Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD: Recent Episodes
Wendy Schofer, MD
Welcome to the community where we parent without all the food and body drama.
Dr Schofer is the Weight Coach for Your Whole Family, specializing in helping parents who are worried about their kids' weight help the whole family build better relationships with food and body and each other. Creating lifelong habits for a healthy weight is now easy and fun for the whole family.
And, you grow closer to your whole family all along the way.
Yes, we talk weight and weight loss. And we emphasize learning to love and accept our bodies as they are before making any change. Because no one has to change their body or their weight to feel better. Let me show you how.
There is a better way to approach concerns about body image, weight, and obesity in our families: it's healing one relationship at a time.
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Are you craving authentic connections and meaningful conversations? Me too, which is why I turned to my favorite person (Person!) in the world, Jen Person, to have my first coffee conversation.
Jen is a badass executive, leadership and personal development coach, so well-versed in emotional intelligence and.... she is my sister.
We connected for a completely unscripted conversation and let it rip! Join us as we delve into the heart of emotions and sisterhood, in our latest podcast episode inspired by the teachings of Brene´ Brown.
You can find out more about Jen at https://www.boundlesshorizonllc.com/.
Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #114 here.
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Parenting is no joke! It's hard to juggle and figure out all the rules (which none of the kids want to follow).
But there are ways to make it easier. Today we're going to do a reflective exercise to understand how becoming aware of and defining your values creates a foundation for making parenting easier.
Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #113 here.
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Let's weave this together: celebrating certifications, expertise, and defining how you are an expert in your life, health and family. In today's show,
- Wendy celebrates achieving the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential through the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
- She discusses the significance of credentials in her coaching journey and emphasizes the importance of authenticity and human connection.
- Wendy highlights the value of being a genuine, imperfect human being and how it forms the core of her approach in Family in Focus programs.
- Wendy encourages listeners to embrace their authenticity to model that for others and invites them to join the last group program for the Spring season.
Note: Explicit for the use of the word "bitch" like on the towel in the cover art. That's it. Just alerting in case there are young ears in the background.
Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #112 here.
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
I've been destroying the chocolate lately. Specifically, peanut butter M&Ms. In today's episode, I'm going to walk you through the process that I'm using to get really clear on the problem and the steps I'm taking to make change.
You're welcome to take the simple steps with me to make any change you want to see in your life.
Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #111.
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Welcome to my very special listeners, teens! Today I want to share some videos I recently created to answer the question, "What does a supportive relationship look like between an adult and a teen?" Well there are two folks to consider in this question and I answered with what can be considered by teens trying to figure out WHY they would ever want to connect with adults, and how adults can be welcoming and supportive to teens. Please feel free to go to the blog or YouTube to see the video versions of both aspects and watch with your teens. There is such wealth in exploring perspectives on both sides of the relationship, which largely involves trust, safe spaces and vulnerability. I welcome your input, ah-ha's and questions. As always, you can drop me a line at wendy@wendyschofermd.com. Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #110 here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
You're zapped, trying to focus on getting that report done. Or from the kids running on your nerves all day long. And the kids are having a meltdown and just arguing with each other, raiding the cabinets and doing anything but homework.
What do you do?
In today's episode I explore the concept of the "Shake Off," and I swear I'm not singing Taylor Swift the whole time (I.do.not.sing!). What is shaking it off? What does it do? How does it change your physiology? Why does that matter?
Let's dive in!
Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #109 here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
As a parent, are you playing ping pong or chess with your kids? It's not all about the games, it's about the approach to being with them.
In this episode we talk about taking some lessons from Improv Comedy and apply them to working with our kids. No one approach is better than another, but is it possible that your go-to (like my strength of being a Maximizer) is keeping you from fully having the experience you want at home?
Let's talk about health, habits, strengths (and their downside), the responsiveness in ping pong, the future planning and being in the moment. Whether you call it meditation, mindfulness, awareness, presence or something else, let's explore together. As you will find from a story about a client's use of awareness, it completely changes our relationship with ourselves and our family.
Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #108 here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Are you ready to be a member of the secret parent society, "Snack Sneakers... S-nonymous?"
Parents are frustrated with snack sneaking and want to know how to fix it. Today we talk about 3 steps that you haven't heard before to get to the root of the question, "What do I do about snack sneaking?"
Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #107 here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
The Family in Focus signature program starts again in April. Join here now to start making the change you want to see in your home.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Ever notice how you tend to have a soundtrack playing for your life? The same emotions, same story, same day to day.... and don't get me started on the "I'm bored!" soundtrack.
Today we dive into an amazing tool - a game from the world of Improv Comedy - and apply it to our day to day lives.
You see, in improv comedy, we are constantly flexing, changing, trying on new possibilities, and we don't have to save that for the stage. I include examples of my own stuck-ness, and how I used this tool just this morning.
What is possible when you play?
Seriously, let me know what you find as you play New Choice! wendy@wendyschofermd.com
Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #106 here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
We have to admit it: we all (yes, I) have used shame tactics when it comes to health. It's a part of our culture and once we admit it, we can start being on the look for where we are using the tool of shame against us. Because shame doesn't make anyone healthier. Period. It backfires time and again.
In this episode, I discuss how shame is being used, often covertly, as well as other ways to address actions that can be changed.
As always, there are plenty of examples from real life.
Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #105 here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
What does ending the year mean to you? I used to say that it meant getting ready for new beginnings.... but that was the part of me that was constantly on the move. Now I'm settling. I'm practicing hygge - and talking about what that looks like now with a few months since my introduction. (see Episode #97, Unlocking Your Inner Rebel for the intro to hygge). Now the end of the year means a softening, a coziness, creating a warmth that is supportive of the way I want to feel. What about for you? How do you want to feel? How can you bring that to your life? I love asking these questions and following through on them. Join me for the upcoming Family in Focus signature group coaching program (starts 2nd week of January) - or even private work (CME can be used for those who have end-of-year funds (a gratifying way to earn credits while learning more about yourself!) Email me for the private health or professional coaching spots.
Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #104 here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
"Holidays = Stress" has become a part of our language. But why are you stressed around the holidays?
Today we unpack 6 very common stressors for parents during the holidays:
1) There's so much to do
2) It's so hard to stay healthy during the holidays
3) I have to "make it magical"
4) My .... is so hard to please. (aka meeting other people's expectations)
5) Sensory overload (aka holiday/pumpkin spice everything!)
6) MONEY
For each, we explore a question that just isn't asked enough of parents: What do you want?
Little shifts, practices and reframes can completely change the experience that we are having now (and we can use it at other times of the year!). It's truly a gift that only you can give yourself.
Check out the one that I discovered during recording and I'm taking it with me this week.
