About this episode

Kristy McCammon discusses the hidden addiction to food and sugar within the church and its emotional implications.

We know how to talk about alcohol, pornography, drugs, and other destructive behaviors. But there is another substance Christians regularly use for comfort, escape, reward, and emotional relief. It’s present at nearly every church gathering, woven into our traditions, and rarely questioned. We’re going somewhere in this episode that we’ve never gone before. We’re confronting an addiction that is deeply embedded in the church, widely accepted among Christians, and often willfully ignored—not because it’s rare, but because so many of us are trapped in it. The substance is food—especially sugar. “Food is the good girl’s alcohol.” Kristy McCammon knows firsthand how something good and necessary can quietly take a place in the heart that belongs to Jesus. For years, food became her safety, comfort, and private escape. What looked like a problem with calories, weight, or willpower was actually rooted much deeper. Kristy is the founder of Life Unbinged and the author of Life Unbinged: Faith-Filled Freedom from Food Obsession and Sugar Addiction . She shares how food became connected to safety in childhood, why moderation and…

People in this episode

Host: Jon Seidl

Guest: Kristy McCammon

Topics covered

• food addiction
• sugar addiction
• Christianity
• emotional eating
• health
• spirituality

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Life Unbinged: Faith-Filled Freedom from Food Obsession and Sugar Addiction

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