How to Reduce Mealtime Tension
3/20/202633 min
Join me for a solo episode this week, and a look into alleviating mealtime tension and how to deal with body image baggage. I give six helpful tips to make mealtime easier, and discuss the acronym BALANCE, which you can use to ease mealtime stress. I also discuss the three principles for kids to grow up with a positive body image, and the importance of doing the work to shift how we see our bodies and others.
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Aliza Pressman· Host0:04
[music] Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Aliza Pressman, and today I'm just here with you alone. [laughs] We're talking about body image and mealtime, and making mealtime as unfraught as possible, and ideally joyful. Eating is meant to be a source of connection and joy, but it can also be a source of memories from really bad experiences, body image challenges, and ways of feeling or being judged. So that's what we're going over today. So what I wanna talk about first is that there's a fundamental of being a human when it comes to, you know, functioning. You need to eat. You need to sleep. You need to move. Those fundamentals are kind of non-negotiable, and we don't talk about them that much with this podcast because apart from how to get kids and ourselves to do those things, this is typically just an expected part of the deal. But what I wanna talk about isn't the, you know, what anybody's eating or how anybody's eating. I wanna talk about that even though it's a