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Send us Fan Mail Heidi and Christina share their history with the "bathroom cyclops"--that bandit that steals our joy and sense of identity! The bathroom scale! In this episode we talk about ways we have previously thought about the bathroom scale, the benefits and drawbacks of weighing ourselves and strategies for being sure the scale is in its rightful place. Support the show Learn mor...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Heidi and Christina talk about cravings, what they are, what causes them and what does  not cause them. They share some examples from their own lives and how God has led them to break free and overcome their cravings. They provide some practical strategies for you to overcome  your  cravings, too. Support the show Learn more about our Revelation Within Community:...

Send us Fan Mail Christina and Heidi talk about how what we believe about who we are impacts our eating, our decisions, our perception of life. What does God say about me? Will I choose to believe HIM or will I continue to believe my own bad press? What I think about and tell myself will impact my beliefs. What I believe will impact my actions. What does God say about who I am? Support the show Le...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Heidi and Christina share real life stories that many can relate to about the shame and guilt that plagues many when we are stuck in a cycle of feeling shame and pain, followed by "numbing out," only to feel yet MORE pain and shame as a result of turning to counterfeit coping mechanisms (like overeating).  Best of all, though, they share two vital strate...

Send us Fan Mail Heidi and Christina talk about how activity, exercise or movement fits into the lives of Thin Within participants. We talk about how we have previously used exercise in our dieting and obsession-with-weight days. We look at what Thin Within does NOT teach, what it DOES teach, some helpful suggestions for living with peace and freedom as well as ideas for how to renew your mind abo...

Send us Fan Mail Lori Johnson, a post-menopausal participant who loves Jesus as much as anyone we have ever met, shares about her journey of releasing 43 pounds, but more importantly, coming to a place of experiencing peace with food, eating, and her body! Lori's joy and enthusiasm is contagious! Support the show Learn more about our Revelation Within Community: https://www.revelationwithin.o...

Send us Fan Mail Heidi and Christina talk about what freedom in the area of food, eating, and body image looks like. It may not be quite what you expect, but it is SO much BETTER! They talk about how to invite God in as you dream a bit about what freedom will look like, feel like, taste like, sound like!  They elaborate to speak to the issue of allowing God to author our ideas of freedom means we...

Send us Fan Mail This is part 2 of Recognizing the Diet Mentality and why and how that can undermine your Thin Within journey to eat intuitively. We have 11 of these (between the two parts) and there are even more beliefs we may bring with us from our dieting days...insidious, hidden, yet powerfully derailing us if we aren't savvy to it! Support the show Learn more about our Revelation Within...

Send us Fan Mail What can keep us stuck in our Thin Within journey? What can cause hurdles to emerge just as things are going along so well? The Diet Mentality! In this episode and next week's episode (part 2), Christina and Heidi talk about a plethora of ways the dieting mentality--thoughts that we learned in our dieting days--can infiltrate our thinking now --even as we are walking in the f...

Send us Fan Mail This time of year, many people are looking into new food plans. And then, once they find one, they begin to chafe and feel raw as they restrict, regulate, and force themselves into rules established by someone else. YOU CAN'T MAKE ME! addresses the way many of us feel and a wonderful alternative to the approach that we need to have a new and better (more restrictive?) plan in...

Send us Fan Mail This is the second half of 10 reasons that you will love the Thin Within approach.  On a large scale, you will experience closeness with the Lord and peace with food, eating and your body! If that isn't MORE than enough reasons to join us, have a listen to parts 1 and 2 of this podcast. We have TONS of reasons! Come see us at ThinWithin. TEAM where we have community, free cla...

Send us Fan Mail We have so much to say about this topic that we had to edit this episode down a LOT *and* break it into two parts! So, this is the first of a zillion reasons that you will love the Thin Within approach. On a large scale, you will experience closeness with the Lord and peace with food, eating and your body! If that isn't MORE than enough reasons to join us, have a listen to pa...

