Tara Whitney is a published author, podcaster, speaker and coach and believes women don’t need the scale to fully know their own self-worth. Tara shares some surprising facts that are happening with our young girls and how body dysphoria shows up. Social media has only accelerated this need to have a ‘perfect image’ and it’s causing some of our young teens to develop an eating disorder. Tara talks about some of the signs you should look out for in this week’s episode.
- Tara is leading a revolution of women who are listening to their own internal wisdom, respecting and nourishing their bodies, and ultimately trusting themselves in every area of their lives.
- The average girl starts to diet around 8 years of age. When Tara was growing up, it was 12.
- What are some of the signs you should be looking for in your teen?
- How do you have the conversation with your teen about their body?
- Teens are noticing that they get more attention if they are skinnier or prettier, so they will take on extreme methods to get noticed.
- No matter how hard you try, there is no such thing as ‘being thin enough’.
- If your child is obsessing over the number on the scale, it might be time to seek extra help.
- Tara doesn’t see the value of having a scale in the house.
- How do you help your teens navigate social media’s portrayal of the perfect body?
- Don’t have a partner onboard with this? Try to have a discussion about some common goals with your children.
- Children see what their parents are talking about. How do you talk about your own body image?
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Quotes:
“8 years old is when children are starting to restrict what they eat, and they start to take it to extremes.”
“When anyone loses significant amounts of weight over a short period of time, you don’t know what their experience is. Weightless doesn’t mean health.”
“For a lot of eating disorder behavior, you can never be thin enough.”
