Intuitive Eating for Christian Women

In today’s episode of Intuitive Eating for Christian Women, Tricia Hicks shares her testimony of healing from eating disorders and discovering intuitive eating and intuitive movement. 

In this episode we dig into:

- Suffering an identity crisis as a teenager which led to eating disorders

- How her food story brought her to God

- Her testimony of God working in the broken places and leading her to healing

- Her journey to become a health coach and Revelation Wellness instructor

- Recognizing that even after experiencing food freedom through intuitive eating, she still needed healing around movement

- Her journey to discover intuitive movement and see movement as a space to commune with God

- The importance of shifting from an aesthetic mindset to a kingdom mindset for our bodies and movement

- How moving your body helps you love God and others

- The importance of learning to rest our bodies and learning to work from rest

- How to get started with intuitive movement: start with prayer, remember what you enjoyed as a child to find the joy, invite Christ into movement, takeaway your expectations

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 62 - Discovering Intuitive Movement with Tricia Hicks

In this episode of Intuitive Eating for Christian Women our guest Leslie Schilling shares about her latest book Feed Yourself and explains why we should step away from the lies of diet culture and into our divine design.

In this thought-provoking conversation, Leslie unpacks the influence of diet culture in the church and helps us navigate it with truth and compassion.

In this episode we cover:

- How Leslie moved from weight-centered training to a weight-neutral intuitive eating approach in her career

- The God story behind her book Feed Yourself

- Seeing diet culture as a bigger system of oppression and having compassion for people who don’t see it yet 

- Facilitating conversations about diet culture without confrontation & the power of the question “Could I offer you another perspective?”

- Unearned privilege and social determinants of health

- Diet culture’s favorite Bible verse to twist

- The Daniel Fast and harms of church fasts

- How there are no guarantees in health

- The lifelong learning and unlearning process

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 61- Feed Yourself with Leslie Schilling

In this episode of Intuitive Eating for Christian Women our guest Donetta Floyd shares her journey to become a dietitian working with Type 2 Diabetes and eating disorders. We discuss the social determinants of health and take a look at what it’s like to manage diabetes with intuitive eating.

In this episode we dig into:

- Growing up in church but not living submitted to the Lord

- How pregnancy and motherhood drew her to deeper faith

- Her journey to become a dietitian working with Type 2 Diabetes and eating disorders

- Finding peace, joy and favor in obedience to the Lord

- Unpacking the social determinants of health

- The harm of weight bias in culture, health care and the church

- Holding space for cultural foods and quality of life when considering the big picture of holistic health

- Managing diabetes with intuitive eating

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 60 - Managing Diabetes with Intuitive Eating with Donetta Floyd

In today’s episode of Intuitive Eating for Christian Women, Kirsten Schmidt shares her experience of healing from shame and sexual trauma. Kirsten and Char-Lee delve deep into the challenging yet transformative journey of healing from sexual wounds and body image issues through the lens of faith and intuitive eating.

In this episode we discuss:

- Healing from sexual wounds and body image issues through prayer, professional help, and faith.

- Navigating shame, vulnerability, and the process of surrendering to God's love and healing.

- Exploring the impact of sexual trauma on body image, worth, and the objectification of the body.

- Overcoming shame and seeking worth in God, not worldly solutions, diets, or relationships.

- Understanding the distortion of body image, sexuality, and purity culture within societal and church contexts.

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 59 - Healing from Shame and Sexual Trauma with Kirsten Schmidt

In today’s episode of Intuitive Eating for Christian Women, Dr. Kari Anderson shares about sourcing God’s love to feel safe and the impact of fear on our relationships with food, body and others.

In this episode we discuss:

- Kari’s experience with binge eating disorder as a preteen and getting eating disorder treatment in her 20s

- Learning to approach food and our bodies from a love perspective, not a fear perspective

- Her memoir Food Body & Love but the greatest of these is love and new Companion Workbook - both must-reads and part of our book club in the membership

- Exploring body acceptance, body respect, body neutrality and body love

- Learning to regulate your nervous system by understanding polyvagal theory and its impact on safety, fear, food and body

- Invitation to an exclusive Zoom Workshop with Dr. Kari Anderson for our podcast listeners in January 2024

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Our bonus episode today is an intuitive eating coaching session where we coach our friend and fellow podcaster  Heather Creekmore as she steps out in faith and starts sharing about her own intuitive eating journey with Jesus. Today we discuss unconditional permission to eat and habituation around foods, Heather’s experience with headaches and the process of gaining awareness of her actual needs, and approaching holiday food intuitively. We hope this intuitive eating coaching call will help you remember that food is a good gift AND diet culture makes this time of year all about the food - but it’s not about that!

