Welcome to Recover Strong, a show that will transform your recovery from an eating disorder by helping you go from theory to practice to mastery.

I'm Jessica Flint, founder of Recovery Warriors, and you are listening to our podcast channel created specifically for you in all the stages and phases of recovery.

I want to celebrate you for carving out this special time to learn new skills,

tools, and get inspiration you need to recover strong. Let's get started.

Good morning, warriors. Time to start your day. Keep your head up marching on, don't another stand in your way.

Hello, Warrior. I'm your host, Andrea Wells. And just like you, I understand what it's like to live with an eating disorder and be held back by body-image struggles.

The recovery journey is ongoing, and we're all in it together as we learn to embrace

new behaviors and new thoughts day by day. Join me as I connect with eating disorder experts

and thought leaders to give you the tools, resources, and strategies you need to recover strong.

Thank you. to give you the tools, resources, and strategies you need to recover strong.

Today I am joined by journalist and body liberation advocate Megan DeMaria.

Megan's writing has appeared in glamour, cosmopolitan, Mashed, Marie Claire, Nikki Swift, and Moore, where she writes articles about

food and body through a lens of fat positivity and body liberation.

And when she is not writing, Megan runs a local community called Plus Raleigh, which is a group

focused on connecting people in the North Carolina Triangle area and promoting body acceptance.

So Megan is someone who not only talks the talk, but she walks the walk when it comes to challenging

the di-culture narrative and creating a better world for people of all body sizes.

And she is here to share her body image story with us today as we work towards our continued

mission to both universalize and

individualized food and body image struggles and platform diverse voices to shine light on the one

journey to healing. Welcome to the show, Megan. Yay, thank you so much. That was such a lovely intro.

You're welcome. And I want to get full disclosure to the listener. Megan and I do know each other in person. The group that she runs that I just mentioned plus Raleigh, I have been to several events through them and I've connected with Megan. And I've just really always admired the work that she does, both with her writing and starting this community. So thank you for being here and for

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