Conversations on recovery, body image, and hope.
A collection of videos created for NEDA Awareness Week. Real conversations on diet culture, recovery, and what healing actually looks like.
Diet culture & body image
Unpacking the cultural messages that shape how we see food and our bodies.
BMI Chart- Recreated!
Weight stigma and the BMI chart: how the body mass index puts people into rigid categories and why it's an outdated measure of health. A short film reimagining what the BMI chart actually misses.
Body Acceptance
Honoring our reflections: a conversation on body acceptance and eating disorder recovery. Dianna Chillo, LCSW-R, Natasha LaVolpe, and five women at different stages of recovery share what it takes to see beyond the physical in a culture saturated with messages about weight loss and the thin ideal.
*This video has a TRIGGER WARNING*
Just say no to diet culture: how the diet industry shapes disordered eating and body image. Diets alone don't cause eating disorders, but diet culture, the system of beliefs that worships thinness and equates it with health and moral virtue, plays a real role in disordered eating, body dissatisfaction, and the difficulty of recovery. Dianna Chillo, LCSW-R and Natasha LaVolpe break it down.
Just say no to diet culture: how the diet industry shapes disordered eating and body image. Diets alone don't cause eating disorders, but diet culture, the system of beliefs that worships thinness and equates it with health and moral virtue, plays a real role in disordered eating, body dissatisfaction, and the difficulty of recovery. Dianna Chillo, LCSW-R and Natasha LaVolpe break it down.
Recovery & Hope
Real conversations about what recovery looks like, setbacks and all.
What to do with your “sick” clothes... Dianna & Natasha offer different experiences in how they said goodbye to their clothes while in their eating disorders.
Slips, setbacks, and relapse during eating disorder recovery: what to do when you stumble, and why falling back isn't failing.
Hindsight is 20/20: why eating disorder recovery isn't linear. Recovery is rarely a straight line. It's a winding road of victories and setbacks, and looking back is often what reveals just how far you've come. Dianna Chillo, LCSW-R and Natasha LaVolpe reflect on the milestones, the detours, and the resilience built in between.
For loved ones
For the parents, partners, siblings, and friends walking this road alongside someone they love.
Supporting a loved one with an eating disorder: what helps and what doesn't, drawn from the real reflections of family and friends who have walked this road.
Community
National Eating Disorder Awareness
Hudson Valley NEDA Walk
Supporting eating disorder awareness in the Hudson Valley: highlights from the NEDA Walk. Dianna Chillo, LCSW-R and Team Recovery Strong joined the local Hudson Valley NEDA Walk to raise funds and visibility for eating disorder treatment, research, and advocacy.