What changes when you take this course:
You stop dreading mealtimes. No, your child won't eat everything you serve, but you will no longer be locked in a battle about it.
The monitoring eases. The anxiety about nutrients and sugar and what they will and won't touch starts to loosen its grip.
You understand what's actually going on, and that understanding changes how you show up at the table AND at other times.
Parents who've worked with this framework describe feeling calmer, less worried about food. Less negotiating, less rules, less pressure from both sides.
This isn't a quick fix. It's a shift in how you see your child, food, and yourself as a parent. And that shift tends to ripple out well beyond mealtimes.
The investment
One-time investment
£59
£47
Until April 7 - includes the Telegram channel (one week from April 7 -14). Me in your pocket, coaching you through doubts and real-life situations.
What's inside — 11 audio modules, podcast style:
Listen on any walk, commute, or pile of dishes. No worksheets, no video to sit down for.
- Setting the Frame — what self-regulated eating actually means, and why this isn't a behaviour-fixing course
- Reframing "Picky Eating" — where the label comes from and why it misses the point entirely
- Food Is Not Just Nutrition — how modern feeding anxiety got so loud, and what children are actually learning at the table
- Feelings at the Table — why mealtimes are flashpoints, and what shifts when feelings are welcomed elsewhere
- Early Feeding Experiences and the Body's Memory — how birth, feeding difficulties, and early patterns shape eating without conscious memory
- Pressure, Control, and Worry — what pressure looks like (including the loving kind), and how it affects appetite and trust
- What Parents Are Responsible For (and What They're Not) — structure without domination, and where Division of Responsibility is misunderstood
- Language Matters — the phrases that add pressure without meaning to, and what to say instead
- Sugar, Snacks, and Fear-Based Feeding — the most emotionally loaded module. What the research actually says, and why restriction creates obsession
- What Helps (and What Doesn't) — clear guidance, how to repair after past pressure, and what change actually looks like over time
- Mealtimes in Real Life — eating out, parties, relatives who comment, siblings, school food and more
Who Is This For?
This course is for parents of toddlers, preschoolers and kids up to the tween years, whose eating has narrowed, parents who are newer to weaning and want to start without the anxiety spiral, and parents who are already drawn to Aware Parenting or NVC and want it applied to food.
It works best if you're open to questioning the framework you've been handed — not just looking for new tactics.
Who Isn't it For?
This is not for parents looking for recipes, meal plans, nutrition guidance, or a step-by-step plan to expand their child's palate.
It's probably not for you if you just want a quick way to get your child to eat more vegetables.
Con Calma: the upgrade
£193 (discounted until April 6)
Payment plan available: 2 x £97 or 3 x £65
The course gives you a completely new framework for understanding your child's eating. Con Calma adds Maru — so you're not doing that alone.
This is for parents who want to bring their specific child, their specific history, and work through it deeply. Two dedicated 1:1 sessions (1 hour each) with Maru, alongside full access to the course.
Like the name says, a different kind of support: unhurried, personal, and focused on what's actually happening in your house.
Con Calma includes:
- The full 11-module audio course
- Two 1:1 sessions with Maru (1 hour each)
- Space to work through your specific situation — the dinner that keeps going sideways, the pattern you can't shift, the child who only eats beige
- Access to the prelaunch Telegram channel (7–14 April) if you join before 6 April
The investment
One-time investment
£59
£47
Until April 7 - includes the Telegram channel (one week from April 7 -14). Me in your pocket, coaching you through doubts and real-life situations.
FAQs
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Not at all. The framework applies from post-weaning through older childhood. If you're in the early stages of weaning and want to start without the anxiety spiral, this is also for you.
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Yes! Two ways. If you join during prelaunch (open until 6 April), you get access to the Telegram channel — running 7–14 April, while the course is fresh. Think of it as listening to the course with me in the room: short audios going deeper on what tends to land hardest, plus space to bring your real questions and specific situations. If you want dedicated 1:1 time with me, that's what Con Calma is for.
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It runs 7–14 April, the week after the course drops. Short audios from me — 3 to 5 minutes — going behind the modules: the "but what about...?", what this looked like in my own house, the nuance that doesn't fit neatly into a recording. You can drop questions, share what's landing, or just listen. It's the difference between sitting with an idea alone and sitting with it alongside someone who has been through it.
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This course is audio only — podcast style. You can listen while you're doing the dishes, on a walk, in the car. No worksheets, no video to sit down for. Self-paced, lifetime access.
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There's a module that addresses ARFID in a non-pathologising way — what it is, what it isn't, and how the framework still applies. This course doesn't replace clinical support, but many parents find that understanding the emotional and relational picture shifts things even when there's a formal diagnosis in the background.
Acknowledgements & About Me
Everything inside this course is grounded in Aware Parenting, a model developed by Dr. Aletha Solter, a Swiss–American developmental psychologist who trained directly with both Jean Piaget (in Geneva). Her work brings together attachment theory, trauma research, anthropology, and decades of clinical experience — and it offers a radically compassionate, deeply respectful understanding of children’s emotions.
Maru Rojas is an Aware Parenting Mentor and parenting coach based in London, originally from Mexico. She came to this work through her own children, her own confusion, and her own unlearning — including the rules about food and bodies she absorbed growing up in an authoritarian culture. This course is what she wishes she'd had before the worry set in.
Course contents
Six modules, ten recordings + bonus episodes
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1MODULE 1 — Setting the Frame: What This Course Is (and Isn’t)
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2MODULE 2 — Reframing “Picky Eating”: Why the Label Misses the Point
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3MODULE 3 — Food Is Not Just Nutrition
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4MODULE 4 — Feelings at the Table: Why Eating Gets Hard
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5MODULE 5 — Early Feeding Experiences and the Body’s Memory
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6MODULE 6 — Early Feeding Experiences - Breastfeeding control pattern
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7MODULE 7 — What Parents Are Responsible For (and What They’re Not)
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12Extras