Hey friends! Welcome back to another episode of Nourish to Bloom. Today we’re answering the question I know has been on your mind—Am I ready for intuitive eating?
If you’ve ever felt lost in the noise of diet culture or just wish God would put up a billboard with clear directions for you, this episode is exactly what you need!
In this episode, I'm laying down the seven unmistakable signs that indicate you’re ready to embrace intuitive eating from a faith-filled perspective. Spoiler alert – if you’re nodding along with most of these signs, it might be time to take that next step!
Key Take Aways
- A story about a client who wished for divine clarity and how it relates to understanding our journey with food.
- The hidden toll diet culture takes on your time, energy, and spiritual well-being.
- The seven signs that scream you’re ready for a change:
1. You’ve tried endless diets without sustainable success.
2. You long for simple, enjoyable, and healthy eating habits.
3. You’re desperate for more time and energy in your day.
4. Meal planning, cooking, and grocery shopping feel like a burdensome chore.
5. Food temptations and secret binges are all too familiar.
6. Emotional eating is running the show.
7. You dream of loving the person you see in the mirror.
- How all these signs are in sync with God’s plan for a peaceful, fulfilling life.
- Why Christ-centered intuitive eating could be the breakthrough you need to align your eating habits with your faith.
📣 And guess what? To help you get started, I’m hosting a free webinar called "Getting Started with Christ Centered Intuitive Eating" on Thursday, September 5 at 11:00 AM Central! I’m going to give you five practical steps to begin your intuitive eating journey and answer all your burning questions. Trust me, you don’t want to miss it!
So, if you’re ready to heal your relationship with food, embrace the wisdom of your God-given body, and make choices that reflect your faith, tune in now. Let’s discover together if you’re ready to bloom with Christ-centered intuitive eating.
Remember, beauty held is the seed, beauty shared is the flower. It’s your time to bloom! 🌸 Let’s get started!
Next Steps:
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Time Stamp Overview
00:00 Client desires clear direction for intuitive eating.
06:21 Diet industry creates problems with weight loss.
08:49 Escape diet culture, enjoy food, save time.
11:28 Struggling with emotional eating, seeking change.
14:45 Struggle with dieting, find freedom in faith.
19:13 Free Christ-centered intuitive eating webinar, September 5.
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I once had a client who told me she just wished that God
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would be more clear sometimes, that it was easier to understand
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what it was he was wanting us to do. She said, wouldn't it
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just be so much easier if God would just put it on a billboard and
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say, look here, this is what I want you to do. Yeah,
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that would be so nice, wouldn't it? For it? Just to be there in
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big, bold letters where we couldn't miss it. Well, I'm
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obviously not God, but today I want to put a billboard in front of
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you to give you some clarity and direction to clear
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up any doubt or confusion as to whether or not you are
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ready for Christ centered intuitive eating. So in this
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episode, I'm going to give you the seven signs that you are
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100% ready to take the next step and start
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your journey to becoming an intuitive eater.
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Welcome to the Nourish to Bloom podcast where your faith meets your
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health. I'm your host, Kara Trochta, a registered dietitian and
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certified catholic coach, and I'm here to help you cultivate a deeper connection
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with your body, your spirit, and the nourishment that sustains them
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both. In a world filled with noise and
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confusion about food, health and body image, this podcast
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offers truth and healing from a Christ centered perspective.
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Together well untangle the deep roots of diet culture and discover
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what it means. To truly care for ourselves through joyful.
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Nourishment of mind, body and soul. We're here to dive into
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the transformative. Power of intuitive eating coupled with the. Rich teachings of our
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christian faith. With every episode, I'll be cheering you on,
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offering insights, inspiration and practical tools to help you
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heal your relationship with food and embrace the beauty of your
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body as a temple of the Holy Spirit with confidence
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and courage that can. Only be found in Christ.
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Join me as we journey together towards a more holistic approach to wellness,
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one that honors the wisdom of your body as God's creation,
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the teachings of our faith, and the unique purpose you're called to
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fulfill. You were made to bloom,
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to come into full beauty and health in order to bear good fruit
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for the Lord with your life. So if you're ready to nourish your body,
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feed your soul and bloom into the best version of yourself, then you're.
