139:14 Wellness, Watertown, MN (2025)

09/10/2024

Have you ever been really looking forward to a meal and then it disappoints?

Yeah, Heaven won’t be like that.

Nothing earth shattering in the caption. It’s ok if a meal isn’t mind blowing. You still need to eat.

Eat and look forward to the day we are HOME.

07/18/2024

This spring, we made a few changes to ingredients that my son and I consumed, to see if we had an intolerance or not. Under the care and keeping of my RD of course ;)

Turns out, my son had no reaction to reintroducing those foods. I had the ever so mildest reaction. We've now pivoted back to our normal way of eating.

In the process, my body didn't change. I read other people's experiences and some included dramatic body weight changes. I prepped my mind that it was a possibility and how would I feel about that? But I also kept telling myself that it didn't matter if my body changed physically - it was about getting more information about how certain ingredients affect my body individually.

Same goes for joyful movement. If you start moving in a way that is intuitive and joyful, your body might change! But it also might not!

We are so conditioned to believe and expect that when we make different choices with how we move and eat, our bodies will change (and usually, that means get smaller). But that isn't always the case. Your body will respond appropriately to how it was designed by God.

Fueling your body appropriately and consistently with foods that you enjoy and make you feel good is what we should focus on as well as moving our bodies in the same way.

Making different food choices like adding in more fruits and veggies or going for a walk outside after dinner can have amazing physical and mental health benefits.

If your body doesn't change in the process of doing so, it's OK. You aren't doing it wrong. You shouldn't stop because your body didn't change. We can't SEE health.

I hope this was encouraging and God's blessings on your day!

07/16/2024

I am now booking FREE discovery calls for 1:1 coaching. I am looking for a limited number of spots to fill immediately and in the Fall of 2024.

If you are interested in learning more about how to heal from diet culture and disordered eating, improve your body image, and learn the principles of intuitive eating- DM me or visit my website for more information on how to contact me!

Affordable pricing allows me to reach more individuals!

I always look at these topics through a Christian lens. If you are looking for secular resources, I can point you in that direction as well!

If you want more info, leave a food emoji in the comments!

07/15/2024

What do you see?

We, as humans, often use descriptive words. White, female, smiling, appears thin from what we can see, appears Christian because she's holding a Bible and looks happy. We could certainly make assumptions on this woman based on those descriptive words, but it's a high probability that we wouldn't get them all correct.

What don't we see?

Ah, that is a much bigger question and a much more complicated answer.

You can't see most traumas, either physical or psychological. You can't see education, health status, or if they have a mental health diagnosis. We can't tell where she lives, how many friends she has, if she has kids, how much money is in her bank account. She is holding a Bible but is she a new Christian, life-long believer, or someone making a joke about it?

Looks are deceiving.

It's been on my mind so much lately that we cannot look at someone and see the whole picture.

For example (that matches with what this account is about) If someone posts a before and after photo collage reflecting their intentional weight loss, we automatically think "before is bad and after is good!" But can we see the entire picture? Are they starving themselves or abusing certain weight loss methods like laxatives? I reflect back on how I undoubtably was and was very, very sick, but everyone looked at me and congratulated me on "work well done!" It fueled me to keep going because it was obvious that my friends and family approved, and their praise and adoration must mean that they love me more now. I was terrified to disappoint anyone with how I looked.

Friends, you are not on this earth to be looked at. Your purpose is not to make your body the physically smallest reflection in the mirror or anyone else's eyes.

I urge you, when you look at someone, concentrate on what is UNSEEN. What might be hiding behind that smile? What else could be going on when someone's body dramatically changes?

Let's stop using descriptive words about what we can see to give significance to a person and fix our eyes on what is unseen. That is where connection and love truly happens.

06/04/2024

Honoring our bodies IS a way to honor God.

God gave us the ability to sense when we are hungry & full.

He gave us the ability to taste and enjoy food and didn't write a prescription for guilt that comes with it.

He designed us to eat and crave a variety of foods.

He designed our bodies to want to move AND to need rest.

