MY Story

I’m Kate, the owner and founder of BODY. We live in a world that praises women for fitting into a beauty standard making it incredibly hard for us to see the beauty in our own body. Truth be told I struggled with body image and my relationship with food since middle school. I’ve been obsessed with having a flat stomach and being lean for as long as I can remember so I would go to extremes trying to shrink myself for years up until graduating college.

After graduating college in 2017 I had a new obsession, building curves in the gym to feel worthy enough of love. I then started force feeding myself out of fear of being “too thin”. So I went from never being “thin enough” to then fearing being “too skinny” all because a guy told me I needed curves to be sexy. I then battled between wanting to be curvy and wanting to be skinny for years on this journey until I finally decided I was done being at war with my body. I had been obsessed with trying to change it for over a decade now and I just wanted to see what it was like to finally like myself.

This put me on a journey to experiment with different styles of movement to find joy in fitness again and stop using it only as a tool to change my body. Then I got certified as a personal trainer and began creating my own home workouts during the pandemic. After falling in love with HIIT style workouts because they were so quick and effective I thought I really found the secret sauce to looking and feeling my best. That is until my periods started getting so completely unbearable that I knew something deeper was wrong. This lead me on a hormone healing journey that now takes all my favorite styles of movement and aligns them with each phase of my cycle. This isn’t a one size fits all, but through the process of learning your body you’ll build such a powerful connection with your inner confidence that you will not only look your best but feel your best too.

Even now at my healthiest and happiest I’ve ever been with my body, I still have that little pouch at the bottom of my stomach that I used to shame myself for. Except now it doesn’t bother me the way it used to. I look in the mirror and see it as what makes me unique and understand that my body was made for making babies.. however being completely transparent sometimes, during my luteal phase, I start questioning why my stomach isn’t flat even though I take such good care of it now. But that’s the Luteal brain talking and now that I understand that phase a bit deeper I know that it’s just bringing things to the surface that need to be acknowledged and accepted so we can let them go.

Because the thing is, my body was never made to have a perfectly flat stomach. So why obsess over being something I’m not when I have a mission far greater than myself. If my body was always “perfect” I would of never struggled on this journey the way I did which ultimately lead to the creation of BODY. Our struggles with our bodies can bring us into a much deeper relationship with ourself when we finally just embrace ourselves for who we are. I’m here to guide you along that journey and show you what it means to love and care for your body in a way that divinely respects who you were always meant to be.