Wellness for Real Life Podcast
Welcome to the Wellness for Real Life podcast!
Here we empower high achieving women to reach their goals in all areas by providing practical and straightforward advice that takes the overwhelm out of wellness.
Juggling work, family, and personal time can often feel like too much to manage, so we’ll provide simple tools and teach you how to set up routines that can seamlessly integrate into even the busiest season of life.
Tune in to hear us chat about everything from fitness, nutrition, mindset, time management, relationships, stress relief and self care, authentic communication, and more.
While sharing relatable lessons and takeaways from our own real life. You deserve to be and feel like the best version of yourself, and we’re here to help make that a reality.
Wellness for Real Life Podcast
How to Talk To Your Kids About Nutrition
Lauren Melton and Marci Nevin unpack what it really looks like to model healthy nutrition habits in a household with kids without guilt, confusion, or food rules. They explore how tracking your food (or not) can impact your children, why language matters more than you think, and how to approach these conversations in an empowering, shame-free way. From forgotten jerseys and healthy taco nights to childhood stories of cabbage soup diets and sugar packets, this is an honest, warm, and laugh-out-loud chat for any parent trying to do it right or at least real.
Key Timestamps:
00:01 – Babysitting chaos + the missing jersey saga
00:06 – Kids and self-sufficiency: why age 10+ is a sweet spot
00:13 – The truth about tracking in front of kids
00:20 – Why your food language matters more than you think
00:27 – Childhood stories: diet culture, cereal rules, and body shame
00:33 – “A moment on the lips…” the generational impact of food beliefs
00:40 – Empowering kids through modeling, not forcing
00:45 – Sugar packets, slushies, and silly rules we grew up with
00:51 – Why tracking isn't toxic and when it can be
01:00 – Creating teachable moments around food without guilt
01:05 – How to model balance and nourishment, not obsession
Resources Mentioned: The LifeSTYLE Collective
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