If you want to build on, I'm hosting a How to Survive the Holidays series in early December. We will have small group live coaching for you to connect, learn and apply the tools to your unique family and feel better right away.
Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #103 here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
We are all struggling with weight, each and every one of us.
The focus of our struggle may be our own weight, our loved ones, and professionally the struggle may be for our patients, students and colleagues.
Today's episode is an abbreviated version of a chat I did for the local Children's Hospital - yes, these conversations are happening in professional settings as well! The full version is coming shortly.
Find out about WHY we are struggling and the steps to take to start changing that today. It's not about diets - ok, the struggle is. But the next steps are NOT about finding yet another golden-ticket diet. "What got you here," (ahem, diets, black/white thinking about health, fearing food and bodies, shaming, numbing the discomforts of life), "will not get you there," (lifelong health from the inside out) -- my adaptation of Marshall Goldsmith's quote.
Take a listen and let me know how you see this playing out in your life.
As promised, Family in Focus is opening again shortly for group coaching. Learn more and join the waitlist now: available here.
Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #102 here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
In a world filled with conflicts and crises, how can we navigate the unique challenges of parenting children with big emotions?
Join us in this episode as we dive into the crucial topic of recognizing the importance of your child's feelings without comparing them to the chaos of the world.
Hear how I have done this very, very wrong (as always), discover practical strategies, expert insights, and heartfelt stories that will empower you to create a safe and nurturing environment for your child's emotional growth. Together, let's explore the path to empathetic parenting, where love and understanding prevail, even in a world in turmoil.
Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #101 here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Eeek! Today we are celebrating 100 episodes of the podcast and how we got here, amidst overwhelm, insanity and a crazy to-do list.
Let's talk about the best way to address overwhelm: little steps.
In this episode, I talk about how overwhelm develops, how it is so freaking natural and understandable in today's modern life AND the practice that I'm using every day and sharing with my patients, clients and family.
Little steps. That's how I got from episode 0 to 100... and how I'm going forward as well.
Parallels are discussed in in podcasting, clinical medicine (I see you, Urgent Care patient board and charting), family health, our upcoming move and all the to-do items.
Take a listen (and a giggle, especially as you check out the birthday crown in the full YouTube video/link below) and let me know how overwhelm is impacting you and your family. What little step, the teeniest, tiniest one, can you take today?
Let me know. Email wendy@wendyschofermd.com
Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #100 here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
I love experiments. Anyone who has worked with me in the office or the Family in Focus coaching community has heard me talk about little experiments. Well I want to share with you how I f'd it up.
I f'd it up - and now I have learned so much in the process, as did the family.
We are constantly learning and growing - as long as we are trying to put ourselves out there to try things and risk failure.
Take a listen to see what I learned in the failed experiment.
Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #99 here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Are you a parent feeling lost in the chaos of modern life, struggling to understand and manage overstimulation and overwhelm in your children? Are you feeling overwhelmed and overstimulated yourself?
Let's dive into the world of parenting in the modern age, understanding more about stimulation and overstimulation and the resultant overwhelm.
This episode offers insights, expert advice, and real-life stories to help you not only understand overstimulation but also empower you to guide your children through the turbulence. Tune in, because together, we'll find calm amidst the chaos and raise resilient, balanced kids.
Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #xx here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Hon, can we talk? I know... the word rebel doesn't feel like it fits.
Yet, what is possible if it is the way to lead the life you actually want?
Today we're gonna catch up, because I look a 2 month break from y'all, and I have gained so much more along the way.
Because I gave myself permission. Permission to STOP. To CHANGE. To CHOOSE.
Join me as we explore permission and how we think it is for and from others.
And let's start looking at the permission that we want to give ourselves. Perhaps not to do something, but to NOT do something.
Ahhhh... I'm exhaling again!
And, for those who want to look it up, I talk about the Danish concept of "hygge", pronounced "hoo-gah". You're more than welcome to join me in practicing it every.damn.day now!
Full show notes available here.
YouTube version of Episode #97 here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
What's the link?
Yes, I do believe there is one, one that is particularly seen through the eyes of a pediatrician who has struggled with stress, burnout and personal and professional struggles to create whole family health.
What could it be?
Seriously, it's time to take a listen.
Learn about the missing link and how to use it for health, decreasing stress and addressing burnout.
Full show notes available here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
This is the real-deal of parenting. Our kids have big feelings. And we haven't learned how to deal with our own, let alone help them.
Until today. Let's do this, together.
Ten minutes to review the prior episodes on emotions (check out Episodes #93 & 94), AND go through the foundations of how to help your child feel their feelings, today.
If this is completely new to you, take a few minutes to practice for yourself first.
It's well worth the time.
And, here's the link to connect with me for an introductory session to talk about how we can work together.
Full show notes available here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Emotions are the fuel for our lives: they drive everything that we do (and what we don't do). Let's explore more, along with a particular example with a feeling I know very well: frustration.
As mentioned in the episode, here is the feelings wheel.
Full show notes available here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
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Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Let's talk emotions: Why are they important, where do they come from, how are they made?
It's the first in our series on emotions.
Getting vulnerable here with the real deal about my struggles with sadness and depression in medical school, as well as the way to NOT deal with it.
Full show notes available here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
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Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Sleep.Comes.First.
Let's talk about all the ways that getting better ZZZZ's can help you and your kids with better health
AND
What's getting in the way of the sleep you need.
Learn about how much sleep our kids need
The impact of sleep-deprivation upon many aspects of health
AND
Why we can address sleep before we see external signs of sleep-deprivation.
Complete with the stories of how this is something my family is still working on - we all are, as we are a work in progress!
Reference the CDC recommended hours of sleep per day for babies to adults.
Full show notes available here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Hold on, we were just talking about relationships with food, and now we're talking about efficiency?
Yup. This is real-deal life as a parent.
It's all the things. The mental burden. The many-tabs open at once.
In today's episode, we're going to talk about where that mental burden comes from, how our socialization contributes to it, and how it is intertwined with struggles around efficiency.
You'll learn the questions to ask to start untangling the grip that these expectations have upon our lives.
And of course, a real story that may involve a real husband and his beautiful approach to efficiency, and why I'm calling BS. A lot.
Episode rated explicit for... actually saying what BS is. ;-)
And enjoy the artwork.... with my many tabs open right now. The struggle is real, my friends. AND we can make it what works for us.
Full show notes available here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
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Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
"I just want my kid to have a healthy relationship with food."
What does that even mean? It's a new approach, better than the whole let's-just-focus-on-changing-body-size, and yet I sure didn't learn about cultivating healthy relationships with food growing up. In fact, I share stories about how I messed it up with my own kids and what we can do right now as parents to start helping our kids.
