Can I Have Another Snack? is a newsletter, podcast and community exploring appetite, identity, and bodies, especially through the lens of parenting. Here we unpack the things that make us feel disrupted and disconnected from our bodies. And the things that make it difficult to feed ourselves and our kids (in all senses of the word). It’s an exploration of what it means to parent while unpacking diet-culture and anti-fatness, while supporting one another to end the tyranny of intergenerational body shame and disordered eating.
Each month I’ll publish 2-3 researched essays exploring fundamental topics in the anti-diet parenting canon, as well as looking at issues at the intersection of parenting, diet culture, and anti-fatness like why weighing kids in school is not okay, and how ‘healthy eating’ lessons can be the spark that ignites an eating disorder. These essays will always be free and available to everyone (free subscribers and the casual reader alike). They’ll be delivered into the inbox of subscribers, and live here on my Substack page.
The Can I Have Another Snack podcast is where I share stories from cool people talking about what it means to be a human who eats food and owns a body and how they find ways of moving through the world while also nurturing small people, communities, and each other. The podcast is free and available to all and is available here on Substack, as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts from.
This is a reader and listener supported publication. It is only possible because of paid subscribers. If you value the work I do here, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.
This will give you access to the community aspect of Can I Have Another Snack? (which is the best part!). You’ll get access to our weekly discussion thread “Snacky Bits” where we discuss important issues like how clean our fridges are, and question who we are really dressing for on the school run. You’ll also get to ask me questions in my monthly Dear Laura column where I fashion myself as an agony aunt, plus nutrition downloads to support you with anti-dieting parenting.
Plus you’ll get loads of perks like commenting privileges, access to the supportive community of very cool humans traveling this path, bonus posts and access to archived posts. Supporting Can I Have Another Snack? by becoming a paid subscriber is what makes this work sustainable and allows me to create meaningful, well-researched and intentional writing. It also allows me to pay my guests and contributors for their time. Critically it allows me to offer comp subscriptions to folks who need it most.
If you’d like to become a paid subscriber there are a few options - it’s £5 per month or £50 for the year. You can cancel or pause your subscription any time.
If you are like HYFR and want to give me a huge boost in confidence that I am not killing my career with this lateral move, then you can sign up to be a Founding Member - I’m suggesting £100, but you can name your price and I will send you a copy of both of my books (signed if you like).
And if paying is out of reach for you just now - just email hello@laurathomasphd.co.uk and we’ll hook you up with a comp subscription - no questions asked.
About Laura
Officially, Laura Thomas PhD, RNutr, PGDip - Registered Nutritionist. Unofficially, disgruntled and disenchanted with a profession committed to upholding power and the subjugation of bodies. Over the past ten years I have slowly been unraveling everything my training taught me about health, weight, and bodies.
My clinical work centres on helping parents and families end inter-generation dieting and body shame, and work towards a greater sense of embodiment and ease in their relationship with food. I also support families of children experiencing a wide range of feeding and eating differences, such as concerns with weight, very selective eating, food preoccupation and other feeding and eating differences. I use the lens and values of Responsive Feeding Therapy, Health at Every Size, and Intuitive Eating. I also work with a handful of adult clients who are looking for support around their relationship to food and their body. To find out how I can support you, your child(ren), or your family find more ease around food, please book a complimentary, no obligation 15 minute discovery call here.
I’m the author of two books focussed on repairing our (often pretty messed up) relationship with food and our bodies: Just Eat It and How to Just Eat It.
I am a parent to a spirited and sensitive 3 year old named Avery. We live in a small flat in London, with my husband and two cats, where we tend to a tiny balcony ‘garden’, and are surrounded by a frankly indecent number of books.
Contact
If you need to get in touch, please email hello@laurathomasphd.co.uk
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