The Spirit of Truth

Warmest regards my friend! I want to share with you a quick but mighty teaching and how it plays into recovery from food and body issues  The Spirit of Truth ~ by Art Katz ~ “To love truth is to desire the guileless transparency of Jesus more than anything else. It needs to be a very…

On Discernment

As a dietitian since 2004, I have rarely met a person who has discernment regarding the messages consumed in both the Church as well as the culture at large around food and body (and most things happening in society). For someone whose business is people; why people act, think and feel how they feel about their bodies, eating…

5 Reasons Why Restricting Food is Causing You to Gain Weight
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5 Reasons Why Restricting Food is Causing You to Gain Weight

There seems to be a consensus in our society that weight gain is inherently ‘bad’. The shame around weight gain is a feeling many people have felt throughout their lifetime, probably many times. This general feeling within society leads to many people restricting food. Food restriction can occur due to a plethora of reasons but for many, it…

calm emotional eating

1 Simple Thing to Calm Emotional Eating

Emotions are difficult seas to navigate. It can sometimes feel like just when you have a grasp over something in your life, something else comes up and makes you feel a loss of control. Anger, sadness, confusion, shame, loneliness…are all emotions that we usually feel on a regular basis. It’s easy to cover these emotions with anything else but…

[New Podcast] Did Your Dieting Hurt Your Body? Feat. Tracy Brown

I am so grateful to Heather Creekmore for allowing me to be a guest on her podcast, ‘Compared to Who?’! Here’s the podcast episode show notes and you can listen below! “Today Heather interviews Tracy Brown, registered dietitian and trauma-informed eating disorder recovery coach about all the physical issues that can accompany or follow seasons…

The Intersection of Food/Body Image Issues and Church Hurt/Spiritual Abuse

Let’s go deeper together in talking about the relationship between these two topics, to get your questions answered about this complex dynamic. My friends over at BeEmboldened have been given the wisdom to see what so many people miss — the looping in of different ways we survive church neglect, Christian cult abuse and spiritual trauma — with…