- Understand our own relationship with food
- Why it's not about the way they eat
- How to find out more about your child's relationship with food
Full show notes available here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Brains, Pandemics, Weight, and Trauma...
Ooph - yeah, it sounds like a hard topic, but we're going to explore today a few concepts that have been spinning through my head and readings, of course with laughter, stories, analogies and (once again) Allen Iverson references.
Let's talk about the very important function of 2 different parts of our brain: amygdala and prefrontal cortex (aka downstairs and upstairs brains)
with a nod to Daniel Siegel, MD and Tina Bryson, PhD wh wrote "The Whole-Brain Child".
We explore the increasing rates of overweight and obesity from 2020 onward, with a different perspective about the why.
And most importantly, what we can do to address the chronic activation we have of our threat detection centers, and why "feeling better" with food and electronics isn't actually helping to heal the underlying wounds.
Full show notes available here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Seriously, y'all, if you're gonna have your first-ever podcast guest, who are you gonna have?
P!nk? Yup, thought about it.
My sister? She's coming...
And Corinne Freaking Crabtree!
The Queen Bee of the No BS Weight-loss Program, host of Losing 100 lbs with Corinne, she is a force to be reckoned with, and one down-to-Earth woman.
And that's what I love about her: talking real-talk about raising healthy families, building the whole family up instead of all that crappy judgy bologna, and how we're only doing things that can be done by the whole family, at every age.
Sound familiar? I know. She's my peeps. Take a listen. And you can find Corinne just about everywhere:
Losing 100 Podcast/No BS Weightloss Program Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/losing100podcast/ Instagram - @Corinne_Crabtree No BS Business Women Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NoBSBusinessWomen Instagram - @NoBSBusinessWomen
Listen and Subscribe to the Losing 100 Pounds Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/losing-100-pounds-with-corinne/ id1233384453
Link to Corinne’s Free Weightloss Course & Website www.nobsfreecourse.com
Full show notes available here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
“This is just the way I am.”
That is THE biggest obstacle to change: thinking that you are your habits, your actions, your thoughts and feelings. Thinking that they are set in stone.
Nope, they are just practiced a lot. And when we practice things they become relatively automatic, Default Mode is activated in our brains.
What to do?
Take a listen about how to detect default mode and the three steps I'm using right now (complete with a fun adult soccer story) to create change.
Full show notes available here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
"I'm only as happy as my unhappiest child."
What on Earth?! With all the kid-angst and unhappiness that kids experience, it sounds crazy to think that we would tie our emotions to theirs. But do you see that happening? Do you try to make your kids feel better so you can feel better?
Let's talk about recognizing that there is an ongoing drive to have happy, healthy kids. And yet, it's not really helping them or us.
Full show notes available here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/yrHnup
Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
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Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Today, we celebrate. I'm celebrating the birth, evolution and growth of Family in Focus. I've been asked time and again, "What is the evidence that Family in Focus is effective?" I'm creating the evidence. It's been a labor of love, seeing the problems with the traditional approach to weight in the medical office, the community and my own home. And now, I'm proud to announce that I have a collaboration that is specifically collecting the evidence of the effectiveness of Family in Focus to improve health at home, one parent, one family at a time. Take a listen to hear about how we're collecting the evidence, growing and celebrating along the way. Full show notes available here.
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I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
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Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Have you heard the questions about identifying your kids’ needs? It's really the heart to understanding their behavior, but let's not jump too far ahead:
When's the last time you asked what YOU need?
This is critical for health as an individual and a family: identifying and meeting needs. And in order to be the parent that our kids need, we have the opportunity to understand and address OUR needs.
That's not selfish, it's a freaking need.
Join me to understand what needs really are, how to uncover and address them, and why it's important for our health and our family's health.
Full show notes available here.
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Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
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Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
"You're the worst parent in the world."
"You've f'd me up."
Ah, kids. Gotta love them. They sure know how to make us feel amazing.
That's what we're talking about today: the explicit is for feeling "shitty" a few times, and "f'd up" wihtout the rest of the word (you're welcome... and there are very quick "ear-muffs" warnings.)
This is real-deal parenting: kids do not agree with the job that we are doing. Let's talk about boundaries and pushing back as kids, how it's normal, and.. how to not make it mean that we are the shittiest parents in the world, no matter what they say.
BTW, I did check: the shittiest parents are not listening to FIF with WS, MD. So, there's that.
Full show notes available here.
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Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
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Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
We've been working through a series on stress eating, and we need to understand the stress first. We've started with ourselves: understanding our stress, what we do with stress.
Now we can start talking about helping our children. (After all, we can't just swoop in and address their stress and stress eating if we don't have a solid understanding for ourselves first.)
Today, learn about our natural desire to fix the stress, try to not feel it, and what can happen if we keep it bottled up inside. And learn how we can truly help our children grow through the stress.
Full show notes available here.
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I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
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Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Continuing on from Episode #80, "How to deal with stress eating," we dive into 8 ways... yes 8, to address the stress.
Please notice if there's stress about 8... you can try any one and see how it works for you.
That's the ticket: awareness, experimentation, curiosity and noticing how we stress about stress (dude, me too).
As parents, we get to understand our stressors and how to deal with it, so we can then help our kids (oh you betcha that's what's coming in Part 3, next week!).
Full show notes available here.
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Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
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Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Do you find yourself stressed out, collapsing on the couch with a bag of tortilla chips in exhaustion, and scrolling on social media?
You are not alone: stress eating is so common for us and our kids.
In order to address it we need to understand it. Just addressing the eating part is a plan for disaster as it changes eating habits without addressing the stress in the first place.
Today we talk about what we experience with stress (aka the stress cycle), and how to understand it to get clear on the stress at home.
Next week, we are going to continue with the steps to start dealing with the stress.
As always, first: observe to understand, later: take action.
Feel free to drop me an email, referencing Episode #80/stress cycle and what is coming up for you as you are journaling.
Full show notes available here, including the fun graphics on the stress cycle.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/MpPEie
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Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
What happens when we focus on the scale?
Finding it hard to NOT do it? In this episode, I share the story of how I smacked face-first into the reality that it is really hard to not focus on what the scale says. But also, what happens when we practice not letting it have control over our lives.
Full show notes available here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/lRZJmZ
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
We think we need to focus on weight: after all, isn't that how we identify a problem and fix it?
In today's episode, I start the conversation about how there's more to it. Our focus on weight has NOT been helping our families. In fact, it's causing more problems.
Let's dive in and see what we can do. Where should we be placing our focus for health?
This is from my recent guest article on the KevinMD.com blog.
Full show notes available here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/PFosAU
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
"And the reality of my weight is..."