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

If you want to listen to more of these intuitive eating coaching calls, check out similar episodes compiled on our podcast website:

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Jeff Ash shares his journey with food and faith, and gives us a male perspective on intuitive eating and how it relates to our faith as Christians.

This episode of Intuitive Eating for Christian Women is brought to you by our MEMBERSHIP. If you’re ready to invest in your faith-based intuitive eating journey and invest in relationships with like-minded Christian women, then join us! You can try your first month for just $1.

In this BONUS episode of Intuitive Eating for Christian Women we’re giving you a special sneak peek inside our Membership.

What you’ll hear today is an excerpt of our Live Podcast which was Part 1 of a 3-Part Weight Series, tackling some of the toughest and most frequently asked questions we get about weight. 
In this BONUS episode, you will get to hear the teaching portion from Part 1 of this FAQ - What if I’m over my set point weight?

To protect the privacy of our members, you will NOT get to hear the Q&A portion which would normally be at the end of the Live Podcast. That’s where our members asked their questions, shared their thoughts, and we all had a lively and empowering discussion on the topic together.

If you enjoy what you hear today and want to hear the Q&A community discussion of this topic or if you want to hear the other 2 Live Podcasts in this 3-part Weight FAQ Series - then come check them out inside the membership! You are officially invited! We would love to have you join us!

This weight series was really powerful -  Part 2 of the Weight Series was What if I want to lose weight? And Part 3 was What if my doctor tells me to lose weight?

Membership gives you access to all our new content and the archives of everything we’ve done in the Membership to date - live podcasts, book clubs, coffee dates, workshops, peer support calls, you name it! We have weekly events in the Membership so there is literally tons of great content for you to enjoy at your convenience, and a wonderful community of women waiting there to share it with and experience it with together. 

Today on Intuitive Eating for Christian Women our guest Jennifer D’Amato discusses the importance of dismantling diet culture for future generations. Jen shares her story of pivoting from dieting to intuitive eating and the transformation that followed for her whole household, including four daughters. 

This episode of Intuitive Eating for Christian Women is brought to you by our MEMBERSHIP. If you’re ready to invest in your faith-based intuitive eating journey and invest in relationships with like-minded Christian women, then join us! You can try your first month for just $1.

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Melissa Johnson explains why we need to redefine beauty and shares about her new book "Soul-Deep Beauty: Fighting for Our True Worth in a World Demanding Flawless".

In this episode we dig into:

- Her experience of finding deeper intimacy with God in her eating disorder and her journey of treatment and healing.

- The intertwining dangers of beauty culture and diet culture

- How media saturation impacts our mind, body and soul

- The power of shame in advertising and the importance of media literacy and being critical observers of the media we consume

- Awakening to the spiritual battle in eating disorders and tools for fighting back

- The importance of redefining beauty and how it changes our lives

- Her book "Soul-Deep Beauty: Fighting for Our True Worth in a World Demanding Flawless"

This episode of Intuitive Eating for Christian Women is brought to you by our MEMBERSHIP. If you’re ready to invest in your faith-based intuitive eating journey and invest in relationships with like-minded Christian women, then join us! You can try your first month for just $1.

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Kristin Williams shares her testimony of walking through her own eating disorder recovery to becoming a Christ-centered dietitian passionate about setting captives free from the grips of diet culture, disordered eating and eating disorders.

In this episode we dig into:

• How no one is immune from diet culture and what it looks like to wrestle well in recovery

• Recognizing and answering the call to provide Christ-centered eating disorder care as a dietitian

• Her book “Unworthy Weight: Reclaiming Your Worth From a Number on a Scale and Finding True Identity in Christ”

• How we begin to reclaim our identity in Christ and why this identity is our foundation for recovery and life

• Recognition that our bodies are good because God has called them good, despite our feelings

• Differentiating between caring for the body and punishing it, as well as conviction and shame

• How you can’t tell heart posture by behavior or appearance

• Wrestling well with the important question of how to honor God with my body

• Her “In His Image” conference on body image for teens and women

This episode of Intuitive Eating for Christian Women is brought to you by our MEMBERSHIP. If you’re ready to invest in your faith-based intuitive eating journey and invest in relationships with like-minded Christian women, then join us! You can try your first month for just $1.

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Rachael Gilbert gives us some real talk from a counselor’s perspective about how trauma impacts our body and body image and the role our faith has to play in healing.

