[Letter] What will it really take to heal my relationship with food using internal family systems with Vinny Welsby
Find Your Food Voice
Julie Duffy Dillon RDN
4.9 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Julie Duffy Dillon and Vinny Welsby discuss the challenges of breaking free from diet culture and the journey towards body acceptance. They explore the emotional struggles faced by individuals trying to heal their relationship with food, emphasizing the importance of community support, self-compassion, and realistic goal-setting. The conversation highlights the process of unlearning harmful beliefs about dieting and body image, and the significance of acknowledging progress in recovery.
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Keywords: anti-diet, diet culture, body acceptance, self-compassion, recovery, community support, unlearning, intuitive eating, weight inclusive care, mental health
Outline:
00:00 Navigating the Anti-Diet Journey
07:20 Embracing Body Acceptance and Family Dynamics
07:42 Reconnecting After Time Apart
09:08 Understanding the Struggles of Change
10:32 The Weight of Societal Expectations
10:34 Escaping the Diet Culture Cult
13:37 The Unlearning Journey
16:34 Compassion and Internal Family Systems
19:36 Fear of Losing Progress
22:15 Community and Support in Recovery
25:24 Unpacking Beliefs and Evidence
28:29 Setting Realistic Goals for Change
30:26 Current Projects and Future Directions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome to episode 422 of the Find Your Food Voice podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | We have Vinnie Wellsby answering a letter today for someone who is trying really hard to break free from dieting and diet culture. |
| 0:13.9 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:15.3 | Welcome, dear voice finder to the Find your Food Voice podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | I am Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, |
| 0:21.9 | and your host. Today's episode is a letter episode. And if you're new to the podcast, welcome. |
| 0:28.1 | It's so nice to meet you. A letter episode is my favorite way to connect with you. These are |
| 0:34.2 | letters that listeners just like you write and they address it to food. |
| 0:38.9 | And then me and a guest, well, we sort through the letter and hopefully give you some |
| 0:44.3 | pointers on steps moving ahead. |
| 0:47.4 | And while this doesn't replace anything that you'd get from an in-person health care provider, |
| 0:52.5 | we hope that the information helps you |
| 0:55.1 | just to give you some more pointers to maybe bring to that health care provider. But also, if you |
| 1:00.9 | are not the letter writer, you may find yourself really relating to what this letter writer is saying. |
| 1:07.3 | And that alone is worth it all for me because you are not alone in your struggle |
| 1:13.2 | with your relationship with food. You're not alone on how hard recovery is. And I'm excited for |
| 1:19.0 | you to meet Vinnie Wellesby if you've never met them before. I have loved connecting with |
| 1:25.0 | Vinny over the years and they were on my podcast at least, gosh, |
| 1:29.9 | it had to be six or seven years ago. |
| 1:31.4 | We'll put a link to the first episode that Vinny was on in the show notes. |
| 1:35.6 | But they are someone that every so often I hear from people in real life who've connected |
| 1:41.3 | with them and Vinny has helped them with their complicated, just like surviving a diet culture |
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