Let's talk about the facts of weight. How is the number on the scale impacting your reality?
How do you determine what is possible for you and your family, given the reality?
Much to discuss. Take a listen. And drop me a line: wendy@wendyschofermd.com. Let me know how your reality has impacted your possibility - and now what?
Full show notes available here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/si7g5X
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Challenges! We've sure got them.
What are the challenges you're facing right now? Work, stress, relationships, health, weight...
What makes them challenging?
Challenges are situations we don't know the outcome. It's stressful. And yet... we can grow.
Let's talk about the challenges that arise, as well as challenges that you WANT to sign up for.
And I invite you to join my free 5-day LIVE challenge, Family Weight Help 101. You'll be challenged as you are introduced to the 4 Pillars of Healthy Lifelong Habits - and learn tools to use in your home right away. Come back the next day and receive the support you need to celebrate what's working and address new challenges that have popped up.
Sign up now, challenge starts 1/30/2023: https://www.wendyschofermd.com/FWH101
Full show notes available here.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/bgP2Cr
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Do you have a plan for your family's health? How's it working?
Want to throw it out? Or is it something that you hate the rules and structure of a plan?
In today's episode we talk about how to create a plan for your own family: why it's important, and what to account for. We also talk about why all those other plans haven't worked (and why there's nothing wrong with you or your family that a certain plan hasn't panned out the way you wanted).
Full show notes available here.
The upcoming LIVE Series, Family Weight Help 101 starts Monday, January 30, 2023 at 12pm ET. Sign up now to learn about the 4 pillars of establishing lifelong healthy weight habits for you and your family.
Calling all Healthcare Professionals: I'm so glad you're here, to benefit yourself, your family, and your patients. The CE experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/v0IkDH
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Previously we discussed doing a little sleuthing - observing behaviors. What is it that your kids are doing? What are you finding out about the patterns of their behavior?
This week we are exploring what comes before the behaviors.
Why do we do the things that we do?
It's not as mysterious as what it's made out to be. In fact, we pretty much do everything for one reason:
emotions.
We have a feeling that leads us to act, or to not act. Or perhaps we are totally uncomfortable with a feeling, so we do something else to avoid feeling it.
Take a listen to Episode #74 and learn about the emotions that drive behaviors, and how to apply this in your home.
Full show notes available here.
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
How often are you just too pooped to do anything?
And yet, work, kids, email, dinner, life just keep making demands of you.
It is further exhausting!
Today we talk about my concept and PRACTICE of The Bare Minimum.
We define it, use examples of practice, and most importantly, why this practice is important for parents.
When you're ready to dive in and work together to practice The Bare Minimum (and so many other valuable concepts that just help parents feel more calm, confident and have a PLAN for raising a healthy family), join me in Family in Focus. Right now is a great time to join private coaching with bonus sessions when you sign up before the new year.
Full show notes available here.
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
It's Part 1 of our mini-series! Why don't weight goals work for kids?
Learn 3 reasons, and the first 2 things to do to help in a meaningful, lifelong way.
Full show notes available here.
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
No hypotheticals or fear of the future: let's talk about what happens if your child is actually overweight, has a diagnosis of obesity or diabetes. Then what happens?
Today we dive into what we can do as parents to support, nurture and help with raising our kids.
It's not what others have told you. Check this episode out as it is the HEART of helping our kids navigate all this BS about their own weight.
And - we discuss that the Family in Focus group coaching program is now accepting applications.
Full show notes available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
SUGAR! It's everywhere. How do you deal with the sugar in the food, and the fascination with sugar? Is it helpful to declare war on sugar?
Let's talk about different approaches to take to help get past the black and white thinking of sugar being all good or all bad.
What's in between? Real choices and real life. Take a listen!
And check out my accounts for the follow-on posts this week about how to deal with sugar at home with your kids:
www.instagram.com/wendyschofermd
www.facebook.com/wendyschofermd
Full show notes available here.
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
You've got questions, experts have answers.
Bring your questions to Episode 69 of FIFWS and find out how to answer them:
What do I feed my kids: how much, how do I help them find a healthy weight, how much to move...
And so many more.
Learn how to tap into your expertise in creating the healthy results you want for you and your family.
Full show notes available here.
Join Family in Focus coaching now. Current offerings available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
How do you build trust in your body? In your child and their decisions?
How does your child build trust?
Is it earned?
Take a listen to learn the questions to ask now to build trust going forward.
Full show notes available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
It’s a spooky time of year, when we finalize costumes and freak out about what to do with all the Halloween candy.
Sames, my friend.
Let's talk about preparing now & learn three things to help make Halloween what you want it to be for you & the kids.
Full show notes available here. (Including fabulous PDF mentioned in the podcast with resources on healthy Halloween activities from KEYS 4HealthyKids)
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Let's do an exercise today. Bring a pen and paper, and be ready to write.
We are going to explore what it needs to look like to have a healthy weight for you, for your family.
It's an introduction to something that I call the manual. And you will get to hear how I tossed my manual for the podcast (and much more: enjoy!).
Full show notes available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Struggling with your weight? Struggling with your child's weight?
Let's talk about how to struggle less. Learn why we struggle, as well as the three ways to decrease struggle.
With lots of examples of how I still struggle and use these tools in regards to working out, my kids' struggles, and... (no big surprise) weight/body image.
Full show notes available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Got a weight loss goal?
Helping your child eat better to maintain their weight?
And you're not seeing progress?
Listen to Episode #64 where we talk about what to do.
Learn about:
- defining progress,
- what metrics are you using, and
- which should you not use
Full show notes available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
I hear you, "Sure, healthy relationships with food are good, but... can you just help my kid lose weight?"
Let's talk about it!
Why should or shouldn't weight loss be the goal for your child?
Full show notes available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
OMG, I keep asking myself this very question, and I'm catching myself.
Why is it so hard... with weight, with raising healthy kids, in business, in relationships?!?
💩 Shitty question alert 💩
Let's talk about WHY it's hard, and what to do about it.
The art of:
asking better questions, answering them, and focusing your brain on what is going to get you where you actually want to go!
Family in Focus Group Coaching is OPEN NOW til 9/18 at 11:59pm ET: SIGN UP HERE.
Full show notes available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Yup, we're all worrying about weight. The wedding that's coming up, the pants we want to fit back into, and now our kids -- what about the kids?
Even worse, we're told to worry about weight from media and doctors offices and your dear in-laws.
Let's talk about worry - why we worry, why it doesn't help our weight concerns, and four things that you can do instead.
Join the webinar series, starting this week (Weds, Sept 7 at 8pm EDT). Registration here and group coaching to start this month!
