Break the Generational Cycles of Food & Body Struggles
Family in Focus is the emotionally-centered program that helps build lifelong relationships with food and body, for both you and your children. Real size-inclusive help. Without the harm of diets, shame or pressure.
Schedule Your Free ConsultIf you dread mealtimes, you're not alone
When parents find me, they usually start with a deep breath and something like:
- “I’ve tried everything. Nothing sticks.”
- “Meals are tense. I hate how I sound at the table.”
- “I don’t want my kid going through what I went through.”
- “I’m exhausted. I don’t know how to help without pressuring.”
- “I do not want to put my child on a diet.”
- “I’m scared I’m screwing this up.”
- “I want to help. I just don’t want to repeat the shame I grew up with.”
This is where you land because something in your gut is saying, there has to be a different way.
You are right.
Schedule Your Free ConsultParents are Drowning in Nutrition Advice
But advice isn't the problem. Nor is it the solution.
"Fix the food. Control their portions. Don't tolerate the behavior. Get rid of the screens. Focus on protein. Sneak veggies into the picky eater. Stop the weight gain."
Everywhere you turn, someone is pulling you in a different direction.
And no one is connecting the dots.
Of course you feel overwhelmed.
Of course nothing has stuck.
You’ve been handed disconnected tips for a whole-family pattern.
You are not failing.
You've just been bombarded with strategies that were never designed to work together, let alone in your real life.
Schedule Your Free ConsultWhat most parents (and weight management programs) don't know...
is that battles at the dinner table aren't really about the food.
It's about the emotions. The real issue is stress, battles for control and shame are behind the meltdowns.
Stress is why you’re walking into dinner braced and already tired.
Control is why your child shuts down or pushes harder.
And the shame you grew up with. That quiet internal voice telling you “don’t mess this up.” That shame sits right next to you at the table. Kids feel that. They react to that. They carry it.
Shame has never made a child healthier.
Shame has never created better habits.
Shame shuts kids down.
And when stress and shame are in the room, the food becomes the battleground.
Schedule Your Free ConsultNo matter where you are on the spectrum of attempted solutions,
It's not too late.
There is a way to turn this around and heal your family's relationships to food and body
You haven't messed up.
No matter how young your children are,
It's not too early.
And create a wonderful,
Connected relationship with your children.
This is Not a Food Problem.
It's a Relationship Pattern.
Food is just where the stress shows up.
Weight is where fear and control sneak in.
Screens are where disconnection shows up.
Blowups at the table are where everyone’s overwhelm spills out.
This is not about fixing your child.
This is about changing the pattern between you and your child so everyone can breathe again.
When the relationship shifts, everything else shifts with it.
The eating. The meltdowns. The communication. The trust.
This is where cycle breaking starts.
Finally, a Solution that Really Works for Your Family.
Introducing Family in Focus
Family in Focus is a 6 month parent coaching experience to help entire families build lifelong relationships with food, body and each other. Create the habits you want the whole family to share, at every size, every age, by going to the places that everyone else simply overlooks: emotions & relationships.
- We start with you.
When you settle yourself, your child settles.
When you stop bracing, they stop resisting.
Your regulation is the anchor your child has been waiting for. When you heal your relationship with food and your body, you model what you want them to enjoy. - Connection before correction.
Connection lowers stress.
Lower stress changes how kids eat, listen and respond.
Kids do better when they feel safe with you. - We make emotions feel workable.
Not a crisis. Not a fault.
Just information about what is happening in the moment.
When stress and emotions soften, habits shift without pressure. - We break the generational cycle.
The shame you grew up with. The pressure. The rules. The silence.
We don’t pass it forward.
Your kids get a different story about food, body and health.
A story rooted in safety, not jockeying for control.
This is help without harm.
It works because your child changes inside the environment you create.
We don't do before & after photos here
((ew, toxic diet culture strikes again))
Create Sustainable Change with your Family in Focus
Families start with:
- Food fights
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Meltdowns (yours and theirs)
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Googling at 2am, "How to get my kid to stop stress eating?"
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Fear that you're repeating your own childhood patterns
Soon becomes:
- “Meals are calmer. We actually talk again.”
- “My child trusts me. They come to me with their worries.”
- “I stopped hovering over every bite. The fighting stopped.”
- “My son stopped hiding food.”
- "My daughter is making her own good choices now."
- “I finally know how to help without making it worse.”
- “Our whole home feels lighter.”
- “This is the first time I’m not passing on the shame I lived with.”
- “I love Dr Wendy. She's helping you be a better mom.”
When the pressure goes down, connection goes up. And the whole family breathes.
Schedule Your Consult to Apply NowGet Started With:
Family in Focus
Strengthen Relationships with Food, Body and Family
$2500
Includes
Schedule Your Private Consult with WendyHear From Other Parents
Who Started Where You Are Now
Anonymous, Mom of 2
“I am working through a resurgence of disordered eating with [my daughter], that showed up originally last year and returned after [her father] and I separated.
I am approaching the conversations from the perspective I learned from you in the beginning stages of your journey with this program, and they have made ALL of the difference in the world to help me recognize behaviors and communicate with (my daughter) about the beliefs leading to them.
It is powerful, powerful work you are doing. Thank you!”
Lindsey, Mom of 3
"THANK YOU! For so long now I have felt like I had to control and fix everything and if it wasn't working I must be failing... what a heavy feeling. I entered this course to help essentially one child who struggles with weight but I've learned the weight struggle was mine. Her weight doesn't hold her back.... it was me. I was thinking by fixing this I could protect her from being made fun of or help her to look a certain way.... these were never her insecurities.... they were mine. It doesn't seem so overwhelming and hard now.
In fact, in such a short time I've gained so much from your course beyond food and weight. It makes me a better person, Mom, and wife all around."
What is possible when parents create change?
Learn about Karina & her family
Answers to Questions
How long is the program?
Why adults only for the group calls?
How are the calls structured?
Who participates in the calls?
Is this a weight loss program for kids or adults?
I can't commit with my schedule!
I can't afford this program. Now what?
But I'm overweight. Or I'm not overweight. Or my child isn't overweight. One is actually underweight. Will this program help me?
Does Family in Focus® treat medical problems?
I just want my child to lose weight. Now what?
I don't have children. I want to address my own habits. Can I participate?
When are the group sessions?
Imagine what it will be like for your entire family to have better relationships with food, their body and each other
Schedule Your Free ConsultReady to Make Lasting Change?
This is your next step:
Schedule your private consult with me.
We’ll talk about what’s going on, what you’ve tried, what you want and whether the Family in Focus group or individual experience is the right fit.
Programs start at $2500 for group, $6700 for private.
Consults are where every parent begins.
Your family does not need fixing.
They need you supported.
And that starts here.
