Episode 20: Eating Disorder Prevention and Body Positive Parenting with Zoë Bisbing, LCSW, and Leslie Bloch, LCSW-R
Eating Disorder Prevention and Body Positive Parenting
In this episode, I chat with Zoë Bisbing and Leslie Bloch are both New York City-based, adolescent eating disorder psychotherapists and mothers of two. They met in graduate school at New York University and discovered they shared a dedication to the treatment of eating disorders and body image concerns. While their families and private practices blossomed, they developed specialties in the early detection and family-based treatment of childhood and adolescent eating disorders.
During this interview, we discuss how Leslie and Zoe took their individual experiences as psychotherapists to create the Full Bloom Project dedicated to teaching eating disorder awareness and prevention through body-positive parenting. Zoe and Leslie have outlined an A through Z Guide for Body Positive Parenting with each letter of the alphabet representing a body-positive parenting question.
One question, How Can I Help Kids in Larger Bodies, really resonated with me and my work as an intuitive eating registered dietitian. Parents with kids in larger bodies typically look for the help of an RD because they want their child to lose weight or were told by another healthcare professional that their child needs to lose weight. Leslie and Zoe tackle this question from a mental health perspective.
Other topics mentioned and discussed on this amazing episode include:
The importance of recognizing that our bodies have a genetic blueprint.
As parents, we can’t blame ourselves and practitioners shouldn’t fault parents for wanting their child to lose weight.
The “set point theory” and that if we try to suppress the weight our body is meant to be it will ultimately end up higher in the end.
Decreasing talk about what our body looks like but instead shift the focus to what our body does for us and its functions.
Decreasing our own negative body talk as parents because kids are always listening and absorbing what we say.
And more!!
Mentioned in this episode:
Full Bloom Podcast Episode 4: How Can I Help Kids in Larger Bodies?
Full Bloom Podcast Episode 5: What Does Healthy Really Mean?
Full Bloom Podcast Episode 25: What Should I Definitely Quit Doing or Saying?
A to Z Guide for Body Positive Parenting
Full Bloom Project Body Positive Parenting Support - Courses
Leslie Bloch - Bloch Behavioral
Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility
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