How to Help Your Kids Build a Healthy Relationship With Food in a Diet Culture World With Sehrish Ali
How to Help Your Kids Build a Healthy Relationship With Food in a Diet Culture World With Sehrish Ali
Helping kids develop a healthy relationship with food feels harder than it should. Everywhere we turn, diet culture is telling us there is a right way to eat, a wrong way to eat, and a moral value attached to food choices. As parents, we are trying to protect our kids from harm while also navigating our own complicated histories with food.
In this episode of the Educated Parent Podcast, I sat down with Dr. Sehrish Ali to talk about how parents can support child eating habits in a way that builds trust, flexibility, and long term emotional health. This conversation is especially important in a world where diet culture shows up early and often for kids, even when we are doing our best to shield them.
Dr. Ali is a psychologist and certified eating disorder specialist based in Houston, Texas. She works with adolescents, adults, and families navigating eating disorders, body image concerns, and perfectionism. She brings a deeply compassionate and evidence-based lens to food conversations, which makes her insights incredibly valuable as parenting resources for families who want to do this differently.
Why Diet Culture Makes Food So Complicated for Kids
Diet culture teaches us that food is a reflection of worth. Good foods make us good. Bad foods make us bad. Even when parents do not say these things out loud, kids pick up on the patterns through comments, restrictions, praise, and subtle reactions.
When diet culture drives parenting decisions, child eating habits often become a source of anxiety and control. Parents worry about sugar, portion sizes, and long-term health outcomes. Kids sense that tension and may respond with rigidity, secrecy, or power struggles around food.
Helping kids build a healthy relationship with food starts with recognizing how deeply diet culture has shaped all of us. Awareness creates space for change.
Keeping Food Neutral to Support Child Eating Habits
One of the most important strategies Dr. Ali shared is removing moral language from food. Food does not need to be labeled as good or bad. When we use neutral language, we reduce shame and help kids tune into their own bodies.
A healthy relationship with food grows when kids hear language like
This food gives your body energy
This food helps you feel full longer
How does your body feel right now
Neutral food language supports healthier child eating habits by shifting the focus from rules to internal cues. This is one of the most effective parenting resources for families navigating diet culture.
How Parents Model Food and Body Messages
Kids learn about food long before we ever talk to them directly about it. They watch how we talk about our bodies. They hear how we describe our eating choices. They notice when we criticize ourselves or celebrate restriction.
Diet culture thrives on self-judgment. When parents model body respect and neutrality, kids learn that their bodies are not problems to fix. This modeling is a critical part of building a healthy relationship with food and supporting emotional safety around eating.
Changing how we speak about ourselves is not easy, especially if diet culture has been present for generations. But small shifts matter, and kids notice them.
Choosing Connection Over Control Around Food
Many food struggles become control battles because parents are scared. Scared their child is not eating enough. Scared they are eating too much. Scared they are setting the wrong precedent.
Dr. Ali emphasized that connection matters more than control. When parents stay curious instead of reactive, kids feel safer exploring hunger, fullness, and preferences. This approach supports child eating habits without turning meals into battlegrounds.
A healthy relationship with food is built over time through trust, not perfection.
Trusting the Process With Child Eating Habits
One meal does not define a child. One holiday season does not define a child. One phase of picky eating does not define a child.
Diet culture pushes urgency and fear. Parenting requires patience and perspective. When we focus on long-term patterns instead of short-term panic, we give our kids the space they need to learn what their bodies need.
This episode offers parenting resources that help parents step out of fear and into confidence. Supporting a healthy relationship with food means trusting your child, trusting yourself, and trusting that learning happens through experience.
Final Thoughts for Parents
If food feels stressful in your home, you are not failing. You are parenting in a culture that makes this hard. The goal is not to get it right every time. The goal is to create safety, flexibility, and trust around food.
When parents shift away from diet culture and toward connection, child eating habits become less loaded and more intuitive. That foundation supports both physical health and emotional well-being.
You are allowed to learn alongside your child. You are allowed to change course. And you are allowed to use evidence-based parenting resources to support a healthier future for your family.
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[00:00:00] Leah Clionsky: Welcome to the Educated Parent Podcast. I am your host, Dr. Leah Clionsky, and I know you're going to want to hear from the guests that I brought on today because this topic is something that all of us are concerned about and that's how do we help our children develop a healthy relationship with food?
