You've tried to fix food. But what if food isn't the real problem after all?
You love your kids. You want them to grow up healthy, confident, and free from the struggles you’ve carried your whole life.
And yet,
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You’ve tried the rules, the portion sizes, the “just one treat” strategy.
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You’re worried about carbs, sugar, screens, and every snack.
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You’re reminded - daily - that your own attempts to change through diet, exercise and willpower just make you feel worse. You don't wish that for your children.
And let's be honest. You're burned out. Exhausted. Questioning yourself. Afraid you’ve already made mistakes that can’t be undone.
This is your turning point.
You don’t have to keep writing the story diet culture handed you
Yes, I'm ready to change our family's storyIt's not you. It's the one-size-fits-all noise around you.
You’ve been told there’s one right way to raise a healthy family.
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Doctors prescribe “eat less, move more,” as if emotions, stress, and friction don’t exist.
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Nutritionists argue carbs vs. protein like it’s a sport.
- You wanna shout, "I don't want to do math with my food!"
- Social media gurus push shiny quick fixes and a supplement for everything, and quietly shame you when they don’t work.
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Endless Googling sends you spiraling into more confusion.
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And diet culture? It’s the shaming voice that’s been in your head since you were a kid, whispering you’re not doing enough, not thin enough, not good enough.
Meanwhile, you’re juggling real life: work, dinner, sports, homework, exhaustion (all ingredients for burnout) and trying to keep your kids safe from the very influences overwhelming you.
You are not the Bad Cop (no matter how it feels when you're cajoling your kid to eat their veggies). You aren't the villain. It’s the pressure to squeeze your unique family into someone else’s box.
Restriction & control create stress.
Stress fuels conflict.
Conflict is just... unhealthy.
Most “healthy family” advice is just diet culture in disguise.
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Restrict portions → kids sneak food.
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Force exercise → resentment grows.
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Monitor every bite → anxiety skyrockets—for you and them.
These solutions assume families are formulas. But we are not math problems to solve.
That’s why collaboration matters. Some families thrive by shifting mealtime dynamics. Some choose medical support or medications. Some lean into emotional skill-building.
The tools can change. But the foundation must always be relationships and emotional health.
No 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.
What if connection,
not control,
was the answer?
Here’s what most parents never hear:
Your family doesn’t need fixing.
You don’t need more rules, charts, or willpower.
The actual problem is stress. And the most of the solutions you're being taught causes more stress:
- trying to restrict/manage/control food
- going on diets
- creating rules
It all feeds into
- sneaky behavior
- shame
- increased stress hormones
which makes you and your child feel wrong, causes conflict and shame which furthers the stress and makes health worse for everyone.
What you need is a new foundation, built on emotional health, relationships, and relief from the cycle of shame and stress.
That’s what we do inside Family in Focus®.
Your family doesn't need fixing. This is about feeling understood and seen.
When emotions are understood—not feared, shushed, or avoided—they become the foundation for:
✅ Healthy eating habits (no more food bribery or food guilt)
✅ Honest conversations (no more emotional shutdown)
✅ Deep connection (the kind where your kids actually want to hang out with you)
✅ Confidence to lead your family without second-guessing everything
This is science. It’s social-emotional skill-building.
And it starts with the person reading this page. (Hey there.)
What happens when you take a relationship-first approach:
- Consistency in your approach (ooh, whining & fussing will not be your kryptonite!)
- Flexibility to handle exceptions
- No more food fights
- Confidence that you're on the right path
- Lighten the heavy burden of guilt
- A healthier relationship with food: for you and your family
- More connection with your children
- The number on the scale becomes much less important
- Emotions that don't drive you to snack
- Sleep peacefully, knowing you're doing exactly what you need to do
- You will have a plan that actually works for your family
But Doing This As A Parent Isn’t Easy!
Sure, you could go and Google weight loss for kids, find Pinterest recipes, get all sorts of input on Facebook about how your kid doesn’t “look overweight,” isn’t “that overweight” and have all sorts of doubts…
...but as someone who has worked with families for 20 years, I understand that the wealth of information isn’t helpful. It’s overwhelming.
More input from different voices is confusing. They are simply repeating the same old story of guilt - shame - sell you a "quick fix."
It makes you want to throw in the towel because they aren't living your life.
What You Really Need...
is to understand that all your prior struggles have nothing to do with your ability to make real, lasting change. And a plan to make it happen:
You CAN become the role model for your family’s health.
You CAN create healthier habits
You CAN lighten the burden weight-focus and health-management has had in your life
You CAN strengthen your relationships and bring your family closer together
You CAN create a path and then invite your family to join
It's Time to Join
The Signature Program from Family in Focus to Raise a Healthy, Whole Family from the Inside Out
In Family in Focus, you'll discover a powerful new way to talk about health, weight, food, and body—with yourself and your children. Through expertly designed modules, supportive coaching, and a community of like-minded parents, you'll:
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Learn how to regulate your emotions—and guide your children in doing the same
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Break free from harmful cultural messages about food and body, and define your own family values
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Build unshakable family connection that protects against outside pressures
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Have a practical plan for handling challenges like fear, resistance, and emotional outbursts with calm and confidence
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Create some of the most meaningful, resilient relationships around food, body, and each other
Where it all started...
