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Hi and welcome to our podcast Revelation Within On the Go. I'm Heidi Wiles-Wepperson, one of your hosts and the owner and lead coach of the RevelationWithinorg ministry.

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And I'm Christina Motley, your other host, also a Revelation Within coach and Heidi's partner in all things Revelation Within, and we're so happy to invite you to join us for this episode of Revelation Within on the go.

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Oh well, welcome back. This is our third episode of our special three episode series the truth about peaceful eating. What no one told us, today's episode is how to make peace with food and your body.

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For reals, for realsies, heidi, I don't know, is this even possible? Maybe we shouldn't even do this podcast, oh dear, just kidding. I know it's possible, I know it is and I'm excited. I'm excited that we get to share this today, yay, okay. So you know, if you all out there have journeyed with us through episodes one and two, you've already heard us talk about how the real problem isn't food and how mind renewal changes everything. So today we want to bring it all home and answer the questions so many of us have asked Is it actually possible to make peace with food and my body?

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Not only is it possible, it is what God wants for us. He did not put food on this planet to torment us. We've said that again and again.

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Yes, so true, so good, thank God.

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For years, you know, I thought that peace with food would come. When I finally got it right. I mean, I don't even know what it is or what right would be, but like when I stopped overeating, finally, or when I got rid of all the weight and kept it off for some magical amount of time, then I would never get it again I don't know when I stopped struggling, but here's something that I think we've both learned, christina, and to our listeners, of course, peace doesn't wait for you, or?

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me at the end of a perfect journey. Yes, peace meets us on the way.

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Oh, Heidi, I love that. Let's just say that again. Peace meets you on the way.

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Yes.

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Yes, because we're all on a journey. All of us are on a journey with the Lord. Peace meets us on the way. So we talk about this all the time in Revelation Within, you can't fail at grace. Oh, yes, somebody needs to hear that today. Yes, somebody needs to hear that today. No, I do, I know, I do too. I do too. The world will tell you try harder, be better, come on, get it together, fix yourself. Let's go, pull yourself up, come on now. But the gospel says oh my gosh, what does the gospel say? You're already loved, you're already enough and you're already free. Oh my gosh, how amazing that truth is, how amazing.

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One of my favorite verses. I say that a lot, I'm sure, but in 2 Corinthians, 12, 9, this is one of my favorites. My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.

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Now, if you recall, and I can't just quote that verse and keep it out of its context, but because it's so important. Paul was struggling with something that kept setting him back in some way. We don't know what it is the scriptures don't tell us, but he asked God please remove this from me, please remove this from me. Three times he asked God to remove it and God said no each time. And then he said grace is sufficient for you, paul. Yes. For Christina, for Heidi, for the listeners, oh, for me too, yes. And he said when his power is made perfect in weakness, that means that our struggles, no matter how much we may think they disqualify us, they don't. They are not disqualifying, they do not have the power to disqualify us. It's the very place where his grace gets to show up most clearly which is so awesome.

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I don't have to be perfect, I don't have to have it all together.

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So I remember a day when I caught myself yeah, it was yesterday mindlessly eating in the kitchen. Yesterday was a really, really big day for our family. There was a lot of excitement and angst and stress and celebration. You've got to tell us about it, yeah, so we've had these three precious, precious girls all 19. One of them is our daughter living in our house now for almost a year, and it's time for them to fly the nest. Oh, it's time for them to fly away. They're going to be five minutes away, heidi. Five minutes. This is killing me. Might as well be the moon, huh, christina? Oh, it might as well be the moon. How am I going to get all my hugs and kisses? Whose hair am I going to braid? Okay? So anyway, yesterday we found out that they were accepted for this adorable little old, old, old, creaky house. It's so cute. And we found out yesterday, we were so excited.

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But I am having about 25 mixed emotions about this. I am sad, I am happy, I'm excited. I'm like no, I am fearful All kinds of things. Are they ready? I'm not sure. Yes, I'm sure, no, I'm not. It's like I am just. I have all these emotions. And so yesterday I went to the kitchen without even realizing it, and I was mindlessly eating, and normally well, normally would be in the past, before I learned to renew my mind, before I understood, god's grace, I would have spiraled into shame. But instead I paused and I heard that gentle whisper Christina, you don't have to hide, you can come to me here, even here, christina, I'm here, wow.

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I mean, that's peace, even in the kitchen.

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Even in the kitchen, jesus loves the kitchen. You know all those times in the New Testament he was eating with everybody. There is so much peace there. I mean that's a way to live that I can do. I can do it, I can sustain it, I can live in God's grace. That doesn't mean that I'm never struggling. I mean I've been renewing my mind and eating according to fullness of hunger and all those things. I've been doing all of that for 11 years. But I still struggle. That's okay. We live in an imperfect world, but knowing that I'm safe in God's presence, even in the midst of my mess, that's grace. And there's an unlimited supply. It's not going to run out. And I love, I just love that truth. I love that reality.

