Episode 19: Our Kitchens are Killing Us: Making Time for Healthy Eating as Working Moms without the Stress or Guilt

In this week’s episode of Supermom Rehab podcast, we speak about the how getting ourselves and our kids to eat healthy can be a significant source of stress for moms, especially when we have such busy lives. So, I get to speak with Dr. Dayna Parish Dennis, board-certified pediatrician for over 10 years, wife and mother of two girls. wife, and mother. She has dedicated her practice to helping busy moms learn how to feed their bodies and souls while creating a healthy family food culture - without the stress and guilt.  She is the founder of the Facebook group, Eat Fresh, Eat Clean- a forum for moms to learn and share how they are incorporating healthy eating into their lives in a way that saves time and energy.

 

Some of the points that Dayna and I discussed were:

The pressure and stress that moms will put on themselves around kids eating habits and behavior

Holding ourselves to impossible standards because of the “traditional maternal roles” (mom makes the meals) that we were exposed to as children

The enormous amount of time that we spend around meal planning and feeding and how delegation to your partner or family is essential

Why sitting down together as a family for meals can increase stress and using meal time to develop creative ways to bond with kids and be present.

How we can stop our “kitchen from killing us” and how eating has become a behavior to help combat stress and overwhelm

Identifying our triggers that push us down the spiral of unhealthy eating and how to combat the triggers

How physicians contribute to the obsession that mothers have around their child’s weight and eating habits

 

Links mentioned in the episode:

Dayna’s Facebook group, “Eat Fresh, Eat Clean”

You can follow Dayna on Instagram at wittyacronym.

Sign up for Dayna’s mailing list to learn how to register for her online course for healthy eating at learn.eatfresheatclean.com

 

Articles of interest for further reading:

Dayna’s recommendation on the Satter method by Ellyn Satter about the division of responsibility in feeding.

 

And don’t forget:

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