<p>Kate Zigrang is an advocate, entrepreneur, impact investor, and the founder of Viva Voce — a size-inclusive fashion marketplace and community rooted in body justice. But before we get to what she's built, we go back to where it all started.</p><p>In this first part of a two-episode conversation, Kate takes us through her personal history with her body — from watching her mom navigate the world in a larger body and absorbing the shame that surrounded her, to puberty changing her own body in ways she wasn't prepared for, to a disordered relationship with food that developed in her late teens and went unnamed for years. We also get into her OCD diagnosis at 31 — more than a decade after onset — and what it meant to finally have language for what her brain had been doing all along.</p><p>This is a conversation about the things diet culture teaches us before we're old enough to question them, and what it actually takes to unlearn them.</p><p>We talk about:</p><p>*Growing up watching her mom be treated as a problem to be fixed, and inheriting that shame before she had words for it</p><p>*How her body changed at puberty while she was already carrying that inherited weight</p><p>*The food rules in her home growing up, the restriction and binge cycle they created, and how it planted seeds for a disordered relationship with food</p><p>*Moving away from home at 21, marriage, pregnancy, and her body changing again in ways that felt out of her control</p><p>*The wellness journey — naturopathic doctors, juice cleanses, a month-long juice fast, and crying in the shower</p><p>*Getting an OCD diagnosis at 31 and finally understanding what her brain had been doing since she was a teenager</p><p>*A doctor who told her, simply, that she was healthy — and how much that cracked open</p><p>*Finding Maintenance Phase, Aubrey Gordon, and <em>Fearing the Black Body</em> by Sabrina Strings, and what it meant to finally have the research match what she'd lived</p><p></p><p>Find Kate and Viva Voce at <a target="_blank" href="http://vivavoce.live">vivavoce.live</a> and on Instagram @<a target="_blank" href="http://vivavoce.live">vivavoce.live</a>.</p><p><em>Books mentioned: What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon; Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings</em></p><p></p><p>Get 40% off of your Hungryroot order with code abbie40</p><p>Support the show: Enjoying this podcast? Please support the show on Substack for bonus episodes, community engagement, and access to "Ask Abbie" at <a target="_blank" href="http://abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe">abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe</a></p><p> </p><p>Apply for Abbie’s Group Membership:</p><p>Already been at this anti-diet culture thing for a while, but want community and continued learning? Apply for Abbie's monthly membership: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-group">https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-group</a></p><p>Find the show on Instagram: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/fullplate.podcast/">@fullplate.podcast</a></p><p>Find Abbie on Instagram: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/abbieattwoodwellness/">@abbieattwoodwellness</a></p><p>Podcast Cover Photography by Anya McInroy</p><p>Podcast Editing by Brian Walters</p><p>This podcast is ad-free and support comes from your support on Substack. Subscribe <a target="_blank" href="http://abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe">HERE</a>.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe</a>