[00:00:20] Leah Clionsky: And by healthy, I mean the kind of relationship where they're not going to develop an eating disorder later on. How do we help them? Feel good about food and what are we supposed to do to make that process easier for them? So that's why I am so excited to be here with Dr. Sehrish Ali. She is a psychologist and she's a licensed professional counselor, supervisor and certified eating disorder specialist, and she's based in Houston, Texas.
[00:00:49] Leah Clionsky: She's also the founder of Guided Growth Therapy and she supports adolescents, adults, and families navigating eating disorders, which is why it's so amazing that she's here to discuss this with us. She also helps with identity development and high functioning distress rooted in trauma and perfectionism, drawing from years in clinical leadership and direct care.
[00:01:10] Leah Clionsky: Dr. Ali blends compassion, curiosity, and evidence-based strategies to help clients and communities move towards deeper self-trust and body respect. So I am so glad you're here. Dr. Ali, thank you for coming on. Educated Parent.
[00:01:25] Sehrish Ali: Yeah. Thank you for having me.
[00:01:28] Leah Clionsky: Yeah, I'm so excited to have you, especially since this episode is airing in January and that's when there is so much talk about dieting and wellness, sort of like healthy behaviors that are sort of sneaking into dieting. There's so much talk and we're exposed to it, and so are our kids.
[00:01:48] Sehrish Ali: Agreed. I think that is, you know, one of the bigger things, I work with a lot of adults, but, uh, it's, it's both, it's the transference of adults struggling and with body image and, and food and kind of how we're modeling that for kiddos. And, you know, sometimes I'll hear, uh. Kids as young as six, kind of worried about their bodies or if they're eating good or bad foods.
[00:02:10] Sehrish Ali: And, and how do we navigate some of these conversations with them is, is usually one of the bigger things that, uh, parents wanna know about. So.
[00:02:19] Leah Clionsky: Does January and all of the Diet Talk and the New Year's Resolution diet talk, does that trigger a lot of people that you work with? When all of those ads come out and everyone's asking about New Year's resolutions.
[00:02:32] Sehrish Ali: Absolutely. I, I think that it's definitely there throughout the year, but I do think, uh, I'd say the New Years and summers are usually the higher, um, hot spots of the year for stuff that this, um, it's, it's a reset for the year. And so I think that's when let's renew those gym memberships. Let's get back on these goals of losing X amount of weight, because maybe that's the answer.
[00:02:54] Sehrish Ali: And, and sometimes it's all with good intent of let. Be quote unquote healthier is how we start some of these things and these conversations and, and then they can turn into disordered eating really fast and short, uh, or just disordered behaviors.
[00:03:08] Leah Clionsky: Right. And I imagine too, like as a parent, the message that you think you're sending to your child and the message that they're receiving could be entirely different. So if you think like, I'm gonna go to the gym more. And take care of your, my body and your child thinks that you're saying there's something wrong with your body and you have to fix it immediately or you're bad, then you like what you're trying to put out there might not be what they're actually taking in.
[00:03:35] Sehrish Ali: Yeah, no, I think there's like this hidden harm of like health as a moral value that kind of comes into place, and so it. You know what it's translating healthy into. Good, good. And then unhealthy is bad. Right? And so then this is how we're internalizing health as worthiness. And that can, you can see take on a life of its own.
[00:03:54] Sehrish Ali: Um,
[00:03:55] Leah Clionsky: you tell people you're going to the gym all the time, or you're eating healthy. All the time people praise you, even if you're doing something unhealthy. Even if you're like, yes, I've, I've stopped eating all of these food groups. People will praise you and your self-control, even if it's ultimately bad for your overall health.
[00:04:12] Sehrish Ali: Right, and I mean, as a kid, I guess you can think about how then health becomes like this proxy for like control or compliance or being a quote unquote good kid, right? If I'm healthy, then I'm good and mom and dad are happy with this or, and how that can kind of, again, cycle into something different. Uh, then what was not the intentional purpose of even as a, as a parent saying that to our kids, you know.
[00:04:35] Leah Clionsky: I mean, I sometimes fine that I'm not sure what to say. Well, so like after the holidays there is so much sugar consumed, like the level of sugar consumed over. Christmas and New Year's in my house is unparalleled for the rest of the year, especially with some grandparents contributing to that often in January.
[00:04:54] Leah Clionsky: I'm thinking like we were excessive, right? We were like this, this was not actually a good thing. It was too much. We, we are too much in that lens. And now I wanna pull back on some of the sugar, but I also don't wanna send my kids this message that they were bad for eating the sugar in the first place.
