I’m Struggling with an Eating Disorder. How Does Intuitive Eating Fit In?
What We Talk About in This Episode
In Episode 11 of the Joyful Health Show, we talk with registered dietitian and recovery coach Brittany Braswell. Brittany talks about where to start if you’re struggling with an eating disorder, but how to gently incorporate intuitive eating. She offers scriptural insight, practical tips, and fills us with hope for recovery from eating disorders
In this episode we talk about:
Leaning into the strength of hope and resting in God through the process
Practical ways to start with intuitive eating if you’re struggling with an eating disorder
How to know if you’re progressing with your recovery
And much, much more…
Connect with Brittany on her website at brittanybraswellrd.com, on Instagram at @brittanybraswellrd, and take her course Fed Up with ED.
Brittany Braswell, RD
Brittany is a wife, mom of 2, Registered Dietitian, and recovery coach on a mission to help women struggling with disordered eating and negative body image reduce their anxiety and ditch food rules forever. She helps her clients replace negative beliefs with spiritual truth so they can rediscover their God-given identity and overcome the guilt and shame that’s kept them in bondage to diet culture and negative body image.
You can connect with Brittany here:
Instagram:@brittanybraswellrd
Website: brittanybraswellrd.com
Episode Transcription
Introduction
Hey, friends. We are so thankful we get to bring you this message from Britney Braswell, Registered dietitian and disordered eating and recovery coach. In this episode, we answer the question for those struggling with an eating disorder: How does intuitive eating fit in? Brittany shares hope-filled scriptures alongside some very useful practical tips. So we really know this episode will bless you.
Make sure to download this episode so you don't miss a beat. All right, let's get into it.
Hey, friends, welcome to the Joyful Health Show. I'm a registered dietitian and I'm Kasey, a personal trainer. And together, we are here to help you discover joyful health by grace.
Hi, friends, and welcome to this week's episode. We have the honor today of talking with registered dietitian, Brittany Braswell. And we're so excited to talk to her about a topic that we constantly are being asked about, which is if I am struggling with an eating disorder, is intuitive eating even possible for me, or is that even something I should aim for? So Brittany is going to be a wonderful guest to talk about this, and we're happy that she's here. Hi, Brittany.
Testimony from an Eating Disorder Dietitian
Brittany
Hey, Aubrey and Kasey. Thank you guys for having me on today.
Kasey
Yes, we are so excited to have your expertise and for you to share your story. So for the listeners who might not know you yet, Brittany is a wife. She's a mom of two, a registered dietitian and recovery coach on a mission to help women struggling with disordered eating and negative body image to reduce their anxiety and ditch the food rules forever. She helps her clients replace the negative beliefs with spiritual truth so that they can rediscover their God given identity and overcome the guilt and shame that's kept them in bondage to diet, culture and negative body image.
Yes. And amen to that. So, Brittany, can you tell us a little bit how you got to this place? Maybe if you have a personal or a career struggle with this particular topic and how God met you and the middle of that, and then now what you do as a result?
Brittany
Yeah. So mine is kind of two parts. There's definitely the career struggle and Aubrey, I'm sure, you know, like as you go through school to become a dietitian, I think I just got integrated with a lot of diet culture. There was a lot of language around good foods, bad foods, healthy, unhealthy. And whether it was intentional or not, I think it caused a lot of harm in the way that I saw food and especially the way that once I started practicing as a dietitian.
And I just really noticed with a lot of my patients and clients, the goals that we were working on for their health. So in a hospital setting, maybe they were working on recovering from something specific or maybe in an outpatient setting, they're working on their eating disorder, recovery, your relationship with the food and the way that we were especially that I was leading conversation was really not helpful as it was making it very difficult for people to not only reach their health goals, but to maintain or improve their physical health in the process.
And I'm thinking as a dietitian, why is their health not getting better? And it was this tradeoff between like, we're trying to make their physical health better. But in making the mental struggle worse, it's actually making the physical struggle worse as well. So fortunately, I had a really phenomenal opportunity in graduate school to really dig into and a kind of specialized education and training in the treatment of eating disorders.
And I just really found a passion for it. And right after grad school, to kind of give you guys the Reader's Digest version, my husband and I had had a bout of struggling with infertility, and it was through that time that the Lord really showed me, Okay, this isn't just about your education. You've got to understand that your clients are going to be struggling with control, and it's because I was struggling with control.
So he used that that whole infertility journey to really show me he No one is in control of everything, which is true all the time, but even more so than that, that it was safe for me to let go of that control because often that control feel so safe, you feel like you're guarding and protecting yourself. And until you can hand it over to the Lord, which is what I love, working with my clients on That's really where the freedom comes.
It becomes a possibility, especially in regard to learning how to honor the cues that you're that our God gave us from the beginning. For hunger and fullness are the ones that most people are aware of. But that's kind of some of those first steps so that they can get better results, they can feel better not just physically but they can grow spiritually as well.
And so that's what I really like to do now as a result of sort of my struggle with the the diet culture kind of language and the way of seeing things and really learning how to hand over control myself, I now get to help the women that I work with sort of readjust their focus and priorities so that the goal isn't just let's improve physical health because you guys know it probably as well as I do.