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In the right place. And I'm so happy you're here. Welcome
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to Nourish to Bloom, where every day is a sacred invitation
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to thrive. Hey there, welcome
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back to the Nourish to Bloom podcast. I hope your week is off to
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a great start. I want you to think of today's
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episode, like those ads that come through on your social
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media after, you know, have you've casually mentioned to your
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best friend that you've been wanting to try XYZ product, or
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you're curious about this thing, and then all of a sudden, like,
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because your phone's been listening to whatever problem you have,
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you then start to get all these potential solutions
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through social media ads? Well, I've
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been listening for many, many years to the struggles that so
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many of you have with dieting and weight loss efforts. And I
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want to give you the solution that will work. But I'm
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way less spammy than your social media ads, I promise. But
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it's true, though. Like, sometimes we just need to have things spelled
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out clearly for us, put right in front of our faces, for
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us to start to believe that there is a different way
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to recognize our problems and to embrace
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the solution that's being put in front of us. So today, I'm
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going to be as clear as I possibly can and share with you the
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top seven time seven signs that you're 100%
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ready for Christ centered, intuitive eating. And so, as I go through this.
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List, I want you to stop and reflect on if
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you're struggling with any of these issues, any of these
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signs, and what kind of effect it may be having on your
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life. And what would life look like if you decided
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to take the next step and begin your intuitive eating
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journey. So, let's jump in. Sign
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number one. You've tried every
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diet and weight loss program out there, but still haven't seen
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sustainable results. The program
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seems to work for a while, and you can stick with it for a
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while, but the program doesn't support
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your busy lifestyle. It feels like
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trying to stay on any sort of diet or weight loss plan
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is a full time job. And then as soon as life gets busy,
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you fall off track. And the lies you tell yourself are that you
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just haven't found the right thing yet, or that it's your fault that you can't
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stick with it because you just aren't strong enough, or you don't have enough
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willpower to do it. And what's even more is, I
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think a lot of, a lot of women are at the point where
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they know, they know these quick fixes,
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these diet and weight loss programs, these pills, these supplements,
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they really don't work. At least not for the long
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time, long term. So you may even know that these. Programs don't
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work, but you just don't know what to do instead. Hint,
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hint. It's intuitive eating sign number
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two, you wish healthy eating could be simple and
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enjoyable. Right now, after the
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years of following diet and weight loss recommendations, you're
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confused and you're frustrated by all the different diets,
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weight loss programs, shakes, supplements and healthy eating
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recommendations. They seem to contradict themselves all the
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time. It's like here, eat only whole
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foods. And nothing refined or processed and in the same breath. Here you need this
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supplement or this shake from my program. And it's
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confusing. But we have to remember that with. The massive amount of
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money at stake. In the diet and weight loss industry, companies
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are keeping you on that roller coaster with ever
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changing solutions. And I say that, quote,
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solutions to the problem that they actually
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created. I want you to stop and think about that. Everything that you've
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learned about dieting and. Weight loss so far, how our bodies were
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not designed to diethouse. I want you to stop and
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think the diet industry created this problem
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by pushing solutions that don't work.
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And they know it, but they're not going to admit that. They
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just repackage the same diets over and over again, calling them something
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different and putting a pretty new bow on it, and
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myself included. We've fallen victim to their plots time
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after time. And it only leaves you constantly
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wondering what's true and what isn't, what's the right
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thing to eat or who should you be following for advice?
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Healthy eating doesn't require jumping through hoops of
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fire. And it doesn't leave you burned time and time
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again. Sign number three,
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you wish you had more time and energy, because it
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seems like you never have enough time and energy to really focus on the
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things that you really want to. And this is especially true when
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your day is controlled by food. You spend
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all day thinking about food, trying to figure out what you should be eating,
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and if whatever you choose will either make you gain weight or help you
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lose weight. I think it's interesting because research has
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shown that most non disordered eating people, that means people
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who do not engage in any sort of
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disordered eating, meaning non dieters.
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So most non disordered eating people think about food
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about 15% of their day. Now, people
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with anorexia nervosa, which is an eating disorder,
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think about food up to 115% of their
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day because it's an obsession. And so we would have
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to realistically think that, like, chronic dieters and people
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who are engaged in disordered eating tend to fall
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somewhere in the middle. So let's just say that you
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spend 75% of your time thinking about food
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and this shows up because you have. Those annoying voices in your head
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shouting. All those eating and food rules all day long. Don't eat
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this. That's not good for you, that has too much
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sugar. You also weigh and measure out your. Foods, count
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and track calories. Or macros like you
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probably spend just. As much time logging your food as. You
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do scrolling socials. So it's no wonder it feels like. You don't have
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time for anything else. Your mind is full of diet,
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culture, noise and nonsense, and it's robbing
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you of your precious time and energy.
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So if you were to heal your relationship
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with food, you could actually create more time. You
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could increase your time by 60%. Like what
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would you do with 60% more free time?