[00:05:12] Leah Clionsky: Or that we now can't have it because then it becomes this like restrictive cycle where they're going to want it more. And I'm wondering if you are also seeing people struggle in the new year because of, because of times where you've gone the other direction too far.
[00:05:27] Sehrish Ali: Yeah, and I think, you know, again, like, like we said. Stalking stuffers and you know, we're going through Easter and Halloween, and like you said, there's so many, um, aspects of it associated with it. Um, it's that re we don't wanna get them into that restriction, which can then kind of increase that obsession.
[00:05:43] Sehrish Ali: Right. So this idea that it's readily available, I'm sure if you notice, if kiddos go out and get Halloween, do the trick or treating after a while, it's not exciting anymore that that Halloween candy kind of sits. There if it's just out and about. But if we say something like, oh, well we can only have one piece and we can't have anymore, or This has been too much.
[00:06:02] Sehrish Ali: I feel like that can kind of get a little bit restrictive. Some of the things we can definitely talk about is, uh, exactly what you said. Oh, well we've, we've had a little bit of candy this week. Uh, why don't we try something different today? Or just like, we don't want our kids to be having dessert every day or to, but then also let them choose, you know, of this idea of.
[00:06:24] Sehrish Ali: The balancing act. Right. And, and letting the kids trust their bodies and to, I don't want this anymore. You know? And it gets less exciting with time. And so I think that's, it's not this forbidden fruit, for example, that, that kids need to, um, assign that value to.
[00:06:41] Leah Clionsky: Yeah, whatever's forbidden becomes very attractive, even if it's not something you like. If you tell anyone they can't have something, then they desperately want it.
[00:06:51] Sehrish Ali: Exactly. Exactly. And so I, I think that's part of, you know, um, modeling is big about this, you know, and so as we're kind of, like you said, as we're moving into the new year and we, we might have less candy sitting around or, you know, and that's okay. Or we might normalize it and just have candy bulls throughout the house.
[00:07:11] Sehrish Ali: And sometimes that's always interesting too, of always having those different options in the pantry or in the refrigerator and, um, letting them decide what they are feeling that day. Because after the third day of choosing the same snack, you might notice that they might ha want not want that anymore.
[00:07:28] Sehrish Ali: Uh, and it gets boring just like anything else. It
[00:07:31] Leah Clionsky: I know.
[00:07:32] Sehrish Ali: exciting.
[00:07:33] Leah Clionsky: We tend to get scared as parents 'cause we think if we make the sweetss too accessible, our kids will always choose them. And I think maybe that's almost part of our own, I don't know, like indoctrination too with diet culture where it's like, well, I, I can't have this at the house. I will always, always eat it.
[00:07:52] Leah Clionsky: And so we're like, we don't trust ourselves and we don't trust them and we communicate this lack of trust kind of intergenerationally.
[00:08:00] Sehrish Ali: I, I agree. I think it's the idea of like, when we're standing in the supermarket, in, in, in the chip aisle or the ice cream, you know, it section's like, ah, do I wanna take this home or do I not? And kind of contemplating that. And I think take it home, you know, and let it. Sit if it needs to sit, or if we finish it off earlier than expected, then, you know, kind of questioning our own kind of insecurities around food and, and thoughts around that.
[00:08:23] Sehrish Ali: And, and what we're passing on I think is usually helpful in this case too. But I think you bring up a really good point of we mirror that for sure. Um, and are generationally for sure.
[00:08:33] Leah Clionsky: Yeah. And one thing I notice, um, like even with my husband, where he was always raised where he was allowed to have dessert and even to this day there can be ice cream that sits in our freezer for months and he won't eat it. Not 'cause he has. Not 'cause he's depriving himself, but he's just not interested in it.
[00:08:52] Leah Clionsky: You know, he could stop midway through like an gooey chocolate chip cookie 'cause he is full and, which is very hard for almost anybody else to do. But I think it's 'cause he knows he could just get another cookie. And so there's something about not being worried about it not being there, that it just doesn't, it doesn't trigger for him.
[00:09:09] Leah Clionsky: And it's, I'm, I'm envious to be honest.
[00:09:13] Sehrish Ali: Yeah, and, and I think, I think then the question is why, you know. Again, like why aren't we experiencing more of those things? Why aren't we putting ourselves through these exposures and seeing where, where that is and where our trust with those foods are? Um, and I do think that, and again, it's all love-based fear, right?
