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You Are Valuable Even When It Doesn’t Feel Like It

June 30, 2018 By beautyinchrist 2 Comments

Someone in my life is teaching me this. This person is teaching me that I’m valuable. That I’m valuable because God says I am, not because of what I do, what I have accomplished, or the things I don’t do.

It’s hard to remember that you as a human being are valuable. God says that He made us ‘fearfully and wonderfully’. That means there was no mistake in you being created.

Now. yes. Our bodies were affected by the fall. They have issues. They need healing and fixing, but God made each person in His image. And there is something so special about that, that’s even more special than my husky or cat.

Yet what do I preach on this blog?

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Breaking the Stigma of Anxiety (Episode #69)

June 28, 2018 By beautyinchrist Leave a Comment

Anxiety is a word that for me had a stigma around it for a long time. I couldn’t tell other people that I struggled with it. Just saying that word to others in context of talking about me made me feel anxious. It can be a bit of an ambiguous word, and it’s not quite always easy to describe what it means. It can be hard to talk about your anxiety, because anxiety is hard. It can be embarrassing. It can be crippling and hard. And it can be hard to explain it to others who don’t know what you mean.

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Learning to NOT Listen to Irrational ED Thoughts (Episode 65)

May 31, 2018 By beautyinchrist 4 Comments

Guys. Gals. Eating disorders are irrational at best. They are NOT logical. I repeat. ‘They are not logical.’ Often we think they are because the feelings and thoughts are so strong, but I truly believe that’s because we are at war. We are at war mentally and spiritually and emotionally, and the more I’ve grown up and learned about spiritual warfare, the more I’ve seen them as a spiritual battle.

The devil is the father of lies, getting you to dissolve into irrational thinking. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. The lies that leave you in fear and anxiety are not from Jesus.

What are some of the irrational lies that your head will tell you? What are some of the lies I still have in my head sometimes and ones that I have listened to before?

Eating disorders will tell you:

“Don’t eat. You’ll get fat.”

“If you don’t exercise today, then you’ll totally fall off the bandwagon, and you won’t be strong anymore.”

“Don’t eat ice cream in the middle of the day.”

“Anything with ‘this much sugar’ is NOT good for you, and it can’t possibly be.’

“Going out to eat especially at McDonalds or Chick Fil A will definitely be detrimental to my health.”

“If you don’t do an exercise that leaves you flat out on the floor, it didn’t count as a workout.”

I really appreciate how Robyn often talks about reframing thoughts, and I thought I would share some of the ways I’ve learned and am learning to reframe those thoughts into ones that are life giving, not anxiety inducing.

One of the biggest verses that comes to mind especially as I’ve wrestled with that anxiety that can almost be paralyzing around food and exercise is Philippians 4:6-7, ‘Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.⁷And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.’

I can not tell you how much the weapon of prayer, the weapon of bringing your requests before the throne of God by the precious blood of Jesus helps. I don’t know what I would have done without being able to pray.

Y’all the episode is real. There’s a husky whining in it, and there’s some fun background noise, and I hope you find it encouraging, uplifting, hopeful, and truthful in your recovery journey.

How do you reframe irrational thoughts that are not true into the right ones?

When You Hurt Someone Else With Your ED

May 28, 2018 By beautyinchrist 4 Comments

My trip to Europe last year. I should say, ‘our sister’s trip to Europe’, was the trip that really revealed to me how much I had hurt my sisters with my own idols of food and exercise. They came out big and ugly, and I could not avoid looking at them. God knew that it was the right time to bring them to the surface, and it HURT.

This is a heavy subject, but when you hurt someone with your struggles with an ED, it’s hard to come back from; in fact I think it’s impossible without Jesus. There has to be so much forgiveness, so much openness, so much healing of old wounds, and I’m still on that trail with one of the people dearest to me.

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