Family in Focus®
By Wendy Schofer, MD
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Episodes: 123
Description
Are you feeling stuck around your child’s eating, weight, or health?
Are food struggles or mixed messages about “doing it right” creating stress in your home?
Family in Focus is a podcast for parents navigating family health, especially when concerns about food, body, and emotional well-being start to strain relationships at home.
Hosted by Dr. Wendy Schofer, the pediatrician who helps parents lead meaningful change without harm, this podcast approaches family health in a very different way, by prioritizing connection, trust, and emotional health over control or pressure.
Family in Focus centers parent-led shifts that actually last. Conversations explore how change can happen without shame, how emotions shape health behaviors, and why protecting the parent-child relationship is essential to supporting children’s well-being.
This is a space for parents who want to support their child’s health without sacrificing connection along the way.
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Your Child Is Not Their Weight: It’s Time to Break Free from Hidden Shame, Pressure, and Food Stress
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Think Beyond Habits:
The Hidden Patterns Shaping Your Child’s Eating
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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What Actually Happens When Weight Becomes the Hidden Focus
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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3 Simple Steps to Transform Your Child’s Relationship With Food
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Why Your Child’s Health Is About More Than Weight
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Change Without Shame: A New Season Begins
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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You’re Not Failing: Start With What’s Going Well
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Family in Focus® | A New Season Begins | Official Trailer
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Heartfelt Conversations: Exploring Emotions and Connection with Jen Person
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May 10, 2024 |
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An exercise to make parenting easier
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May 03, 2024 |
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The Power of Being a Real Human: Unpacking Expertise
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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My simple steps to eat less chocolate
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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A Conversation for Teens and Parents: Creating Supportive Relationships
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Shake It Off: How to shift when you're stressed
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Are you playing ping pong or chess with your kids?
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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"Snack Sneakers Snonymous": 3 Steps for Parents to Understand the Sneaking
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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New Choice! A Playful Tool that Works to Create Change
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Why we use shame tactics when it comes to health
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Finding Strength in the Coziness: Hygge
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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De-Stressing for the Holidays: A Gift for Parents
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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How We All Struggle with Weight (& what to do)
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Navigating Big Emotions: Parenting in a World of Conflicts
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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How to Beat Overwhelm: The Little Steps Approach
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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An Experiment Gone Wrong: How I Failed a Family
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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How to Deal with Overstimulation and Overwhelm
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Unlocking Your Inner Rebel: How Parents Can Break Free and Rediscover Themselves
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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The Missing Link between Weight, Stress and Burnout
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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How do I help my kids with their feelings?
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Emotions: The fuel for our lives
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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The Skinny on Emotions
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Zzzz your way to better health
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Why efficiency is so hard for moms
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May 26, 2023 |
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Understanding our relationship with food
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May 19, 2023 |
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What happened with our brains during the pandemic
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May 05, 2023 |
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Building a Healthy Family with Corinne Crabtree
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Default Mode
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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The Myth of the Happy Child
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Growth, Evidence and Celebration
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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What do you need, Momma?
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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When Kids Disagree With Your Parenting
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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How to deal with stress eating (Part 3: Helping Kids with Stress)
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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How to deal with stress eating (Part 2: 8 ways to address the stress)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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How to deal with stress eating (Part 1)
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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My missteps with the scale
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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It's time to stop focusing on weight
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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What is your weight reality?
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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The challenge of raising a healthy family
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Creating a plan for your family's health
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Understanding Why We Eat (or do anything for that matter)
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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When you don't have the Mom-Energy to do it: The Bare Minimum
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Why Weight Goals Don't Work for Kids
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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What if your child is overweight?
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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How to deal with Sugar (and Kids)
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Getting the Expert's Input: What to Feed Our Kids
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Building trust in bodies and decisions
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Let's Prepare for Halloween
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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What does a healthy weight need to look like?
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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How to Struggle... Less
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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What to do when you aren't seeing progress
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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"But can you just help my kid lose weight?"
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Why is it so freaking hard?!?
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Why worrying about weight doesn't work, and what to do instead
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Why Weight Management Isn't What Our Kids Need
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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What does wellness look like for kids?
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Becoming the Rock
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Taking Some Time Off to Find What Works
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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How to Save Your Family's Summer (from the Summer Doldrums)
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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How to Learn Your Child's Motivation Language
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Which of Your Kids' GAINS Do You Want to Focus Upon?
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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How Do You Celebrate Your Family (in Focus)? One Year Anniversary
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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How to Go From Couch to Athlete
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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How to Talk with Your Kids About Uncomfortable Things
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May 26, 2022 |
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How Improv Comedy Has Made Me a Better Parent
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May 20, 2022 |
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How do I improve my kids' body image?
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May 13, 2022 |
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How to ask the right questions about your child's new diagnosis
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May 06, 2022 |
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Understanding Emotional Eating to Help Our Kids
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Why am I worried about weight if my kids aren't overweight?
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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What I learned at the "Disney World... for Coaches"
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Why focusing on obesity is the wrong approach & how to make real change
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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How many calories should my child be eating?
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Why are our waistlines increasing?
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Ep 41: How is exercise NOT good for your family's health?
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Is that food a YES!, a no-thank-you, or a "not yet"?
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Ep 39: The one right way to feed your family
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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5 ways diet culture has snuck into our homes & how to change it for good
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Ep. 37: How to identify & actually avoid the three bad foods for your kids
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Ep. 36: How is love the present for my family?
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Ep 35: How to Parent without the Heavy Burden of Drama
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Ep 34: How Ice Cream is Like Your Taboo Ex-Boyfriend
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Ep 33: Drama-busting: What the Health?
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Episode 32: The need to get it right
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Episode #31: Changing my mind
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Episode 30: Building Trust
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Eating While Feeling is Not a Crime
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Episode 28: 4 Reasons Kids (and Adults!) Seek and Eat Food Without Being Hungry
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Episode 27: Hunger & Kids
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Episode 26: Three Things That We Were Never Taught
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Episode 25: Teaching Gratitude for the Pain
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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4 Rules to Keep (Food) Peace on Thanksgiving
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Three Tools to Help Us Help Our Kids
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Episode 23: The Many Faces of Responsibility
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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What Do You Choose to Focus Upon?
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Making Peace with Halloween
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Mac & Cheese Dinners!
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Ask Better Questions to Focus On What's Important
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Why Aren't Parents Playing?
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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"Water is Essential for Life"
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Observe Your Body - Are you really listening to it?
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Lose the Distractions!
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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The Structure You Need
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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One Purposeful Breath
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Sleep.Comes.First
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Finding the Fun
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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What I Learned From the Okinawans - and Had to Unlearn to Use It
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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The Coaching Model
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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The Gifts of Imperfection
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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The Curse of the Snacks
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Why "Family in Focus"?
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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The Truth about Motivation
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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3 Steps to Refocus Your Family Transformation
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Food Rules and Fast Food
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Help! My Doctor Says My Kid Has Obesity
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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Family in Focus, with Dr Wendy Schofer - Episode 1
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Jun 11, 2021 |