18. How To Help Your Child When Their Eating Gets Weird With Millie Thomas

Has your kid’s eating gotten weird? Are they exercising more? Are you worried they might have issues with food or their body? Millie Thomas gets it and can help you figure out what’s going on.

Millie is a certified Eating Disorder Recovery coach and Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioner who battled Anorexia Nervosa for 15 years and nearly lost her life to the illness. She works with Sunshine Coast based charity endED where she has been involved in numerous projects including the establishment of Australia’s first residential eating disorders facility ‘Wandi Nerida’ and the podcast – “End Eating Disorders” by Castco media. In 2020 she also launched her private practice HealED.

Check out these important discussions:

· How covid has impacted eating disorders (5:50)

· Why “covid kilos” and the response to weight gain over the pandemic was “an absolute nightmare” (8:00)

· How our casual comments get internalised by kids (9:15)

· How anxiety, feeling “out of control” and eating disorders correlate (10:30)

· An amazing tip for communicating with your kiddo! (13:30)

· How to tell if your child could have an eating disorder (14:30)

· If you have concerns: Millie’s expert guidance for gentle enquiry (17:15)

· If there is a problem: next steps (20:30)

· What you can do to create a protective environment in the home (21:30)

· The trouble with “out of bounds” foods (22:30)

· Making comments on people’s bodies…including your own! (24:00)

· Apple watches, counting steps and burning calories (27:00)

· Millie’s personal experience with exercise and the key question she now asks herself before she exercises (29:00)

· What is bigorexia and why you might want to keep an eye out for it? (30:00)

If you liked this episode make sure to check out Season One of Bod Almighty including these guests:

How to Respond When Your Child Says I’m Fat with Emma Wright

How to Eat Carbs with Kate Spina

Where you can find Millie:

@Millietnz

@Healedrecoverycoach

www.healed.net.au

millie@healed.net.au