Mamahood After Trauma | Trauma Informed Parenting, Emotional Regulation for Moms
Sep 3, 2026 · 17 min · 12 segments
In this powerful episode, host Emily Cleghorn welcomes Kamy Moussavi, founder of Step Together, to explore the deep connection between childhood trauma and excess weight in children. Kamy shares his…
Emily CleghornHost
Kamy MoussaviGuest
So the parents that come to us, they're typically not fully aware of what is truly causing their problem, their weight problem with their kid.
coming to us to be like, hey, what should I feed my kid for them to maintain a healthier weight? Or how can I get them motivated to exercise? How can I get them to stick to a diet, et cetera? The biggest obstacle for parents and for my parents specifically when I was growing up is becoming aware of their own emotional world.
They experienced war, they experienced bombings, they experienced being just constantly on the lookout for the sirens that go off in the middle of the night and you have to go down to the basement.
And they suppressed all of that because the only way for them to handle it was to just shut it off.
And it's hard to become aware of how that affects the children because you're not aware of it.
Yeah, I think you really hit the nail on the head there because if you're, as a parent, if you're not aware, if your body is living in survival mode and you're just focused on getting day to day to day to day to day, then you're not able to see outside of that outside of those blinders, for lack of a better term.
And so if you're not aware of what's going on within you, you certainly cannot be aware of what's going on with somebody else, even if they are your child.
So the parents that come to us, they're typically not fully aware of what is truly causing their problem, their weight problem with their kid.
coming to us to be like, hey, what should I feed my kid for them to maintain a healthier weight? Or how can I get them motivated to exercise? How can I get them to stick to a diet, et cetera? The biggest obstacle for parents and for my parents specifically when I was growing up is becoming aware of their own emotional world.
They experienced war, they experienced bombings, they experienced being just constantly on the lookout for the sirens that go off in the middle of the night and you have to go down to the basement.
And they suppressed all of that because the only way for them to handle it was to just shut it off.
And it's hard to become aware of how that affects the children because you're not aware of it.
Yeah, I think you really hit the nail on the head there because if you're, as a parent, if you're not aware, if your body is living in survival mode and you're just focused on getting day to day to day to day to day, then you're not able to see outside of that outside of those blinders, for lack of a better term.
And so if you're not aware of what's going on within you, you certainly cannot be aware of what's going on with somebody else, even if they are your child.
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