You are actively unlearning diet culture and rewriting your family’s food story.

You are on a brave journey of healing—working to break free from diet culture, unlearning restrictive food rules, and making peace with food and your body. You’re deeply intentional about how you parent, wanting to ensure your children don’t inherit the shame, guilt, or body struggles that you’ve worked so hard to move past. Some days, this feels second nature. Other days, you still battle your own inner critic—but you are making incredible progress.

Core Beliefs:

✅ Perfection isn’t required for progress—healing happens in layers.
✅ The way you talk about food and your body teaches your child more than any nutrition rule ever could.
✅ You are allowed to heal while parenting—you don’t need to have all the answers yet.

Key Support Needs:

• Emotional regulation tools for when food triggers arise.

• Practical ways to model food neutrality, even when it still feels new.

• Ongoing support to keep healing while raising kids.

Action Steps:

• Notice when an old food belief surfaces and gently challenge it. (“Do I really believe this, or is it something I was taught?”)

• Practice saying one new, neutral food phrase: “All foods give us different types of energy.”

• Engage in self-compassion—remind yourself that your healing is a gift to your family.

Real-Life Scenarios:

• Your child asks for seconds of dessert. Instead of reacting from fear, you pause and remind yourself: “Restricting makes foods more desirable—trust is key.”

• You start to say, “You have to eat your veggies first,” but stop and rephrase: “We eat all kinds of foods, and veggies are one of them.”

• A friend expresses concern about giving kids food freedom. You respond, “I want them to trust their bodies, not fear food.”

What Makes You Amazing:

Your children are learning that food isn’t something to fear—it’s something to enjoy and trust, just like their bodies. Your healing is changing their future.