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Weight Gain Isn’t Just a Physical Issue
“When you are hemorrhaging, comfort food is a tourniquet and eating healthy seems like a long ride to the hospital when you might die," a woman who came into our coaching group said to me. Ever feel this way? I know I have. I understood exactly what she meant because...
Mending Broken Butterflies
When she was really, really, really, really fat She ceased to be free. She stopped trying. She stopped living. She simply existed. Her wings were broken, torn asunder By her own deceptively sweet, yet destructive habits. She sat alone nursing her tattered and...
Real Hope for the Journey Out of Obesity
There is an epidemic of hopelessness that has been sweeping over the world in the last few months. Even as we begin to open our doors and peek out at the world, we are unsure of the future. We are unsure of what will happen next. It’s almost like we are just waiting...
Five Steps To Walk Out of Worry
Most of us would choose to be a warrior for God, rather than a person who is a worrier. A worrier is someone who is trying to use their own resources to solve problems. A warrior knows she has to use God’s divine weapons. There is nothing else that will work. And yet,...
Searching for Peace During Confusing Times
The state we are all currently living in could be called the state of confusion. If you are like me, I don’t do well in confusion. I like to be decisive, to make a decision and stick to it, but these days no one wants to make a decision that goes past tomorrow at the...
Healthy Is the New Sexy
“I tell women, healthy is the new sexy,” Verna Laboy, health educator for Columbia/Boone County, MO public health and human services declared. Laboy runs the Live Well By Faith program. Since heading up this program, she herself has lost 40 pounds and lowered her A1C...
Fixing the World
Do you ever have days when you want to just fix the world? The last month or more this desire became overwhelming because I realized I can’t fix the world and neither can anyone else. So I did what most of the world is doing now—basically the essentials plus watching...
Where Should My Focus Be?
A few days ago I accidentally took my evening meds in the morning. I have them nicely categorized in two separate colored med planners. I stumbled out of bed, into the bathroom, grabbed the purple box and downed my meds. Then, my brain kicked in to tell me, "Hey,...
How Grace Changed My Life Twice
I would be dead today without the grace of Jesus changing my life. It’s a fact I cannot deny and if I had died 15 years ago, it would have been totally my fault. I’ve written about this before, but today I feel led to connect the dots between the parts of my story....
The Crisis Version of Emotional Eating
We are in the midst of a crisis we've never seen before. Everything has changed. Even our emotions have changed. We are in the midst of experiencing crisis emotions and therefore, we are in the midst of the crisis version of emotional eating. It is just another...