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Scenario

When parents disagree on how to handle their child's body image struggles

Our teenage daughter is clearly struggling with body image and food, and my spouse and I keep disagreeing on how to handle it — they think I'm being too anxious and making it worse, I think they're being dismissive of warning signs. Meanwhile our daughter is caught between our different approaches and we're all walking on eggshells around meals and body talk.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Parental discord about intervention is creating additional instability around an already fragile situation.

Your guide for this
Dipa
Dipa works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Weight body size and health — beyond BMI?”

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