In this episode we dig into:

- Rachael’s personal experience struggling with body image and experiencing a traumatic miscarriage

- What happens when we separate body and spirit

- How trauma impacts our body and body image

- Learning to trust God and trust our bodies

- The triangle effect: the connection between thoughts, feelings and behaviors

- EMDR therapy and processing emotions stored in the body

- Wrestling with the Word and believing your body is good

- Her book “Image Restored” which offers a blueprint for a full body image renovation grounded in God’s love and truth

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 53 - Body Image Real Talk with Rachael Gilbert

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Laura Acuña shares her testimony of finding freedom with food through her faith and gives us encouragement that it’s never too late for God to write a new story.

In this episode we dig into:

- Her experience of rapid and traumatic weight gain as a 11 year old girl.

- Hitting a tipping point a few years ago and realizing she needed specialized help to heal. 

- How freedom doesn’t have a look or a body size and the danger of judging others by their appearance.

- The power of sharing your testimony and reaching out to help other women who are a step behind you on the journey.

- Only God can fix what He created and our food and body issues are not physical problems but spiritual ones.

- How shame holds us back from surrender.

- Encouragement for aging women that its never too late for God to write a new story.

- Her book Still Becoming: Hope, Help and Healing For the Diet-Weary Soul, a 31-day devotional.

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 52 - Still Becoming with Laura Acuña

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Zoë Bisbing shares her professional experience as a licensed psychotherapist with specialties in eating disorders and body image concerns as we discuss how we talk to our kids about food and bodies.

In this episode we dig into:

- The family work that is essential in eating disorder treatment

- Her work with the The Full Bloom Project and the mission to help parents prevent eating disorders and nurture embodiment in the next generation

- The 5 fundamentals of body-positive parenting

- The importance of Ellyn Satter’s Division of Responsibility in Feeding: the job of the parent and the job of the child

- How to talk to our kids about food and nutrition

- Modeling intuitive eating as best we can for our kids

- How kids need to be reminded their worth is not their body

- How to be a cycle-breaker parent: change the environment in your home to nurture your child

- Fostering critical thinking skills to respond to diet culture

- Helping your kids navigate aesthetic sports and identity issues

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 51 - How We Talk to our Kids about Food and Bodies with Zoë Bisbing

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Sean Coons shares his body image story and gives us a male perspective on body image, food and how it relates to our faith as Christians.

In this episode we dig into:

- The experience of perceiving your relationship with food as impacting your ability to be successful 

- Recognizing tendencies to go to extremes in our relationships with food and body

- His experience going from a rock and roll prodigal son to a Bible teacher

- His experience with mentorship 

- Writing a novel about body image and intuitive eating

- The importance of the incarnation in body image

- How modern culture has created body image struggles for both genders and people of all ages

- Teaching our kids about body image and food

- Stewardship of our health as Christians

- The clarifying power of writing or speaking your testimony

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 50 - Body Image and Christian Men with Sean Coons

In today’s Bonus Episode we chat with our friend and fellow podcaster Heather Creekmore about how diet culture shows up in fasting, how the church has conflated stewardship and fasting with dieting, and the danger of interpreting scripture through the lens of diet culture. We invite you to join us for Losing the Lies for Lent, this collaboration is a 7-week guided series to re-discover Lent without diet culture.

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Amanda Reynolds shares her story of moving from a posture of control to surrender in her health. She also walks us through her experience navigating intuitive eating principles with a specific health condition.

In this episode we dig into:

- Breaking the striving cycle of “never enough” through surrender

- Recognizing that coping with food is a grasp for control

- Learning to sit with your feelings and rely on the Lord

- Debunking the myth of ‘I should only need God’ and allowing Him to work through others

- Her experience of navigating intuitive eating with a medical condition

- How gentle nutrition, stress management and joyful movement help her care for her specific health issue

- The benefits of regular daily activities over what “counts” as exercise

- The cycle of surrender and the journaling technique that helps her return to the Lord

- Her role as a Joyful Health Coach

- Her book and podcast “Good To Grow” about cultivating the soil of your heart to bear fruit for the kingdom of God

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 49 - The Cycle of Surrender with Amanda Reynolds

Our bonus episode today is an intuitive eating coaching session where we coach our friend and fellow podcaster  Heather Creekmore as she steps out in faith and starts sharing about her own intuitive eating journey with Jesus. Today we explore the experience of vacation, visiting family and navigating the food and body triggers that can come up with that.

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

If you want your own intuitive eating coaching calls, check out our group coaching program called The Attunement Reset. You can find out more on our online courses page:

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Amanda Martinez Beck shares her story of learning to embrace the body God gave her and she helps us understand why all bodies are good bodies.

