Introducing What to Say for Me – A New Path Forward

Published December 2, 2024

Child and parent hugging

WithAll is thrilled to introduce What to Say for Me, a transformative online course for parents. Lisa Radzak, WithAll’s Executive Director and course facilitator, explains who this course is designed for and how it empowers families to break harmful cycles together.

Let me start by asking you a few personal questions:

  • Have you spent noticeable time thinking about, criticizing, and wanting to change your body’s appearance, weight, or size?
  • Have you dieted, restricting certain foods, counting calories, points, carbs, fat grams, or more?
  • Have you tried different exercise routines to change your body shape or appearance?
  • Do you think having the body you want requires willpower and discipline?
  • After all the hours and money, does it still feel like your body just does not look as it could or should for you to truly feel good about how you look?
  • Finally, and here’s the kicker, are you a parent or caregiver with little ones watching your every move, learning from you and establishing their own body image and food relationship?

If yes to some or all of these, you’re not alone.

Child and parent hugging

My name is Lisa Radzak, the executive director of WithAll, and I am happy to share that WithAll will soon be launching a new virtual course to support those of us who are all too familiar with the points above, and who want to finally find peace.

What to Say for Me is for those of us who have struggled with body image and food and are now ready for a new way forward, for ourselves and for our children.

For three decades, I have lived with, struggled with, and learned a tremendous amount about body image, body dissatisfaction, eating disorders, disordered eating, and—most importantly—how to find peace with my body and food. Over the past seven years as executive director, I have been fortunate to learn a tremendous amount about how to support young people to prevent harms like body dissatisfaction and eating disorders from developing in the first place.

While this course is not therapy, treatment, or medical advice, three decades of experience has given me great clarity on core truths—things I wish I had learned earlier, things I want to share with you.

I’d love to have you join us over the 8-week course launching January 8, 2025. Come and learn more, recognize you are not (and have never been) alone on this journey with your body and food, and leave with practical tools and tips on giving this peace with your body and food to yourself and your kids.

Save your spot at https://withall.org/wtsforme-sign-up.

Lisa Radzak
By Lisa Radzak
As executive director of WithAll, a nonprofit working to help young people feel good in their bodies and with food, Lisa brings a unique blend of expertise and empathy to her work, helping parents and role models shift how we talk about bodies, food, and self-worth. Having lived many years of painful body image and harmful thinking and behaviors with food which culminated in an eating disorder followed by recovery, Lisa knows the complex, often painful, relationship many of us have with our bodies. She’s also a mother and her mission is to help create a different path for her daughter and all young people—a path of growing up where self-worth is never tied to appearance and all bodies are appreciated.

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