Eating Disorder Recovery & Fitness Idolatry | with Brittany Dawn Nelson
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- * NOTE: not a livestream! This is a pre-recorded conversation because Brittny and I will actually both be in New York City at the same time meeting IN PERSON for a women’s ministry banquet event :)
Join me and my sister Brittany Dawn in this important conversation discussing the current epidemic of eating disroders and fitness idolatry permeating our culture by and large, especially targeting young women!
Brittany will be sharing her testimony of how she was a fitness influencer who came to the end of herself before she was radically saved by Jesus and turned her life around. Her story is one of God's amazing grace!
We share a common past insomuch of eating disorders and fitness idolatry, both of which the Lord has totally delivered us from! This is something that plagues Christian and non-Christian women alike, so our prayer for this convo is that women would be set free from the same bondage we were once held captive to as we encourage the biblical truth that our identity is in Christ alone!
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As a millennial as well, this speaks to me. This was the pressure we were under. I can remember in high school calling ourselves fat with our friends, even though looking back we weren’t at all. We were suffering from the media and what we saw in our most impressionable years.
Yes, I mean I'm a bit older and we went through it big time in the 90s due to 'heroin chic', Kate Moss etc. The last few years have been an improvement in the demands placed on women in terms of restricting calories, but now the pendulum seems to be swinging back again :(
This opened my mind so much.. I have been trying to figure out this feeling I feel very heavy in most mornings or some days, where I don’t want to be in my body at all. Feels like I want to unzip and come out of it. Then it makes me feel like I hate my body. I’m bringing this to God, I renounce this feeling in the name of Jesus. I’m praying God will teach me how to take care of my body & learn to love, how to feed myself properly. I’m in a period of Re-parenting. Thank you for this episode!! Heaven & Healing Podcast has helped me so much in the last 6 months.
"It's about a place to house life" brought tears to my eyes.
"Beauty is vain and charm is deceitful but a woman who fears the Lord shall be praised"
Proverbs 31
Yeees!! That spoke to me ❤
I didn't grow up religious at all so as an outsider I have a lot of negative views about it. But I'm in recovery from addiction and have been in and out of AA for many years. I could not understand the idea of a higher power because everything we are taught in New Age is the idea that YOU have the power to change yourself. But I kept relapsing and was in treatment and eventually I had to surrender and give it all to God. So much of this conversation I can relate to in my specific struggles.
Your testimony is amazing! i was bulimic on and off for years and im not a woman but i can understand how much worse it is for you both to have to go through all this God Bless you both!
I want to go to the gym and lose weight when my girls start school again (4th and kindergarten), this will help me to be sure that I focus on the Godly reasons for it and not the worldly. Thank you so much ladies ❤️ may the Lord bless you forever and always ☺️
Yay! I found it! Can’t wait to hear all the revelation. Thank you for your obedience!! And perseverance to get this out. Praying it will be used mightily.
Thank you ladies so much for this episode! Wanted to let yall know the Lord just did some serious inner healing with me while watching this episode just now. the eating disorders, body dismorphia, “clothes on the closet floor” bad days and infertility-all of these things are a part of my story & I felt like it was just me! Thank you Jesus for saving me & saving these 2 women of God!
Amen! Thank you ladies! You have shined the light that is the hope in Jesus ❤ I’m trusting in Christ!
Angela, I just have to say- when you started talking about your eating disorder it hit me so hard. That’s exactly what I went through. A binge and restrict. I lost 115lbs 3 years ago and was OBSESSED with myself. But hating myself at the same time. Today I’ve gained all that weight back- but I just found the Lord a few months ago. I’m working alongside him to overcome this disorder. Thank you so much both of you for sharing. Your testimonies truly do help others. Keep sharing🤍
Ladies, thank you so much for sharing! Praise God for healing and deliverance 🙏
So much of what you said resonated with me and I needed to hear this. God bless ❤
You both are great communicators and it’s definitely a gift from the Holy Spirit. Please get together again!
