The Body Grievers® Club

In this episode of The Body GrieversⓇ Club, Bri interviews Kate Zigrang, founder of Viva Voce, a size-inclusive marketplace curating ethical, sustainable, quality brands to make inclusive shopping easier and more joyful. Kate and Bri discuss how anti-fat bias drives the fashion industry's lack of extended sizing despite most U.S. women wearing above size 14/16 and the purchasing power of plus-size consumers, plus myths about cost, style, and demand. They explore problems like inconsistent sizing, limited in-store access, and the stress of trying clothes on, and how pop-ups create community and allow people to try items in person.

TIMESTAMPS

08:07 Plus Size Myths

10:00 Clothing Desert Reality

11:02 How Viva Voce Works

13:28 Travel and Inaccessibility

20:16 Ethics Versus Fast Fashion

23:06 Buy Less Buy Better

24:23 The 80 20 Closet Rule

25:03 Viva Voce Mission

26:04 Pop Ups Across Cities

28:44 Brand Picks

36:15 How To Shop Viva Voce

EPISODE RESOURCES:

Episode 85. Unflattering: Clothing Grief with Dacy Gillespie

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In this episode of The Body GrieversⓇ Club, Bri shares why she regrets having bariatric surgery, reflecting on undergoing lap band surgery at 19 in 2010 after years of failed weight-loss attempts and undiagnosed Hashimoto's, PCOS, and thyroid issues. She describes how the promised relief and confidence never arrived, how complications mimicked eating-disorder behaviors, and how shame and fear of regain intensified alongside body dysmorphia. Bri discusses how long-term outcomes and the later obsolescence of lap band surgery shape her skepticism about newer weight-loss "solutions," and emphasizes that autonomy over body change remains personal. She explains how true relief came through mindset work: letting go of the thin ideal, rebuilding self-esteem, healing relationships with food and movement, seeking weight-neutral medical care, and finding meaning, joy, and community while living fully in the body she has.

03:23 Why I Chose Surgery

07:19 Dysmorphia After Weight Loss

10:43 Complications And Shame

12:55 Looking Back From 2026

14:13 GLP1 And Long Term Doubts

14:58 What I Was Never Told

17:09 My Healing Without Weight Loss

22:14 Ten Steps To Acceptance

28:24 Living Fully Now

31:03 Finding Joy In This Body

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In this episode of The Body GrieversⓇ Club, Bri talks with non-diet nutritionist and cognitive behavioral coach Stephanie Dodier about how many people move from rejecting diet culture into a new "health" identity that still moralizes food as healthy/unhealthy, keeping them stuck in food noise, shame, restriction, and weight cycling. Stephanie explains her "Beyond the Food" methodology, using coaching questions to unpack thoughts, beliefs, and identity, and emphasizes autonomy, self-trust, and "having your own back" through self-compassion and self-care. They discuss grief as a necessary part of radical body acceptance, health diversity, and acceptance in chronic pain, alongside practical movement recovery through lower-dose, supportive choices. The conversation also covers GLP-1s, bariatric surgery, informed consent, weight stigma in medical care, and navigating online fatphobia as fat creators.

02:33 CBT vs Coaching Explained

04:04 Unpacking Food Noise

11:54 Self Trust Over Food Rules

18:06 Health Diversity and Chronic Pain

22:23 GLP 1 Decisions and Informed Consent

28:25 Weight Stigma In Healthcare

33:13 Healing Movement Relationship

34:41 Movement And Chronic Pain

40:19 Fat Entrepreneurship Online

43:51 Handling Hate And Shame

46:48 Preparing For Doctor Visits

EPISODE RESOURCES:

"Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle" by Amelia Nagoski

Weight Loss and Informed Consent Newsletter by Ragen Chastain

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Non-Diet Assessment Tool for Health Practitioners

Episode 380: Body Grief & Liberation

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In this episode of The Body GrieversⓇ Club, Bri reframes body trust as secure attachment to the body and explains that body grief is unavoidable because bodies change, get sick, and experience discomfort and loss. She shares a seven-step, trauma-informed acronym—GRIEVER—as a tangible roadmap for shifting body image work from cognitive fixes to somatic practice, emphasizing that there's no final "arrival," only learning to tolerate and manage distress safely. Using the example of trying on clothes that don't fit, she distinguishes physical discomfort from the emotional story, challenges the idea of "bad body image" as an internal fire alarm, and walks through curiosity, critical self-talk, triggers, "sexy permission," validating needs and capacity, embracing pleasure and living now, and realigning to values to bridge the head-to-heart disconnect.

