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Thoughtful insights and practical tools for navigating the emotional side of food allergies.
Practicing Resilience: Skills for Working with Food Allergy Anxiety
Living with food allergies, your own or your child's, means carrying a kind of vigilance and worry that's hard to fully explain to people who haven't lived it. This free guide walks you through practical, psychology-based skills for recognizing anxiety, understanding what it's trying to tell you, and responding in ways that build real resilience, not by eliminating the fear but by learning to work with it.
The Most Wonderful Time of Year Might Be the Most Complicated, Too
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Fall arrives with a particular kind of energy. The decorations appear overnight, seasonal drinks return, and social media fills with pumpkins and swea...
Eighteen Years of Food Allergy Parenting
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This September marks two milestones that arrive closely together: my last K-12 back to school and my younger daughter turning 18. This is the year sh...
Confident Engagement with the Unknown: Trust and Food Allergies
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Rachel Botsman defines trust as "confident engagement with the unknown." Not certainty. Not a guarantee. Not the absence of risk. Confident engagement...
When Vigilance Becomes a Vice Grip
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Control is what the nervous system reaches for when it can’t have certainty. In the context of food allergies, that’s almost always. Which means for a...
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