God’s Design for Food and Health with Alexandra MacKillop
Today our guest on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast is an 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.
Show Notes for Episode 24 – God’s Design for Food and Health with Alexandra MacKillop
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
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Meet Alexandra Mackillop
Alexandra is a food scientist, author, and functional medicine doctor. Her passion lies in helping women care for their health, heal from patterns of dieting, and embrace who God created them to be. She writes weekly blog posts on these topics at AlexandraMacKillop.com, and her faith-based, non-diet book Fulfilled is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound, or wherever you like to buy books.
Connect with Alexandra
- Instagram: @alexandracmackillop
- Facebook: Alexandra MacKillop – Nutrition
- Website: alexandramackillop.com
Resources for Episode 24-God’s Design for Food and Health
- Alexandrea’s Book- Fullfilled
- Love Thy Body by Nancy Percy
- The More of Less: Finding the Life You Want Under Everything You Own by Joshua Becker
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