In this episode of the Full of Beans Podcast, I’m joined by Mel Ciavucco, an integrative counsellor, writer and trainer, to talk about weight stigma and the impact it has on eating disorder treatment and recovery.

This conversation explores something that often sits at the heart of eating disorders but is still too often left unspoken: the fear of weight gain, the internalised beliefs people hold about larger bodies, and the ways those beliefs can show up in therapy, treatment, and recovery.

In this episode, we explore:

• What weight stigma is and why it matters in eating disorder work
• Why fear of fatness is often central to eating disorder distress
• How diet culture and anti-fat bias shape treatment and recovery
• Why people in larger bodies are often overlooked or misunderstood in services
• The h ...