Ep 146 - Helping Teens and Tweens Navigate Body Changes and Food Stuff w/ Oona Hanson

Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD

Laura Thomas

Wellness, Bodypositivity, Plantbased, Nutrition, Medicine, Health, Vegan, Health & Fitness, Wellbeing, Mindfulness, Nutritionist, Dontsaltmygame

4.8 • 807 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We’re back with a brand new guest this week on Don’t Salt My Game - the lovely Oona Hanson. Oona spent 25 years in education and now helps parents and guardians raise kids who have a healthy relationship with food and their body. As well as her private practice as a parent coach, she also works as a family mentor at Equip and holds a master's degree in educational psychology and a master's degree in English. Her work has been featured widely including on CNN, USA Today, Good Morning America, US News and World Report Today, People and Parents Magazine.

In this episode, we cover some really big and important topics like;

The challenges of feeding teens
Some of the nuances of using the Division of Responsibility with older kids and teens and why Oona actually doesn't use it at all with her own family
Why language like “hollow legs” and “bottomless pit” are really problematic when talking about bodies and appetites, especially for teenagers
Who is allowed to own their appetite and who isn't
Red flags for eating disorders and disordered eating
The parallels between bodies changing in teenagers, as well as body's changing in midlife amongst parents
How we can create a safe environment for normalising body changes.

I really love talking to Oona and really appreciate her work. I know that so many of you are going to resonate with this episode and find it super helpful, and if you do then please share the love and share it with friends and family, and hit subscribe to stay in the loop with new episodes dropping weekly.

Show Notes:

Follow Laura on Instagram | Twitter
Follow Oona on Instagram
Follow Don’t Salt My Game on Instagram
Laura’s Website
Oona’s Website
Sign up for the Let’s Talk About Snacks, Baby Workshop
Book in for a complimentary 15-minute Discovery Call with Laura
Check out this piece Oona wrote about why Division of Responsibility might not be suitable to use with eating disorders
Listen to the Don’t Salt My Game episode with Scott Griffiths talking about muscle dysmorphic disorder
Buy an Intuitive Eating friendly guide to managing different health concerns
Sign up for a Learn with LCIE Course
Buy a copy of Just Eat It | How to Just Eat It
Edited by Joeli Kelly

Transcript

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0:00.0	Those teen and tween years are tender for our kids and they tend to be very vulnerable
0:08.4	times for us as parents as well. So just kind of acknowledging that like, oh, we're kind of in this
0:13.8	together. We're navigating body change and how do I want to model for my kids what body change
0:19.5	can be like, right? Is it something to fight against? Is it
0:22.3	something to be ashamed of or, you know, or is it something to be embraced and acknowledged and
0:27.9	talked about in a more matter-of-fact way?
0:33.6	Hey team. Welcome back to Don't Salt My Game where I'm having conversations with game changers who are flipping diet culture on its head.
0:41.8	I'm Laura Thomas. I'm a registered nutritionist who specializes in in cheese feeding and anti-diet nutrition.
0:47.6	And I'm the author of Just Eat It and How to Just Eat It.
0:51.3	Today I'm talking to Una Hansen, a parent coach who specializes in anti-dient
0:56.9	parenting and we're focusing on teens and tweens in this episode. But first I wanted to let you
1:04.2	know about July's workshop. Let's talk about snacks, baby.
1:16.5	So when I asked on my Instagram stories which workshop I should run next, it was pretty clearly weighted towards snacks.
1:19.2	People seem to have a lot of feelings about snacks.
1:21.6	So we're going to unpack that a bit.
1:24.2	In this workshop, we're going to cover how to set boundaries around snacks, how to deal with
1:29.8	constant requests for snacks and why it's not always about the food. We'll talk about what if they
1:36.6	only want to eat snacks and the thing that plagues me most as a parent, what the hell to actually
1:42.6	give them for a snack. We'll talk about why
1:45.2	rice cakes are not a snack and how to deal with restrictive school snack policies. And lastly,
1:52.0	we'll think a bit about your relationship with snacks as a parent because, like I said,
1:57.4	people have feelings. And it should go without saying as well that I'm going to be looking at all of this
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