Ep 62: Your Mum's Relationship With Food Became Yours. It Doesn't Have to Become Your Kid's.

Is your mum's diet culture still living in your head? Here's how to make sure it doesn't reach your kids. Most of us grew up in homes where dieting was just... normal. Mum was always on something. The body comments were constant. Food was either good or bad, clean or naughty, and we absorbed every single bit of it. Now we're beginning to raise kids of our own or have young people in our lives. And we want to do it differently. But how? In this episode of the Binge Free Bestie Podcast, I'm getting personal, sharing the comments my own family made about my body when I was at my heaviest, and why, despite their good intentions, it made everything so much worse. And I'm breaking down exactly what to do if you're navigating this with your own children right now. Whether you've got little ones, a teenager who's gone full gym bro, a child being bullied about their weight, or you're just terrified of saying the wrong thing while you're still figuring out your own relationship with food, this one is for you. What we cover: — How diet culture gets inherited and why it's not your mum's fault (but it is yours to stop) — The almond mum era and what growing up in an 80s/90s diet household actually did to us — Real word-for-word scripts for the conversations most parents dread — What to do when your teenager's "healthy eating" starts to look like something more worrying — How to raise an intuitive eater who trusts their body, even if you're still learning to trust yours — Why you don't have to be healed to be a brilliant parent around food

The cycle stops with you 💜

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro 02:00 How family comments shaped my relationship with food 05:30 The generational cycle of diet culture 07:30 Real struggles parents are facing right now 11:30 The #1 mindset shift 13:00 Principle 1: Stop labeling food “good” or “bad” 14:00 Principle 2: Kids copy what you do (not what you say) 15:30 Scenario 1: “Am I fat?” 16:30 Scenario 2: Teen obsessed with dieting/macros 18:30 Scenario 3: Restrictive eating or underweight child 19:40 Scenario 4: Child being bullied for their body 21:40 Scenario 5: You say something negative about yourself 23:30 You don’t have to be healed to help 24:30 Where to start (even if you’re struggling)

binge eating recovery, emotional eating, food freedom, intuitive eating, diet culture, raising intuitive eaters, generational trauma, food trauma, body image, disordered eating recovery