About this episode

Chaplain Eva Bleeker joins Chrissy to discuss how the stories we tell ourselves about our bodies can be transformed through faith and community.

What if the story you've been telling yourself about your body was never the true story to begin with? Chaplain Eva Bleeker joins Chrissy to explore narrative identity theory (stories) and what it means for women navigating disordered eating, body shame, and food freedom and faith. You'll learn why healing cannot happen in isolation, how the stories we absorbed from family and diet culture shaped us more than we knew, and why Jesus, the One who took on a human body, is the best co-author your...

People in this episode

Host: Chrissy

Guest: Chaplain Eva Bleeker

Topics covered

• body image
• disordered eating
• faith
• narrative identity
• food freedom
• body shame

Keywords

• body image
• disordered eating
• faith
• narrative identity
• food freedom
• body shame
• healing
• diet culture

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Organizations: FINDINGbalance, Inc.

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