Stage Ready: Essential Self-Care for Creatives & Performers

By Michelle Petties

This interactive session explores the deep connection between nutrition, emotional well-being, and creative performance. Artists, performers, and arts leaders often push their minds and bodies to the limit, yet few recognize the impact of emotional eating, stress-related food habits, and poor nutrition on their stamina, mental clarity, and artistic output.

Friday, July 31, 9:00am – 11:00am
Ardmore 2, Benton Convention Center (Benton South)

Michelle Petties is an author, speaker, and experiential eating expert whose work focuses on helping people understand their relationship with food through the power of personal storytelling. After overcoming a lifelong struggle with food addiction and significant weight fluctuations, she chronicled her journey in her award-winning memoir, Leaving Large: The Stories of a Food Addict, winner of the 2022 Memoir Prize for Books. Through speaking engagements and workshops, Petties inspires audiences with messages of healing, self-discovery, and transformation. A graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington, she currently shares her insights on food, wellness, and personal growth nationwide.