[00:09:32] Sehrish Ali: It's one of those of, hey, we are, we're not fully sure of. This might have taken a toll of its own. There is this idea of emotional eating. Um, am I passing this on? Is this going to pass on? And I think those are very real fears and I think part of it is just experiencing it with your kids. Sitting with them in those, uh, in those rollercoasters, uh, around that and, and seeing where it takes us, I think.
[00:09:57] Leah Clionsky: Yeah. And it's hard. It's hard to just let something happen, especially when you're the kind of parent who listens to educated parent and you're
[00:10:04] Sehrish Ali: Yeah.
[00:10:04] Leah Clionsky: to make good decisions for your kids, right? We're all, you're listening 'cause you're trying to be proactive and get expert advice and help your child have a great childhood in a healthy adulthood.
[00:10:15] Leah Clionsky: And so we want knowing when to intervene, you know, when not to intervene. Knowing when to trust ourselves and our kids, when to back off. It's like the. I feel like the central dilemma of parenting at its core, and it shows up with healthy and unhealthy, quote unquote foods.
[00:10:31] Sehrish Ali: Sure, sure. And again, most of our experiences are so intertangled with food, whether it be celebration, um, you know, like there's a cake when there's a birthday or something exciting, but why can't we just have cake because it's a Wednesday, right. Or, um, even if it's. You know, the healthy pieces of, oh, well vegetables are so, you know, kind of, kind of even in cartoons or even in younger childhood, are seen as, oh, that's not the thing I want.
[00:10:55] Sehrish Ali: The character might not be wanting to eat it, but I might like carrots or broccoli or a certain vegetable. And I think it's just really important to have that. It's. Exposure to all foods and then kind of seeing where the kids lean. And I think, like you said earlier, is the fear that, well, is my kid always gonna choose the sugary option, the very desserty option?
[00:11:15] Sehrish Ali: Um, will they actually choose the other thing? And and the reality is, yes, they are because their bodies physiologically, they need to be able to trust their bodies and their bodies are gonna tell them that, Hey. This sounds good. You need this. Just like when we say you've been playing outside for too long, you need more water, you know, and they will get thirsty for those other things too.
[00:11:35] Sehrish Ali: And I think we just gotta, that's where the physiological responses do come in for, um, and we just gotta let them kick in. You know, there's something called intuitive eating where it's this idea of if I have a pizza or whatever set out, I'm gonna allow my kiddo to have one slice or three. You know, or leave half a slice on the plate and let them decide of, of how hungry they are, what hunger means to them.
[00:11:58] Sehrish Ali: Um, and, you know, instead of saying, oh, we have to finish this, or, and just rephrasing that to, how's that feeling in your body right now? You know, um, if you're eating a little less, we're eating a little bit more, or, you know, and, and having more conversation around it. I think that's the way to kinda, uh, navigate some of these food conversations with our kids.
[00:12:16] Sehrish Ali: And I don't think that there's ever. Too early of a sign to do that, to just kind of ask, Hey, how's, how's that feel?
[00:12:24] Leah Clionsky: Yeah, last night, actually my 4-year-old asked why we couldn't just have only dessert for dinner. And I said to him, I said, honestly, I've tried that before. You know, and I feel awful. I don't want you to feel awful. I was like, I ate too much dessert and I felt full, but I also felt kind of sick and also still a little bit hungry and it, it hurt my tummy and I don't want you to have a hurt tummy, and I don't think you would enjoy that feeling.
[00:12:50] Leah Clionsky: And he said, okay. And then he ate and dessert. But I think if I had said to him, well, it's 'cause you know, dessert isn't good for you. Or like we have, you know, if I'd given an example I think, where it was like, no, this is like bad food and you have to eat the good food, then I maybe wouldn't have sent a message that I wanted to.
[00:13:10] Leah Clionsky: But I, I think about it a lot. I want my kids to, to live in, to feel good in their bodies and I also don't want them to be afraid of food. Give us some strategies because all of us parents are lost. What are three things?
[00:13:26] Sehrish Ali: Well, I think one of the, the main things that we really wanna focus on is just dropping this idea of good and bad food labels, right? Instead of saying that that's junk or this is healthy. Um, kind of like what you just said with that great conversation you had with your kiddo just last night. And try neutral language like this.
[00:13:43] Sehrish Ali: Food gives. Gives you energy, or this one helps you feel full longer. You know, if we're talking about certain foods, like maybe proteins or whatnot, and it teaches kids that all foods can kind of fit and that their worth isn't necessarily tied to what's on their plate just in that minute or that day.
