Breaking Food Battles and OCD Cycles With Dr. Taylor Arnold
Get to know OCD9 Tammi 2025

Breaking Food Battles and OCD Cycles With Dr. Taylor Arnold

Dr. Taylor Arnold, pediatric dietitian and the mind behind Growing Intuitive Eaters, joins Get to Know OCD to share her personal journey of overcoming OCD and breaking the cycle of disordered eating. From her struggles with emetophobia (fear of vomiting) to raising three children while managing contamination OCD, Dr. Arnold opens up about the challenges of parenting with OCD and how it shaped her approach to pediatric nutrition.

In this episode, she reveals her strategies for turning food battles into playful connections, growing intuitive eating in kids, and navigating the intersection of mental health and parenting.

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0:00 Intro
4:03 Taylor’s own OCD journey
9:57 What is ARFID?
14:28 How ARFID can manifest
17:16 How Taylor juggled life and OCD
20:26 Reassurance-seeking makes OCD worse
22:56 How Taylor’s emetophobia affected her parenting
26:08 How OCD has influenced Taylor’s work life
30:26 How Taylor will manage OCD going forward
34:02 Tips for raising kids to be intuitive eaters
38:33 When the OCD brain takes over
42:41 The importance of investing in yourself
45:34 Outro


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