Episode 80: Parenting Children with Eating Disorders
About this episode
Dr. Tom Wooldridge discusses the complexities of parenting children with eating disorders and how families can navigate the challenges involved.
When a child develops an eating disorder, food becomes the battlefield, but the deeper struggle is often about fear, control, shame, and the need to feel understood. We sit down with Dr. Tom Wooldridge, board-certified psychologist, psychoanalyst, and eating disorder specialist, to talk about what actually helps families when anorexia or other eating disorders turn meals into daily conflict. His message is both relieving and challenging: eating disorders are not caused by one thing, parents a...
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