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Sign number four. You wish meal planning,
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cooking, and grocery shopping was easier.
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Currently, in this current diet culture
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mentality that you find yourself stuck in, it's likely your
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meals are not very enjoyable. You struggle with meal
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planning because you never know what to cook because you're so limited
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by what is quote unquote weight loss approved.
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Or you feel like you're eating the same foods over and over
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because they're quote unquote safe. Or you're making
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separate meals, the one that you can eat and then the one that everyone else
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can. You feel like you never get to
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eat foods that you enjoy, and if you do, you're only left
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feeling guilty and you're haunted by the memory
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of your grandmother. Or worse yet, because for me, it was
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my grandfather saying, once on the lips, forever
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on the hips. With every bite you take,
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there is just so little enjoyment or pleasure at
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mealtime that you tend to just run through it and rush
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through it. So it will just be over sooner. But we need to stop
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and remember that our food is a gift from
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God meant to nourish our physical bodies,
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one that should bring us enjoyment and
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pleasure throughout the day and allow us to be connected
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by his and abundance and his provisions for
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us. Sign number five. You wish you
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weren't tempted by food anymore. You
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are finding yourself secretly binging. Or you feel guilty
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about eating certain foods, so you sneak foods or you
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eat in hiding so no one catches you eating something that you quote
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unquote shouldn't be. The worst possible thing would be
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for your kids to see you eating a cookie or a candy bar or your
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husband to find those wrappers that you've hidden.
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And to the outside world, you look
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like the perfect eater who is never tempted. You put on
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this really brave food face when you're out in public and.
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Everyone would never believe that it's possible. For you to crave anything quote
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unquote bad. But on the inside, you
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feel like you have zero self control around
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foods. You are good all day long
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only to have it fall apart at night.
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Sign number six. You don't want to be an emotional
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eater anymore. You're tired of having a rough
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day, and it ends up in you reaching for your favorite treat in hopes
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of it making you feel better. And while that may work
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temporarily, you're then faced with the guilt and the shame of
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what you ate. I you really don't want
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to turn to food. And you know that you have this emotional
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eating struggle, but you don't know how to change it. So
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you've become a victim not only to your emotions
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and to this pool. That food
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has over you. And it ends up in you being
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in like this self sabotage mode by continuously turning to
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food in hopes of feeling better to then only feel
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worse. Sign number seven.
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You wish you could look in the. Mirror and not hate what you see.
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You are so tired of hating your body.
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You wish that you could look at a picture of yourself
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or walk past a mirror without thinking, I'm
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so big, or I'm so fat, or I'm just
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gross. I just feel gross. Or gosh,
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I just need to lose some weight. You wish you could stop
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worrying about what other people are thinking about your body. Here's
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a spoiler alert. They're not because they're too busy worrying about
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their own body. But you wish you could just stop comparing
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yourself to others and be content
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with who you are. How you view
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yourself based on the. Outside has caused a lot of damage on
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the inside. You suffer from low confidence and low
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self esteem. You doubt belief in
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yourself and your abilities or your gifts.
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And you wish that you could see yourself as maybe
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your husband or your friend or your daughter, or how
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God sees you. You want to truly
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believe and embrace that you are beautiful and worthy
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and loved and capable. Y'all, it is time
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to take off those broken and cracked lenses that you've been using
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to view yourself through for too long. It's time to take them off.
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Because where has all of this gotten you? Where
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has dieting and weight loss gotten you? Where has worrying about what
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you're eating gotten you? Where has hating your body gotten
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you? You feel hopeless, and you wonder if you'll
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ever figure this out. You feel like you're just not
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good enough for anything. You put
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your life on hold, waiting until you finally lose the weight
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or you have that tone body, to take the trip, to
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go after a career goal, to dream about
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doing something different in your life, to follow God's plan.
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You have low energy and a sluggish. Metabolism with
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which frustrates you. You think that you're
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a failure, and you blame yourself, despite the fact you've
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tried so hard at all of this. And then I think this big
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one is, you can't believe
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that you can succeed at anything because you can't succeed at
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dieting. Let me say that one again.
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You don't think you can succeed at anything because
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you haven't been able to succeed at dieting.
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That one kind of hurts. Like, I know that lie
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pretty well. I believed that one for a really,
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really long time. But I want to remind
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you that Jesus Christ came, that you might
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have life. It's time to
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let him lead you out of the bondage of diet and weight
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loss culture, just as he led the Israelites out of slavery
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in Egypt. He is offering
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you a chance at freedom.
