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Why biblical counseling versus the world’s solutions for trauma, eating disorders, burnout and overwhelm?
Proverbs 11: 14:
Where there is no guidance, a people fall, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
The Bible is FILLED with GOD’s desire and promises for hope and healing.
1 Peter 5:7:
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Did you read that: GOD cares for you!
How come we so often don’t feel this is so and try to figure things out in our own power or in what the world offers as a “relief” from our pain?
Because of the hardships of this world, the generational curses and oaths we had nothing to do with from our ancestor’s choices, the emotional neglect or all kinds of abuses, we are unable to have a choice to escape when we were young, as well as our own attempts to belong in this world which lead to sin, we hear the lies that GOD doesn’t care or it feels like he is as neglectful or harsh as the world around us.
Beloved, God is waiting for you to pursue Him as He has been holding on to you!
Yes, He has been holding onto you during every binge and purge, desire to lose weight to earn love from people who can’t fully give it, every time you exercised because it’s easier to hate your body versus hate Satan who has his hand in diet culture.
He created your body and mind to be able to run in flight or fight, dissociate to protect yourself when that couldn’t work, and He also will grace you with Paul’s words from 2 Timothy 1:7: “For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control”.
The biblical counseling work we have been called to offer is for those with TRAUMA, Eating Disorders, BURNOUT, low self-worth, the extremely sensitive, FEELING OVERWHELMED, suspect something is not right when everything on the outside is okay or even good.
Counseling with the Holy Spirit
John 16:23: When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
2 Timonthy 3:16-17 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
This is our goal in counseling work. Though we have decades of training and experience in counseling stress and trauma-related symptoms in a variety of modalities, we aim to be led by the word of God and the Holy Spirit in our sessions.
Galatians 6:2: “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
Proverbs 12:15: “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.”
When I (Tracy) was in recovery from my eating disorder AND first become a follower of Jesus, I didn’t know anyone like me. People who were scared but serious to not only have a healthy relationship with food and body or any highly-sensitive Christians who already felt like “no one understood them” because of the lack of help both professionals and the church were able to offer.
I knew lots of people who felt bad for obsessing about what people thought about their bodies, but few who were looking to Jesus for who He sees us to be. Who believed with their heads that they were fearfully and wonderfully made but didn’t believe truly get it yet that it was true for them too.
I didn’t know any health providers who knew how to bridge the gap between caring for the body and not making it an idol while also being able to see into the emotional and spiritual reasons why bodies get sick.
And there was no one who would combine any of it in a biblical way with support to overcome being “foreigners” in a world of people mind-controlled to believe that you are a better person if you weigh less and accepted that you have to try to “earn” love to heal rejection and fear.
If you feel this way, then the Peaceful Eating community may be your people.
We offer a combination of biblical study on the promises and power of God over our struggles with food, weight and self-worth and use of our will not to control our weight but to receive what God promises in 2 Timonthy 1:7: “For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control”.
The community offers Proverbs 27:9: “Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from His earnest counsel”.
Additionally, the group provides :
materials to work through improving hunger and fullness awareness, emotional eating, understanding how stress and unhealed trauma inhibit recovery and tools to overcome, separating fact and fiction from a health perspective and body image support.
75min live meetings the first 3 Tues nights at 7pm eastern each month for support, learning and fellowship.
FB group to stay connected between meetings and to share learning and support.
Interviews with other believing professionals on recovery and the Christian life