs? It's really the heart to understanding their behavior, but let's not jump too far ahead:

When's the last time you asked what YOU need?

This is critical for health as an individual and a family: identifying and meeting needs. And in order to be the parent that our kids need, we have the opportunity to understand and address OUR needs.

That's not selfish, it's a freaking need.

Join me to understand what needs really are, how to uncover and address them, and why it's important for our health and our family's health.

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

Join 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!

 

"You're the worst parent in the world."

"You've f'd me up."

Ah, kids. Gotta love them. They sure know how to make us feel amazing. 

That's what we're talking about today: the explicit is for feeling "shitty" a few times, and "f'd up" wihtout the rest of the word (you're welcome... and there are very quick "ear-muffs" warnings.)

This is real-deal parenting: kids do not agree with the job that we are doing. Let's talk about boundaries and pushing back as kids, how it's normal, and.. how to not make it mean that we are the shittiest parents in the world, no matter what they say.

BTW, I did check: the shittiest parents are not listening to FIF with WS, MD. So, there's that.

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/7fiwDh

Join 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!

 

We've been working through a series on stress eating, and we need to understand the stress first. We've started with ourselves: understanding our stress, what we do with stress.

Now we can start talking about helping our children. (After all, we can't just swoop in and address their stress and stress eating if we don't have a solid understanding for ourselves first.)

Today, learn about our natural desire to fix the stress, try to not feel it, and what can happen if we keep it bottled up inside. And learn how we can truly help our children grow through the stress.

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/fBvzBX

Join 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!

 

Continuing on from Episode #80, "How to deal with stress eating," we dive into 8 ways... yes 8, to address the stress.

Please notice if there's stress about 8... you can try any one and see how it works for you.

That's the ticket: awareness, experimentation, curiosity and noticing how we stress about stress (dude, me too).

As parents, we get to understand our stressors and how to deal with it, so we can then help our kids (oh you betcha that's what's coming in Part 3, next week!).

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/W8CCdt

Join 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!

 

Do you find yourself stressed out, collapsing on the couch with a bag of tortilla chips in exhaustion, and scrolling on social media?

You are not alone: stress eating is so common for us and our kids.

In order to address it we need to understand it. Just addressing the eating part is a plan for disaster as it changes eating habits without addressing the stress in the first place.

Today we talk about what we experience with stress (aka the stress cycle), and how to understand it to get clear on the stress at home.

Next week, we are going to continue with the steps to start dealing with the stress.

As always, first: observe to understand, later: take action.

Feel free to drop me an email, referencing Episode #80/stress cycle and what is coming up for you as you are journaling.

Full show notes available here, including the fun graphics on the stress cycle.

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/MpPEie

Join 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!

 

What happens when we focus on the scale?

Finding it hard to NOT do it? In this episode, I share the story of how I smacked face-first into the reality that it is really hard to not focus on what the scale says. But also, what happens when we practice not letting it have control over our lives.

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/lRZJmZ

Join 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!

 

We think we need to focus on weight: after all, isn't that how we identify a problem and fix it?

In today's episode, I start the conversation about how there's more to it. Our focus on weight has NOT been helping our families. In fact, it's causing more problems.

Let's dive in and see what we can do. Where should we be placing our focus for health?

This is from my recent guest article on the KevinMD.com blog. 

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/PFosAU

Join 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!

 

"And the reality of my weight is..."

Let's talk about the facts of weight. How is the number on the scale impacting your reality?

How do you determine what is possible for you and your family, given the reality?

Much to discuss. Take a listen. And drop me a line: [email protected]. Let me know how your reality has impacted your possibility - and now what?

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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/si7g5X

Join 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!