{"podcast":{"title":"The Full Plate Podcast with Abbie Attwood, MS","slug":"the-full-plate-podcast-with-abbie-attwood-ms-4886102","podcast_index_feed_id":4886102,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/2866025.rss","website_url":"https://abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2866025/09a2d59fc1ecf54b08bdc794776a1b28.jpg","author":"Full Plate by Abbie Attwood","episode_count":232,"summary":"Full Plate is where we talk about what it means to have a body in this world through the lens of autonomy, compassion, and liberation. I'm especially focused on the intersection of disordered eating with chronic illness and neurodivergence.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T18:17:42.739292+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-full-plate-podcast-with-abbie-attwood-ms-4886102"},"episode":{"title":"Diet Culture Recovery, OCD, and Size Inclusive Fashion: Viva Voce Founder Kate Zigrang on What Healing Actually Requires (Part Two)","slug":"diet-culture-recovery-ocd-and-size-inclusive-fashion-viva-voce-founder-kate-zigrang-on-what-healing-actually-requires-part-two","published_at":"2026-06-08T12:49:23+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-full-plate-podcast-with-abbie-attwood-ms-4886102/diet-culture-recovery-ocd-and-size-inclusive-fashion-viva-voce-founder-kate-zigrang-on-what-healing-actually-requires-part-two","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-full-plate-podcast-with-abbie-attwood-ms-4886102","url":"https://abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/p/what-comes-after-you-stop-fighting","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/200368165/a0ed5e45adb416d3234ea92d1cbaf579.mp3","summary":"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com This is part two of my conversation with Kate Zigrang, founder of Viva Voce — and this is where everything shifts. To hear it: abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe We left off last week with Kate at a turning point: an OCD diagnosis, a doctor who finally told her the truth about her health, and something beginning to loosen. This episode is about what came next — the harder, slower, more relational work of actually stepping out of diet culture after a lifetime inside it. We cover: * Going no contact with her parents — the decision, the grief, and what space it created * The complicated dynamic with her mom: over-apologizing, enmeshment, and why leaving felt both impossible and necessary * The slow, specific work of separating her own body from her mother's — learning to look at herself without dread * Religious deconstruction happening simultaneously with the body acceptance work and the mental health work — all three threads unraveling at once * The Manhattan pants incident — eighteen months of traveling the world, unable to find a single pair of pants in her size anywhere in New York City, and the rage that became a turning point * What Viva Voce actually is — a marketplace vetting brands for ethics, sustainability, and genuine size inclusivity * Why she insists on carrying straight and plus sizes in the same space * The pop-up strategy — and why she's bringing it to smaller cities on purpose * A data project collecting real body measurements to understand how clothes could actually be made better * Why belonging is at the center of every decision she makes — and what that looks like in practice This episode is for paid subscribers. If you'd like access to this conv…","meta_description":"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com This is part two of my conversation with Kate Zigrang, fou…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":372,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-full-plate-podcast-with-abbie-attwood-ms-4886102/episodes/diet-culture-recovery-ocd-and-size-inclusive-fashion-viva-voce-founder-kate-zigrang-on-what-healing-actually-requires-part-two/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-full-plate-podcast-with-abbie-attwood-ms-4886102/diet-culture-recovery-ocd-and-size-inclusive-fashion-viva-voce-founder-kate-zigrang-on-what-healing-actually-requires-part-two.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}