In this episode we dig into:

- How our appetites are meant to draw us to Jesus

- Reframing our body weaknesses in light of the gospel

- The purpose of bodies and what makes a body good

- Her first book Lovely: How I Learned to Embrace the Body God Gave Me

- Understanding how offering your body as a living sacrifice calls us to embody mercy

- Recognizing the harm in Diet culture's version of fasting and discovering a better way to fast

- Her second book: More of You: The Fat Girl’s Field Guide to the Modern World

- 4 levels of fat activism and fat allyship

- The flaw of using BMI as a health marker

- How to talk to your doctor and demand weight-neutral care

- Seeing your body as a storyteller

- The intersection of physical and spiritual health

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 48 - All Bodies Are Good Bodies with Amanda Martinez Beck

Our bonus episode today is an intuitive eating coaching session where we coach our friend and fellow podcaster  Heather Creekmore as she steps out in faith and starts sharing about her own intuitive eating journey with Jesus. Today we unpack feeling uncomfortable in our bodies, discuss health as an “obligation” and examine the heart issue underneath it all.

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

If you want your own intuitive eating coaching calls, check out our group coaching program with 11 weeks of coaching calls, it's called The Attunement Reset. You can find out more on our online courses page:

Today our guest on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast is Christie Dondero Bettwy, the Executive Director of Rock Recovery. In this episode Christie shares about how her faith impacted her eating disorder recovery and she encourages us that freedom is possible.

In this episode we dig into:

- Recognizing coping with food as doing the best you can

- Examining the root of our control issues

- Meeting Jesus and recovering from an eating disorder in the same season

- The freedom and peace in surrender

- How scripture provided a starting point to shift her thinking about bodies

- What working towards eating disorder recovery looks like

- Rock Recovery’s eating disorder recovery services

- The principles of intuitive eating that helped her recovery

- The importance of celebrating progress on your journey

- Navigating body change during recovery

- Realizing body image is not about shape or size

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 47 - Faith & Eating Disorder Recovery with Christie Dondero Bettwy

Our bonus episode today is part of our BOOK CLUB SERIES on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast. Join us as we talk with our special guest Kassandra Baker about the book The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer.

Become a monthly member and join us for our members only Book Club Meeting featuring a live Q&A with our special guest Kassandra Baker on January 17, 2023 at 2:00 pm EST.

In today’s book club series episode we dig into:

• What this book is about and why we love it
• The risk of legalism when approaching spiritual disciplines
• How spiritual disciplines relate to the intuitive eating journey
• Building rhythms that support our health and faith
• The intentionality it takes to live counter culturally

Today our guest on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast is Rachael Adams, host of The Love Offering podcast and author of the new book A Little Goes a Long Way: 52 Days to a Significant Life.

In this episode Rachael shares about insecurity, performance and identity in Christ. This is a great conversation to encourage us to live out our faith together!

In this episode we dig into:

- The shift in her faith that occurred when she became a mother

- The value in our testimonies, big or small, without a big before and after

- Celebrating the process of sanctification and being a work in progress

- Exploring the fruit of the spirit and our spiritual growth

- Her experience with a performance mindset and striving for perfection

- Biblical Justice: How being made in the image of God shapes our identity and how we treat others

- Finding our validation in God alone and the challenge of living like you believe it

- Living like a Love Offering and being the hands and feet of Jesus

- The power of your ordinary life and love when we are willing vessels

- Her new book A Little Goes a Long Way: 52 Days to a Significant Life

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 46 - A Significant Life with Rachael Adams

Today our guest on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast is Chrissy Kirkman, the Executive Director of FINDINGbalance. In this episode Chrissy shares about her own journey of healing from diet culture and how the Lord led her to help other women on their healing journeys.

In this episode we dig into:

- Discovering and pulling out the root of her food & body issues

- Struggling with women’s health issues and the shame spiral that resulted

- Fully surrendering her struggle to God

- What happened when the Lord led her to join a Lasting Freedom support group

- Prayer journaling and other practices that help strengthen us for the spiritual warfare from diet culture

- The mission of her non-profit organization FINDINGbalance and the amazing non-diet, Christian resources it offers

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 45 - Finding Balance with Chrissy Kirkman

Our bonus episode today is part of our BOOK CLUB SERIES on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast. Join us as we talk with the author Dr. Kari Anderson about her book “Food Body and Love but the greatest of these is love”.

