#43: Feminism and Eating Disorder Recovery with Melissa A. Fabello, Body-Acceptance and Eating-Disorder Activist

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

Health, Food, Bodypositive, Antidiet, Recovery, Fat, Dietculture, Weight, Eating, Positivity, Intuitive, Diet, Nutrition, Psychology, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Body

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🗓️ 22 September 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Christy talks with the fabulous Melissa A. Fabello, a body acceptance and eating disorder activist and the managing editor of Everyday Feminism. Melissa shares what led her to develop an eating disorder in her early 20s, and why feminism played an important role in her recovery.

Melissa A. Fabello is a body acceptance and eating disorder activist, scholar in the field of sexology, and Jurassic Park enthusiast based in Philadelphia, PA. Currently, Melissa works as a Managing Editor of Everyday Feminism, the largest independent feminist media website in the world, and is a doctoral candidate in Widener University’s Human Sexuality Studies program, where her research interest is in how the onset of an eating disorder affects psychosexual development. You can contact her through her website and follow her on Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook.

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0:00.0	I remember I was teething, little gums bleeding, cry day evening, it was all about eating.
0:09.0	When I became a teen, it was all about beef and now ready for the world.
0:13.5	Try and seek my teething.
0:15.3	Hey guys, welcome to episode 43 of Food Psych.
0:19.3	I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and today we're talking with the awesome Melissa Febelo.
0:24.3	She's the managing editor of the website, Everyday Feminism, and a vocal advocate for body
0:29.2	acceptance and eating disorder recovery.
0:32.1	She shares how she developed an eating disorder at a relatively late stage in life, and she
0:36.4	talks about how feminism helped tremendously in her recovery.
0:40.0	So if you're a card carrying feminist, you might already understand why this is important
0:44.4	and why feminism could be helpful.
0:46.4	If you don't even think the term feminism applies to you, then I encourage you to listen
0:50.6	to this episode and hear a little bit about why feminism can be so helpful in these issues.
0:56.3	And whatever your label or approach to feminism, it's a really great conversation and I can't
1:02.3	wait to share it with you in just a minute.
1:04.6	But first, I want to point you to a couple of great resources for helping improve your
1:08.5	relationship with food.
1:10.3	The first is my free quiz to assess your relationship with food and see how healthy it is.
1:15.4	I'll send you your results via email along with more than a dozen personalized, individualized
1:20.7	tips to help you make peace with food wherever you might fall in the spectrum right now.
1:25.6	Take the quiz and get your results today at chrisdharrison.com slash quiz.
1:30.6	That's chrisdharrison.com slash quiz.
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