Laura Acuna | Hope for the Diet Weary Soul, 209

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Laura Acuna and Amber discuss her 50 year journey with diet culture, overcoming shame, and the work she continues both personally and through her 31 Day Devotional Still Becoming: Hope, Help and Healing for the Diet Weary Soul.

Questions Discussed During Hope for the Diet Weary Soul:

1. Take us back to Laura as an 11 year old girl and share your experience with weight gain and the ideas that were formed in your brain surrounding body image and eating.
2. What were some of the formational things you started to believe about your appearance? How did it impact your brain?
3. From that point forward began a 50 year battle of what you term disordered thinking about food and eating habits. What were some of the thoughts you had regarding food and dieting and how did it impact your eating?
4. So many of us have looked in the mirror and said horrible things about our bodies, only to wake up and say "I'm not going to do that anymore. I am made in the image of God and my body is good," only to repeat the cycle again and again. Was this true for you? When did your thinking begin to shift?
5. With that said, in your new devotional Still Becoming you write, "Disordered thinking leads to disordered eating-and when one is addressed the other follows?" Will you expound on that and maybe share a few practical tips to help us shift our thinking?
6. Why Still Becoming? And how will the devotional help the diet weary soul?
7. Where is the line when you cross into disordered thinking, disordered eating versus this is something that is part of taking care of your body?
8. Often a woman's self-image goes far beyond issues with eating and exercise, but includes trauma and abuse, infertility, physical injury, and others. How do you encourage women to find rest and healing by focusing on what God has called good?
9. Let's close with something I am SUPER passionate about and that is our culture's negative view of a woman's aging body. As Christians, how can we resist falling for this toxic and impossible standard of skinny, wrinkle free, and pigmented hair is the most beautiful?

SHOW NOTES cont.

Resources Mentioned:

• JOIN Still Becoming Lenten 2023 Study
• Book: Still Becoming: Hope, Help and Healing for the Diet Weary Soul by Laura Acuna
• Still Becoming Small Group Discussion Guide

Related Episodes:

• 116: David & Krista Dunham | Eating Disorder Recovery
• 114: Heather Creekmore | Body Image

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