FFK84: The influence of diet culture on parenting, with Julia Wolman

We've had a few episodes now on this podcast that are all about helping children with their relationship with food, including episodes on how we can talk to children about food, how we can fend off harmful food talk around children from other people and how we can work towards food freedom in our own relationship with food so that we don't pass on our issues with food to our children.

And it's that final piece that we are coming back to in today's episode, our own relationship with food. But today we're coming at this from a different perspective and Joanne is talking to child and family nutritionist, Julia Wolman about how our experiences of living in a world of diet culture before we have children actually primes us as new parents to find feeding our children difficult and stressful.

Julia is a Registered Nutritionist with a special interest in family and child nutrition stemming from 20 years’ experience. Julia’s career began working for the NHS and local authorities in diverse communities, running healthy eating projects and training for parents, schools and nurseries. During maternity leave with her second son (now 15) Julia set up her family nutrition consultancy, and has been enjoying this work ever since. Julia has also worked as an NHS health coach as well as undertaken various charity roles alongside her parent work. Julia is particularly passionate about supporting parents to improve their own eating behaviours so that they can not only feel healthier and more energised, but also be the best role models for their kids.

Links in this episode:

Julia's website: https://www.juliawolman.co.uk

Julia's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefamilyfoodcoach

Julia's post on this topic: https://www.instagram.com/p/DR26q-NjDLj/

Music "Happy Days" by Simon Folwar via Uppbeat