[00:14:00] Leah Clionsky: Right. It's kind of like how adults will, like, you'll eat something you'll, and you'll say, oh, I'm being so bad. And it's, we're sending a message. Even when we say that as a joke, like I am like, I'm bad 'cause I ate. Cake. And so it's taking that language. What I'm hearing is that we're taking the language out, so if your kids eats cakes, it, if your kid eats cake, it's neutral.
[00:14:19] Leah Clionsky: They just ate the cake.
[00:14:20] Sehrish Ali: they just ate the cake. Yeah.
[00:14:22] Leah Clionsky: Yeah. I think broccoli, they just happen to eat the broccoli. It's just food is food
[00:14:27] Sehrish Ali: Yeah. And, and again, and it goes the other way around too. If they finished their vegetables or they finished their veg, you know, their broccoli or carrots or whatever, it doesn't need to be praised necessarily. It's like, oh, okay. You know, just like the other day, you know, and, and sometimes it can also be seen as, oh, because this, the vegetables is a good food.
[00:14:45] Sehrish Ali: Uh, and that's why I'm being praised because I finished it, but I didn't get. Priced for finishing my potatoes or my, whatever else, my french fries or my cake for that matter. And I think sometimes we inadvertently may, may add some of that, uh, value to it too. So kind of just keeping all food neutral, Lily.
[00:15:01] Leah Clionsky: Mm. Actually, my daughter is obsessed with broccoli. I don't know why she wants to eat it multiple times a week. I don't particularly care for broccoli. And we were at the grocery store one day. She's begging for broccoli, please, mommy, can we have broccoli? And I'm sitting there saying to her, I don't want any more broccoli, Ella.
[00:15:21] Leah Clionsky: Can we please pick something else? And this man, this stranger I've never met, walked up to me and he said. What is wrong with you? I told him, I said, you have a point, but you don't know how much broccoli I've
[00:15:35] Sehrish Ali: You dunno, I've much this.
[00:15:38] Leah Clionsky: But it was the opposite, um, conflict you would ever have. But really, there's only so much broccoli. I feel like anyone should be forced to eat in a week.
[00:15:46] Sehrish Ali: Agreed. Agreed.
[00:15:48] Leah Clionsky: All right, what's the second strategy? We're gonna keep food talk neutral.
[00:15:52] Leah Clionsky: What's the second one?
[00:15:53] Sehrish Ali: watch how you talk about your own body. A lot of this, like you talked about with the beginning of the year, diet culture being a smaller body, losing X amount of weight, kids notice everything, you know? And if they hear you saying something on like, I need to lose weight, or I feel gross, or, you know, they, they kind of learn to evaluate themselves the same way.
[00:16:10] Sehrish Ali: And so we try, you know, one thing I say is try shifting to gratitude maybe. So my body, lets. Me move, play, and like even hug you. Um, and it's really not about like perfection, it's really about molding this respect that we have for bodies, you know? Um, and so even taking things that we might think that are positive, like, oh, you're so thin, or you look so X, y, Z thing, taking that away and taking it away from bodies just in general, because that again.
[00:16:41] Sehrish Ali: Stay neutral about it, you know, and how we're talking about food and recognizing the transference, kind of what we talked about earlier, the intergenerational aspects of that. Um,
[00:16:52] Leah Clionsky: That makes so much sense. So it's not just. Keeping that neutrality in how we talk to our kids about their food, but also being aware that they are watching us. And if we make self-deprecating comments about our dietary choices or our bodies in front of them, they're gonna pick up on it. 'cause they're smart little kids and they're watching us all the time
[00:17:13] Sehrish Ali: all the time, you know, more than we might know and think. Um, so absolutely.
[00:17:18] Leah Clionsky: Perfect. All right. And what's the third strategy you would recommend So that our kids have a healthy relationship with food.
[00:17:25] Sehrish Ali: Yeah, I'd say, um, prioritizing, kind of connection over control. So, you know, we've talked a little bit about, it's easy to stress about what our child's eating, but the real goal is really helping them feel safe with food. Um, so instead of, you know, forcing bites and getting curious of, Hey, are you full or is something else going on?
[00:17:43] Sehrish Ali: You know, when they're not eating their meal or, um, I feel like when, when kids just feel understood, they, they learn to trust their bodies and, and that's kind of the foundation we're trying to build for sustainability and lifelong health. Right. And so, kind of like you mentioned yesterday when your son had this question of, Hey, why can't we just have dessert, you know, uh, for this entire meal?