02:16 Why Steps Matter

05:15 Three Key Premises

08:41 Step One Get Curious

12:02 Step Two Reassess Talk

13:47 Step Three Find Triggers

15:22 Step Four Sexy Permission

19:44 Step Five Validate Needs

23:13 Step Six Embrace Joy

27:52 Step Seven Values Alignment

29:19 Body Trust and Wrap Up

EPISODE RESOURCES

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In this episode of The Body GrieversⓇ Club, Bri talks with registered dietician and private practice founder Jenna Werner about body grief, body image, and self-trust after Jenna's recent breast cancer diagnosis. Jenna shares how a baseline mammogram required before a planned breast augmentation revealed stage zero DCIS that couldn't be felt, leading to a double mastectomy, reconstruction with expanders, lymph node testing, and ongoing discussions about estrogen-suppressing medication due to recurrence risk. She describes moving through the stages of grief, the loss of feeling "invincible," and the physical and emotional impact of scars, numbness, and fear, while emphasizing that health-promoting behaviors don't prevent illness and genetics can override "doing everything right."

06:35 From Diet Culture to Nutritionist

13:57 Healthy Yet Diagnosed

16:26 Mammogram Surprise Discovery

24:00 Treatment Decisions and Genetics

26:08 Body Grief After Mastectomy

30:41 Diagnosis Shock and Grief

32:27 Genetics vs Lifestyle Myths

38:34 Finding Meaning After Trauma

41:58 Rebuilding Body Trust

47:52 Listen to Your Symptoms

EPISODE RESOURCES

"What The Actual Fork?" episode 248: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intimacy-dating-and-body-image-with-bri-campos/id1505223001?i=1000692194382

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In this episode of The Body Grievers® Club, Bri is joined by Dr. Danica Harris, a counseling psychologist turned somatic experiencing practitioner and co-owner of a trauma-informed group therapy practice, to explore how Pilates can support body-based healing, strength, and mobility. They discuss rebuilding a relationship with movement after burnout, chronic pain, hypermobility, and the pandemic, including grief around changing body size, lost privilege, and internalized ableism. Bri and Danica encourage listeners to get curious about what their body needs today—even if it's rest.

03:47 Somatic Healing And Body Image

07:18 Privilege Loss And Scarcity

09:58 Movement Shame And Pandemic

14:10 Finding Pilates In 2024

18:20 Rest Burnout And Ableism

26:31 Pilates As Home Base

28:44 Flexibility Over Urgency

31:11 Alignment And Strength

34:22 Finding The Right Studio

43:08 Healing Unsafe Feelings

45:15 Real Life Wins

EPISODE RESOURCES

Episode 19: Body Pain Is Not Punishment

Superfit Hero Athleisure wear https://superfithero.com/

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In this episode of The Body GrieversⓇ Club, Bri interviews body image coach and "Body Neutral" author Jessi Kneeland about why body positivity and self-love often feel inaccessible and ignore social context, and how body neutrality focuses on moral neutrality by stripping false, inflated meaning from appearance. Using examples like having a zit, they discuss how body shame spirals come from learned beliefs about worth and failure, and how "health" is frequently used as a socially acceptable cover for body hatred, disordered eating, and orthorexic behaviors. They explore the head-to-heart disconnect, the survival brain's role, the impact of oppression and weight stigma, and how "diet hope" offers false security while body neutrality supports living life despite discomfort.

