Advertise on podcast: True Food Freedom & Faith with Cheryl Szarko, RDN

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!    

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!    

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!    

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!  

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!  

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!  

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!  

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!  

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!  

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!

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.  

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!