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My Body, My Business – Not Yours
Marilee Fritsch is a senior at Penn State University studying nutritional sciences. She is a former eating disorder patient and her goal is to help others through the struggles she faced after she...
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First Stigma; First Self Love
Sarah Eaton is a young book editor who lives just outside of Portland, Oregon. She goes to school part time studying for a degree in business. She is passionate about the arts, particularly literary...
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Weight Stigma and The Celery Connection
Dr. Deah Schwartz, Educator and Clinician with a private practice in Oakland CA, uses Expressive Arts Therapies to treat E.D’s and Body Image issues. Deah is the co-author of Leftovers, DVD/Workbook...
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Body Image – Irrelevant or Important in Addressing Weight Stigma?
Amanda Pileski is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Towson, MD. Previously she served as the Eating Disorder Treatment Team leader at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She supports...
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Mixed Messages About Teens, Bodies and Weight Stigma
Liza Casella is a homeschooled 10th grader living in Iowa. She enjoys music, physics, and writing, and she plans to move to New York someday. BEDA promotes cultural acceptance of, and respect for, the...
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Ending Weight Bias–You’re Tall, She has Blue Eyes, and I’m Fat – No Biggie
By Lindsey Averill, producer, co-director and writer of Fattitude I’m Lindsey Averill, and my business partner, Viridiana Lieberman, and I are creating a film called Fattitude. As we explore in...
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Shifting My Focus from Weight Stigma to Radical Body Acceptance – WSAW 2016
by Melissa Mazza The art of photography has always fascinated me. I love that it enables us to freeze a moment in time and hold on to it forever. Blown out birthday candles, family vacations to the...
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Stopping Weight Stigma at Home: A Tip for Parents – WSAW 2016
by Jocelyn Lebow It’s alarming. And it happens all the time. I’ll be sitting there with one of my teenage patients and their parents when talk will turn to thoughts about their body. Typically it will...
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“So… Weight Loss is Not the Goal?!”
BEDA 2016 Workshop Weight loss is typically a primary goal for people seeking binge eating disorder (BED) treatment. This will be addressed at BEDA 2016 workshop, “So… Weight Loss is Not the Goal?!”:...
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