How to Raise an Intuitive Eater

Children are born intuitive eaters in a society where diet culture dominates. Parents are concerned about how to best feed their children, and nearly everyone is offering solutions on how to tackle the childhood obesity epidemic. But these solutions miss the most important thing: a healthy relationship with food.

The absence of this healthy relationship can lead to disastrous consequences: weight cycling, low self-esteem and eating disorders can result from this fear-based approach to food that has become the norm for us all.

How to Raise an Intuitive Eater is a compassionate guide for parents to help improve the health, happiness and wellbeing of their children. Based on their experiences working with parents and children, Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson understand that parents want their kids to live their best lives in the bodies they were born to have.

Author Biography

Sumner Brooks (Author)

Sumner Brooks, MPH, RDN, LD, CEDRD is a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) and certified eating disorder specialist (CEDRD) based in Portland, Oregon who has been working as a dietitian with clients on all levels of the disordered eating spectrum for over 11 years. Sumner is a nutrition therapist who has been mentored by Intuitive Eating co-author Elyse Resch for over 8 years and a mum of two children ages 5 and 2 who have required her to put knowledge, intuition and parenting skills of intuitive eating to the test of real life.

Amee Severson (Author)

Amee Severson, RDN, CD is a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) in private practice outside of Seattle, Washington and has also worked with students at Western Washington University. Amee’s work with individuals focuses on repairing relationships with food and body for all her clients and helping maintain those relationships when working with families. She is a dietitian registered in the State of Washington, and has received training under the Original Intuitive Eating Pro’s Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole.