Dear friend, God has made us to have and feel feelings. Therefore, if you’re struggling with any consistent emotional under- or over-eating, you have some kind of trauma that is taking the place of seeking Him for the solution. This world has programmed us all to seek the world’s solutions and not the Lord’s. And the…
Very lovely prayer from our friend Jennifer with encouragement and healing from having your boundaries broken and when we may have broken others. I think about the many ways diet culture deceives parents into breaking their children’s sense of safety and unconditional love for them with food and body policing, medical providers providing biased care,…
Ephesians 4:29: “Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.” Proverbs 18:21 : “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it and indulge it will…
It can be overwhelming to begin to break away from diet culture, what other people think we should do, etc. Many times it requires us to unlearn and re-learn language. Most people that I have talked with would agree and confirm that amongst believers, it’s still hard to tell if that individual is a believer…
God wants us to be well and healed. Let’s talk about trauma and soul wound healing. Trauma Healing I think of trauma and chronic stress as gateways to dealing with chronic dieting, restrictive eating, bingeing, etc. Many times this happens when we are in a state of dissociation. If you’re not familiar with that term,…
Let’s talk about the ever fun subject : body image. If you traveled all around the world, you would find many different standards for what is ‘beautiful’ and ‘normal’ when it comes to body size and shape. All cultures have these man made beliefs around what an ideal body is. I like to think about…
Dieting has been around since the mid-1800’s but very much became a part of our the culture in the US in the 1960s and 70s. All dieting has been about preying upon people’s fears and insecurities and how to make money off of that. It’s really that simple. But because they learned how to use…
Greetings my friends, I am asked sometimes “what did I do today” in my recovery from eating disorders and dieting from a spiritual perspective. I thought I would make a list of the last 25 years of growth and learning I have been blessed to work through that continues to grow me today. Here…
Happy Sunday! I love the weekends but honestly sometimes I feel like I put so much on my plate to get done during the week and feel guilty that I didn’t get it all done. Why the heck do I let the enemy whisper words of shame and guilt to me? We all do it…
If we choose to try to meet our needs ourselves through dieting, overly controlling our food, trying to earn food or worth through what we look like or how much we exercise or get compliments from others, we will find ourselves in a space of trying to orient, not to God’s love, but to reliance on ourselves, to get our needs…