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Keys to freedom. But you have to decide if you
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want it. You have to decide if you want what he is offering you.
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I get that staying where you are is
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comfortable. You don't maybe necessarily like where you
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are, but it's familiar. And so you tell yourself that
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I can just live this way. It's fine, but it's really
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something probably deeper that's holding you back. It's
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likely fear of all these unknowns and what
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ifs that could potentially come up if you try intuitive
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eating. But let's look at the reality.
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Every single morning, we wake up to a day full of
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unknowns. The difference here is that
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when we let fear control the unknown,
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we are making the choice to let Satan decide how it will play
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out. And we continue to be enslaved
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when we choose to stay where we are. Even if it's not good for
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us. We'Re still making a choice. A choice to not let
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God move and work. A choice to not be renewed or
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transformed. But instead, we can choose
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faith in our lord. Despite the fear, despite the unknowns and
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the what ifs, he is the one who decides how
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it will play out. If we take that first step in
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faith with him, he gets to guide our steps
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and lead us to what is good, because he is our good
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shepherd. I truly believe that
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for me, intuitive eating was a doorway that God put
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in front of me, one that I chose to walk
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through despite really not knowing if intuitive eating
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would work and despite still really wanting to lose
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weight. But I took a chance.
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I saw that maybe there was hope. To let go of some of
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these things that were keeping me
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enslaved for so long. And in stepping through that
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doorway, it led me to a relationship with the
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Lord, which was something that I really didn't have
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before because I was too focused on my body
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and my weight. And now it's a
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relationship that continues to grow deeper. Like, I can now
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hear the Lord speak to me when before, I never could.
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And I thought that there was something wrong with me because I'd hear other people
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say that they could hear the Lord speaking to them. And I was like, I
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don't like what's wrong? What am I doing wrong? And it turns
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out that my head was just full of so many
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other voices, voices that weren't God's
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voice. But through this process,
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I was able to clean up my thoughts and stop giving into what
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society said is best and beautiful.
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Intuitive eating was the first step for me to better knowing
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God because I learned more
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about myself. It was the first step to better knowing God by better
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knowing myself. And I want
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to invite you to experience the same thing. I'm
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hosting a free webinar called getting started with Christ centered intuitive
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eating on Wednesday, September 5. That
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is not a Wednesday, Thursday, September. 5 at
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11:00 a.m. central time. So getting started with Christ
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centered intuitive eating webinar on Thursday, September 5
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at 11:00 a.m. central time. You can sign up for
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this free webinar at www.caratrockta.com
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Forward Slash webinar, or you can see the link in the show
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notes. So in this webinar, I'm going to give you the
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five practical steps to jumpstart healing your relationship
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with food and your body, as well as an opportunity for you
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to come and ask any of the intuitive eating questions that you may
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have accumulated after you know over the times that you've been listening to the
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podcast. So it gives you the opportunity to come and ask any of these
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intuitive eating questions in our live Q and a portion of the webinar.
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It's also an opportunity to come learn how God designed your body for
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intuitive eating and how to start living in alignment with
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God's design for nourishment and find peace with
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food. So you can let go of the guilt and the shame,
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and you'll walk away with actionable strategies to be able
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to immediately apply to your life, making food
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choices that honor both your body and faith. This
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is definitely something you don't want to miss, but if you can't make it live,
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don't worry. Please still come and register for this. I will be
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sending out a replay. To all those who register so you can get these
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five essential steps and start your intuitive eating journey.
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All you have to do is go sign up today at
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www.caratracted.com
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webinar or simply click the link in the show notes to sign
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up again. Thank you so much for being here with
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me this week. I hope that the rest of your week goes well
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and I want to remind you that beauty held is the
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seed, beauty shared is the flower. It is your
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time to bloom. We'll talk soon. Bye.
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Ep. 26 But What If I Still Want to Lose Weight? How to Overcome the What-Ifs and Worries of Intuitive Eating
In this episode, we address the fears and doubts you’re often faced with when considering a shift away from diet culture. If you’ve been contemplating intuitive eating but still find yourself worrying about weight loss, this conversation is here to reassure and guide you. Key Takeaways: Fear and doubts are some of the biggest reasons people s...
Ep. 24 Face Off: Using God’s Truth to Fight the Lies of Diet Culture
In this episode of Nourished to Bloom , we dive deep into the truth of God's word to break free from the lies of diet culture. Diet culture teaches us that we must be thin to be healthy and that happiness is tied to our body image. But true freedom begins with a renewal of the mind, grounded in God's truth. Join me as I expose two common lies...