Full show notes available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Yup, we're all worrying about weight. The wedding that's coming up, the pants we want to fit back into, and now our kids -- what about the kids?
Even worse, we're told to worry about weight from media and doctors offices and your dear in-laws.
Let's talk about worry - why we worry, why it doesn't help our weight concerns, and four things that you can do instead.
Join the webinar series, starting this week (Weds, Sept 7 at 8pm EDT). Registration here and group coaching to start this month!
Full show notes available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
What is "weight management" anyway?
Learn how it is code for diets, 4 reasons why diets are bad for kids, and what we can do as parents instead.
Full show notes available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
Group coaching starts soon! Join the waitlist here to be the first invited! ---------------------
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
What is "weight management" anyway?
Learn how it is code for diets, 4 reasons why diets are bad for kids, and what we can do as parents instead.
Full show notes available here.
Weight Loss 101 for Your Whole Family: get started helping your whole family with the self-paced mini-course HERE.
Group coaching starts soon! Join the waitlist here to be the first invited! ---------------------
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
We talk about wellness, but what does it really mean, and what can our kids do to work on their wellness?
Listen in for a new way to look at wellness that includes everyone in the family, from infants through adults.
And learn the one most important thing for wellness. Hint: kids are awesome at this!
Full show notes available here.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Roadtrip season is winding down and man, have I seen a lot of ROCKS! Devil's Tower, the Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, Badlands, Mount Rushmore...
It reminds me of how my most important role as a parent is to be... you've got it, a rock. 🪨
Listen in to learn the three ways that being a rock helps your family. And how to do it, today.
Full show notes available here.
Heads-up... the waitlist is now open for the next Family in Focus group coaching program. Coming soon! Get on the list here to make sure you're in the room when it happens.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
How often do you feel like you have to be on your A-game all the time? (Oh, not just me?!) Having to work, adult, keep things rolling... gets freaking exhausting.
I took the executive decision to take July off with my family: I was the designated co-pilot on a 3050 mile roadtrip with my sister and the Littles.
I learned so much about what worked during the trip, and how I'm applying that to what I want to continue to do now that I'm back home.
What are you learning about what works for you and your family?
Take a listen - and then drop me a line with what you're finding out for yourself. wendy@wendyschofermd.com
Full show notes available here.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
How often do you feel like you have to be on your A-game all the time? (Oh, not just me?!) Having to work, adult, keep things rolling... gets freaking exhausting.
I took the executive decision to take July off with my family: I was the designated co-pilot on a 3050 mile roadtrip with my sister and the Littles.
I learned so much about what worked during the trip, and how I'm applying that to what I want to continue to do now that I'm back home.
What are you learning about what works for you and your family?
Take a listen - and then drop me a line with what you're finding out for yourself. wendy@wendyschofermd.com
Full show notes available here.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
The summer offers a magical time to kick back, change the routine, and unfortunately it also means that the easing of structure and routine can cause challenges.
How are you saving your summer for the whole family, recreating the structure that helps you find fun, connection and health?
Listen in for how we're addressing it in our family.
Full show notes available here.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
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Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Doesn't it seem like we speak a different language than our kids, especially when it comes to getting them to do something like move, try something new, or change their eating habits?
How do we motivate our kids? How do we connect with them to help them change?
It starts with learning your child’s language... let's dive in.
Full show notes available here.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
I’ve been reading the GAP and the GAIN by Dan Sullivan and Dr Benjamin Hardy recently.
Briefly, the book discusses our natural tendency to focus on the gap between where we are and where we want to be (comparing to others), our expectations (comparing to our anticipated future selves), and external pressures.
And there is a greater value by focusing on the gains that we have made over time - looking at how we got here from where we started, essentially only comparing ourselves to where we started.
We can also be in the gap when we approach our family members: comparing where they are now to the ideal we have for them in our minds.
Listen to apply in your home - creating a ripple effect for everyone's health.
And... a special guest, my Gigi busts in on the podcast at the end. Enjoy.
Full show notes available here.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
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Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
It's time to celebrate! One year of the Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD podcast.
And, time to celebrate you and your family. The progress that you are all making. Celebrate exactly where you are right now.
Not sure how?
Listen to the podcast.
Full show notes available here.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Do you feel like others are made to be athletes, but not you?
Have your athlete days passed you by?
Are you looking for ways to encourage your kids to move?
Today's episode dives into what makes someone an athlete - and how you can become an athlete (and your kids).
Full show notes available here.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Truth: I was going to talk about this subject in regards to weight, body image, bullying, heck even having sex talks… and here, this week, we experienced another mass shooting. How do we as parents answer our kids' questions?
Here are 4 tips you can use today to have those difficult conversations with the kids, no matter the subject.
It takes a village to help raise kids today - you are not alone.
Much love - Wendy
Full show notes available here.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Yes, I'm an Improv... Comedian? I own the improvisational part, just not sure about the comedian. The parallels between the rules of improv and coaching tools have made me a better parent. Listen in to hear about "Yes, and..." and other practices I use every day to support my family.
Full show notes (including silly pictures of the Improv show!) available here.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Today, we're talking body image. What is it? What makes it? And how can we as parents understand and help our kids with their body image?
You're gonna learn 4 things to help at home, so take a listen!
Full show notes available here.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
When we hear a new diagnosis, whether it is weight-related, mental health, behavioral, or physical, a lot of questions come up for us as parents.
How do you learn to ask questions that actually help you and your child, now?
Full show notes available here.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Is it emotional eating? Is that bad? What do I do?
So many questions about emotional eating. Let's dig into it today.
Full show notes available here.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Parents with children who are overweight and diagnosed with obesity are not the only ones worried about weight. In fact, more often than not, I hear from parents whose children aren't overweight... and yet, the parents are worried about weight. Why are we worried about weight?
We say it's not about the weight, but what is it really about?
Dive in, understand why the worry, and what to do now instead.
Full show notes available here.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Whew! I'm exhausted: the kind of tired that happens after you've had an ah-mazing time. I went to the Life Coach School's Mastermind this past week: and yes, it was like Disney World for me. Excitement, giddiness, so much to experience.
And I learned so much I want to share with you.
Dive in.
Full show notes available here.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
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Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
The news headlines tell us there is a pandemic of obesity. We hear how our health is at risk, our children’s lives are at risk. It's all wrong. It's the wrong approach. Listen now to hear about the right approach to weight for our families.
Full show notes available here.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
We're diving into common questions about weight, body, feeding our kids and ourselves, and health at home.
Today, "How many calories should my child be eating?"
Spoiler: it's not what you think!
Listen more to understand the answer and to hear which questions we should be asking to create healthy habits for the whole family.
Full show notes available here.
I ask a favor of you: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
So many similar questions: Why are our waistlines increasing?
