“The Food Allergy Institute was started because I understand the toll raising a child with allergies takes on your mental and physical health.”
In 2017, I had a career in marketing, a seven-year-old son with eight anaphylactic food allergies. I also had an active five-year-old. Like many food allergy parents, I was stressed over how to balance work, typical family responsibilities, with the added challenge of trying to keep my son safe and included at school and social activities. What I was looking for did not exist. This was the start of the Food Allergy Institute.
Leaving my marketing career behind I took my years of learning as a food allergy mom to become a food allergy expert. While completing my Master’s in Child and Adolescent Psychology, I conducted outreach programs for Food Allergy Research & Education. In short, I became the expert I needed.
My mission is to support food-allergic individuals, their families, schools, communities, workplaces, and advocate for safe inclusion while reducing the stress and anxiety that can come with living with food allergies.
I have been interviewed on local NBC stations in both Houston and Atlanta, The Real-Life Show: Living with a Chronic Illness, The Killer Food Allergy Podcast, Chronic Moms Club, and Cleanly Consumed as a food allergy expert.
Let’s connect so I can help you, your family, and your community.
Warmly,
Leah
Leah Robilotto, PsyM – Founder of the Food Allergy Institute
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So why don’t we ask for help- even when we are crying, alone and desperate?
We are afraid. We’re afraid of appearing vulnerable, weak, and incapable.
It is almost impossible not to have increased stress and anxiety and stress at a time when we are living through a period like no other before. There is literally no playbook.
I work with family’s like mine to build what I call a healthy level of anxiety, which means to be aware but not scared of your surroundings and take reasonable precautions.