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Transformed Through Jesus’ Work (Episode #100) – Katie’s Story

March 21, 2019 By beautyinchrist Leave a Comment

Transformed? Have you ever seen ‘transformation’ photos on Instagram? I don’t really spend that much time looking at those, because I find that they can especially breed comparison for me as someone who used to compare my body/body shape all the time with other people. But what does transformed mean in Scripture? It’s MORE than the outward appearance. It’s more than the shape of your body; in fact it’s not really related at all to what your body looks like.

That’s why I wanted to interview Katie; Katie has an Instagram feed FILLED with ‘transformation’, and it’s that deep soul transformation that starts on the inside and works its way all the way outwards.

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Life After Recovery (Shannon’s Continued Story) – Episode #98

March 7, 2019 By beautyinchrist Leave a Comment

Life after recovery. I have spent a great amount of time on the podcast talking about recovery, bad body image days, struggles with anxiety around food, hypothalamic amenorrhea, and yet I want to encourage you that there is life and HOPE after the initial really tough stages of recovery. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t still days when you don’t struggle with hard thoughts in front of the mirror. IT doesn’t mean that you won’t have fears about certain foods, but it’s a safe space where you don’t want to go back to where you used to be; you won’t restrict because you remember the misery it caused.

That’s why I’m bringing my beautiful friend, Shannon, back onto the podcast. Shannon first shared her story on the podcast (Freedom from Laxatives and Secrets), and now she’s in such a beautiful place right now with her recovery.

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Talking to Young Children About Body Image and Food (Episode #91)

January 10, 2019 By beautyinchrist Leave a Comment

Young children. I love them. They always have such wide eyed wonder, such curiosity, such a sweet dependence on the Lord that I need more of; yet they are also impressionable. They also will listen to you and often believe a lot of what they hear without filtering it. They need discernment. They need teaching. Deuteronomy 6 talks about teaching your children as you lie down, as you rise up, as you walk by the way.

And teaching children a HEALTHY God glorifying view of food and body and exercise is not easy in a world filled with talk of ‘body sizes’ or foods being ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ It so often focuses the children on what is ‘wrong’ with a food instead of thanking the Lord for that gift of food, whatever it is.

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How Gut Healing Can Disguise as Diet Culture (Episode #88)

December 11, 2018 By beautyinchrist 4 Comments

Gut healing is such a trendy word. And this year I kind of got sucked into all the parts of it including the diet culture that weaves itself in and out of gut healing. Now I’m not talking about gut issues like Crohn’s, IBS, IBD, or any other bowel diseases, but I’m talking about having struggles with restriction, coming out with gut struggles because of that restriction, and listening to the lie that I should ‘restrict’ certain foods or not eat certain foods in order to heal my gut.

The Lord restores. That’s what I can say this year again and again; for a LONG time I was really discouraged about my gut issues; I didn’t think anything could be resolved. I became afraid of some different kinds of foods, because I thought those were doing something to my gut, but I realized that the anxiety about those foods was actually creating more digestive distress for me.

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I don’t know exactly what the years of restriction did to my gut, but it didn’t do good things to my gut. My gut became really sensitive, and only this year have I really headed straight for the problem, asking the Lord for healing, for courage to do the things necessary in order to heal.

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