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Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Munch on small bites all summer with the Summer Shorts series! Keep in touch at truefoodfreedomandfaith.com where you will find access to all my socials or leave a comment or question!
Subscribe to this podcast to be alerted when Season 2 starts back up again in a few months! Also, be sure you don’t miss any free resource, podcast, blog post, or THE SPECIAL UPCOMING ANNOUNCEMENT THIS FALL! Join the email newsletter at truefoodfreedomandfaith.com.
If you desire one-on-one private online counseling for your health and eating-related goals, schedule a free consultation with me at cherylszarko.com/15-minute-free-consultation/
Join our private online community, where you can be with like-minded women who are also going through this process. We all need the encouragement and counsel of one another, and I know I certainly love getting to know you all! Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/423407896152951 and join us today! I look forward to meeting you!
If you have found this podcast helpful, consider leaving a 5-star review and sharing the episodes on your social media. Thank you for helping me reach more women!
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Munch on small bites all summer with the Summer Shorts series! Keep in touch at truefoodfreedomandfaith.com where you will find access to all my socials or leave a comment or question!
Subscribe to this podcast to be alerted when Season 2 starts back up again in a few months! Also, be sure you don’t miss any free resource, podcast, blog post, or THE SPECIAL UPCOMING ANNOUNCEMENT THIS FALL! Join the email newsletter at truefoodfreedomandfaith.com.
If you desire one-on-one private online counseling for your health and eating-related goals, schedule a free consultation with me at cherylszarko.com/15-minute-free-consultation/
Join our private online community, where you can be with like-minded women who are also going through this process. We all need the encouragement and counsel of one another, and I know I certainly love getting to know you all! Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/423407896152951 and join us today! I look forward to meeting you!
If you have found this podcast helpful, consider leaving a 5-star review and sharing the episodes on your social media. Thank you for helping me reach more women!
Wednesday May 11, 2022
Wednesday May 11, 2022
Munch on small bites all summer with the Summer Shorts series! Keep in touch at truefoodfreedomandfaith.com where you will find access to all my socials or leave a comment or question!
Subscribe to this podcast to be alerted when Season 2 starts back up again in a few months! Also, be sure you don’t miss any free resource, podcast, blog post, or THE SPECIAL UPCOMING ANNOUNCEMENT THIS FALL! Join the email newsletter at truefoodfreedomandfaith.com.
If you desire one-on-one private online counseling for your health and eating-related goals, schedule a free consultation with me at cherylszarko.com/15-minute-free-consultation/
Join our private online community, where you can be with like-minded women who are also going through this process. We all need the encouragement and counsel of one another, and I know I certainly love getting to know you all! Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/423407896152951 and join us today! I look forward to meeting you!
If you have found this podcast helpful, consider leaving a 5-star review and sharing the episodes on your social media. Thank you for helping me reach more women!
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Munch on small bites all summer with the Summer Shorts series! Keep in touch at truefoodfreedomandfaith.com where you will find access to all my socials or leave a comment or question!
Subscribe to this podcast to be alerted when Season 2 starts back up again in a few months! Also, be sure you don’t miss any free resource, podcast, blog post, or THE SPECIAL UPCOMING ANNOUNCEMENT THIS FALL! Join the email newsletter at truefoodfreedomandfaith.com.
If you desire one-on-one private online counseling for your health and eating-related goals, schedule a free consultation with me at cherylszarko.com/15-minute-free-consultation/
Join our private online community, where you can be with like-minded women who are also going through this process. We all need the encouragement and counsel of one another, and I know I certainly love getting to know you all! Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/423407896152951 and join us today! I look forward to meeting you!
If you have found this podcast helpful, consider leaving a 5-star review and sharing the episodes on your social media. Thank you for helping me reach more women!
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
In this final episode of Season 1, we discuss another major cause of a poor relationship with food and eating.
