What is “Parenting Without Diet Culture”?
Do you want to help your kids have a healthy relationship with food, exercise, and their body? You’ve come to the right place.
It’s never been harder to grow up feeling good in your own skin. Whether it’s dangerous TikTok trends, relentless weight-loss ads, or even well-meaning comments from a family member, diet culture tells our kids they aren’t measuring up.
But parents aren’t powerless. Becoming aware of diet culture’s sneakiest forms help you make your home a safe haven and prepare your kids to be resilient in the real world.
Swimming upstream in diet culture is a lot easier when you’re not alone. Join us!
About Oona
Oona Hanson is a writer, educator, and parent coach who supports families navigating diet culture, including those who have a child in treatment for an eating disorder. Oona holds a Master's Degree in Educational Psychology and a Master's Degree in English. In addition to her private practice as a parent coach, Oona has also worked on multidisciplinary treatment teams as a Family Mentor at Equip Health.
Oona has presented at the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Symposium and the Food and Nutrition Conference & Expo. She has been published in the eating disorder issue of Focus: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry.
A regular contributor to CNN, Oona’s work has been featured widely, including on Good Morning America, The Washington Post, USA Today, US News & World Report, People, Romper, and Parents Magazine. She will publish her first book in 2026 with Cambridge University Press. Oona is a mother of two and lives in Los Angeles.
