Webinar: Beyond Picky Eating: Supporting Felt Safety, Connection, Nutrition, and Health

Join Us for a Webinar: Beyond Picky Eating: Supporting Felt Safety, Connection, Nutrition, and Health

Tuesday May 20th, 2025, from 1:00-2:30 p.m. (CT)

This isn’t another lecture about vegetables, or tricks to get kids to eat them. This session will help you understand why eating and mealtimes can be so difficult for children in the child welfare system or who have experienced neglect or abuse. Dr. Rowell will share trauma-informed, and relationship-building strategies to help children do their best with eating. With worries often fueling power struggles around food, a major goal of this webinar is to offer reassuring information and practical, flexible support.

Topics covered:

1. How connection and felt safety can guide your approach to feeding the children in your care and support better nutrition and health.
2. That trying to get kids to eat more, less, or different foods can backfire.
3. Strategies to reduce conflict, power struggles, and anxiety around food.
4. Why felt safety is heart healthy, and power struggles over food don’t help.
5. How a flexible meal and snack structure can help anxiety, picky eating and food preoccupation (“hoarding”).
6. How to introduce and serve a variety of foods.
7. Ways to support children with sensory and brain-based differences.

Presented by Katja Rowell MD

Katja Rowell MD, aka the Feeding Doctor, is a family doctor, author, and responsive feeding specialist. Described as, “academic, but warm and down to earth,” she’s a popular speaker and has appeared in numerous publications. Rowell believes that helping children grow up to have a healthy relationship with food and their bodies is preventive medicine. Rowell has a passion for helping adoptive and fostering families facing unique challenges with feeding. Her books include; Love Me, Feed Me: The Foster and Adoptive Parent’s Guide to Responsive Feeding and Conquer Picky Eating, a workbook for teens and adults. Rowell enjoys camping with her family and cooking. Learn more at thefeedingdoctor.com.

This webinar will take place on Zoom, and it will be recorded. You will receive the link to join after registering below.