Why am I overweight?
Why are my kids overweight?
The questions ask for a reason, something to address and fix.
Listen now to hear why we have overweight - and what to do about it.
Show notes available here.
Please do me a favor: if you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast service, and share with your friends so they know that there is a different way to stop struggling with worries about weight. It's easy and fun!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about how the Family in Focus program can help you and your family create lifelong healthy relationships with food and body, now and at every weight.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
TL;DR:
Exercise is not always helpful, in fact, it can be harmful to your health, and not in some crazy I-can't-believe-I-ran-that-far or lifted-that-car-over-my-head kind of way.
Exercising because you have to, to avoid shame, or to punish yourself (and your kids) is no-bueno, my friends.
Listen to find out more about the right way to approach movement.
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about my coaching programs, as well as the blog at www.wendyschofermd.com/blog.
Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD. I’m the pediatrician-coach who specializes in helping you parent without all the food and body drama so raising a healthy family is actually easy & fun.
Did you know that it’s possible for exercise to NOT be healthy for you.
This does not mean I’m never going to move again. Let’s check it out:
What makes something healthy for you?
My answer: When they are supporting you. When doing them becomes an investment in you. It’s building you up, and helping you. We can apply this to education, new experiences, food, and yes, movement.
First, I like to call it movement, not exercise. Exercise has a connotation that there is an end-goal – sweat, health outcomes, or winning.
Movement is using our bodies - and ultimately our bodies don’t care if we are in competition (with ourselves or others). Our bodies need movement - to use it or lose it (think about flexibility, conditioning, aerobic capacity – if you’ve ever been out of commission for a week with the flu, pneumonia, or an injury, you know the difference when you get moving again - your body needs time to recondition to where it was before).
So how is exercise NOT healthy or helpful for you?
#1: When you’re using it to punish yourself
"I have to work out because I ate…cookies/pasta/the whole thing." Meh. No you don't. Punishment does not work.
#2: When it’s mandatory
“My mom said I have to exercise for an hour each day.”
“I have to ride my bike for an hour each day.”
Seriously? Who said?
Do you enjoy things when they are mandatory?
Having come from a career in the Navy, I will let you in on a little secret: the twice-annual feats of strength (aka, the physical readiness test) is miserable. It’s an exercise in proving yourself to someone else. And it’s mandatory. Ick. It’s the reason why I no longer like running - because I had to run for my PRT and it was the only reason I was doing it. I didn't like it. When I was able to move for me… for enjoyment, for strength, for my mental health, that’s when movement became healthy & helpful for me.
#3: When there’s shame or guilt.
“I HAVE to exercise because otherwise I’m gonna take heat from my mom, my dad, my coach.”
“I HAVE to or else I’m going to gain weight.”
It sounds like the truth, but in fact, it’s a story you’re telling yourself that is NOT helpful for you to enjoy movement. These are all things we tell ourselves to push ourselves into exercise, and ultimately we do not stick with things that we have to push ourselves into. The willpower runs out, and we wind up HATING the activity.
So stop.
Stop exercising for beating yourself up, for shame, or because you have to.
Movement is helpful for your body - but not because I tell you so.
How do you feel when you move your body?
How can you move your body and enjoy it?
How do you want your body to feel? Strong? Free? Lighter? Movement can actually help with all of those, not because you’re changing weight, but because you’re connecting with your body and ENJOYING it.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Since we've already settled that there are really very few bad foods on Podcast Episode #37 and the blog, what's next?
Everything else is either a YES-please!!!, a No-thank-you or a not-yet food.
Take a listen to understand how to approach foods with your family (and yourself) - and start exploring how not-yet foods can become your new favorite YES food.
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about my coaching programs, as well as the blog at www.wendyschofermd.com/blog.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Drum roll please... we've all been waiting and looking for the one right way to feed your family. We've got it here, today. Take a listen and then let me know how what you're eating today is right for your family.
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about my coaching programs, as well as the blog at www.wendyschofermd.com/blog.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Whether we like it or not, diet culture is all around us, and that means it has snuck into our homes. It is in the background while we are at dinner and while we are getting dressed. Today's episode examines 5 ways that diet culture is present in our relationships with our kids, and what you can do NOW to become the change we wish to see: creating healthier relationships with our own bodies, our food, and most importantly with our family.
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about my coaching programs (waitlist is open now), as well as the blog at www.wendyschofermd.com/blog.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
How do you know if foods are good or bad? Does it have something to do with their nutritional content? Their impact on your blood sugar? If you like them or not?
This week's episode dives into the (ONLY!) three bad foods you will encounter. And then what to do with the rest of the food.
Don't miss this one! I'll even tell you about my exception (the 4th bad food). Check out the artwork for a spoiler of that 4th food being eaten.
Here's a bonus sheet for you to figure out if you are dealing with a bad food.
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about my coaching programs, as well as the blog at www.wendyschofermd.com/blog.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
In the spirit of Valentine's Day, we're chatting about love. But not that commercial buy-this, prove-that-you-love-them approach.
Instead: how can you use love at home to help you and your family?
Every. Darn. Day.
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about my coaching programs, as well as the blog at www.wendyschofermd.com/blog.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
We talk about parenting without the drama.... what does that really mean? What is the drama? Check out today's episode to find out about the drama that you want, and the drama you can choose to drop like a big old heavy suitcase. No need to carry that burden anymore!
When we learn how to parent without this heavy burden, our arms are open for helping our kids... who have their own drama (because it's normal!).
So glad you're here!
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about my coaching programs, as well as the blog at www.wendyschofermd.com/blog.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD
We're time-traveling today: going back to my teen years to see how my dangerous, taboo ex-boyfriend is similar to... ice cream. And it has nothing to do with temperature.
Take a listen and let me know what you think. wendy@wendyschofermd.com
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about my coaching programs, as well as the blog at www.wendyschofermd.com/blog.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD, Episode #33.
I help you parent without all the food and body drama.
So let's get drama-busting.
One of the biggest dramas that I had was "knowing" what was healthy and then seeing my family make other choices. And then fearing the health outcomes of their "unhealthy" choices.
No wonder I felt miserable.
In today's episode, I unpack what we know about health and bodies, and challenge you to start considering what we don't really know.
I dive into my definition of health - and how it's powering me and my family every single day (hint: check out the video game health bar - see, my kid did teach me something from video games!).
And when you're ready to start applying this in your own home, check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about my coaching programs, as well as the blog at www.wendyschofermd.com/blog.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD, Episode #32.
The need to get things right was trained into me. I was rewarded for high scores in school. In medical school, I learned the "right way" to be healthy.
Ha.
All of it.