Become a monthly member and join us for our members only Book Club Meeting featuring a live Q&A with the author Dr. Anderson on November 8, 2022 at 12:00 pm EST.

In today’s book club series episode we dig into:

- This book which tells her story after 30 years in the eating disorder field with a potent blend of memoir and science

- How turning to sugar to cope with childhood trauma turned into binge eating disorder in her teens

- How God created our bodies to be in a state of love, not fear

- Understanding the science and faith connection

- The basics of the vagus nerve and why it matters in healing our relationship with food

- An overview of the book and what you can expect from reading it

- Your invitation to join us for the members only Book Club Meeting on November 8, 2022 at 12:00 pm EST

- Dr. Anderson’s prayer for women reading Food Body & Love

We hope you will read this incredible book and join us on November 8, 2022 for our Book Club with Dr. Kari Anderson!

Our bonus episode today is part of our new BOOK CLUB SERIES on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast. Join us as we talk with Tracy Brown about her special FREE Healing Audio Series that we’re going to treat just like an audio book.

We all need healing from deep wounds and strongholds. Tracy Brown co-created this FREE audio series to help us find healing directly from God’s Word. The entire series has 15 teachings available, but we will be focusing on just three (3) for the book club: healing rejection, healing shame, and healing identity.

Become a monthly member and join us for our members only Book Club Meeting featuring a live Q&A with audio series co-creator Tracy Brown on October 4, 2022 at 12:00 pm EST.

In today’s book club series episode we dig into:

- The God story behind the creation of this Healing Audio Series

- An overview of the healing audio series and what you can expect from listening rather than reading this month

- How rejection, shame and identity are relevant in our relationship with food and body

- Healing Rejection and Its Effects

- Healing Shame and Its Effects

- Healing Identity and Its Effects

- The importance of healing our ability to be in relationship with God and others

- Your invitation to join us for the members only Book Club Meeting on October 4, 2022 at 12:00 pm EST

- Tracy’s prayer for women listening to the Healing Audio Series

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Today our guest on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast is Allie Marie Smith. In this episode, we have a raw and vulnerable conversation about detours on our journeys toward food and body freedom and the importance of breaking up with body objectification.

In this episode we dig into:

- What it was like growing up an athlete in a health-conscious home

- Fighting an unseen battle with depression and suicidal thoughts as a teen

- Coming undone and coming to Christ in a psychiatric hospital

- Integrating her faith into the principles of intuitive eating and sharing what she was learning through a college ministry called H.E.A.L. (Healthy Eating Abundant Living)

- Detours on our journeys toward food and body freedom

- Laying down the idol of her ideal body

- Wrestling with the label of obesity in diet culture

- A raw and vulnerable conversation about struggling to choose freedom and facing temptation to control and change our bodies

- The power of feeling your feelings with God

- The dangers of body objectification and strategies to help stop objectifying yourself and others

- Her book and non-profit organization, both called Wonderfully Made

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 44 - Breaking Up with Body Objectification with Allie Marie Smith

Our bonus episode today is part of our new BOOK CLUB SERIES on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast. Join us as we talk with the author Amy Connell about her book “Your Worthy Body: Find Freedom in Health by Breaking All the Rules”.

Become a monthly member and join us for our members only Book Club Meeting featuring a live Q&A with the author Amy Connell on September 13, 2022 at 12:00 pm EST.

In today’s book club series episode we dig into:

- The God story behind the writing of this book

- Disclaimer that this is not an intuitive eating book AND how it is still relevant to our intuitive eating journeys

- The power of breaking health rules through the lens of faith

- The importance of learning to think critically and find what works for YOU

- Who this book is for

- An overview of the book and what you can expect from reading it

- Finding inspiration for joyful movement

- Your invitation to join us for the members only Book Club Meeting on September 13, 2022 at 12:00 pm EST

- Amy’s prayer for women reading Your Worthy Body

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Jessica-Lauren Newby reminds us that our God of abundance calls us to abundant life in Him and she explains what this means for our relationships with food.

In this episode we discuss:

- Her experience growing up trying to be “good” at church and “good” for Jesus

- What it’s like to be a recovering seeker of her own righteousness

- How the Lord pursued her to provide eating disorder treatment to others and tied it to her own healing journey

- Realizing there has to be a better way than dieting and making the shift from a weight-centered approach to a weight-neutral approach to health

- How our God of abundance is not concerned with appearance

- Lamenting how Christian women are caught up in the world

- What the Bible says about feasting and fasting

- How we can incorporate the practices of feasting and sabbath in our weekly lives

- How breaking free from diet culture frees us to live out God’s call for our lives

- Reflections on Jesus as the bread of life

- The purpose of Biblical fasting and considerations fasting and disordered eating

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 43 Feasting and Fasting with Jessica-Lauren Newby

Our bonus episode today is part of our new BOOK CLUB SERIES on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast. Join us as we talk with the author Heather Creekmore about her book “The Burden of Better: How a Comparison-Free Life Leads to Joy, Peace, and Rest”.