You might be surprised to hear that for many people, eating issues has very little to do with the actual food. Problems with eating are not usually due to informed nutritional decisions. At least, that's not all that goes into eating behaviors. In fact, quite often, food is not really the issue at all! There can be deeper reasons why people become bound up in disordered eating practices over time, and we are going to look at one major reason that changes healthy eating patterns into troubling relationships with food.
Subscribe to be alerted when Season 2 begins! In the meantime, you can listen to the weekly "Summer Shorts" which will give you little bites to comfort or challenge you! Also, keep in touch this summer through my website or any of my socials: https://www.cherylszarko.com/. And don't miss out on what's coming in the fall! You can get sneak peeks and other goodies by signing up for the monthly newsletter at truefoodfreedomandfaith.com!
If you desire one-on-one private online counseling for your health and eating-related goals, schedule a free consultation with me at cherylszarko.com/15-minute-free-consultation/
Join our private online community, where you can be with like-minded women who are also going through this process. We all need the encouragement and counsel of one another, and I know I certainly love getting to know you all! Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/423407896152951 and join us today! I look forward to meeting you!
Related blog post: Are Control Issues the Problem? https://www.cherylszarko.com/are-control-issues-the-problem/
Disordered eating podcast: https://cheszar.podbean.com/e/what-is-disordered-eating-and-do-i-have-it/
Disordered eating blog post: https://www.cherylszarko.com/what-is-disordered-eating/
To leave a question or comment, go to truefoodfreedomandfaith.com and scroll down to the “Ask Your Questions Here” section. You can record or type your question and it will likely be answered on a future podcast!
If you've enjoyed this first season, consider leaving a 5-star review so it can be more easily displayed for others to find. Thank you for being a special part of Season 1!
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
I am answering a listener question in today's podcast. She wanted me to address concerns about body image and weight gain for pregnant and postpartum women. Although I will mainly be addressing pregnancy, all of this applies equally to the postpartum or lactating stage women, as well.
Pregnancy is usually considered a joyous event worth celebrating. And I hope it still is, but I’ve seen some other priorities come in and zap some of the joy – and importance – of childbearing out of the experience. While living in an image-saturated culture that is obsessed with thinness can be especially provoking to women who are pregnant, whose bodies are not as controllable as before, and who can have many conflicting emotions about this.
Let me discuss this openly and encourage you new mommies and mommies-to-be if you are one who battles the challenges of body image issues during this most precious season of life!
To leave a question or comment of your own for the podcast, go to truefoodfreedomandfaith.com. and scroll down to the "Ask Your Questions Here" section. You can record or type your question and it will likely be addressed, as today's question was, in a future podcast!
If you find you need individualized biblically-based nutrition counsel for this or any other issue, schedule an online chat with me at cherylszarko.com/15-minute-free-consultation/
Join our private online community, where you can be with like-minded women who are also going through this process. We all need the encouragement and counsel of one another, and I know I certainly love getting to know you all! Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/423407896152951 and join us today! I look forward to meeting you!
Also, be sure you don’t miss any free resource, podcast, blog post, or announcement! Join the email newsletter at truefoodfreedomandfaith.com.
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
If this topic has caught your attention, please give this episode a listen. The issue of secrecy in eating is an important one because of the consequences it carries. If you have a practice of secret eating or secretly avoiding food, I want to encourage you today. I also want to shed a bit of light on the beginning of the path to true freedom from this practice and all the related entanglements it represents.
If you are someone who is regularly, purposefully eating in secret, the truth that you need to hear is that you probably need some help and that you likely can't see the real problem clearly by yourself. I really want you to know that this issue should be taken lightly.
But I also want you to know that you are not alone, you are not a freak, you are not a "fake Christian." You are a person who is suffering, perhaps more than you’ve even allowed yourself to acknowledge. There is hope for you, my sister, and I want to love on you a bit today.
If this is you and you want to work with me through one-on-one private online counseling, schedule a free consultation with me at cherylszarko.com/15-minute-free-consultation/ You will need help from a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and someone mature in the faith who is devoted to ministering Scripture faithfully and applicably. I am a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and a Biblical Counselor and have my own experience escaping from the disordered eating dungeon. If you would like to find a faithful, mature Biblical Counselor near you, please visit biblicalcounseling.com and search for an ACBC certified Biblical Counselor near you.