In today's episode, I discuss how that spilled over to raising my kids, and I share an easy way to practice making it right.
I've opened my doors for 1:1 coaching to help you parent without the food and body drama. Don't miss this opportunity to help yourself and your whole family. It's at www.wendyschofermd.com.
Making a decision doesn't mean that you have to stick with it forever. Or that you're hypocritical to change your mind.
In Episode #31 of Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD we talk about how I changed my mind, how it is glorious, and why you have permission to make glorious changes too!
Check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about upcoming coaching programs, as well as the blog at www.wendyschofermd.com/blog.
Disclaimer: While Wendy Schofer, MD discusses health and wellness, this is not medical advice and she is not your doctor. Optimal health is achieved in combination with your physician, who collaborates with you for your individual health. Talk to your doctor. And tell them about Family in Focus. Mwah!
Trust is built by having a firm belief in someone or something. In episode 30 (!) of Family in Focus: find out how to build that belief in your body, its messages (like hunger), and then model that self-trust with your children.
Check out www.wendyschofermd.com for more information about upcoming coaching programs, as well as the blog at www.wendyschofermd.com/blog.
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We continue on our series on Hunger, Eating & Family -- with recognition of emotional eating.
Is it a problem?
Is it THE problem?
Only if we let it be.
Let's chat about why emotional eating is not a problem.
Come over to my blog to read more:
https://www.wendyschofermd.com/blog/eating-while-feeling-not-a-crime
And as always, you can visit my website for to sign up for weekly tips, tricks and love for your whole family.
Episode 28!
Last time we talked about Hunger & Kids... but you may have noticed, there's a lot of food-searching going on. Is it possible the kids aren't actually hungry all the time? Why else could they be asking for food, again?!
Today we dive into 4 additional reasons that we all search for food. How are we looking to food to solve problems other than hunger?
I stressed it in the recording and I'll stress it again here: this is not a time to argue someone else's hunger. It's a time to observe the patterns of eating for yourself, and then observe in the family.
In fact, it's never our role to tell someone else, "You're not hungry." More on that next time!
Check out my resources at www.wendyschofermd.com, free handouts and information on my coaching programs for parents who are looking to create healthy habits that the whole family can share.
If you haven't joined, I also host a free Facebook group for parents at www.facebook.com/groups/familyinfocus
"My kids are always hungry!"
Sound familiar to you? So many parents note it with concern, and question, "What does this mean?"
This is the first episode in a series on hunger. We are starting with the why, the biology, and the NORMAL of hunger.
Join me next week for the next steps... how to deal with hunger and the emotions of eating.
Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD.
As a physician and parent, I've learned a lot about kids, nutrition, and growth. But these are three things that I wasn't taught in school about weight - and are now oh so important to help now amidst concerns about weight and how to help our kids.
1) Our children’s weight is not a fault/blame game,
2) Weight is NOT the problem, and
3) It’s possible to be healthy at a wide range of weights.
C'mon over to www.wendyschofermd.com to check out the upcoming group programs, or drop me a line at wendy@wendyschofermd.com to let me know what you are learning about how to support your family - AND how to start with 1:1 coaching support now.
Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD, Episode #25!
It's Thanksgiving week! It's that time of year where we renew our gratitude practices - and yet, how do we reconcile having gratitude amidst so much pain?
Today's episode dives deeper into how do we embrace the pain, fear, uncertainty, grief - and open up the possibility for experiencing gratitude FOR the pain?
So timely in 2020, 2021... and a good time to start modeling for our kids for 2022!
This is getting personal - my examples come from my own mourning of a beloved family member, the pain that our family experienced with the pandemic, and this is an ongoing practice for me. Join me and drop me a line - let me know what you think about practicing gratitude for the pain. wendy@wendyschofermd.com
I'm grateful for you, my friends. Happy Thanksgiving.
Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD -- Thanksgiving special post.
You know who wasn't invited to Thanksgiving - anywhere?
The Food Police!
In this super-quickie episode, I go over four things to consider before your Thanksgiving meal. They're so important that we can call them rules for the day. Actually for every day.
Enjoy!
Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD - Episode #24!
You know what's different in helping parents who are worried about their kids' weight? Having conversations like these: not about cutting calories and increasing movement, but using the tools of connection, openness and learning. Join me - and let me know how you apply for yourself and your family and community: wendy@wendyschofermd.com.
Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD.
Today we dive into Responsibility when it comes to helping kids navigate weight concerns.
What are we controlling?
Where is the finger-pointing?
Where are the opportunities to take ownership?
Dive in and let me know what you see as your responsibility in your home. And the downloadable Division of Responsibility sheet (all thanks to Ellyn Satter's work) is available here.
Drop me a line wendy@wendyschofermd.com and let me know how you're applying this in your home.
Welcome to Episode #22!
My son's at it again: giving me material for the podcast! And that's not a bad thing. I appreciate the opportunity to choose to focus on our conversations. You see, the brain is hard-wired to find problems and to focus on them until fixed. So we are ALWAYS looking for danger, problems, and pain. It's about ensuring our survival.
But we have the option - the choice - to focus upon what is going well. And yes, our relationship is going well.
Take a listen, and the challenge at the end. Drop me a line at wendy@wendyschofermd.com and let me know what you noticed about 3 Things That Went Well.
Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD Episode #21!
My love-hate relationship with Halloween has a lot to do with my experience as a pediatrician and the "sugar-gorge-fest," as I saw it. In this episode, I talk about how MISERABLE that made me feel, every year, and what I did to make peace with Halloween. While you may not take the same approach I did, what is possible for you to make peace with Halloween too?
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Episode #20 (woo-hoo!)
A mom used her example of making mac and cheese dinner as evidence that she isn't the one to lead her family to healthy habits.
Hold.the.phone.
Today we dive into why we serve the foods we do. And dare I say, the energy behind that - when you're having mac & cheese - what energy do you want to serve with it? It's your choice - and makes a tremendous difference!
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Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD, Episode #19.
Did you realize you have a say in the questions that you ask yourself?
We have trained our brains to keep looking for something else, the next notification, all the things that need to be on the to-do list, all the things that require our time and attention and energy.
It's hard to see the forest through the trees. Especially when it's your family -- seeing them through all the things to do, all the things vying for your attention.
Today I touch on starting to ask your brain - not what else needs to be done (and always adding to the list), but choosing - deciding - where you want to focus.
I'd love to hear from you. wendy@wendyschofermd.com
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Episode #18
A gymnastics-tricks session with my niece this weekend left her amazed: her mom and I jumped right in.
She hadn't seen adults jump in to play like that at the gym and it begged the question: why?
Why aren't parents playing?
