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If you are a mom who struggles with emotional eating, you are not alone. While becoming a mother is an incredibly nurturing and rewarding experience, it can also cause a lot of stress and mixed emotions. Of course you love your kids, but it takes a lot of work to raise a tiny human!

Would you consider yourself an emotional eater? Do you find yourself eating when you're bored, sad, or lonely? From the creators of The Nourished Mama: Intuitive Eating for Busy Moms, join Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor Jennifer Neale and Clinical Psychologist Dr. Melisa Arias-Valenzuela for a FREE workshop on Emotional Eating and Motherhood.

Did you know that the desire to be thinner in girls can start as early as age 6? In fact, 50% of girls and 30% of boys aged 6-8 are already aware of their body size and want to be thinner than they are. Why is this an issue? Research shows that body-positive kids who assume they are healthy (regardless of what anyone else thinks about their health or weight) are more likely to have a healthy relationship with food and their body, more likely to be healthier overall, and less likely to engage in risky dieting behaviours like purging or restricting.

Many people assume that Intuitive Eating means that you eat what you want when you want with no real plan or structure to your day. In my life, with two kids, things run a lot smoother when there is an actual plan. That way we have the groceries we need to make the meals that we want to eat.

If you're looking to give the gift of food freedom to someone (or yourself) this year, why not start with a book? Here are ten of my favourites broken down by the personalities that may be best suited to read them.

Being a new mom is hard. You’re sleep-deprived, you’re hormonal, you’re hungry, your body doesn’t feel like your own, and you have a tiny human depending on you. Don’t worry mama, you are not alone, and it’s ok if you don’t have it all together. In fact, it’s normal.

Having a baby is an incredibly special time of your life. However, it's also an incredibly difficult time. Your body has just spent nine months growing a small human, and yet there's this incredibly unrealistic expectation that your body is just going to go right back to what it was before after the baby is born. If you've been struggling with your body image since becoming a mom, get my top 5 tips to improve your postpartum body image.