Two of my favorite Christian content creators! Love this collab! Doing much things for the kingdom of God. This helped me so much! Thank you 🩷😭
I needed this - thank you ladies and thank you JESUS ❤ Amen 🙏🏼
Thank you Angela and Brittany for sharing 🙏
Praise God 🙌🙌🙌
Amen! I love how you said apart from Christ you can’t heal from this.
I was bound by anorexia, exercise bulimia and bulimia for 10 years. I went to 2 eating disorder rehab facilities and still couldn’t overcome. I couldn’t go an hour let alone a day without being quenched by the fear of weight gain. It wasn’t until Jesus delivered me. In that moment, He fully set me free. I haven’t had even one thought of ed oppression since. I also didn’t have a period for almost ten years and thought I ruined my body, but I’ve had 4 healthy pregnancies.
If you are struggling, Jesus can truly set you free. Fully free. ❤️🙌🏻
I dont want to say this for the sale of sounding righteous but I really just want to eat and dwell upon food like how God finds it pleasing. I don’t want to eat for pleasure but I do, willingfully. I’m not fat, with thi sbeing made known to me by my mum mang times, even though I feel like it. The way I eat (one meal) makes me feel so fat. I used to have so much more self control that I could stop myself from eating biscuits, sugar, nuts, crisps, and snacks. Now I do it every day after the meal. And it keeps going. I do it knowingly and I tell God I’m sorry but continue. What is the point of saying that if I dont live according to what I tell God? I want to just stop liking food. I want to love God more than food. Willingfully give up any food anytime. I workout after the meal to make sure my bad decisions wont have bad imoacts on my body and I most of the time feel great doing it. Some days I can feel myself getting too carried away with the workout and losing what I ate to the point that when I’m done I feel convicted. All I’m going to say now is that I just want to change. To stop this cycle. To stop going great and then going back. I want to serve, follow, love, and fear God with all I am. I want to let Him lead me and let His spirirt guide me instead of my flesh so I dont sin against Him but sometimes I take the control and end up going against Him. I just want to stop. I feel so prideful writing this, because I know many people dont even know or want this but I plead to remember that J never got to this stage without God. It was all because of Him and I don’t know where I am goimg with this now. I just hope to stop repeating this sin. To stop continuing this way, unless it’s God’s will, and instead living according to God’s planned way so He would be pleased and would use me for whatever He desired without me interfering or resisting because I want to do my own thing, and be arrogant / prideful / have a high way of thinking. I just hope for Him to just take control, complete control over me that I may not walk in my flesh or according to my own desires, I’m done being ok and not caring, then suddenly, and thankfully, becoming not ok with the way I’m living, and axtually taking the steps to change (e.g. confess honestly, repent (or ask for help to truly), and act and live according to the truth and what God teaches me or lead me to understand etc.). I don’t know what I’m saying, I feel like I’m avoiding God right now. I want to stop thinking of food. I want to stop exercising for the sake of not allowing the food I ate have an impact on me but instead to do it for the reason God finds pleasing and to do it for general health. I want to eat food and be grateful, to the point where if I have to put it away (because I feel called to etc.) after even one or no spoons, I wont be slummed and thinking about it all day long because my satisfaction would be in God and not in food so therefore it doesn’t matter what or if I eat, because my joy and portion is the Lord. I learnt this from God and from thos whom I believe He used ti teach me. I’m having evil desires against Him right now to do with this and I know it’s bad. I need to change, I need His help. I want to let Him help me, I’m tried of resisting and fighting Him. Why do I fight Him? He wants to help me, even if it means stripping all from me to cause a better outcomes, yet I don’t allow Him to sometimes? I need His guidance and help. Please if anyone has naything to say, feel free, I honestly don’t know what I’m writing anymore but I hope God knows my heart. If my heart is not right or pleasing to Him then may He cleanse it that He may use it for His will and that I may chose Him over anything of this world. Anyways, thank you in advance for any help!
