Feeding Humans

In order to raise our kids to feel at peace and at home in their bodies, we have to swim against the tide. This culture does not support us trusting and feeling good about our bodies, and when we have difficulty in our relationship with our own bodies, it can feel confusing and overwhelming to navigate talking with our kids about this. Today's episode offers practical guidance about how to talk with our kids and support their body image and their comfort with body diversity, even if we are still struggling on the inside, as well as what to do if your child is already expressing negative feelings about their body.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility in feeding

Katherine's free guide: Body Image Boosters for Confident Kids 

Today's episode is all about zooming out and examining our goals and values around food and feeding, or identifying the "why" in how we craft the food environment in our homes. Katherine talks about long term and short term goals, and how staying grounded in our hopes and vision for what our kids will have learned by the time they reach adulthood helps us focus when the day to day feeding relationship feels difficult. Finally, she walks through how to identify your values, and how if we don't get clear on which values are most important to us, we can inadvertently prioritize a less important value that is in conflict with those that are actually more important to us.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility in feeding

Ellyn Satter's Eating Competence Model

Anna Lutz, MPH RD/CEDRD and Sunnyside Up Nutrition
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https://lutzandalexander.com

The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin

If we're letting go of diet rules and externally sourced plans for eating and feeding our families, how can we know if we are meeting our nutritional needs and our kids'? If our bodies and needs are changing and fluctuating all the time, how can we have any hope of hitting those nutritional targets? In today's episode, Katherine talks about the role our bodies play in communicating its needs to us, and how we can provide for ourselves and our families to make sure our bodies and our kids are well cared for.

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Check out Katherine's Calm Confident Feeding Guide, a comprehensive guide and journal for understanding feeding dynamics and troubleshooting your family feeding struggles.

Mentioned in this episode:

Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility in feeding
https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/how-to-feed/the-division-of-responsibility-in-feeding/

Ellyn Satter's Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family

Explanation of the bidirectional chemistry equation and equilibrium as it relates to our bodies and experiences with food: 
Feeding Humans episode 1

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Today Katherine is diving in to how the Division of Responsibility feeding dynamics framework can be applied to adults trying to better understand their struggles in their own relationship with food. In feeding dynamics, the parents have certain jobs to do in feeding, and kids have their own jobs in eating. Adults can think of their own behavior in feeding themselves in terms of having both roles to play within themselves. This perspective can be tremendously helpful whether you have kids or not, because we have all been part of a parent child relationship at some point in our lives and have some idea of how this relationship functions, or should function in ideal circumstances. Maybe we have wounds related to our own histories in these relationships, and maybe they have a lot to do with our relationship with food as adults. Regardless, understanding the different roles you play in your task of feeding yourself can help clarify any struggles you might be having and can light the way toward compassion and healing.

Find Katherine online: 
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Mentioned in this episode: 

Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility in feeding 
https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/how-to-feed/the-division-of-responsibility-in-feeding/

Katherine's take on Division of Responsibility and making it work in your family:
Feeding Humans episode 2

Explanation of the bidirectional chemistry equation and equilibrium as it relates to our bodies and experiences with food: 
Feeding Humans episode 1

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Find Katherine online:
www.instagram.com/katzavrd
www.kznutrition.com

Mentioned in this episode:

Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility in feeding
https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/how-to-feed/the-division-of-responsibility-in-feeding/

Come as You Are, Emily Nagoski, PhD
Burnout, Emily Nagoski, PhD and Amelia Nagoski, DMA

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Today's episode starts out with a follow up from the previous discussion about the Division of Responsibility in family feeding. Katherine offers a couple of tips to address common challenges that often arise and trip up parents in the early implementation of this feeding framework. 

Then, we will dive into the topic of sugar and sweets and how to manage them with kids. Katherine will explain why sugar isn't the boogeyman that conventional wisdom would have us believe, and why it's important to support kids establishing a functional relationship with sweets to give them the opportunity to build skills around these highly palatable foods. Ultimately, we want kids to be able to take care of themselves, feed themselves well and enjoy food without being ruled by it. Katherine offers two ways you can serve sweets in your family that allows kids to develop a balanced relationship with sweets and get to know their bodies. 

Find Katherine online: 
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www.kznutrition.com 

Mentioned in this episode: 

Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility in feeding 
https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/how-to-feed/the-division-of-responsibility-in-feeding/

Anna Lutz, MPH RD/CEDRD and Sunnyside Up Nutrition 
https://sunnysideupnutrition.com
https://lutzandalexander.com

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Today's episode takes a close look at Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility, how it relates to discipline style and how many common struggles with family feeding can be addressed by parents understanding their jobs in feeding and allowing kids to do the jobs of eating for themselves. Katherine shares the rationale for this style of feeding and why she subscribes to this framework for her own family, and she also mentions some caveats regarding when you might need to make adjustments to make it work for you and your family. 

Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility in Feeding: 
https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/how-to-feed/the-division-of-responsibility-in-feeding/

In today's episode, Katherine talks about the meaning behind the title "Feeding Humans." She will explain how our relationships with our human bodies, as well as our relationships with our kids, are dynamic interactions that are always in flux, and that we can't approach these relationships with a controlling agenda. Both the human experience and the physical human body are rich and complex, and both influence one another. This deeper understanding of what it is to be a human, and to raise humans, will be a guiding force in all of our future conversations about how we relate to our bodies, how we parent, why we struggle, and how to heal. 

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