Kaya Jarvis

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108 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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The Moth · Walking the Walk: The Moth Radio Hour · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

were causing me stress and to give me something else to focus on.

And this progressed a lot in quarantine to the point where all I could think about was food and what I would eat and what I would not eat and how many calories I wanted to eat and how much I weighed and what I looked like.

And this got worse and worse throughout quarantine.

And I couldn't think about anything else.

And my mom wanted us to really connect.

And so she started making these really elaborate dinners a couple of times a week.

And she would make us all get off of our phones and sit us down at the table and present us with roasted vegetables and salad and pasta and whatever she could come up with and have us all eat there and sit together.

But these dinners didn't really help me and they made me feel very stressed out because I would look at this plate in front of me and not be able to eat it.

And I would try to hide it from my parents, but at one point I couldn't hide it from them.

So I had to sit my mom down and tell her that I had an eating disorder and that I needed some help with it.

And so my parents were very supportive, and they signed me up for therapy, and my mom started driving me down to a doctor's in Manhattan once a week, where I would get weighed, and I would have to list everything that I ate that day, and everything that I had eaten that week.

And I was very lucky to have this help, but I also felt very watched and in trouble, and like I was doing something wrong, which I was, but I also couldn't really tell that I was doing something wrong at the time.

And this went on.

I kept on going to these doctor's appointments.

I kept on having therapy.

But it wasn't really helping that much, because I still felt really isolated and disconnected.

And one time, while my mom was driving me to the doctor's appointment, she brings up my friend Lana.

And she's like, hey, why don't you reach out to Lana

and ask her to hang out.

She lives right by the doctors.

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