24 - God’s Design for Food and Health with Alexandra MacKillop

On the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast our aim is to introduce you to the principles of Intuitive Eating and help you see how those principles align with Scripture so you can improve your relationship with food, your body and God and cast out dieting for good.

Today our guest on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast is author and functional medicine doctor Alexandra MacKillop who shares about exploring health through a non-diet lens and God’s design for the role of food in human lives.

In this episode we discuss:

• Her experience struggling with an eating disorder
• How freeing it is to realize food isn’t as powerful as you thought it was
• How a holistic health approach aligns with both her professional practice as a functional medicine doctor and with the Bible
• Realizing there is more to life than food and reconnecting to her faith
• Exploring what the Bible says about what we eat and writing a book on it – called Fulfilled
• Realizing God doesn’t care about diets unless they are taking over our lives
• Recognizing intuitive eating is what God designed for our relationships with food
• Unpacking the cultural idea of “food is medicine” and the new idol of “health”
• Diet Culture re-branding itself to being about “health” rather than weight loss
• How intuitive eating is for everybody – regardless of age, weight, health condition
• You are not less than if you have a health condition and debunking the false gospel of “perfect health”
• The importance of surrender: big moments of surrender and the daily practice of surrender
• Pregnancy, food, body size and the ongoing process of intuitive eating

Resources for Episode 24 - God’s Design for Food and Health with Alexandra MacKillop

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