In this episode Michelle welcomes sleep advocate and mother of two girls, Emma Cooksey (she/her). Emma shares her experience with a late-in-life diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and the subsequent challenges of parenting with a chronic illness. Michelle and Emma spend the last third of the episode (minute 36) talking about how to raise body competent children in a world obsessed with commenting on bodies, and how to set boundaries when those people are your family.  This episode was originally an Instagram live from March 15, 2023.

Find Emma Cooksey on Instagram @sleepapneastories and online at www.sleepapneastories.com.

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In this episode Michelle welcomes the incredibly insightful psychologist and intuitive eating coach Dr Diana Gordon (she/her). Dr. Gordon shares her experience as a parent breaking the cycle of eating disorders and diet culture and answers listener questions. This was originally an instagram live from February 28.

Find Dr. Diana Gordon on Instagram @drdianagordon.

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In this episode, I introduce what I think of as body competence and share part of my own body story. I talk about what it's like to be a mom in eating disorder recovery and the parenting challenges that have come up in recent months.

I also answer follower questions including:
- How/when did you meet your husband?
- What is the best thing your husband can do for you when you're having a bad day with narcolepsy?
- What do you do for exercise and how do you relax?
- How do you want to parent your daughter and what do you want her to know?
- What made you realize you wanted to go back to school?
- What was your journey like to get to where you are today?

*Since recording this episode, I learned that anti-fat bias and anti-fatness are terms that fat people prefer instead of fatphobia because it more accurately describes the prejudice that fat people face, versus the implication of fatphobia that there is a psychological disorder. Follow The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance @naafaofficial on Instagram.

Find Michelle on Instagram @foodbodiesfamilies.

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