nurture by Heidi Schauster, MS, RD, CEDS-S, SEP

There is so much confusing information about feeding families out there. Nurture: How to Raise Kids Who Love Food, Their Bodies, and Themselves is an expanded follow-up to Nourish, my first award-winning book. Nurture is a compassionate guide for parents and caregivers about feeding, eating, and discussing bodies with children and teens. I write from my nearly 30 years of experience treating clients with disordered eating, my own lived experience as a recovered person, and as a parent of two young adults. I weave stories from my clients’ and families’ experiences with sound advice based on current research. The book reads like a conversation with a kind fellow parent who has happened to do decades of fieldwork on the topic. It’s a sane and sound read that everyone who spends time with kids will benefit from reading.

This book is a life-enhancing tool for:

• Parents and caregivers who have had their own food and body issues and don’t want to pass them on to the next generation

• Parents and caregivers with kids exhibiting body image concerns

•  Parents and caregivers with kids exhibiting disordered eating who want direction

• Parents and caregivers with kids in larger bodies who feel unclear as to how to help them in the fat-phobic culture we live in

• Parents and caregivers with picky eaters who don’t want to create dynamics around food that might lead to eating and body issues later in life

• People who spend time with children and teens and want to create an inclusive health-and-well-being-enhancing culture around them