Now, Alli is a licensed professional clinical counselor, LMFT, and a certified eating disorder specialist. She helps others overcome their battle around eating disorders and hopes that her new book, MeaningFULL: 23 Life-Changing Stories of Conquering Dieting, Weight, & Body Image Issues which tells not only her own story of recovery, but also the stories of others. It’s Alli’s hope that these accounts will encourage body acceptance and positivity and create a new dialogue about what good health means.

Alli Spotts-De Lazzer is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist, and a person on the other side of her own decades-long struggle with food-and-body-image battles. Alli has a private practice in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles. She has presented workshops at conferences, graduate schools, and hospitals; published articles in academic journals and trade magazines; and authored the book, MeaningFULL: 23 Life-Changing Stories of Conquering Dieting, Weight, and Body Image Issues. A believer in both advocacy and education through inspiration and fun, she created #ShakeIt for Self-Acceptance!®, a series of public events sparking conversations about self-acceptance motivating messages and flash mob dance. Also with a focus on uplifting messages, she regards MeaningFULL as a rare, feel-good book about dieting, weight, and body image issues.