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Let's do an exercise today. Bring a pen and paper, and be ready to write.
We are going to explore what it needs to look like to have a healthy weight for you, for your family.
It's an introduction to something that I call the manual. And you will get to hear how I tossed my manual for the podcast (and much more: enjoy!).
Full show notes 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!
Struggling with your weight? Struggling with your child's weight?
Let's talk about how to struggle less. Learn why we struggle, as well as the three ways to decrease struggle.
With lots of examples of how I still struggle and use these tools in regards to working out, my kids' struggles, and... (no big surprise) weight/body image.
Full show notes 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!
Got a weight loss goal?
Helping your child eat better to maintain their weight?
And you're not seeing progress?
Listen to Episode #64 where we talk about what to do.
Learn about:
Full show notes 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 hear you, "Sure, healthy relationships with food are good, but... can you just help my kid lose weight?"
Let's talk about it!
Why should or shouldn't weight loss be the goal for your child?
Full show notes 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!
OMG, I keep asking myself this very question, and I'm catching myself.
Why is it so hard... with weight, with raising healthy kids, in business, in relationships?!?
💩 Shitty question alert 💩
Let's talk about WHY it's hard, and what to do about it.
The art of:
asking better questions, answering them, and focusing your brain on what is going to get you where you actually want to go!
Family in Focus Group Coaching is OPEN NOW til 9/18 at 11:59pm ET: SIGN UP HERE.
Full show notes 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!
Yup, we're all worrying about weight. The wedding that's coming up, the pants we want to fit back into, and now our kids -- what about the kids?
Even worse, we're told to worry about weight from media and doctors offices and your dear in-laws.
Let's talk about worry - why we worry, why it doesn't help our weight concerns, and four things that you can do instead.
Join the webinar series, starting this week (Weds, Sept 7 at 8pm EDT). Registration here and group coaching to start this month!
Full show notes 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 is "weight management" anyway?
Learn how it is code for diets, 4 reasons why diets are bad for kids, and what we can do as parents instead.
Full show notes available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
Group coaching starts soon! Join the waitlist here to be the first invited!---------------------
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 talk about wellness, but what does it really mean, and what can our kids do to work on their wellness?
Listen in for a new way to look at wellness that includes everyone in the family, from infants through adults.
And learn the one most important thing for wellness. Hint: kids are awesome at this!
Full show notes available 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!
Roadtrip season is winding down and man, have I seen a lot of ROCKS! Devil's Tower, the Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, Badlands, Mount Rushmore...
It reminds me of how my most important role as a parent is to be... you've got it, a rock. 🪨
Listen in to learn the three ways that being a rock helps your family. And how to do it, today.
Full show notes available here.
Heads-up... the waitlist is now open for the next Family in Focus group coaching program. Coming soon! Get on the list here to make sure you're in the room when it happens.
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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!
How often do you feel like you have to be on your A-game all the time? (Oh, not just me?!) Having to work, adult, keep things rolling... gets freaking exhausting.
I took the executive decision to take July off with my family: I was the designated co-pilot on a 3050 mile roadtrip with my sister and the Littles.
I learned so much about what worked during the trip, and how I'm applying that to what I want to continue to do now that I'm back home.
What are you learning about what works for you and your family?
Take a listen - and then drop me a line with what you're finding out for yourself. [email protected]
Full show notes available 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!
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Are you feeling stuck around your child’s eating, weight, or health?
Are food struggles or mixed messages about “doing it right” creating stress in your…
Family in Focus is a podcast for parents navigating family health, especially when concerns about food, body, and emotional well-being start to strain relationships at home.
Hosted by Dr. Wendy Schofer, the pediatrician who helps parents lead meaningful change without harm, this podcast approaches family health in a very different way, by prioritizing connection, trust, and emotional health over control or pressure.
Family in Focus centers parent-led shifts that actually last. Conversations explore how change can happen without shame, how emotions shape health behaviors, and why protecting the parent-child relationship is essential to supporting children’s well-being.
This is a space for parents who want to support their child’s health without sacrificing connection along the way.