In 20 years as a pediatrician, I’ve seen the same scene again and again: parents holding their breath as I plotted the growth chart, wondering, “What kind of parent am I if the curve goes the wrong way?”
I’ll never forget Emily’s mom. Her 6-year-old was thriving, eating healthy meals, playing daily, and steadily growing above the 85th percentile. Still, Mom braced for judgment: “Why aren’t you saying anything about her BMI?” When I asked what worried her, the tears came: “You’re the first doctor who hasn’t told me I’m doing everything wrong.”
Emily was fine. Her mom was drowning in shame, thinking she was failing. And that’s when it clicked: this isn’t a weight problem, it’s a weight burden. One we keep handing to parents who are already doing their best.
That’s why I created Family in Focus®. No restrictive diets. No shame. No food policing.
Instead, science-backed guidance and weight-inclusive compassion that helps parents step into the role that matters most: guiding their kids grow up confident, connected, and healthy in their own skin.
Here’s what’s inside
Family in Focus
A 6-month VIP experience with the right combination of structure to make progress—and enough flexibility for real life.
Family in Focus is a transformative, personalized program for parents who are ready to raise emotionally healthy families without shame, diets, or burnout. It’s the antidote to diet culture, weight stigma, and parental overwhelm.
Key Features:
- Biweekly Group Calls: Community-based support, stress relief, accountability, and belonging. Just pop in!
- Signature Course Access: Tools and education to learn at your own pace and apply immediately at home.
- Real-life Application: Strategies tailored for Tuesday night dinner chaos, not Instagram-perfect moments.
- Results-Oriented: Parents report feeling more confident, less reactive, and deeply connected to their children and themselves.
You’ll break cycles of shame, stress, and body battles—and instead grow a family that feels deeply, connects fully, and practices lifelong healthy habits from the inside out.
What Makes It Different:
- Rooted in Emotional Health: You start with feelings, not food rules.
- Weight-Inclusive: No tracking, no shrinking, no control games—just freedom.
- Build a Foundation of Relationships for eating habits, body image, health & growth
- Parent-Led, Family-Shared: You lead the change by healing yourself and modeling connection, not control.
- Pediatrician-Designed, Improv-Inspired: It's science-backed with a twist of play, humor, and humanity.
- Addresses the Real Problem: Not your child’s body. Not your willpower. But the burnout, the shame, the disconnection. That’s where we begin.
You’re not broken. Your family isn’t broken. You’ve just been fed the wrong solution. This is the one that actually works—because it meets you where you are, honors your values, and helps you build health and connection on your terms.
It's time to get startedThe Keys to Growing a Healthy Family are in our Framework
Relieve the Stress, Melt the Shame
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Quick wins to reduce food fights, address parental burnout
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Trauma-informed community-building
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Connection mitigates trauma, stress, shame
Understand Behaviors & Habits
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See the good in existing habits
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Uncover the why behind behaviors
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Every habit has a job
Explore Relationship-Based Health
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Start with parent relationship with food, your body, self; Extend to child’s relationships
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What we understand, we can support and compassionately shift
Create Structure & Routine
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Build flexible routines that fit your family; meals, movement, sleep, downtime
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Structure makes space for freedom
Build Trust, Ease & Fun
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Model trust, bring humor and joy back to health habits, normalize mistakes
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Trust and joy make health stick. Model realness and growth, not perfection
Sustain & Grow Through Seasons
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Tools for lasting change; resilience through new challenges and seasons; self-coaching
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There’s no finish line, only growth
We don't do before & after photos here
((ew, toxic diet culture strikes again))
Feel the Transformation
Before:
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Food fights
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Meltdowns (yours and theirs)
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Googling "how to get my kid to stop stress eating" at 2am
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Fear that you're repeating your own childhood patterns
After:
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Confident parenting grounded in emotional clarity
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Meals that are about nourishment, not negotiation
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Emotions that don’t scare you—or your kids
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A new family rhythm that feels like yours
Get Started With:
Family in Focus®
Relieve Stress, Strengthen Family Relationships with Food, Body and Each Other
$4000
Includes
Family in Focus is totally for
✅ Parents ready to do their own work—to benefit themselves and their children
✅ Adults who want to heal from the food & body shame they were raised with
✅ Families navigating eating challenges, weight concerns, or communication breakdowns
✅ Adults who want to raise emotionally aware kids without passing on shame, diet culture, or perfectionism
✅ Anyone tired of the walls of resistance when trying to “fix” their family from the outside in
And it is not for:
❌ Parents saying "Will this work overnight?" Looking for quick behavior hacks
❌ Parents who are looking for the missing prescription
❌ Families committed to shame-based diet culture or punitive parenting
❌ Parents who aren’t open to supporting their own emotional regulation and habits (with humor and honesty)
❌ Parents who want to hire a "Bad Cop" to stage an intervention with their kid
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."
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