Become a monthly member and join us for our members only Book Club Meeting featuring a live Q&A with the author Heather Creekmore on August 23, 2022 at 12:00 pm EST.

In today’s book club series episode we dig into:

- The God story behind the writing of this book

- An overview of the book and what you can expect from reading it

- How our ideals become our idols

- An overview of the 4 types of grace unpacked in the book

- Our desire for rest and how that relates to our struggles with comparison and body image

- Your invitation to join us for the members only Book Club Meeting on August 23, 2022 at 12:00 pm EST

- Heather’s prayer for women reading The Burden of Better

Our bonus episode today is an intuitive eating coaching session where we coach our friend and fellow podcaster  Heather Creekmore as she steps out in faith and starts sharing about her own intuitive eating journey with Jesus. Today we discuss how intuitive eating is not JUST not dieting, unpacking shame around our bodies changing, trying to “fix” ourselves, and recognizing control issues.

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

To get more information about our group coaching program going through The Attunement Reset this fall, check out our online courses page:

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Nicole Mesita of Body BLoved shares about why we need to bring the food freedom message to our churches and how we can do it!

In this episode we dig into:

- Studying to become a non-diet dietitian and learning under Dawn Clifford

- Seeing the parallels for Christian faith and intuitive eating

- Founding Body BLoved with other faith-based dietitians to speak truth to diet culture in the church

- Creating the Food Freedom Bible Study to introduce the non-diet, weight-neutral approach to Christians who are stuck in diet culture

- The exciting launch of Food Freedom Bible Study Small Group Curriculum

- Resources available to help you bring this message into your own church: sample letter to your pastor, marketing language to promote your study, Facilitator Guide to help you hold the space for others to learn

- The importance of spreading this message of revival to other women in our own spheres of influence

- The power of wrestling through our food and body struggles in community with other women

- How you don’t need to be an expert to share this food freedom message and help people understand they are the expert of their own body

- Encouragement to facilitate your own 6-week study online or in-person - no matter where you are on your intuitive eating journey

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 42 Food Freedom Bible Study with Nicole Mesita

Our bonus episode today is part of our new BOOK CLUB SERIES on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast. Join us as we talk with the author Aubrey Golbek MS RDN about her book “Grace Food and Everything In Between: Discover the transforming power of grace to set you free from food and body shame.”

Become a monthly member and join us for our members only Book Club Meeting featuring a live Q&A with the author Aubrey Golbek on July 12, 2022 at 12:00 pm EST.

In today’s book club series episode we dig into:

- The God story behind the writing of this book

- How Aubrey was inspired by Paul’s teachings on grace over food laws

- Who this book is for

- How the book renews the reader’s beliefs about God, self, and food through scripture, testimonies and science

- An overview of the book and what you can expect from reading it

- Your invitation to join us for the members only Book Club Meeting on July 12, 2022 at 12:00 pm EST

- Aubrey’s prayer for women reading Grace Food and Everything in Between

Our bonus episode today is an intuitive eating coaching session where Erin solo coaches our friend and fellow podcaster Heather Creekmore as she steps out in faith and starts sharing about her own intuitive eating journey with Jesus. Today we take a deep dive into satisfaction and explore the power of giving ourselves unconditional permission to eat.

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

If you're ready to take your own faith-based intuitive eating journey, start here:

Step 1: Listen to Season 1 with our $7 Podcast Workbook to learn the basics

Step 2: Get in community! Join our free FB group or paid monthly membership program.

Step 3: Go deeper in your journey with an online course.

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Dr. Stefani Reinhold takes us on a deep dive into mental health and food.

In this episode we dig into:

- Struggling with being good enough and measuring up against the “good Christian girl”

- The tension between intuitive eating and weight loss

- The heart issue under our body issues - it’s not about the food!

- How therapy knocked down her boundaries to God

- The impact of your intuitive eating healing on others in your life who don’t get it

- Trying to “fix” ourselves vs. getting to the root and healing

- Seasons in our relationship with food and body

- Grieving the ideal beauty standard and the void

- Practical ideas for addressing diet culture in the church

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 41 Mental Health & Food with Stefani Reinhold

Our bonus episode today is an intuitive eating coaching session where Char-Lee and I coach our friend and fellow podcaster  Heather Creekmore as she steps out in faith and starts sharing about her own intuitive eating journey with Jesus. Today we discuss Heather’s struggles with being chronically underfed and feeling “smoothie dependent”.