[00:18:03] Sehrish Ali: And, and it's that conversation and connecting over, Hey, here's the experience I had with it. Um, and so I think that it, that's, that's one great launching pod from it.
[00:18:14] Leah Clionsky: Okay. So that's really helpful to think about. I'm glad that I handled that well. Thank you. The podcasts know I mess up, so, and this is not my area of expertise, but yeah, I think, um. I'm really hearing what you're saying about just like, make, not getting into a control battle as much about it and more explaining some reasoning or like just kind of the logic behind things that can be helpful.
[00:18:43] Leah Clionsky: I know parents get, we get scared if our kids aren't eating well in the way that we think they should as as well. Partially because their mood is dependent upon it. So if they. If we watch them only eat three cookies, we think you're going to, you're gonna have a meltdown in 15 minutes. And so I think part of that gets also encompassed in all of this too.
[00:19:03] Sehrish Ali: Yeah. You know, and, and even like, you know what you said earlier, this is not my specialty. And so even kind of like model repair language, like I realized what I said might've, sounded like food was bad or, and, and just saying, I wanna clarify. I'm learning too. You know, and, and I think 'cause we're always learning right about foods and just more about ourselves.
[00:19:22] Sehrish Ali: And so I think that's a great way to check in as well.
[00:19:25] Leah Clionsky: What would you do? Like if, if, if you were watching a child eat like three cookies and nothing else and you thought not so much, um, this is bad for them, but more they're going to have a, like, negative reaction 'cause they'll be hungry versus, you know, and sugary, like, what would you see to a child in a moment like that?
[00:19:46] Sehrish Ali: I think I'd say something like, you know, it seems like we didn't eat any of our other parts of our meals. If it's lunchtime and if they have other parts of the meals, it's like, Hey, maybe we can save one of these for later and try some of these other things and, and really focusing on that balance. Um, but in general, if it's like, Hey, if they've eaten the third cookie and then, and that was their serving size and that's what they had, it's okay.
[00:20:08] Sehrish Ali: And saying, Hey, we have these other meals. You know, it looks like you haven't eaten anything else. You might get hungry later. Here's some other options. Um, if you are, and, and kind of creating that flexibility around that. Um, I think. Um, that's one of those things where, again, not kind of using that shaming language of, oh my gosh, you ate so many.
[00:20:26] Sehrish Ali: Or, you know, or, or just kind of saying, oh wow, you didn't, you know, and really just saying, okay, it looks like we enjoyed these cookies. That's great. We still gotta eat other parts of this meal so we have a more balanced meal. Um, what can we eat more of? What are you still hungry for? What can we try eating?
[00:20:43] Sehrish Ali: Or let's save this for later because you, it looks like you might get hungry later, you know?
[00:20:48] Leah Clionsky: Yeah, so it's not the panicking over, it's like our own anxiety comes in. So it's not, oh no, they had three cookies, they didn't have anything else. And then parents start panicking. It's more of a, okay, where do we go from here without making this seem like a terrible choice? And the idea that if they kind of get hangry.
[00:21:04] Leah Clionsky: In 30 minutes, I still have the Turkey sandwich. They didn't touch, so that's still available.
[00:21:10] Sehrish Ali: Exactly, and I think that's kind of creates that flexibility for them at an early age of knowing that okay, you know, I was, I had this, now this is what happens later, you know?
[00:21:20] Leah Clionsky: I love this. I think this is so actionable. You know, I'm thinking right now about things I'm going to make sure that I say and don't say, um, to keep this kind of healthy relationship with food conversation going. When, and I think that this resource that you have is so helpful for adolescents and adults and families who are trying to navigate this together, and I'm so glad that you provide this kind of help.
[00:21:46] Leah Clionsky: Where can families reach you? Um, or where if this is triggering you as a parent and you're thinking, I need to work on myself here because it's sneaking in with my kids, where can, where can they contact you?
[00:21:59] Sehrish Ali: Well, I have a private practice out here in Houston, Texas. Um, guided growth, uh, PLC will leave the link down for you for the website, so they can definitely contact me there. Um, all the fun information's on there to, to contact me through email and phone, and would love to have a conversation with anyone that is interested to continue this conversation.
[00:22:21] Leah Clionsky: Amazing. Alright, well I'm so glad you came on the show. I'm so glad that you talked about this topic that is applicable to every single human. Because all of us eat. So thank you again. Alright, and um, for those of you listening, you know, check back in with us next week. Feel free to contact Dr. Ali if she can give you this kind of help and support and I will talk to you next time.