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You know, for years I've been saying this this journey isn't about perfection, it's not even about excellence, because how do we define that? It usually means I never no, not ever have a problem with food, eating and all of that stuff. What is true is, I believe this journey is best kind of summarized when what do I do with my mess ups? What do I do with my failures? It puts God on display. When I prevail on his grace and say God, I know I am not perfect. You have known and you will always know I'm not perfect, but you have a plan for me, for me, to learn from this mistake. And so, really, this journey isn't about pulling together one perfect day after the other. No, it's about what I do with my failures when they happen. And no, this is not making provision for my flesh. That's right. That's a lie. What it is is it's making provision for grace.

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I mean because God's grace is there.

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It's there no matter what my failure looks like, what my mess up looks like. It's not never struggling and I love this. It's knowing we're safe in the middle of our messes because God's presence is there. Anyway, I just I think it's a beautiful thing to recognize. Failure doesn't define me anymore. It never was supposed to, but I let it and, in fact, welcomed it. But, now there's a new season here.

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And then season is one of allowing God's grace to show me how to move forward, how to move forward in that grace. I love that.

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Anyway, I love it too. I love it so much. And again, when you talk about that, heidi, what comes up in me is hope, and what comes up in me is this thought I can do that. You know, I can live that way. I can actually live and thrive that way, like that sounds so good, that sounds so refreshing.

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So let's look at Psalm 23, verses one through three. This passage is so familiar to many of us. The Lord is my shepherd. I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters. Yes, freshes my soul, and that's what peaceful eating is really. It's not pressure, but pasture instead. It's not shame, but stillness instead. I love that.

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I love it too, so so much. Okay. So here's our invitation to you today Take a deep breath and ask yourself honestly what would it feel like to stop striving, what would it feel like to stop believing that your body is a problem to fix, believing that your body is a problem to fix? What would it feel like to believe that God is not disappointed in you, because that is where peace begins? And there might be some other questions that you want to ask yourself, but I love, I love those. That's where peace begins.

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And if you're not really sure, you can turn them into questions that you ask the Lord to show you. What would it feel like, lord, to stop striving, yes. What would it feel like to stop believing that my body is a problem to fix? Yes. What would it feel like to believe that you, lord, are not disappointed in?

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me.

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Oh, my goodness, because that's what really matters is what are God's thoughts? Yes, yeah, yes. So a third scripture we want to look at in Galatians 5.1,. It says it is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

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So many of us, so many of us, for so many of us, food rules and body shame have become a heavy yoke of slavery. I mean, think about it. Think about the mental bandwidth, over the course of years of our lives, that has been given to this struggle. Think of the words of well, don't think too long on them. Self-deprecation, the way we've put ourselves down, the way we've hidden when we didn't want to be seen because of shame. Wow, when I think, of course God cares about this. Look at what it's done to us. Oh my goodness. Food rules you know that we can't sustain. Even if we can hold it together for a while, it's not something we can live with. And that body shame, oh my goodness, it's so heavy. Jesus is offering us freedom from those things, yes, and we want to get on board with the Lord.

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Over the past few weeks, we've just scratched the surface of what it means to experience peaceful eating. So, inside our course Transforming Grace, Discovering Peaceful Eating we walk this out slowly, week by week, with practical tools, teaching and community and Zoom calls. Yeah, that's the community part right Zoom calls and a place to chat and discuss things and ask questions and just be real with each other, whether you join us for this class or not. But it's really going to be great and we really hope that you can make peace with food. This is a truth. This is absolutely true. You can make peace with food. And here's another one you can make peace with your body, because God's grace has already made peace with you. Anything is possible with God and we know this to be true and many of you listening know this to be true. Many of you are walking this right now. You can make peace with food. You can make peace with your body. It is 100% possible.

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Yeah, we, christina and I, have been working on this curriculum. We, christina and I, have been working on this curriculum. Yes, and we are rolling out our first go of having a class for it in June.

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Oh my gosh.

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I'm so excited, and if you're interested in looking at our special landing page that tells you about it, you can go to revelationwithinorg. Forward slash peaceful eating all one word.

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I can't wait to get started. I think this this is going to be an amazing class.

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I think it is. It's going to be life, life changing, yes, and I think for Christina and I too.

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Every class is always life changing, for us too, oh definitely yeah, is always life-changing for us too.

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Oh, definitely, yeah. Well, we kind of want to leave you today with these words from Isaiah 55, verses two and three. It's just some really good questions actually. Why spend money on what is not bread and your labor on what does not satisfy? Wow, listen, listen to me, remember. This is the Lord speaking. Listen, listen to me and eat what is good and you will delight in the richest of fare. Oh, I love it With ear and come to me, listen, that you may live. Yes has already been prepared by our Lord, our God, our King, our Savior, the one who is the lover of our souls.

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And you are invited, you're invited, you're invited and we're going to be there. It's going to be a beautiful time. I'm super excited for this class. We've never done a class quite like this.

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Oh no, not at all. No, Brand new curriculum. When Christina and I got together in March, we created like 13.

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We did. We got together in California. It was a wonderful time and we were able to really spend time away, kind of from the world, and pray over this and really walk through this for you. We're just so excited. So, yes, please join us, and we're so glad that you've been here today. We would love to invite you also to join us for our next podcast of Revelation Within On the go. Bye-bye.