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

If you're ready to take your own faith-based intuitive eating journey, start here:

Step 1: Listen to Season 1 with our $7 Podcast Workbook to learn the basics

Step 2: Get in community! Join our free FB group or paid monthly membership program.

Step 3: Go deeper in your journey with an online course.

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Tracy Brown shares about how trauma creates soul wounds and how this impacts food and worth.

In this episode we dig into:

- Her experience of teen dieting turning into anorexia.

- How learning to look at bodies through God’s eyes healed her body image.

- Her supernatural recovery experience.

- Encountering diet culture in dietetics school.

- An overview of trauma-informed care.

- How trauma impacts our relationship with food and body.

- Dieting as a defense strategy to trauma AND compassion for that.

- Learning to surrender and rely on God for how He wants to heal this trauma.

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 40 Healing from Trauma and Disordered Eating with Tracy Brown

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Amy Connell shares her journey of finding freedom and health by breaking all the rules.

In this episode we dig into:

- Growing up a rule follower and realizing you don’t have to be perfect

- The wake up call of spending more time on food/body than on God

- Shifting her goal to not look good but to answer God’s call

- Realizing movement is not about today but about the rest of life

- Giving yourself grace in finding out what works for you

- Her book Your Worthy Body: Find Freedom In Health by Breaking All the Rules

- The purpose of taking care of our bodies

- Encouragement for the woman who’s burned out and fed up with movement

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 39 Breaking Health Rules with Amy Connell

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Alisha Carlson shares her journey of freedom from bondage to diet culture and the transformation that’s possible when we realize it’s not about the action, it’s all about the heart.

In this episode we dig into:

- The journey of faith becoming your own as you wrestle with God

- Examining our thoughts and why we believe what we believe

- Leaning in to how God wired us

- How mindset creates freedom or enslavement

- Untangling the lies that our worth and happiness comes from our body

- How self-focus is stealing from our roles as wives and mothers

- Carrying fear, anxiety, shame and baggage from diet culture into intuitive eating

- The power of journaling to identify feelings and thought patterns

- The importance of asking if your foundation is fear based or love based

- Freedom from bondage to diet culture and freedom to walk in God’s call and live our purpose

- Realizing it’s not about the action, it’s all about the heart

- The 3 phases of self-awareness

- Unpacking the lies and shame amount what a Christian woman looks like

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 38 It's All About the Heart with Alisha Carlson

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Andrea Bourgeois shares her journey of keeping food and body as her own kingdom and finding freedom in surrendering that to the Lord.

In this episode we dig into:

- Giving the Lord everything else but keeping health and appearance as our own little kingdom.

- Recognizing the yo-yo diet cycle and surrendering control to God.

- Running for the wrong reasons and discovering joyful movement and worshipful movement

- Understanding it’s not about what you do but why you do it

- What intuitive eating looks like in a family with a picky eater

- Ellyn Satter’s Division of Responsibility: insight on how to help your child have a healthy relationship with food.

- Living a Spirit-led life and keeping God first

- H.E.A.R. method of Bible study: highlight, explain, apply, respond

- Planting seeds with our kids and the generations behind us

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 37 Spirit-Led Surrender with Andrea Bourgeois

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Sarah Geringer shares about her own body acceptance journey and embracing who God made you to be.

In this episode we dig into:

- Using food to deal with trauma

- Making peace with her body as she ages

- Finding freedom in learning what you like and doing that

- How food is a celebration meant to be enjoyed in the company of others

- Recognizing you’re believing lies and choosing to believe truth

- How meditation on God’s word makes you more mindful in all areas

- Learning to recognize our different hungers and nourish ourselves

- Mental health and the benefits of chocolate

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 36 Embracing Who God Made You To Be with Sarah Geringer

Our bonus episode today is an intuitive eating coaching session where Char-Lee and I coach our friend and fellow podcaster Heather Creekmore as she steps out in faith and starts sharing about her own intuitive eating journey with Jesus. Today we discuss her struggle with mindless eating and tips for how to address snacking and eating more mindfully.

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

If you're ready to take your own faith-based intuitive eating journey, start here:

Step 1: Listen to Season 1 with our $7 Podcast Workbook to learn the basics

Step 2: Get in community! Join our free FB group or paid monthly membership program.

