[NEW PODCAST] How Trauma Affects our Intuitive Eating Journey Have you tried intuitive eating, but at a certain point felt unsafe taking a step forward on your journey? There might be some wounds and learned responses that need processing with the Lord and often, with a trained and trusted member of His body. Listen to…
In this podcast episode, I join Tara Whitney on her podcast, Hungry : Trust Your Body. Free Your Mind to discuss the following topics: Our reaction to trauma came from wise actions that supported us in the past. When the reaction emerges now, often with food patterns, our healing is recognizing what’s happening in our…
I am grateful to have been able to sit down with Kirsten Hunneyball on her podcast, ‘Curious about Recovery’. In this episode we explore the topic of attuned eating, taking a special look at the significance of trauma responses in eating disorders. I also share some of my personal story around disordered eating and how…
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,…
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…
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…
