I'm so excited to introduce my FIRST of, hopefully, many guest posts. Gila Glassberg is an Intuitive Eating RD who "helps women break away from diet culture and heal their relationship with food". We talk about anxiety a lot here, and I'm really excited to share her beautifully composed "anxiety process" with you. The Anxiety Trap: A Process Anxiety is an old friend of mind. I lie in bed wondering if the food was put away after spending hours cooking it- why ...
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Are your kids afraid of the doctor?
Before I became a mother, I always thought that all kids were afraid of the doctor. I didn't like going to the doctor as a kid either. I was always afraid of a shot, finger prick or the DREADED strep test (that I still have apprehension toward as an adult). But when I became a mother and we started having to go to the pediatrician pretty often, and now especially having a child with diabetes and celiac, I thought, "Why does it need to be this way?" If my kids freak out every time we go to the ...
Picky Eaters and Type One Diabetes
One of the greatest challenges I've been gifted as a mother is having an extremely picky eater. You can read more about our journey with Feeding Therapy (2017-2019) in this post. The other challenge I have been gifted is having that same picky eater also be a Type One Diabetic, and not eating and having diabetes don't really mix well together. Some backstory on our picky eating journey. Having a picky eater can be very anxiety-inducing, especially for a new mother. Our journey with food ...
