If you've been told to trust your body but don't know how to get there, and diet culture has been the only language you've ever been taught, press play on this one. Chrissy hits rewind on a conversation with Amy Carlson, a registered dietitian and co-founder of the Peace With Food app, to discuss what Christian intuitive eating looks like in practice. Amy has spent over 20 years helping women recover from eating disorders, and in this conversation she names why so many people hand their hunge...
Jul 21
35 min
If eating disorder recovery feels like progress some days and a fight against yourself on others, this episode is for you. Chrissy pulls a favorite from the archives with Brittany Braswell, registered dietitian and recovery coach, to name the three mistakes that quietly stall food freedom: waiting for your body to change before treating it kindly, chasing intuitive eating without the deeper work, and reaching for coping skills that never meet the real need underneath. Brittany shares the seve...
Jul 7
48 min
If movement has always felt complicated, tangled up with body image, or the pressure to do more and look different, this episode is for you. Chrissy sits down with Leah Bryant, the producer of Old School Food Freedom, who woke up one day unable to feel anything below the waist. What followed was emergency spinal surgery, a cauda equina syndrome diagnosis, thirty days in rehab, and a slow, faith-filled journey back to walking on her own. Together, they talk about what body gratitude really loo...
Jun 16
44 min
If you have ever dreaded swimsuit season, felt that familiar wave of shame when the layers come off, or spent another summer hiding from your own life because of how you feel about your body, you’ll want to hear this episode. Chrissy sits down with psychotherapist Angelica Gonzalez for an honest conversation about overcoming body shame and what it looks like to move toward your body with compassion instead of contempt. Together, they cover where the shame voice comes from, why swimsuit season...
Jun 2
45 min
If you have ever felt trapped in the same exhausting thought loops, the impatience, the resentment, the frustration, no matter how hard you try to think your way out, you'll want to hear this episode. Dr. Alisa Shanks is a licensed psychologist who loves Jesus and neuroscience, and in Part 2 of this conversation, she brings both to bear on something that will change the way you think about healing. Because brain science is confirming what scripture has said all along, and the path to fr...
May 19
40 min
If you know the verse "Take every thought captive," but still feel completely at the mercy of the thoughts that won't stop coming, this episode is for you. Dr. Alisa Shanks is a licensed clinical psychologist with over two decades of experience in eating disorder recovery and university mental health, and she believes wholeheartedly in full recovery. What she brings to this conversation began not in a studio but in a therapy session, when the Holy Spirit planted something she couldn't stop th...
May 5
36 min
What if the story you've been telling yourself about your body was never the true story to begin with? Chaplain Eva Bleeker joins Chrissy to explore narrative identity theory (stories) and what it means for women navigating disordered eating, body shame, and food freedom and faith. You'll learn why healing cannot happen in isolation, how the stories we absorbed from family and diet culture shaped us more than we knew, and why Jesus, the One who took on a human body, is the best co-author your...
Apr 21
45 min
Pregnant and feeling your eating disorder thoughts creeping back in? Your body is in a completely different season right now, and you deserve support that understands both. Jessica-Lauren Newby, registered dietitian and certified eating disorder specialist, joins Chrissy to walk through exactly what eating disorder recovery during pregnancy looks like, from navigating cravings and morning sickness without shame, to advocating with your OB, to trusting God with a body that keeps changing...
Apr 7
41 min
If you've been told you need a higher level of care for your eating disorder and you don't know what that means or whether you're ready, this episode is for you. Amanda Sloan from Selah House, one of the nation's long-standing Christ-centered eating disorder treatment centers, joins us today to discuss residential eating disorder treatment, explain the difference between the levels of care, and show you what faith-based eating disorder recovery looks like from the inside, from worship and pra...
Mar 17
45 min
If you've been hiding your eating disorder because you think you're too far gone, or too deep in the binging and purging cycle to bring God into it, this conversation will meet you right where you are. Jayme Muller is a Christian blogger, author, and podcast host who opens up about her own bulimia recovery story, how all-or-nothing thinking kept her stuck for years, and what surrender to God looked like and how that changed everything. Friend, if any of that sounds like your life right now, y...
Mar 3
52 min
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