TPP 461: Naureen Hunani on Neurodiversity-Affirming Nutrition and Food Care
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is neurodiversity‑affirming nutrition and why is it important for parents?
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I'm Debbie Rieber, and you are listening to Full Tilt Parenting, a podcast for parents, caregivers, educators, therapists, anyone who is supporting, loving, and raising neurodivergent kids. And today we're diving into a topic that doesn't necessarily get enough attention in parenting spaces, and that is neurodiversity affirming nutrition. My guest is Noreen Hunani. I heard about Noreen through Zoe Bisbing, who I had on a few months ago for a fascinating conversation about RFID. And she told me about Noreen, who is a Montreal-based family nutritionist, pediatric dietitian, and mom of two who brings both professional expertise and lived experience to this intersection of neurodivergence and nutrition and feeding.
Noreen is a passionate. About helping families create a positive, shame-free relationship with food using a non-diet, weight-inclusive approach that focuses as much on the feeding environment and language around food as what's on the plate. So, this conversation is about neurodiversity-affirming nutrition. And Noreen's gonna share her personal journey and her nutrition model that she developed, which is rooted in inclusion, acceptance, and trauma-informed practices. So if you have a kid who struggles with any aspect of food and nutrition, or it's something that you in particular are feeling concerned about regarding your child's relationship with food, you're gonna want to listen to this episode.
And if you want to watch our conversation, don't forget you can always go over to our YouTube channel. It's at YouTube, it's full tilt parenting. Please subscribe there. Help us spread the word. We're trying to get more visibility. on different platforms so we can amplify these conversations far and wide. So thanks so much. And here is my conversation with Noreen Hunani. Hey Noreen, welcome to the podcast. Thank you
so much for having me, Debbie.
Yes, I'm really looking forward to this conversation. I was saying before I hit record that I was doing a second interview with Zoe Bisbang, who's a nutritionist who works especially with kids who have RFIT, especially neurodivergent kids. She referred me to your work and I did a bit of a deep dive into the work that you're doing. And I'm so excited to get to share you with my listeners and with the Tilt community. So I would love if you could kick us off by talking a little bit about your background and what led you to really focus on neurodiversity affirming nutrition.
Yeah, so I have been practicing as a dietitian for over eighteen years now, and I guess for me, like the pivotal shift happened after becoming a parent and experiencing Like my own challenges with feeding my kids and it was really, really difficult for me to find support that felt affirming. Had been practicing as a dietitian for like five years at that time when I first became a mom. And I remember sharing a little bit about like what my challenges were and what was happening and providers not understanding, not fully hearing what I was saying. And they were just all super excited to just give me this kind of script, you know, very prescriptive approach. Like do this and keep offering food and everything's good and everything's gonna be fine.
And I just always left these appointments feeling really, really invalidated. And that's when I really decided, okay, well, I need to understand this for my own family. And then I also started implementing a lot of what I was learning in my practice and with my clients and the families that I was supporting at that time. And then what happened was I started realizing that I wanted to have these conversations around feeding differences and neurodivergence and RFID and all of these things.
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