In our first episode, Heather takes us back to the 90s.

CW: This episode contains discussion around diets and diet culture, as well as child abuse and infant death. Listener discretion is advised. 

What happens when faith, control, and diet culture collide? In our first episode, we dive into the rise of Gwen Shamblin Lara, founder of the Weigh Down Diet and Remnant Fellowship Church. From her early teachings on weight loss as a path to holiness, to the cult-like control she wielded over her followers, we trace how spiritual hunger was manipulated into obsession and how it all unraveled.