GLP-1 medications are everywhere right now, and if you're in eating disorder recovery, the pressure to try one can feel impossible to untangle from your faith.

Liesel Maddox is a registered dietitian and certified eating disorder specialist who brings both her clinical expertise and a Christ-centered lens to the GLP-1 conversation. She walks through what these medications do in the body, the real risks for someone with an eating disorder history, and what Scripture says about a body God already called good.

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If weight stigma has ever made you afraid to walk into church, or to trust that Jesus wants you exactly as you are, this conversation is worth your time.

Anna Marie Long is a registered dietitian and certified eating disorder specialist who brings both her clinical training and her own story of learning that food, body, and faith were never meant to be separate. She walks through what real healing from weight stigma looks like: grieving the years spent at war with your body, letting scripture speak louder than diet culture, and bringing the shame to Jesus one small prayer at a time.

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If a comment about your body from a pastor, church leader, someone at a potluck, or a doctor has ever left you feeling judged instead of loved, you aren’t alone. We’ve been there, too.

Leslie Schilling is back on the show, and this time she and Chrissy go somewhere hard: weight stigma in the church. Leslie breaks down the difference between weight bias and weight stigma, and why the safest place you know might be where it's hiding. She also offers gentle, honest words you can use to talk with your pastor when a sermon unintentionally lands wrong. Your body has never had anything to do with whether you belong, and that's the conversation here.

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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 hunger over to external rules, what it means to recover the internal cues diet culture trained you to ignore, and why the path out was never meant to be walked alone. You'll leave with a clearer picture of what God's original design for your body really was, and why that's worth coming back to.

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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 seven needs disordered eating often tries to fill and how to make the shifts that lead to real recovery, plus what freedom following faith instead of fear looked like in her own life. You'll leave with a better sense of what's been holding you back, and a kinder way to move past it.

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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 looks like when your body has limits, why shaming yourself into movement never works, and what it means to take one small step with Jesus and let that be enough. You'll leave with a different way of seeing your body and a gentler way of caring for it.

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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 hits so hard, and what practical body image healing looks like when you bring Jesus into it. You'll finish this episode equipped with tools, hope, and one truth worth holding onto: shame does not get the final word. You are not your worst thought about your body, and this summer can be different.

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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 freedom is far less like striving and far more like surrender.

This episode covers the neuroscience of joy, gratitude, and neuroplasticity, and walks you through two practical spiritual exercises you can start today. If you haven't listened to Part 1, How to Take Every Thought Captive in Eating Disorder Recovery, start there first and then come back and let Alisa show you what it looks like to uproot the poisoned fruit of the enemy, one thought, one memory, one moment of faith at a time.

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