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Help for Parents of Disrespectful Teenagers
When a teenager’s words start to sting, when the eye-rolling, sarcasm, and shouting become the soundtrack of your evenings, it’s hard not to wonder: What happened to my kid? You’re not alone. Every week, I talk to parents who feel blindsided by their teen’s disrespectful behavior. They’ve tried reasoning, consequences, walking away, yelling back, and…
What Does a Parent Coach Really Do? Transforming How You Support Your Teen
Parenting a teenager can bring out every emotion you have: love, fear, frustration, hope, confusion, and sometimes, exhaustion. You want to help your teen grow into a confident, secure young person, but daily life can feel like walking through emotional landmines. One moment your teen is calm, and the next, they’re angry, withdrawn, or spiraling.…
The Very Best 2024 Podcast Episodes About Eating Disorders
As I know from experience, hosting a podcast (or website, blog, or social media account) about eating disorders is challenging. Google and other tech businesses are hesitant to publish and promote eating disorder information since it can be hard for them to differentiate “good” and “bad” content in this complex category. This means that those…
Great Books For Parents Who Have Kids With Eating Disorders
I’m a big fan of reading and love to recommend books to my clients who have kids with eating disorders. Many of the books I suggest are not about eating disorders specifically. Rather, they relate to the larger systems and other conditions that contribute to disordered eating behaviors. There are a lot of reasons for…
How to help a neurodivergent child with binge eating
Below is my response to a parent who worries about her neurodivergent daughter who is binge eating. Dear Ginny, Do you have any advice for me regarding binge eating in a neurodivergent child? I have an 8-year-old daughter who is neurodivergent and is frequently binge eating to the point where she complains that she ate…
Is it my fault my child has an eating disorder?
The most common question I get asked by parents who have a child with an eating disorder is “is it my fault?” Many parents worry it’s their fault—that they somehow caused their child’s eating disorder. For example, when I’m coaching parents they might ask me: My answer to all of these questions is the same:…
Parents: How To Help Your Child With Anxiety
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorder in the world and affected 301 million people in 2019. Most anxiety disorders begin in childhood and adolescence. The good news about anxiety disorders is that they are considered very treatable, and parents are instrumental in recovery. There are even parent-led treatments in which the parents receive…
Coaching Support for Parents With an Estranged Child
Reconnecting with your adult child starts with understanding, compassion, and support. Having an estranged child is one of the hardest experiences a parent can face. It can bring up deep feelings of grief, confusion, and helplessness. You might find yourself wondering, What happened? How did we get here? Is there still hope to repair our…
Parent Coaching for a Child or Teen with ARFID
If your child or teen has Avoidant Restrictive Feeding Intake Disorder, called ARFID, you want to find the most effective and healthy way to help them get back on their growth curve and expand their food and eating flexibility. ARFID is hard to deal with because it can look like the child is just being…
3 reasons your child gets anxious when they eat
Does your child get anxious when they eat? Here are some things your child might do when they feel anxious about eating: Feeling anxiety is mentally terrifying and physically awful. And you know what people want to do when they feel anxious? They want to avoid doing the thing that makes them anxious. It makes…
Podcast episodes for parents raising anti-diet kids
Here are four podcast episodes to listen to if your goal is raising anti-diet kids who are free from diet culture, weight stigma, and eating disorders. Diet culture is a set of beliefs that promotes intentional weight loss, thin bodies, and limited and privileged ways of eating. Basically, it says that fat bodies are bad…
Parent support for eating disorders
Getting parent support when kids have eating disorders can make all the difference in treatment and recovery. Parents are not the cause of eating disorders, and yet the way they approach treatment and recovery can make all the difference in whether their child accepts and ultimately embraces recovery. What causes eating disorders? The first (very…
Parent coaching for a college student with an eating disorder
If your college student has/had an eating disorder, you may want parent coaching to help you support them in making the transition to school. College students are at high risk of eating disorders, and unfortunately things are getting worse. About 15% of college students were at risk for an eating disorder in 2013, but today…
Parent coaching for ADHD and eating issues
If your child has ADHD, you may want parent coaching to help with eating issues, ranging from very picky eating, forgetting to eat, disordered eating and eating disorders. Eating issues are scary for parents, but they’re not uncommon. More than 1/3 of people who have eating disorders also have ADHD. This rate is much higher…
FBT Parent Coaching for a Child or Teen with Anorexia
(FBT = Family-Based Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa) When your child or teen is diagnosed with anorexia, it can feel like your entire world stops. Every meal becomes a battleground, and every day feels like an emotional marathon. Parents often tell me they feel helpless, terrified, or completely burned out trying to get their child to…
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About Me
Hi, I’m Ginny. I’m on a mission to help parents raise kids who are free from food and eating issues.
I created this blog to give parents important information and advice when their kids have eating disorders.
I write about a combination of topics, from movies that are “safe” for eating disorder recovery to details about why eating disorders occur and how parents can help with recovery.
My goal is to educate parents about eating disorders while also empowering them to support their kids’ recovery. I try to include real-world examples to help illustrate common situations that I encounter when coaching parents.
I work from a place of education and compassion because I know that the best way for you to help your kid feel better is for you to feel better. You matter, and I’m here to help.
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This eating disorders blog is written from a Health at Every Size® and Intuitive Eating perspective. These foundational beliefs drive my work as a coach, my life as a person in recovery, and how I parent. I adopted these beliefs, which are based on solid scientific evidence, during my recovery from a 30-year eating disorder. After spending decades at war with my body, I found peace and healing in learning to trust it as wise, intuitive, and powerful.
If you’re curious about this approach, please reach out and I’ll be happy to tell you more about it.