If you are restricting yourself from certain foods or to a certain calorie limit in an effort to control your body, that isn't honoring God. If you are spending hours at the gym, doing exercises that you hate, because you want to fit into a certain pair of jeans, that isn't honoring God. These things are distracting you from Him. They are keeping you stuck in the world rather than His word.

Albeit you don't have an allergy or medical condition you are trying to manage; no food is off limits. If you are medically able to exercise, finding what movement or training brings you joy is showing respect for how He made you. And we can finally find freedom from diet culture and food rules when we commit to relearning how to eat and move in a way that God intended.

Are you ready to get back to your God-given intuition? I can help!

Opportunities for classes & coaching are opening up soon! Want more info? Put a 🎉 below!

Follow @139.14wellness for topics including diet culture, intuitive eating, body image, and eating disorder awareness - all from a Christian perspective ❤

You are wonderfully made! ❤

05/30/2024

Does God make mistakes?

Nope. Never. Not once.

We have evidence all throughout scripture about God's goodness and His infinite wisdom and power. His ability to see all things and know all things is something our human minds cannot even begin to understand. He has purpose in everything, and His intention always leads to goodness.

Where am I going with this? You, yes you, were created with intention and for a purpose by the God who created everything good. That includes how you look.

While we are constantly told by the world that our bodies aren't good enough and we need to diet to change how we look, or get rid of our gray hairs or wrinkles, or tone up this area to be more attractive, remember that those words are NOT from God. When God looks at you, He sees beauty and marvels at His works. He doesn't need an eraser ever; He doesn't need a re-do or to erase any mistakes and start over with how He formed you to be.

Trust God in all, especially with how he made you. He designed you with sharpie, friend. No eraser required.

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You are wonderfully made! ❤

05/28/2024

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05/22/2024

Let's think about this..

The BMI is man-made. (and actually, was never meant to be a measurement of health, and was developed by an astronomer, and only sampled initially on European white men.) Men = don't know what they are doing.

God made you = He knows what He's doing.

It's really just that simple.

We are not created to look the same. Why is it hard to fathom that we all have different skin colors, hair colors, eye colors, freckles or none, curly or straight hair, some of us are 6'0" and some are 4'11", and on and on, but none of us, are supposed to be different sizes? And all throughout our human lives, once we reach puberty, our bodies should never ever change.

I bet God's up there looking at us like "huh?"

Trust God that He made your body how it should be in relation to YOU and no one else. And also trust that for all other humans He created as well.

Using a flawed (and that's being nice) metric of how we should view and treat each other is not what God had in mind. Everyone is deserving of kindness, love, and respect despite what they look like or where they fall in the BMI chart.

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Opportunities for classes & coaching are opening up soon! Want more info? Put a 🎉 below!

Follow @139.14wellness for topics including diet culture, intuitive eating, body image, and eating disorder awareness - all from a Christian perspective ❤

You are wonderfully made & incredibly loved! ❤

05/21/2024

I'm officially a certified Non-Diet Christian Advocate! As a proud graduate of the Non-Diet Christian Academy by Joyful Health Co®, I'm equipped to share and coach the non-diet approach from a compassionate Christian point of view. If you want to get healthy without diets, let's chat. You can learn more about my training at joyfulhealth.co/cert

05/20/2024

In John 14:27, Jesus tells us "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."

No matter what is troubling us, He can give us peace. If we are looking to the world to give us peace, whether it be about our bodies, dieting, or disordered eating, we are never going to obtain it. This world does not offer true peace; even if we think we have peace once we reach a certain goal, the world will convince us that it is not enough or that we are failures if we can't maintain it. Jesus tells us to not be troubled, He has got it under control. We don't have to be afraid of what is next, because He holds tomorrow.

If you're looking for encouragement and freedom from diet culture, disordered eating, and body image issues, give me an emoji below.

05/18/2024

Don't confuse what you think of you, with what God thinks of you.

05/16/2024

Yay! It’s official! I am a Certified Non-Diet Christian Advocate with ! I’m excited to see how God will use me to help others!

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