In today's episode, we dive into this further - and I ask of you: how can you let go and allow your brain and body to play?
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Episode #17:
The final step in my Go S.L.O.W. process for creating healthy family habits:
Water.
So powerful, essential (as per my father-in-law... and biology!) and yet so easily overlooked.
Today I talk about the things that get in the way of adopting water into our regular habits - and why it is deserving of more attention.
Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD.
Today we continue on the Go S.L.O.W. framework:
Observe your body.
Get all busy asking it two really important questions:
Am I hungry?
Have I had enough?
We go through a whole bunch o' stuff that gets in the way of asking the questions and listening to the answers.
I'd love to hear what you're learning for yourself. What are the messages you are hearing from your body about hunger and enough-ness? And how are you modeling it for your kids?
Drop me a line at wendy@wendyschofermd.com.
Welcome to Family in Focus with Wendy Schofer, MD.
Today we continue on the steps of Going SLOW to instill healthy habits for the whole family around meals:
Lose the Distractions.
Yeah, I don't like having steps that speak in the negative, but with the number of distractions that we have nowadays, it begs particular attention. TVs, computers, scrolling on phones and endless notifications -- these all distract us from being able to truly nourish our bodies as well as each other in social connection during meals.
Let's dive into more about losing the distractions.
And come on over to www.wendyschofermd.com where you can learn about my next group coaching cohort, launching in October!!!
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Episode 14: The Structure You Need
Our children thrive with structure - being able to anticipate, trust and have certainty.
Today we talk about creating the structure your family needs for meals.
My Go SLOW process for creating healthy habits for the whole family: get a copy at www.wendyschofermd.com
Episode 13: One Breath - it's the start of everything:
Life
A new habit
Taking one purposeful breath has power to shift to the calm that is now. Listen to find out more.
My Go SLOW process for creating healthy habits for the whole family: get a copy at www.wendyschofermd.com
We will be breaking down the process in new editions over the coming weeks.
Also go to www.wendyschofermd.com/FIF-signup to join the next cohort of Family in Focus coaching for parents who are worried about their kids' weight. This is where we apply all of the Family in Focus principles and create a plan for YOUR family.
Any plan for healthy habits needs to include scheduling regular sleep, no matter your current or goal weight.
Not as an after-thought, or something to catch whenever we can.
But an active carving out of time to prioritize sleep.
Your child's focus, performance, mood, metabolism, resilience and appetite will thank you.
Join me at www.wendyschofermd.com to join Family in Focus and create a plan for healthy habits for your whole family.
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If we can choose our feelings (by the way, we can!), I choose fun.
I value FUN so much in my life that I'm actively looking for it: at work (go figure a pediatrician values fun!), as well as at home in my relationships and lifestyle. You can use it too. Decide to find the fun.
Check out this file for the Feelings Wheel and Values and explore which feelings and values are driving you to take action.
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What I learned from the Okinawans - and had to unlearn to use it
Hara Hachi Bu - "Eat until you're 80% full." Great to practice and understand when have I had enough. As parents, we first need to see what's getting in the way of being able to ask our kids, and accept their answers. Letting go of beliefs around meals, food rules - and then letting the kids have an opportunity to become aware of their own bodies.
The Coaching Model, as conceptualized by Brooke Castillo of The Life Coach School, is a universal tool to understand how we create the results in our lives (the ones we don't want, and the ones we actually want).
In this episode, we discuss the 5 parts, and use examples from at home to illustrate its use.
We also discuss which parts of the Model every human gets to choose - and how choosing what you think & feel, and how you behave creates all the results in your life.
I'm practicing -- "I am not perfect, I do not need to be perfect, I am amazing BECAUSE of my mistakes and imperfections."
Yeah, it's an ongoing practice.
Like today, not editing. Just taking my unedited podcast and going real with you. It's a work in progress.
As a physician, I thought that I needed to get it all right, not make mistakes - and I buried myself in shame when I did. I'm still learning about myself, about medicine, about my family - and that has made the difference. Because when I see mistakes as gifts - to learn, to grow - I see that much more benefit has come from the mistake than what would have happened had I gotten it right the first time.
Check out my website at www.wendyschofermd.com
And Family in Focus group coaching for parents worried about their overweight children is starting on August 1. Check out more info at https://www.wendyschofermd.com/FIF-signup. You are ALWAYS welcome to join and transform yourself and your family. Quarterly cohorts are coming - so sign up now for the program or the waitlist.
We live in a culture of snacks - grab and go food everywhere. Why do we look for snacks, and when do we need them? How do we teach our children about snacks, and hunger versus other searches for food?
Find more on www.wendyschofermd.com, including my program for parents worried about family overweight, starting now!
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When we focus on one aspect, a struggle, a challenge, we can put on blinders - concentrating so much on "fixing the problem" that we create more issues along the way.
This is why I work to keep the Family in Focus - understanding the habits that have gotten us here - and engaging the whole family in the new habits that we want going forward.
And as the leader of the family, the parent has the key role to play in creating health at home.
My Group Coaching program is open for registration, get more info at:
www.wendyschofermd.com
Episode #5: The Truth about Motivation
What is the energy that you are using to motivate yourself and your family?
Is it from a perspective of pushing (the drill sargeant), or from a place of leaning into what you want?
We discuss the difference, how to tap into the positive emotions that drive you forward to make change, and creative brainstorming.
Join the Summer Accelerator Group Coaching Program - registration open through 7/15 and the 8 week session runs from Aug 1 to Sept 25.
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3 Steps to Refocus your Family Health Transformation 1) Actively look for & take inventory of success
What IS working What does success mean for you? What is a step in the right direction? 2) What works in those steps? What MADE it successful What made it EASY? 3) Build upon successes to create even more healthy habits Link desired habits together You don't have to start from scratch Check out my website including group coaching programs empowering parents to build a healthier whole family: www.wendyschofermd.com
Food Rules are everywhere. What do we choose to follow, what do we ignore, and when do we flex?
And an introduction to my son... has he joined the Dark Side?
Find more on www.wendyschofermd.com, including my free Mini Course, "Lead Your Family to Healthier Habits" at www.wendyschofermd.com/mini
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In this episode of Family in Focus, we will talk about how weight, overweight, obesity - they are measurements, diagnoses - but the real meaning is what we, as parents, make of it.
Where do we have choices in this journey? It starts with what we choose to let weight mean about us, about our children, our family.
Dive in!
You can join me at www.wendyschofermd.com. Drop a message about your comments, your concerns about your family's weight - and I can address it with an upcoming podcast episode.
Also you can join our free Facebook community here.
Welcome to Family in Focus, the podcast, with Dr Wendy Schofer. I empower parents of overweight children to build healthier families.
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