These energy hygiene skills can be a huge asset to helping your child navigate an already chaotic world without carrying the weight of other's emotions and energies (as kids are vulnerable to do, as they tend to be empathic).

Support your child in developing body appreciation and neutrality. Learn how to teach them to cultivate inner confidence and self-validation, rather than external validation, and how to establish and uphold firm body boundaries to protect themselves from unwanted experiences.

Help your child discern between physical and emotional hunger, and how to respond appropriately to each according to what their body and being truly need. These important guidelines support you in avoiding unintentionally setting your child up to become emotionally attached to food.

Learn and use these 8 emotional processing strategies, which are some of the best ways to teach your child to name and process their emotions, regulate their nervous system, and activate a relaxation response in their body and mind so they can access a state of calm. These are great processes for you to learn to achieve the same for yourself.

To prevent your child from reaching for food to soothe their emotions, learn how to effectively coach them through feeling and freeing their emotions. It's essential to learn how to validate your child's emotional experience so they feel safe to share, rather than stuff it down. 

You model eating patterns, food beliefs & emotional processing to your child. It's important that you understand your own patterns, so you can take empowered action to change your tendencies that aren't aligned with how you want to think, feel and behave with regards to food, eating and your body.