Heidi Bylsma-Epperson and Christina Motley

Revelation Within On the Go!

Revelation Within equips people with life-giving, grace-infused mind renewal tools to deepen their intimacy with Jesus so that counterfeit comforts (like overeating) lose their allure, and the joy and hope of Jesus fills their lives, satisfying their souls. In our podcast we talk about mind renewal, tips and tricks for getting and staying free from counterfeit comforts like overeating (over-scrolling, over-drinking, over-anythinging...) We began as Thin Within in 1975, a pioneer in intuitive, mindful eating back when diets were in their hey day! Thin Within has taught people how to tune in to...

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Heidi Bylsma-Epperson and Christina Motley

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Education

Podcast website

www.revwithinonthego.com

Latest episode

Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

Freedom Is Choosing What Helps Your Body Heal 14.01.2026

Send us Fan Mail What if the foods we reach for to feel better are actually adding to our pain? In this episode, we talk honestly about the pain–comfort–inflammation loop, sharing our own stories of mystery aches, stiff mornings, and the subtle clues our bodies were giving us all along. We explore overlooked signs of inflammation—like puffy faces in photos, tight rings, itchy scalps, burning skin,...

Hope In the New Year 07.01.2026

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new year!  We’ve learned that resolutions fueled by willpower alone don’t last, especially when it comes to food and body image. In this episode, we open a different door—one rooted in biblical hope and God’s nearness, not self-control or shame. We share an honest story of significant weight loss that left the body smaller but the fear louder, and why results without...

When Intuitive Eating Isn’t Intuitive 31.12.2025

Send us Fan Mail What if intuitive eating feels impossible not because of a lack of willpower, but because the body is trying to stay safe? Together, we unpack how trauma, chronic stress, and shame can reshape hunger cues and turn food into a fast-acting signal of relief. We talk honestly about why “just listen to your body” can backfire when the nervous system is stuck in survival mode, making cr...

Walking in Freedom Before the New Year Begins 24.12.2025

Send us Fan Mail We ask a simple but searching question: is a date on the calendar quietly running your spiritual life? Together, we talk about the common habit of waiting for January 1st—or Monday, or the “right time”—to finally change, and how that delay slowly erodes peace, fuels numbing behaviors, and keeps us distant from God. We explore the hidden costs of postponement during the holidays: o...

Finding Peace Beyond the Scale 17.12.2025

Send us Fan Mail As we talk through this topic together, we name the tension we’ve both felt: wanting to lose weight while also craving real peace. We explore what we’ve believed weight loss would give us and what God actually says about those longings. Instead of rigid plans or giving up entirely, we look at how inviting God into our food choices, body image, and emotions brings a kind of freedom...

Joyful Movement, Sacred Rest 10.12.2025

Send us Fan Mail As we talk together, we share how movement has shifted from pressure to something much lighter—more like worship than work. Drawing from Acts 17:28 and Matthew 11:28–30, we open up about seasons of over-training, comparison, injury, cancer treatment, and the slow courage of recovery. Instead of chasing steps, calories, or performance, we describe what it’s been like to listen for...

Hunger or Something Else? 03.12.2025

Send us Fan Mail What if your strongest cravings aren’t about food at all? As we talk through this topic together, we admit how often our cravings have nothing to do with actual hunger. We share openly about the ways we’ve reached for food, scrolling, or constant busyness when what our hearts really needed was comfort, truth, or simply God’s presence. We walk through the lies we’ve believed—“I des...

Holiday Survival Guide: Part 3 26.11.2025

Send us Fan Mail Holiday gatherings can feel like emotional minefields, and we know how easy it is to slip into using food as a buffer when old wounds or tense dynamics resurface. In this episode, we talk honestly about how we’re learning to stop hiding behind food and instead respond with wisdom, calm, and compassion. We reframe emotional eating as a short-term comfort that limits long-term growt...

Holiday Survival Guide: Part 2 19.11.2025

Send us Fan Mail Perfection cracks fast during the holidays—one party, one plate too many, one “I blew it” moment—and shame rushes in. In this episode, we take that story back. We talk about why God doesn’t turn away when we stumble with food, and how His Word re-frames failure through compassion and truth. Psalm 103 and Psalm 32 remind us that God meets us in honesty, not disappointment. We also...

Holiday Survival Guide: Part 1 12.11.2025

Send us Fan Mail The holidays can bring pressure from every side—food, family, spending, and the expectation to keep it all together. In this first episode of our Holiday Survival Guide series, we’re preparing our hearts before the holiday rush begins. Together, we’re learning to trade perfection and willpower for peace, presence, and a deeper connection with God. Instead of pushing through on aut...

Tools Are Just Tools 05.11.2025

Send us Fan Mail Everywhere we look, someone is selling the next way to change our bodies. We slow down that noise and ask a better question: what does it look like for us to make weight-loss decisions with God at the center—not guilt, fear, or marketing hype? We talk through GLP-1 medications, intermittent fasting, bariatric surgery, and spirit-led eating, exploring the promises, pitfalls, and th...

Mind Renewal, Not A Free Pass 29.10.2025

Send us Fan Mail What if peace with food doesn’t start with more rules but with a renewed mind and reordered love? In this episode, we sit on the porch and wrestle with a question many of us face: does focusing on mind renewal mean we get a free pass to eat anything, anytime? As we unpack Romans 12:2, Galatians 5:13, and Colossians 2, we talk about how real freedom grows—not from control or indulg...