02:13 Zit Example and Identity

04:38 Orthorexia and Fitness Culture

08:31 Thought Experiments on Health

12:34 Food Shame and Healing

15:57 Moral vs Emotional Neutrality

24:08 Politics Systems and Dissonance

27:47 Head to Heart Disconnect

30:32 False Safety of Thinness

31:34 Patriarchy and Slenderness Trap

33:23 Signs of Body Neutrality

44:41 Beauty Standards and Power

45:41 Complicity and Conscious Choices

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In this episode of The Body Grievers® Club, Bri challenges the idea that confidence comes simply from "doing the thing," arguing that without thought awareness and body connection, change won't stick. She reframes confidence as self-assurance: not the absence of discomfort. Brie shares her history with dieting, bariatric surgery at 19, and the ongoing body image pain that persisted even at a smaller size, leading to a 2015 breaking point to start living her life. She discusses dating fears, fetishization, and values alignment.

03:59 Health And Weight Loss Trap

05:18 Bariatric Surgery Reality

09:07 Breaking Point In 2015

12:11 Dating Fear And Fat Bias

14:40 Self Assurance Framework

15:04 Step One Self Talk Audit

15:41 Step Two Values Reality Test

17:16 Step Three Cement Chair Confidence

21:24 Step Four Trauma Informed Exposure

25:41 Living With Ongoing Body Grief

EPISODE RESOURCES

Episode 21: Bri's Body Image Breaking Point

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In this episode of The Body GrieversⓇ Club, Bri interviews Ashantis Jones, a counselor and ASM-certified personal trainer, about healing body image and movement through an intersectional, weight-inclusive lens. Ashantis shares how her eating disorder recovery, later neurodivergence diagnoses (ADHD/autism traits and ARFID), and experience with fibromyalgia shaped her approach to care, emphasizing that diagnoses can be useful but aren't always required to provide support. They discuss body positivity as a social justice movement, how privilege and systemic oppression—including racism, fatphobia, ableism, and capitalism—shape access to care and eating disorder treatment, and why decolonizing mental health matters. Ashantis explains that weight-inclusive fitness can look the same as weight-centric training, but focuses on functional goals, accommodations, rest, and building body trust rather than weight loss.

06:38 Recovery Origin Story

11:47 Eating Disorder Realizations

13:19 ARFID ADHD Nuance

15:58 Diagnoses And Shame

19:34 Intersectionality Basics 24:10 Decolonizing Mental Health

31:02 Defensiveness And Learning

32:26 Learning Beyond Your Bubble

33:12 Pandemic Backlash and Diet Culture

40:12 Movement as Body Trust

42:45 Chronic Illness and Ableism Realities

56:13 Read Books Not Hot Takes

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In this episode of The Body Grievers® Club, Bri joins therapist/social worker Monica Freudenreich to discuss eating disorders versus disordered eating, emphasizing that most people with eating disorders often go unrecognized or dismissed by providers who lack specialized training and may be influenced by diet culture trends. They describe how diagnostic labels can shift, how insurance and treatment systems affect care, and why focusing on functioning and quality of life matters more than whether someone meets a specific DSM threshold. They critique applying abstinence-based addiction models to food, highlight how "health" is often reduced to weight, and explore the roles of rest, connection, joy, and reducing shame in healing. They also preview an upcoming master class for providers and individuals on assessment, blind spots, body image, and practical strategies.

04:18 Recognizing Disordered Eating

06:58 Monica's ED Work Journey

09:55 Bri's ED Center Reality

12:41 Provider Dissonance Dieting

18:57 Labels Don't Matter

25:42 Healing Inside Diet Culture

35:36 Rest as Radical Health

37:25 Rethinking Addiction and Connection

38:54 Comfort Coping Without Shame

47:55 Rejecting Diet Culture

50:18 About the Masterclass

EPISODE RESOURCES:

Join our upcoming masterclass: Eating Disorder vs. Disordered Eating

Johann Hari: Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY9DcIMGxMs

Episode 37: Rest Feels Unsafe

Get on the waitlist for Body Image Bootcamp for providers at https://bodyimagewithbri.mykajabi.com/bootcamp-waitlist-2025

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