Join our private online community, where you can be with like-minded women who are also going through this process. We all need the encouragement and counsel of one another, and I know I certainly love getting to know you all! Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/423407896152951 and join us today! I look forward to meeting you!
Also, be sure you don’t miss any free resource, podcast, blog post, or announcement! Join the email newsletter at truefoodfreedomandfaith.com.
To leave a question or comment, go to truefoodfreedomandfaith.com and scroll down to the "Ask Your Questions Here" section. You can type or record your question and it is likely to be used on a future episode!
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Last week we covered what the term “Gospel” means and its great power to bring those who believe and receive it from spiritual death and punishment from God to full life, eternal favor from Him, and all the blessings that Jesus earned on our behalf. Just amazing. There are no words.
Therefore, I want to kindly implore you and stress that if you did not hear that message, please stop here and go back and listen to episode 21 from last week first. It really is essential for any change and what we talk about today is contingent on your having heard and responded to that Gospel message in faith by the grace of God.
If you’ve caught up with the last episode, then welcome! Let’s dig into how the root of change is the gospel and what that means in your life and struggles today.
If you desire one-on-one private online counseling for your health and eating-related goals, schedule a free consultation with me at cherylszarko.com/15-minute-free-consultation/
Join our private online community, where you can be with like-minded women who are also going through this process. We all need the encouragement and counsel of one another, and I know I certainly love getting to know you all! Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/423407896152951 and join us today! I look forward to meeting you!
Also, be sure you don’t miss any free resource, podcast, blog post, or announcement! Join the email newsletter at truefoodfreedomandfaith.com.
To leave a question or comment, go to truefoodfreedomandfaith.com.
Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
We all have areas in our lives that we want to see changed. And for many of you, these areas may be in the arena of eating, weight obsession, and body image preoccupation. What we are going to talk about today is foundational to true, lasting, deep change in these areas…but also in all other areas, as well.
What might surprise you is that the first step toward deep change isn’t "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps." It isn’t an act of your willpower. It isn’t something you change at all. It is far more powerful than that.
Be sure to listen to both podcasts in this 2-part series for the most important help you will truly ever receive.
To leave a question or comment, go to truefoodfreedomandfaith.com.
Join our private online community, where you can be with like-minded women who are also going through this process. We all need the encouragement and counsel of one another, and I know I certainly love getting to know you all! Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/423407896152951 and join us today! I look forward to meeting you!
Also, be sure you don’t miss any free resource, podcast, blog post, or announcement! Join the email newsletter at truefoodfreedomandfaith.com.
If you desire one-on-one private online counseling for your health and eating-related goals, schedule a free consultation with me at cherylszarko.com/15-minute-free-consultation/
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Today's topic is acid diets, or more specifically, alkaline diets or alkaline ash diets. You may have seen these promoted on your social media feeds, on blogs, on YouTube, and in a number of other places...and it's confusing. What is an alkaline diet? Do I need to do it? Will it prevent diseases? What does the evidence show? Well, let’s talk!
You'll get a good understanding of the concepts of this diet, the components, the foundational premise, and whether the claims about it are true. If you enjoy this episode, please share it on your Facebook page, Instagram, or other social page to share the information.
If you desire one-on-one private online counseling for your health and eating-related goals, schedule a free consultation with me at cherylszarko.com/15-minute-free-consultation/
Join our private online community, where you can be with like-minded women who are also going through this process. We all need the encouragement and counsel of one another, and I know I certainly love getting to know you all! Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/423407896152951 and join us today! I look forward to meeting you!
Also, be sure you don’t miss any free resource, podcast, blog post, or announcement! Join the email newsletter at truefoodfreedomandfaith.com.
If you have a question or comment about this or any podcast, or a suggestion for a future one, scroll down to the Ask Your Questions Here! section here: https://www.cherylszarko.com/podcast/