If your child (or maybe even you) will only eat a handful of foods and becomes deeply distressed when offered anything outside that “safe list,” you might be dealing with something beyond “picky eating.”

That “something” could be ARFID — Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder.

Unlike a ph...

If you’ve ever found yourself begging your child to take “just one bite” or bribing them with dessert to eat a vegetable, you’re not alone. Picky eating can make even the calmest parent want to scream into a throw pillow. And while your efforts are totally well-intentioned, some common strategies ca...

Recently I shared on my Instagram stories about how I was prepping food for the back-to-school madness. I got inundated with requests for the recipes! Some of them are directly from other websites, and I’ve credited them below. Others I have been making for years and slowly have adapted them to suit...

Ah, back-to-school season. The smell of freshly sharpened pencils, the joy of new lunchboxes, and… the inevitable parade of sniffles, coughs, and mystery fevers that seem to rotate through the classroom like a bad reality TV show.

If you’ve ever felt like September is less about new beginnings a...

 If you have a child struggling with ADHD—or you suspect something deeper is going on beneath the meltdowns, focus issues, and wild energy—you’ve probably heard the phrase: “It’s just how their brain is wired.”

But what if it’s not just about the brain?

A wave of new research is exploring ho...

If you’ve ever stood in your kitchen wondering if your plastic containers, nonstick pans, or even your water are actually safe… you’re not just being paranoid.

New research is shining a spotlight on a class of chemicals known as PFAS—also called “forever chemicals”—and their serious impact on ho...

You’ve probably heard the headlines: Teens are the new target for weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy (both forms of semaglutide). These medications, originally developed for adults with type 2 diabetes, are now being prescribed to adolescents as young as 12 to treat obesity.

As a parent, ...

The Surprising New Link Between Food and Feelings

If your teenager has seemed more anxious, moody, or down lately, you’re not alone—and new research suggests it may not just be hormones or screen time. It might actually be...their food.

A growing number of studies now link ultra-processed fo...

Let’s face it—parenting tweens and teens can feel like riding an emotional rollercoaster that also forgot to serve snacks. Between growth spurts, mood swings, late-night homework, sports practices, and the infamous "I’m not hungry" followed by "Why don’t we have any food?"—it’s easy to feel like you...

Let’s be honest — most protein bars on the market are either candy bars in disguise or taste like compressed sawdust with a side of regret. As a holistic nutritionist and mom on the go, I’ve tried a lot of bars, and very few make the cut.

So today, I’m sharing the bars I actually eat and recomme...

You did what any loving parent would do: you followed the advice of your child’s doctor and gave them antibiotics.

Maybe it was for an ear infection. Maybe it was strep. Maybe they were just a baby.

And now you’re wondering…

Did those antibiotics mess up their gut?

Could they be the ...

Let’s talk about something that almost every parent has faced: the dreaded prescription for antibiotics.

Maybe it was for an ear infection. Maybe it was strep. Maybe it felt like a necessary evil at the time (and hey—sometimes it is). But what if that one round of antibiotics your child had at 6...