Episode 11 of The Homemade Health Podcast – Transforming Your Child’s Diet with Guest Shandy Laskey
Join Sydney & Lori as they welcome special guest Shandy Laskey of Speaking of Health & Wellness, LLC onto the show. Shandy is an integrative speech-language pathologist, pediatric feeding specialist, functional nutritional therapy practitioner, and an Epidemic Answers Certified Health Coach.
Through her own healing journey, she learned first hand the profound power of nutrition and lifestyle, and she has integrated this knowledge into her work with children and families. Shandy specializes in nutrition and mealtime coaching for parents of children with complex picky eating and neurodevelopmental disorders, offering online distance coaching to families around the world.
In today’s episode, we discuss how to incorporate new foods into your child’s diet and how to overcome picky eating. We also dive into food addictions and sensitivities that may be undermining your efforts to get your child to eat a health diet while driving behavioral issues in your child.
Today we’re speaking with Shandy Laskey of Speaking of Health & Wellness. Shandy is an integrative speech-language pathologist, pediatric feeding specialist, functional nutritional therapy practitioner, and an Epidemic Answers Certified Health Coach.
Through her own healing journey, she learned first hand the profound power of nutrition and lifestyle, and she has integrated this knowledge into her work with children and families. Shandy specializes in nutrition and mealtime coaching for parents of children with complex picky eating and neurodevelopmental disorders, offering online distance coaching to families around the world.
HOW TO GO ABOUT CHANGING YOUR CHILD’S DIET
- meal time strategies
- Tips on getting kids to try new foods
PICKY EATERS
- neurotypical kids
- Tips for children with neurodevelopmental issues
FOOD ALLERGIES/INTOLERANCES
- gluten, dairy
- MSG, food additives
- sugar
- bio-individual food sensitivities
EMPOWERING CHILDREN
- teaching them how food affects them
- strategies to keep them on track
SUPPORT WHEN IT’S OVERWHELMING
- Shandy works with distance clients all over the world. You can find her at speakingofhealthandwellness.com.
- FREE Nourishing Picky Eaters Guide, and the Nutrients for a Healthy Brain Guide available on her site
- IG @speakingofhealthandwellness
- FB – @speakingofhealthandwellnessllc
- Pinned FREE Facebook group on the ^ page