Primary Keynote ยท Adaptable across all audiences
1. Beyond Burnout: Healing modern day stress to change family’s eating habits without harm
Burnout, stress, and food coping aren’t a personal failing.
They’re a pattern. When adults don’t see the pattern in
ourselves, we hand it down. This keynote names the connection between
adult overwhelm and the eating habits we model, walks the audience
through Pause, Patterns, Pivot, and gives them a starting point that
doesn’t require burning their lives down to use.
- A clear framing for why willpower-based approaches keep failing
- The Pause, Patterns, Pivot framework, applied to one’s own coping first
- Three small experiments to try before the next meal
- Permission to stop performing health and start practicing it
- A different relationship with the word “prevention”
2. The Pattern Shift at Home: Eating disorder prevention without the battles
Parents and families
Most parents hear “prevention” and think it means watching
their child for warning signs. It doesn’t. It means watching
ourselves: the stress patterns, the food talk at the table, the body
comments we don’t mean to make. A practical playbook for changing
what’s happening at home without making mealtimes a battleground.
3. What Kids Inherit: Adults, food, and the stories we don’t mean to tell
Schools, educators, community organizations
Kids learn what eating means from the adults around them: in cafeterias,
in PE, from comments overheard in the staff room. This talk maps where
school cultures help, where they harm, and what an
eating-disorder-aware school community looks like in practice.
4. Curious by Design: Weight-inclusive pediatric and family care
Healthcare professionals ยท CME-eligible format available
For colleagues working inside the 15-minute visit. Where conventional
weight, nutrition, and lifestyle guidance falls short; what to ask
instead; and how to bring an eating-disorder-aware lens into a real
clinical day. Includes case discussion, language scripts, and referral
pathways.
5. Nourishing the Body & Soul: Food, mood, and what your team is actually coping with
Corporate wellness, leadership groups, team well-being programs
What we eat shapes how we feel, think, and cope, especially under
workplace pressure. This session walks teams through the gut-brain
connection, key nutrients for mood, and how chronic stress reshapes our
eating. The takeaway isn’t a meal plan. It’s a working
understanding of how to use food as one of several supports for mental
well-being.
