Doctor Mom: What If It’s Not About Your Child’s Weight? with Dr. Wendy Schofer

Описание: On this episode of the Inspired Mom MDs Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Wendy Schofer, a board-certified pediatrician, lifestyle physician, and emotional health educator. She is the founder of Family in Focus and host of the Family in Focus Podcast.

Wendy shares how her 21-year pediatric career evolved from a prescription-focused, military-medicine model to a deeply relationship- and emotion-centered approach. After hitting a wall with perfectionism across her roles as physician, officer, mom, and wife, she began noticing something powerful: families, and she herself, were struggling with food fights, shame, and the pressure to “get it right.”

Everything shifted when she started asking one simple question: What is actually working?

That question led her to embrace slowing down as a pattern disruptor, a way to interrupt perfectionism, burnout, and reactive parenting.

This episode is a powerful reminder that connection, not correction, is often the real medicine.

00:00 Introduction: Meet Dr. Wendy Schofer
04:52 The Question That Changed Everything: “What Is Working?”
07:23 Why Growth Mindset Isn’t Pretty
10:14 Perfectionism in Parenting and Medicine
14:10 Emotions Are Patterns, And Slowing Down Disrupts Them
15:19 How to Read Your Child’s Emotions
18:24 Guessing vs. Labeling: What to Say (and What Not to Say)
22:20 It’s Not About the Food: Start With the Parents’ Emotions
33:51 How to Advocate for Yourself and Where to Find Wendy
34:55 Closing Reflections

Family in Focus with Dr. Wendy Schofer, MD - https://www.wendyschofermd.com/
Family in Focus Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

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