My son Isaac was diagnosed with severe OCD and anxiety in 2014 (when he was 13 years old), and so began our journey into healing the gut and working to improve his mental health.

For the first half hour of this episode I talk to parents of young people who need to move towards a healing diet and are not really keen to make changes, or are struggling to keep on track and focus on the long-term goals.

Isaac (now 19 years old) joins me for the next hour to answer questions from listeners.

Isaac shares:

• his initial reactions to mum saying he needed to go on a special diet

Cooking segment!

We didn’t manage to cook on this episode as it was already so long, so here is a link to a video of my boys cooking together that your teenagers may enjoy. 🙂

• Isaac & Simi cook Sweet ‘n’ Sour Pork (and have an unexpected visitor to the kitchen!)

Useful links:

• Starting diet changes slowly and gently – listen to this podcast with Elyse Comerford

• listen to this podcast with Beth Bonfiglio of Little Fusspot

“It’s about creating an atmosphere of joy and peacefulness and calm, as much as creating healthy food.” – Jo Whitton

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