#271: From Weight-Loss "Success Story" to Eating-Disorder Recovery Mentor and Fat Activist with Daph Levy (Dishin' with Daph)
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Anti-diet eating-disorder-recovery mentor, fat activist, and video content creator Daph Levy joins us to discuss her journey from being a dieting “success story” and weight-loss camp counselor to pursuing a career in eating-disorder treatment and recovery, privilege within the eating-disorder-treatment field, the feeling of not belonging and dieting to try to fit in, sitting with discomfort in recovery, and so much more.
Daph Levy (she/her) is an anti-diet eating-disorder recovery mentor, fat activist, and video content creator based in Boston, MA. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Dietetics, Nutrition & Food Science at the University of Vermont, and her Dietetic Internship from Simmons University. As a person who identifies as queer, fat, and Latina, Daph strives to offer a unique perspective on how to view health and wellbeing. She brings forth her expertise in the area of size diversity and health with conviction and care to the individuals with whom she speaks. Daph draws from her infinite curiosity and advocacy work to listen reflectively in order to best inform how she shares her valuable knowledge from her educational background, clinical training, and lived experiences in her recovery from eating disorders on her YouTube channel and Instagram “dishinwithdaph.” On the channel she dives deep into topics including eating disorder recovery, Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, and more. In the near future, Daph hopes to offer one-on-one and group coaching services to support people who struggle with body image and relationship to food. You can support her work by following her on social media platforms and subscribing to her YouTube channel.
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| 0:05.0 | If you're ready to break free from diet culture and reclaim the life it stole from you, |
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| 0:14.0 | That's christieherison.com slash course. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation, |
| 0:24.0 | and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm your host christieherison and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, |
| 0:34.0 | an author of the book, anti-diet, reclaim your time, money, well-being, and happiness through intuitive eating, |
| 0:40.0 | which is available now wherever books are sold. |
| 0:43.0 | Join me here every week as I interview interesting people from all different backgrounds, |
| 0:47.0 | but their paths toward peace with food and their bodies. |
| 0:51.0 | And by the way, on this show we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, |
| 0:56.0 | but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. |
| 1:27.0 | Hey there, welcome to episode 271 of Food Psych. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm your host christieherison and today I'm talking with anti-diet eating disorder recovery mentor, |
| 1:37.0 | fat activist, and video content creator, Daff Levy, about her journey from being a quote-unquote dieting success story |
| 1:45.0 | and weight loss camp counselor to pursuing a career in eating disorder treatment and recovery. |
| 1:51.0 | We also talk about privilege in the eating disorder treatment field, the feeling of not belonging |
| 1:57.0 | and dieting to try to fit in, sitting with discomfort in recovery, and so much more. |
| 2:03.0 | I can't wait to share a conversation with you in just a moment, it's a really good one, |
| 2:07.0 | and I just want to give a little content warning for it because Daff talks about some pretty recent struggles with disorder eating, |
| 2:14.0 | and it's a great interview so hopefully you'll bear with the bleeps. |
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