The Podcast Turns 1!

The Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast celebrates 1 year of serving the Lord on September 9, 2021. What a year it’s been!

To celebrate this first birthday or first anniversary of the podcast launch, we are going to revisit our revival mission, reflect on what the Lord has done in this first year, and invite our Anti-Diet Sisterhood community to celebrate with us!

Revisiting Our Mission of Revival

Our vision for the podcast came from the Valley of Dry Bones passage out of Ezekiel 37.

(Go check out the trailer episode of the podcast for an unpacking of this passage. Even if you’ve already listened to it, revisit it again as part of this anniversary reflection!)

This Valley of Dry Bones reminds us of the dry, lifeless, desperate and hopeless state we were in while dieting.

Right now in this country we have a valley of dry bones full of dieters, full of women who’ve had their time, energy and self-worth drained totally out of them by the life thief that is diet culture.

Our mission for the podcast is still the same.

That we will prophesy, meaning to speak life – to preach and teach – declaring God’s word over our struggles with food, our bodies and our worth.

That we will be obedient, like Ezekiel, to share the message we’ve been given. A message of Intuitive Eating for Christian Women.

That we will pray for God’s Spirit to come and do the rest.

He has done it before in the Valley of Dry Bones, He has done it in our own lives, and He has done AGAIN it in this first year for the women in our podcast community!

We will continue to pray for this community of women to be filled with the Spirit of God and have true life – that is what brings REVIVAL!

We are already seeing and we will continue to see this army of women rising from the ashes of dieting, with their health restored, their relationship with food and body healed – this is revival!

We are already seeing and we will continue to see this army of women walking free from bondage to diet culture – this is revival!

We are already seeing and we will continue to see these free women walking with the Lord, following Jesus not diets, walking out their own personal kingdom assignments and living on purpose – this is revival!

Join us in this continued prayer for REVIVAL. We are making progress but the Lord is not done yet!

If you need a little inspiration or just want to get extra fired up for this mission, check out Erin’s Revival Songs Spotify Playlist and lift your hands in worship!

Reflecting On What God Has Done in Year 1

It’s been a whirlwind since launching Episode 1 on September 9, 2020 (not even considering all the general craziness of 2020).

The emotional, mental and spiritual challenges and growth that have come from stepping out into this ministry space are hard to capture in a blog post. So let’s start with the easy reflection and just notice where we are a year later. At the time of this blog post (a smidge before the 1 year mark)

• Episodes Released: 25
• Episode All-Time Plays: 72,628
• Interviews Recorded: 30
• Private Facebook Community Growth: 1k
• Apple Podcasts: 129 5 star ratings, 5 reviews
• Most Popular Resource: Season 1 Podcast Workbook
• Emails Sent: 29
• Instagram: 133 posts, 1649 followers
• Guest on Other Online Content: 11
• Spontaneous Resource Created: 1 (The Health At Every Size book club by request in the Membership Site)

But that’s just US…

The real difference we want to see is what the Lord has done in the last year in YOU!

How You Can Celebrate With Us

We want to invite you to celebrate with us by joining in this reflection and praising God for what He has done in your life when it comes to food and body.

Whether you’ve been on this podcast journey with us for the whole time or whether you’re new to the podcast – this reflection process is for you!

We want you to take this opportunity and examine your own intuitive eating journey with Jesus:

What brought you to this? Where did you start? Where are you now? Where is the Lord leading you?

We’ve created a special FREE WORKSHEET “Remember, Reflect, Rejoice” to commemorate this milestone.

You can download it, print it out and write out your responses. Keep it in your journal or tuck it into the pages of your Bible. It’s our gift to you for being a part of this community and going on this journey with us.

You can treasure this in your heart and share it with the Lord and stop there… AND we would love it sooo much if you shared your testimony!

Tell the world what Jesus is doing in your life. Share with somebody who needs to hear it how His grace is impacting your relationship with your food, your body and your purpose.

You don’t even have to mention the podcast! But if you want to share about the podcast here are some easy ways to do that:

• Share by leaving a testimonial that we can feature online HERE
• Leave a star rating and review on Apple Podcasts (instructions HERE)
• Share about it on your social media account (get our graphics you can use below in this post)
• Email a friend with a link to your favorite episode and invite her to listen with you
• Invite a friend to our private Facebook Community (her link to join is HERE)

Just screenshot or click to save these graphics (or any in this post) to make sharing easy!

Don’t forget that you DON’T need a radical transformation or shocking testimony to share about Jesus. God deserves the praise and glory for how He is working in you, whether the results are big or small or in between.

You know women we will never get to meet. Your sphere of influence touches people far outside of ours.

We pray that the Lord will use your words to carry this message of REVIVAL out to the world beyond our reach.

It’s time to let this celebration within our community overflow and spill out into the lives of others.

This is where we shift from improving our own relationships with food, body and God to leading others to improve theirs. Amen?