@@TryHalan The biggest thing to focus on is loving God and allowing Him to heal any heart issues you may have (usually rejection and an orphan mentality) Food isn’t the problem. It’s just a bad fruit of the root. Another thing is if you’re only eating one meal a day, you’re going to binge because your body is hungry. Hunger isn’t a bad thing and food isn’t a bad thing. It’s how we steward it that matters. Try eating 3 meals a day and you won’t feel the need to binge. Sin and bondage are never Gods will. If you are willing to repent, He is faithful to forgive you of your sins and cleanse you of all unrighteousness. Further, His Holy Spirit will empower you to live above reproach and make wise decisions.
I thank the Lord for this because even though I’m a guy, eating disorders, body idolatry and fitness idolatry are something the Lord really wanted to listen to and rectify my path. Wow! I thought of certain outfits at the gym I wear and I wouldn’t feel comfortable to wear that in Jesus’ presence
Thank you for speaking on this. I struggled with all of this for a long time and it's just not talked about. Thank you Angela and Brittany for being obedient to the Lord.
Thank you for sharing! This helped me very much. I was definitely feeling that conviction all the way through. Blessings to you and yours!
Bless you beautiful sisters ❤
Love all of this ❤ thank you so much ❤
Thank you ladies for mentioning this, I went through the outfit change thing for an hour or so this morning!😑😑
Wow this was very helpful and motivating. Thank you Lord for leading me to this video, and thank you ladies ❤
Powerful ❤😭🙏 thanks for this!
Lord bless her with beautiful, healthy babies!!!
This video is everything ❤
This is so beautiful, praise God 😊❤❤❤❤❤ I was not expecting it at all, He is so Awesome so Cool 😊❤❤❤
I was wondering where it was! Thank you!
It’s discouraging to hear “but if you need to lose weight, you should still use those methods.” Most people that are overweight have actually been so self controlled but only for a time until the binge comes after restricting. I’m having to completely surrender all and take it day by day with the Holy Spirit and trust that Jesus is my health bc for me, in some senses I put my life on hold bc of this one issue. I know it takes a lot of renewing of our mind and he is showing me that it’s vanity to think that I can’t go out and play sports bc I’m overweight, or date , etc etc. but it’s been sooo hard bc it’s been years of surrendering this and not being successful with weight loss. It’s all consuming. But I know I will overcome and that he’s doing a deep work in me and I can walk in fullness of life because of Jesus! I would just love to hear of a spirit filled believer that lost weight with Jesus bc all the eating disorder content I see is from people who are a healthy weight! It’s really hard to lose weight free from an eating disorder. Just wanted to give perspective 💕
You too had a hard life not easy.
God blessed take care ❤
Let’s hope everything works out with the stream this time 🙏🏻
Hey Anglea - could you share what the woman's event in nyc is? I'm from nyc but also a christian- I'd be interested to know what this is so when I visit I have something Christian to do
I think the drug that they’re trying to remember the name of is Ozempic
That’s the most popular one, I was on saxenda which is similar thing
Why are you not looking at the screen when talking to Brittany, it appears odd or a little rude, I'm sure you don't mean anything by it, but from where I'm sitting it's not a good look, love the conversation though. I am a middle aged, over weight woman of colour living in the UK. When I go into the gym, I do get the stares, but I don't care, I'm trying to help myself by building strength and endurance for me, as I am feeling older than I look and it's not funny. Love the Christ centred conversation, and how the Holy Spirit speaks to you while you're working out and how you're able to observe the selfie obsessed ones knowing that its a demonic influence that's consuming them and their strive for perfection. I buried my niece two years ago, following a failed BBL that she didn't need, but she was selfie obsessed and was determined to get that perfect body, till it eventually took her life. She was 28 years old and beautiful. Please warn the masses of this demonic influence that is really real, thank you.
I think the screen that Angela looks at is below the camera. It’s the screen that probably has the other persons livestream as well as her notes, comment section, etc. So in order to look at Brittany she can’t look directly at the camera.
Try fasting every Wednesday and Friday, only water , the early church dis it
Beautiful ❤❤❤
Helloooooooo 🎉