Welcome back to Rebuilding Trust With Your Body. This episode features Nicole Cruz, a registered dietitian and founder of Nourish Together. Nicole shares her shame-free approach to family nutrition, which focuses on cultivating food and body trust to help parents raise confident eaters. Drawing from her personal experience as a mother of three and her professional expertise, Nicole emphasizes the importance of creating a healthy relationship with food as the foundation for lifelong healthy eating.
The episode concludes with practical advice that applies to all listeners, whether parents or adults, reflecting on their own food upbringing. Nicole’s insights aim to help individuals and families build joyful, stress-free relationships with food.
We Discuss:
- Nicole’s Background and Mission: Nicole’s journey into dietetics stemmed from her own struggles with disordered eating. After observing the unintended effects of well-meaning parental food rules on children, she transitioned to family-focused nutrition.
- Common Parental Challenges: Parents often struggle with finding a balance between being too hands-off and overly rigid about food.
- Foundational Principles of Family Nutrition: Nicole outlines the importance of the division of responsibility in feeding based on Ellen Satter’s model. Parents set the structure (what, when, where), while children decide if and how much to eat. She adapts this model to encourage flexibility and reduce the stress around food.
- Strategies for Parents: Nicole shares actionable strategies such as:
- Creating boundaries and structure without shame or restriction.
- Introducing variety in meals while respecting a child’s preferences.
- Allowing treats without fostering an obsession with them.
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