On Monday, October 5th, Angel Austin, Neathery Falchuk, LCSW-S, CGP, Leslie Jordan Garcia, MBA, MPH, CEDRS, CPT, and Dr. Rebecka Peebles, MD, FAAP, FAED, CEDS, DABOM will chat about the barriers to eating disorder healing for fat and high-weight individuals. (Especially those who are superfat or infinifat.)
Designed for clinicians, caregivers and community leaders, attendees will leave with tools and strategies to support the fat and high-weight people with eating disorders in their lives.
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Meet the Participants
Facilitator
Neathery Falchuk, LCSW-S, CGP (they/them) is a therapist, educator, facilitator, consultant, and founder of Ample + Rooted, an inclusive therapy and training practice grounded in body liberation, relational healing, and collective care. Their approach lives between deep presence and bold disruption.
A licensed clinical social worker supervisor, certified group psychotherapist, and certified Body Trust® provider, Neathery works at the intersections of embodiment, identity, attachment, trauma, eating disorders, sexuality, gender, relationships, and belonging. Their work centers queer, trans, fat, neurodivergent, and other marginalized communities.
Known for creating spaces that are warm, playful, honest, and deeply relational, Neathery believes healing is personal, political, and collective and that compassion, pleasure, embodiment, and community can help us build more liberatory ways of being together.
Neathery is white Latine, queer, trans, fat, Jewish, and neurodivergent. Outside of work, Neathery is a parent to a curious, creative toddler who keeps them delightfully exhausted. They’re usually chasing her through parks, playgrounds, and immersive art exhibits, or stealing a quiet moment with their wife. These days, their coffee is rarely hot, their books are mostly half-finished, and their heart is very full.
Panelists
Angel Austin (she/her) is a Black, infinifat, disabled fat liberationist, educator, writer, and community organizer whose work centers people at the largest end of the fatness spectrum, particularly those living at marginalized intersections. She is the Executive Director of the Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) and founder of Sacred Space for Fat Bodies, where her work includes education, accessibility advocacy, community programming, accessible movement, collaboration, and mutual aid. Angel's work focuses on medical anti-fat bias, healthcare and physical accessibility, disability, bodily autonomy, and creating spaces where superfat and infinifat people are centered rather than treated as an afterthought. She is also a writer, speaker, facilitator, and creator of educational resources, and has presented and contributed to national conferences, universities, media, podcasts, and community programs.
Leslie Jordan Garcia, MBA, MPH, CEDRS, CPT (she/her) is a public health professional, eating disorder recovery specialist, movement educator, and advocate committed to creating more equitable and liberatory approaches to health and healing. As Treatment Access Program Manager at Project HEAL, Leslie works to dismantle systemic barriers to eating disorder care and expand access for communities historically excluded from traditional treatment and recovery spaces.
With a background spanning public health, nonprofit leadership, fitness, mindfulness, and embodied practice, Leslie brings an intersectional, weight-inclusive lens to conversations about bodies, recovery, and being well. Her work explores how anti-fatness, racism, ableism, and other systems of oppression shape who is granted access to care—and what becomes possible when we imagine health beyond control, conformity, and body hierarchy.
A longtime group fitness instructor and personal trainer, Leslie believes movement can be a source of joy, connection, autonomy, and belonging for every body. Across her work, she invites people to move away from fixing bodies and toward creating conditions in which people can thrive.
Dr. Rebecka Peebles, MD, FAAP, FAED, CEDS, DABOM (she/her) is the Vice President of Adolescent Medicine at Monte Nido. She is board certified in pediatrics and specialty certified in adolescent and young adult medicine and is also a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. She serves as the Treasurer of the Executive Board of Directors for the Academy for Eating Disorders, as well as a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Eating Disorders Working Group and Committee on Nutrition. Prior to Monte Nido, she served as the Director of Medical Research and Quality Innovations in the Eating Disorder Assessment and Treatment Program at CHOP, which she co-founded in 2011. Her research has been funded by NIH and the American Heart Association, and has focused on medical evaluation, bone health, and biobehavioral links in youth with eating disorders. She is an internationally recognized speaker and author, and a longstanding IAEDP member. She graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and then completed her pediatrics residency at Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital and her adolescent medicine fellowship at Stanford in 2003.