Step 3: Go deeper in your journey with an online course.

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Amy Carlson shares how the gospel translates into our body and the importance of remembering how we’re made.

In this episode we dig into:

- Growing up believing she was both ‘not enough’ and ‘too much’ and battling eating disorders

- Finding her way to her own faith and falling in love with God’s word

- Becoming a dietitian and stepping onto the mission field of Christian women in bondage to the things of this world

- The heartbreaking reality of the women of God talking the same way about their bodies as non-believers

- The dangers of diet culture is in the Church

- The enemy’s lie of ‘nobody sees you’ and ‘you’re not enough’

- Our invitation back to the table

- How the gospel translates into our body

- How diet culture has twisted fasting

- Why remembering how we’re made frees us to change the conversation

- The power of a settled and surrendered identity in Christ

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 35 - Remembering How We’re Made with Amy Carlson

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

Today on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our guest Aubrey Golbek shares about what exploring gentle nutrition from a faith-based perspective could look like for you.

In this episode we dig into:

- Her history of studying and using nutrition to pursue perfection

- Realizing intuitive eating is a research backed framework of what God says

- Cultivating attunement to Holy Spirit in our faith and our health

- The pitfalls of considering gentle nutrition in our intuitive eating journey

- The distinction between setting intentions vs. following rules about food

- Reframing tracking as a way to check in with yourself and learn

- Intuitive eating for specific health concerns

- Giving our health over to God

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 34 - Exploring Gentle Nutrition with Aubrey Golbek 

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

Today our guest on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast is Jessica Hottle who shares about finding freedom in spirit, soul and body.

In this episode we discuss:

- Getting the feeling of control from food and fitness

- The danger of letting our body become our identity

- How your view of God impacts your view of your body

- Recognizing the lies of diet culture

- Re-connecting your mind and your body with kind words

- How scripture impacts your body and learning to apply scripture to our bodies

- What health looks like after accepting grace

- Unpacking the distinctions of spirit, soul and body and what this means for our freedom, healing, and health

- The daily practice of renewing our minds with truth

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 33 - Freedom in Spirit, Soul and Body with Jessica Hottle

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

Today our guest on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast is Victoria Yates who shares about practicing self-care when life is busy.

In this episode we dig into:

- How an innocent desire to be healthy can lead to food obsession

- Wrestling with control issues and recognizing the spiritual battle

- The refining work and time it takes to heal our relationship with food and body

- Realizing that food isn’t as scary as you thought and learning to trust your body

- Caring for yourself in busy seasons of life - including motherhood!

- Discovering what it looks like to care for yourself and meet your own unique needs

- A positive shift in comparison: learning to admire and celebrate others

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 32 - Caring for Yourself in Busy Seasons with Victoria Yates

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

Today our guest on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast is Kristin Dovbniak who shares about bringing back the joy in cooking and eating.

In this episode we discuss:

- What happens when you heal your body from an eating disorder but don’t heal your relationship to food

- The impact studying nutrition and going to culinary school had on her food story

- Training for a fitness competition and what it taught her about her body

- Experiencing a massive health crash and seeing God work through that

- Discovering intuitive eating and finding balance without dieting

- Re-learning your food preferences after dieting

- Exploring what it means to savor your food

- Practical and inspiring cooking advice for everyday living

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 31: Bringing Back Joy in Cooking and Eating with Kristin Dovbniak

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

Today our guest on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast is Kassandra Baker who shares about living free from binge eating and orthorexia.

In this episode we discuss:

- Admitting her need for help in learning to live free and building a recovery team

- Understanding the binge-restrict cycle and the power of permission in breaking free

- The power of story in healing our relationships with food and body

- The spectrum of disordered eating

- Learning to feel our feelings with God

- The power of “AND”

- The shame of binge eating disorder and the pride of orthorexia

- Waking up to body and beauty idolatry

- The black and white of dieting contrasted with the color of eating disorder recovery

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 30: Living Free from Binge Eating and Orthorexia with Kassandra Baker

Today our guest on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast is Tina Yeager who shares about recognizing the difference between shame and conviction, eating disorder recovery and so much more!

In this episode we discuss:

- When seeking approval from others becomes an idol

- Keeping her eating disorder secret and separate from her faith

- How the Lord called her to write and enter a counseling program

- The transforming power of shifting our focus from self to centering on Jesus

- Encouragement for the ongoing journey of disordered eating recovery

- How comparison keeps us from becoming who God made us to be

- Recognizing the difference between shame and conviction

RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 29 - The Difference Between Shame and Conviction with Tina Yeager