Send us Fan Mail Heidi and Christina share 7 of their favorite mind renewal tools and strategies that they use to think thoughts more in line with God's own thoughts. We all want transformation. Romans 12:2 tells us that we are transformed BY the renewing of our minds. So how do we do that? We want to bring the truth that God has for us home to our lives so we think His thoughts about circums...

Send us Fan Mail One of the things we love is to see the way our redeeming God takes our slips, stumbles, slides, falls, and failures in our eating and uses them to teach us. It's true! Failure no longer needs to define me. Instead, it can teach me. Jesus wastes nothing...not even my mess ups. In this episode, we look at how God responds to the failures of his people. Romans 12:2 says we can...

Send us Fan Mail Often, people are surprised to hear that reading your bible and praying are not (necessarily) the same as mind renewal. We explain that in this part of our Mind Renewal series. So if reading my bible and praying aren't mind renewal, what IS mind renewal? Christina and Heidi give examples of real life situations so you can see what they are talking about. If you want to go dee...

Send us Fan Mail In this second of several parts about renewing the mind (Romans 12:2), Heidi and Christina continue the dialog by looking at when a person can renew their minds. Does it require a lengthy "quiet time?" Many of us have such busy lives that this isn't feasible. They talk about snatching opportunities such as driving in the car, waiting on the phone, when in the shower...

Send us Fan Mail This is part one in our series about renewing the mind. The bible tells us in Romans 12:2 that we are transformed by the renewing of the mind. In this first of several episodes speaking directly about renewing the mind, Heidi and Christina address what mind renewal is and why it is such a game-changer. At the heart of the discussion is the challenge that emotional eating often pre...

Send us Fan Mail The holidays are upon us! How can we avoid overeating when the tastiness of the season is all around us? Thin Within can help us survive the holidays without falling prey to overeating. By being mindful eaters, we can listen to our bodies and select a "just right" portion of whatever food our bodies enjoy. While we may choose to exercise our freedom to select "whole...

Send us Fan Mail For many, the holidays are filled with all kinds of emotions. Joy, sadness, depression, discomfort, loneliness, grief, surprise, happiness--the list goes on and on. Often, we might be tempted to eat through our emotions. But what does God invite us to do instead? What healthy strategies for handling our emotions--actually processing them--can we adopt so that we don't overeat...

Send us Fan Mail One of the best game-changers is to celebrate your victories along the your Thin Within journey. Many people think that the only victories worth celebrating are the scale victories.  We disagree! What about when you renew your mind? That is a victory! What about when you stop eating mid-binge? That is a victory! What about when you look and learn after a mess up with the Lord? Tha...

Send us Fan Mail After Christina wrested control of the podcast "studio" last week to interview Heidi (without warning!), Heidi has now gotten "payback!" This is a special episode where Heidi interviews Christina about a most recent struggle with "the dieting mentality."  How can things which seem so virtuous really be a slippery slope leading us out of freedom? Chris...

Send us Fan Mail How do we deal with overeating when we break our boundaries? With all the challenges of the holiday season, what can be done so we don't get caught in an out-of-control spiral? God has something so sweet and helpful in mind for us. Heidi and Christina talk about how to experience HIS best after we slip, stumble, slide, fall, or fail...and yes, even sin .  Join us for this pra...

Send us Fan Mail Heidi released 100 pounds using the Thin Within principles and a healthy dose of renewing her mind. After settling into a healthy size and experiencing freedom and peace with food, eating, and her body, a health crisis  threatened her life in 2014. Heidi became extremely thin.  Twice daily antibiotics (for the rest of her life) might have been at least partially responsible for He...

Send us Fan Mail What is peaceful eating? What is joyful eating? Is it possible to come to a place of being at peace with food and eating? YES! In fact, our God has wired our bodies for shalom . Peace! When we are eating "just right portions," we can do so with joy and delight. God has given us food to bless us--not to torment us! In this episode, Christina and Heidi talk about what joyf...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever hear yourself saying things about what a failure you are? How you won't ever conquer this overeating challenge? What you will always struggle with using food in ways that you know dishonors your body, you, and God? What can you do when you feel like there is NO light and every step forward on this path is followed by 2 steps back, or seems to be? Heidi Bylsma-Eppe...