Is Overeating a Sin?: A Heart-First Guide to Spirit-Led Eating 22.10.2025

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we wrestle with the question, “Is overeating a sin?” and talk about how God isn’t counting bites, but instead inviting our hearts to trust Him more. We look at what Scripture actually says about gluttony, condemnation, and freedom in Christ by drawing from Proverbs, Philippians, Romans 14, and Romans 8. Together, we share real-life moments—like enjoying too much f...

Numbers Don’t Define Your Worth 15.10.2025

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we ask an honest question: is the real issue about losing weight , or about why we want to lose it ? We share personal stories—from the stage to the infusion center—about how numbers can become idols, how church culture sometimes mirrors the world’s standards, and how our bodies carry layered stories of illness, medication, and seasons of life. Together, we turn t...

Freedom Through Mind Renewal 08.10.2025

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk about how real change doesn’t begin with food rules or iron willpower, but with what’s happening in our minds before a craving even hits. We open Romans 12:2, Romans 8, and Colossians 2 to show how renewing the mind reshapes our desires at the root, breaking the old cycle of restriction, rebellion, and shame. Together, we share how God does the lasting wor...

From Duty to Delight 01.10.2025

Send us Fan Mail What drives your everyday choices? For many of us, particularly when it comes to food and our bodies, the answer involves some combination of guilt, shame, comparison, and a desperate desire to measure up. We’ve spent years caught in cycles of dieting, comparison, and feeling like our bodies—and our choices—were never enough. Guilt and shame often drove what we ate or how we cared...

Jesus and the Shame Exchange 24.09.2025

Send us Fan Mail We’ve both known the heavy weight of shame—the kind that tells you not just that you’ve failed, but that you are a failure. In this episode, we open up about how shame has tried to define us and how God’s Word gives us a different story. Hebrews 12:2 shows us how Jesus “scorned” shame as He faced the cross, counting it insignificant compared to the joy before Him. That perspective...

The Breakfast on the Beach: Peter’s Repentance Journey 17.09.2025

Send us Fan Mail As we reflect on Peter’s story, we see ourselves in his struggle. He promised loyalty to Jesus, only to fail when the pressure rose. That moment of brokenness—when the rooster crowed and Jesus looked at him—reminds us of the times we’ve denied or distanced ourselves from God. But what grips us isn’t Peter’s failure; it’s Jesus’s response. After the resurrection, instead of rebuke,...

Beyond Shame: David’s Road to Repentance 10.09.2025

Send us Fan Mail When we hear the word “repentance,” many of us think of shame, guilt, or fear. But as we explored King David’s story in Psalm 51, we discovered something much different—repentance as an invitation into God’s love. David’s raw prayer after his failure with Bathsheba isn’t self-loathing, but a cry for God’s mercy and renewal. When he asks God to “create a clean heart,” he’s asking f...

God’s Kindness Turns Hearts 03.09.2025

Send us Fan Mail For years, we carried the heavy misunderstanding that repentance meant shame, guilt, and trying to punish ourselves into change. We even believed we could “hate ourselves into holiness,” but that never worked. Over time, God showed us the truth: repentance is not about condemnation—it’s about kindness and freedom. Romans 2:4 reminds us that it’s His kindness that draws us close, n...

The Great Gratitude Reset: Habits of a Grateful Heart 27.08.2025

Send us Fan Mail As hosts, we often find ourselves struggling to stay grateful in the middle of life’s demands, just like many of our listeners. In this episode, we share how simple practices helped us redirect our focus from stress to thankfulness. Heidi tells of a family trip filled with illness and rainy weather, yet gratitude turned it into a treasured memory. Christina opens up about caring f...

The Great Gratitude Reset: Thankful, Not Stressful 20.08.2025

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we dive into what we call The Great Gratitude Reset . We talk about how gratitude isn’t just a nice feeling—it’s a daily practice that changes our minds, our health, and our spiritual outlook. Science is finally confirming what the Bible has been saying all along: gratitude reduces anxiety, strengthens our bodies, helps us rest better, and gives us resilience duri...

From Shame To Shalom: Pt 4 13.08.2025

Send us Fan Mail In this final episode of our Shame to Shalom series, we share a freeing truth—you are not a project to fix, but a masterpiece in progress, fully loved right where you are. We talk about the difference between “project thinking” and surrender, and how God isn’t our impatient project manager but a loving Father who completes His work in His timing. Through breath prayers, visualizat...

From Shame To Shalom: Pt 3 06.08.2025

Send us Fan Mail In this third episode of our Shame to Shalom series, we’re looking at failure through a new lens—what if it’s not the end of your story, but the soil where growth begins? We know how shame loves to twist our stumbles into statements about our worth. But there’s another voice—the voice of grace—that says, “Let’s start again. I still trust you.” We share how our own mess-ups have be...

From Shame To Shalom: Pt 2 30.07.2025

Send us Fan Mail In this second episode of our Shame to Shalom series, we’re digging into those nagging whispers—“you’re too much” or “you’re not enough”—that have shaped so much of how we see ourselves. But what if those labels never came from God? Starting with His question in Genesis 3:11, “Who told you that…?” we invite you to reflect with us on the origin of shame and how to gently dismantle...

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