Nurture: How to Raise Kids Who Love Food, Their Bodies, and Themselves
Mom’s Choice Gold Award for Excellence in Family-Friendly Media
2024 Indie Reader Award: Second Place in Nonfiction
2024 Next Generation Indie Book Award: First Place in Parenting/Family
2025 Book Excellence Award: Parenting Category
Nurture
How to Raise Kids Who Love Food, Their Bodies, and Themselves
There is so much confusing information about feeding families out there. Nurture: How to Raise Kids Who Love Food, Their Bodies, and Themselves is an expanded follow-up to Nourish, Heidi's first award-winning book. Nurture is a compassionate guide for parents and caregivers about feeding, eating, and discussing bodies with children and teens.
Heidi writes from her 30 years of experience treating clients with disordered eating, her own lived experience as a recovered person, and as a parent of two young adults. She weaves stories from her clients' and families' experiences with sound advice based on current research.
The book reads like a conversation with a kind fellow parent who has happened to do decades of fieldwork on the topic. It’s a sane and sound read that everyone who spends time with kids will benefit from reading.
This book is a life-enhancing tool for:
•Parents and caregivers who have had their own food and body issues and don’t want to pass them on to the next generation
•Parents and caregivers with kids exhibiting body image concerns
•Parents and caregivers with kids exhibiting disordered eating who want direction
•Parents and caregivers with kids in larger bodies who feel unclear as to how to help them in the fat-phobic culture we live in
•Parents and caregivers with picky eaters who don’t want to create dynamics around food that might lead to eating and body issues later in life
•People who spend time with children and teens and want to create an inclusive health-and-well-being-enhancing culture around them
"This book is a resource that has the potential to lay the groundwork for a generation of young people who trust their bodies and who are able to think critically and thoughtfully about incessant 'health and wellness' chatter. Although pointed at caretakers of young people, the relatable, scientifically-sound, and gentle messages offered are for you and your healing, with or without proximity to kids."
-Anna Sweeney, MS, RD, CEDS-S, LDN, Nutrition Therapist, Dietitian and Eating Disorder Expert
"ENgaging and beautifully written, this book is a tremendous resource for anyone who wants to promote health and resilience in children."
-Lisa Pearl, MS, RD, CEDC-S, Founder of CNC360, Educator and Clinical Consultant
"As a therapist and mom of two young boys, I am deeply moved. Heidi provides a relatable, non-judgmental narrative regarding introducing food choices and laying a healthy foundation for body acceptance."
-Sara Hart, MA, LMHC, Psychotherapist and Eating Disorders Expert
"This is the book we have all been waiting to read. It's filled with heartfelt commentary on how to maneuver hard situations with loved ones. It is truly a book for everyone."
-Beth Mayer, LICSW, Former Executive Director of The Multi-Service Eating DIsorders Association (MEDA)
Nourish: How to Heal Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Self
2018 Nautilus Book Award, Food/Health
2018 Book Life Prize Non-fiction Finalist, Self-Help/Relationships
2018 Independent Author Network Book of the Year Finalist, Non-fiction/Health
Nourish
How to heal your relationship with food, body, and self
Eating is a life-giving pleasure, but confusing messages from the diet and nutrition industries may leave you wondering what to eat. Do you find yourself:
•Eating food that doesn’t nourish or energize you?
•Flipping between feeling "good" and "bad" about your eating?
•Thinking about food and your body more than you’d like?
Discover how to trust your body, and to eat with love and common sense:
•Eat without alternating between deprivation and overeating
•Accept your body and trust its wisdom
•Deal with setbacks, destructive thoughts, and self-defeating attitudes
•Create healthy habits to nurture yourself
•Ditch dieting so you free yourself to live a life you love.
Nourish will guide you to transform your eating from self-control to self-love, using a 10-step healing process. In this book, Heidi Schauster, founder of Nourishing Words Nutrition Therapy, shares 20 years of wisdom from her Boston-area practice.
Where to Buy The Book:
Or ask your local bookstore to order it directly from my distributor, Ingram Spark!
Available in Spanish. Please email me directly at heidi@anourishingword.com to request a translation. Since there are very few books on this topic in Spanish, I’m offering this translation at little to no cost.
“In this brilliant and ground-breaking book, you’ll discover a powerful way to let go of ‘dieting’ and awaken an intimate, intuitive connection with your body, mind, and spirit.”
-Tara Brach, Author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge
“Nourish will change how you listen to your hunger, physically and emotionally. Nourish is like no other book I’ve read, and it is a gift to the health field and the world in general.”
-Hannah Saxe, LICSW, Therapist and Eating Disorders Specialist
"This is literally the only nutrition book I feel safe recommending to my clients."
-Marci Evans, MS, CEDRD-S, LDN, cPT, Food and body image healer
"So many of Heidi's statements about recovery will stick wth me forever. This book was a joy to read, and I will be recommending it to all of my clients."
-Beth Mayer, LICSW, Executive Director of MEDA, The Multi-Service Eating Disorders Association
"This Book provides a clear understanding of how our clients recover and, more importantly, offers the tools for anyone to begin their journey. This will be a nourishing staple for clinicians and clients alike. Bravo!"
-Lisa M. Pearl, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, Certified Eating Disorders Specialist and Supervisor
"Heidi has met the challenge of putting her nutrition-counseling techniques into written form, allowing the ripples of her work to spread far beyond those lucky individuals who get to meet with her in person."
-Jessica Setnick, MS, RD, CEDRD, Founder of Eating Disorders Boot Camp
"Heidi is a dancer and a storyteller at heart, as well as an artful nutrition therapist. If you don't have the good fortune to work with Heidi live, then read her book."
-Lauren Manasse, LICSW, CEDS-S, Certified Eating Disorders Specialist and Supervisor
