Lift the Shame: The Podcast - Mothering Free From Diet Culture, Food Guilt, and Body Shame

With a New Year on the horizon, you may be thinking about resolutions or goals you want to implement in your home. 2023 can be the year you leave diet culture behind and embark on a journey of rewriting your feeding legacy in your family. Tune in for some practical New Year’s resolutions that can support you toward raising body confident kids, shifting generational cycles of diet culture and help...

Diet culture shows up in many sneaky ways and can be especially loud during the holidays. As a parent raising intuitive eaters, you want to do everything in your power to protect your kids from diet culture. What may be even more important is supporting your children's abilities to withstand diet culture in the many forms they may encounter it. In today's episode, Crystal will walk you t...

Tis the season for holiday sweets and sugar galore. And you know what? Our kids are totally here for it. But as a parent, on the other hand, you might be feeling overwhelmed with the sight of sweets at every corner and the constant requests for “More cookies!”, “More candy!”, “More chocolate!” You may feel unsure about how to best handle this influx in sugar and sweets. You likely want your kids t...

For many of us, motherhood and parenting can bring up our unresolved issues and trauma, especially around food and our bodies. But instead of recycling these things to our children, we have an opportunity to heal to help shift dysfunctional patterns in our families as we learn to reparent ourselves.  Today's show is a conversation with Catherine Counihan, trauma-informed Integrative Psychothe...

You may’ve grown up learning how to diet or believing your body couldn’t be trusted. You may’ve learned that your body was something that needed to be controlled and that shrinking your body was a worthy cause. You may’ve learned to take up as little space as possible and that your worth was defined by how much you weighed.  These are messages that may’ve been passed down to you from your family o...

Thanksgiving can be fraught with mixed emotions as you navigate through a food focused holiday. You might be faced with a few triggers around food and your body, or you might not be sure how to confront the inevitable diet talk that comes up around the table. Wherever you might be today, know that your needs matter and you are not alone. Tune in for 5 practical tips and ways to care for yourself o...

The holidays are upon us and that can bring up some pressure and stress around food, especially with our kids, especially with other family members involved. You may feel under a microscope when it comes to feeding your kids when sharing a meal with your loved ones. Listen in as Crystal shares about the things we need to face within ourselves as we navigate the holidays before we project onto our...

*CW: Mention of food and body trauma. Mama, we all have food stories that have impacted our relationship with food today and the way we approach feeding our kids. Our minds have been shaped around ideas, beliefs and experiences around food that may be impacting how we parent our kids today. Today’s episode dives into the narratives we created, how to break them down to begin reparenting ourselves...

We are going to start transitioning into a different topic here on the show, which I'm super excited about, and that has a lot to do with you. We are going to learn about how to reparent yourself around food and your body and why this matters to rewriting your feeding legacy for your children. This is such a crucial topic and part of raising an intuitive eater and something that is even more...

Welcome back to the show, Mama. We are just a few days away from Halloween and if your kids are anything like mine, they cannot wait for those bags full of candy and all the holiday festivities. I know for a lot of parents, these candy centered holidays can bring up a lot of angst, worry and concerns. Today I want to walk through some strategies that might be helpful for you as you are trying to d...

Today we're diving into the 3 most common reasons why children become obsessed with sweets - some of these might surprise you!  We'll also clarify what characterizes a sweets obsession in kids and how this differs from typical, every day excitement around enjoying these foods.  If you have a kiddo who's showing a high interest in sweets, tune in to this episode to learn more strateg...

We're continuing our mini series on kids and sweets this month and diving into this controversial subject of sugar addiction. Is sugar really an addictive substance? If so, is it possible your kids are addicted to sugar? In today's episode, let's clear up some of that controversy around sugar addiction and kids so that you can feel more confident when it comes to navigating sweets w...

If you want to rewrite the script around sugar in your family and for the next generation of children you are raising, this may require some countercultural approaches. Because diet culture has demonized sweets, it may feel counterintuitive to make them more accessible to your children. In today's episode, I want to give you some encouragement to help you confidently support your kiddos in bu...

It happens to the best of us: You've caught your child sneaking sweets, or you're finding food wrappers hidden away in your child's room. Now what? Hear me out when I say - you're not alone!  In today’s episode, I wanted to take some time to walk through some of the main reasons why kids sneak food, because it's actually normal behavior that you may observe this in your ki...

We've been doing a mini series on raising intuitive eaters and intuitive eating for moms.  Today I want to just unpack a little bit more of this idea of raising an intuitive eater while you're still learning to become one.  Many of you understand the pressure you might be feel to “have to have it all right”, to have the perfect relationship with food to help your kids become intuitive ea...

Over the last couple weeks we've been talking a little bit about intuitive eating and what that might look like for moms. Today, we're transitioning into the topic of raising intuitive eaters and the basics of what this involves. This is actually one of my favorite topics and one that I get really passionate about, as we raise up a generation of children who can be free from diet culture...

Last week’s episode covered why intuitive eating might not be right for you as a mom. This week’s episode  continues that conversation with other ways that you can continue to support yourself and heal your relationship with food to make sure that you're staying nourished as best as possible in your motherhood journey.  There are many reasons intuitive eating isn’t right for you, now.  Today...

If you're a mother who's healing your relationship with food, you might feel like you have to get intuitive eating "right" in order to raise kids who have a positive relationship with food. However, intuitive eating is a nuanced approach to food and eating, and it's not uncommon to experience obstacles as a mother that might make intuitive eating challenging. In this episo...

I have something really important for you to hear today, mama: You do not have to love your body in order to raise a child who loves and appreciates their body. I hope you can really internalize this truth because so many moms that I'm talking to are worried that their body image issues will become their child's body image issues. This episode offers an understanding of the challenges th...

If you've faced weight or body shaming with a health care provider, you're not alone. Remarks made by medical professionals about our children’s weight can be detrimental to our kids, as well as be a risk factor for disordered eating and poor body image. As parents, we want to protect our kids from all places, people and things that could be triggers for food shaming and body shaming.  T...

You're listening to the Lift the Shame Podcast, and I'm so glad you're here. Learn more about the inspiration behind Lift the Shame and what you can expect to hear in upcoming episodes. Tune in every week as we cover topics that will help you navigate your motherhood free from diet culture, food guilt and body shame.   Learn more about the Lift the Shame Support Group for mothers an...

Welcome to Lift the Shame!  Questions about today's episode or do you have topic requests for future episodes? Please send your feedback via email to hello@crystalkarges.com or connect with Crystal on Instagram . Get full access to Lift The Shame: The Column at crystalkarges.substack.com/subscribe