You can be sitting at the dinner table with your family, laughing and talking and physically right there with them...

while your mind is somewhere completely different.

What did I eat?

Did I exercise enough?

How does my body look?

Did I eat too much?

What am I going to eat later?

An eating disorder doesn't just affect your relationship with food or your body.

It can steal your presence.

In this episode, we're talking about what happens when food, exercise, body and control thoughts keep pulling your attention inward—and why recovery is about so much more than simply getting better at eating.

It's also about getting you back.

Your family gets more of you. Your friendships get more of you. The people God has placed in your life get more of you.

And you get to actually be present for the life God has given you.

We'll talk about the difference between healthy self-investment and the kind of inward focus an eating disorder creates, what Mary and Martha can teach us about distraction and presence, and one simple way to begin bringing your attention back to Jesus, the people in front of you and the moment you're actually living.

If food noise is constantly running in the background of your life, here's something I want you to consider:

What if continuing to fight the thoughts on the surface isn't the only thing that needs your attention?

Sometimes we need to get curious about why weight gain feels so threatening in the first place and what fears or beliefs may be sitting underneath all that monitoring and controlling.

That's exactly what we're going to explore together in my free, live Break the Fear of Weight Gain Workshop on November 10 at 11:00 AM Central.

This isn't another recovery resource to save for later and never open.

We're going to do the work together.

You'll have 45 minutes of live teaching plus time for Q&A, and I'll help you begin understanding what may be driving your fear so you can identify your next step toward freedom.

Register for the free Break the Fear of Weight Gain Workshop

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