Michelle Petties
Michelle Petties is a speaker, writer, food addict in recovery, Food Story coach, author of an award-winning memoir, Leaving Large – The Stories of a Food Addict, and host of Get the Back Story Live, which airs monthly on the SORC® TV-Radio Network. Her memoir, a category winner in The 2022 Memoir Prize for Books, illustrates how events, experiences, and memories inform our beliefs, attitudes, and habits around food, eating, hunger, and everything else in life. For years, Michelle worked in a fast-paced, high-pressure corporate world, as a top performer for the most influential brands in media, including Radio One and Disney/ABC. Finally, the highly stressful and competitive media and advertising space took its toll on her mental and physical health. Looking at her today, you would never guess that Michelle used to be morbidly obese, once tipping the scale at 260 plus pounds. After gaining and losing over seven hundred pounds, Michelle developed a Prescriptive Writing process for making peace with her mind, body, and food, finally discovering the “secret” to winning her lifelong battle with emotional overeating, stress eating, yoyo dieting, cravings and bingeing – her “Food Stories.” Michelle now conducts healing-through-reading-writing-and-storytelling workshops where she teaches others how to find their food and personal truths. She speaks to organizations, large and small, sharing her unique insight and her story of hope, healing, triumph, and transformation.
