![]() He took a step back and looked at what food can really be. Kibby ultimately used this as an opportunity to really look at what’s important to him and the impact he wants to make in the world. Oh boy, do I ever relate to that! Pandemics, groups of people and conferences, trainings and workshops don’t go together well either (yup, I canceled 18 events on March 13, 2020…) Kibby found himself facing a pandemic, the loss of his business, and the loss of his personal and professional identity. ![]() (You have to take your mask off to eat…). Pandemics, groups of people, and eating just don’t go together. Kibby showed up his whole self in this interview and shared with vulnerability how COVID impacted- well we could say decimated- his business. He’s clearly a keen observer and has developed a program with structure, yet flexibility, that empowers parents to create connection with their children in the kitchen. He’s a chef and a dad who intimately knows the power of bringing families together in the kitchen. Kibby is taking a unique and in my not-so-humble opinion brilliant approach to supporting families where there is just too much negative and stressful around food and feeding. This actually makes complete sense because food, attachment, and giving and receiving nurturing are intricately intertwined. I see this even in families where the child doesn’t have an obvious history of food trauma or scarcity. Our own history, societal messages about parenting, subtle and not-so-subtle messages we get from well-meaning (and not well-meaning) friends, family, and even the doctor about the right and wrong way to feed our kids, and how for some reason we make meaning about how good of a parent we are based on how well we can control what our child does and doesn’t eat. There’s just so much that goes into food and feeding. Sometimes it’s not just an undercurrent- it’s the primary, biggest challenge. ![]() The families I work with almost always have an undercurrent of energy around food and feeding. Kibby has shifted his professional life to be supporting foster and adoptive families with what has got to be, from my very non-scientific way I collect data, difficulties: FOOD. He’s also a dad to his biological, adopted, and foster kids. Kibby is a professional chef who has been teaching culinary skills to others for many many years. Social media might be good for something after all- like meeting really neat people like Chef Kibby from Cookin’ With Kibby.
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