That can really become an idol very quickly. And so when we can focus on growing spiritual health first and make that kind of the top priority, that is really where you gain the wisdom to learn how to steward your body well physically and mentally. So that's when all areas of health flourish versus kind of making that physical health or body shape or size or weight the number one priority.
00:05:58:16 - 00:06:17:22
Aubrey
Yeah, definitely. I feel that issue of control is that close to my heart as well. And I think it manifests in all kinds of different ways. It could be an eating disorder. And not to say that eating disorders are all about an issue of control, but that can be a big part of it. And it can feed into it and make it much worse.
And so I love that you brought that up and all of us. And also, I guess to normalize it since people feeling shame about that is that all of us have that issue. It just comes up in different ways in our life. It could be with our children and it can rear head again. Later. I think that's something God's been teaching me this year is to release control of just everything that happens in my children's lives and this journey with intuitive eating and making peace with our bodies can be a big eye opener in that area like it was for you.
So Brittany talked to the person who is maybe maybe not in inpatient eating disorder, but they're coming out of that phase and they're trying to really eat enough for their body but they haven't quite let go of control when it comes to trusting God with their food choices. What is the first thing that you walk through that person with?
Steps for Someone Coming Out of an Eating Disorder
00:07:21:10 - 00:07:56:12
Brittany
Yeah, so definitely you have the first one: making sure you're eating enough. I really like to kind of start foundationally with that from the physical standpoint. And then from there, we can kind of work with them when it comes to control. Just first, I think a really easy sort of practical activity that you can do if you're trying to figure out, hey, where do my priorities lie right now is just to start making lists like from things that you spend the most time on or that you do most frequently, like to the list like just going through your normal day and going, okay, well, you know, maybe spend some time, maybe I do a quiet time, take my kids to school and I'm worried about meal prep and grocery shopping and planning every little detail so that I know what I can eat now I know what I can eat later. And making a list of those things can, I think, really be helpful in just letting you see from a physical standpoint, like where do my priorities like what am I spending the most time on?
And so I think a really easy way to kind of get started with that is just to focus on, okay, let me choose one thing that I know is going to help grow my spiritual health. It's going to draw me closer to the Lord. So maybe that's a quiet time for me. I'm going to be totally honest. My life, like I do not always get a quiet time first thing in the morning, especially if my kids somehow wake up before me or come in: “mommy I want to use your bathroom this morning!” Right? So it does not have to look like this picture perfect as we see all these pictures on like Instagram and Pinterest of the beautiful journal and the Bible and the pen and the coffee in that can be really nice and relaxing when you get that opportunity. But it really just matters too, to take that time to ask the Lord what to do and ask the Lord to give you that wisdom.
Because when you can start off asking for it, you're going to be more likely to listen for a response during the day. So like a practical example of this, I had a client who was saying like, Well, what? Like, how does that play out when I'm at the grocery store? Because I kind of told her, like, Ask the Lord before anything like you may not be doing it all the time, but it's a good practice to get into.
So she's like, you want me to stand in front of the cracker aisle like “Lord, which of these should I buy?” and I said, you know what? There is no harm in that. You can say, God, as I walk into the store today, please give me some wisdom and some peace in choosing foods that are going to challenge my levels of guilt or shame.
Maybe that's going to keep me from relying on myself and trying to make my body or my health or my size and idol. And so we can start working on some of those. I hate to say small, but like the little practical daily things that you can do to start getting away from worrying about every little thing that you eat and really put that trust and focus on the Lord.
And it can definitely be a physical concern. You can definitely have still some physical concerns with it. So from a nutritional standpoint, yes, we do want to make sure you're eating enough. And then we also there's there's things that we would do to make sure that you are not restricting like certain food groups. Right? So some of the things that I really like to work on with my clients to kind of from the get go, if they say, hey, I'm eating enough and sort of looked at their intake and we go, okay, you're getting enough for the day, that's that's a great first step.
Now, maybe those are foods that maybe you haven't totally handed that control over to the Lord because you're only doing things that maybe feel more predictable for you. So I think maybe starting to just do a little overlook, I guess, is kind of what you're eating for the day and have somebody, whether it's a dietitian, whether it's a coach of some sort to come alongside and give you some of that extra perspective to challenge your beliefs.
I think you’ve got to do a lot of the belief or digging into why do certain foods feel safe or why do they feel scary. And so that's a good, good next step for somebody.
00:11:46:14 - 00:12:05:06
Kasey
Yeah, that's really helpful. And I feel like with the words I hear you talk about a lot is worry and control. And like you said, is it silly to ask God to help give wisdom when I go into a grocery store because it may seem silly to agonize over picking out which box of crackers, but that is a very if that's a worry in someone's life, if that's a source of anxiety, then that is absolutely a legitimate need for prayer; to be able to invite the Lord into that was a really small decision.
So I think looking to those small decisions and thinking is this as it's working for me, like what am I feeling right now? And I think that's part of the intuitive eating, like the intuitive health aspect of it, of like how, how am I feeling not just in my body but in my spirit?
Am I worrying over these decisions, am I feeling closed off and strangled by, you know, which decision should I make? Which is going to be the perfect choice? So, like, for the intuitive health part into the eating part, why is intuitive eating beneficial for the person who is coming out of that from just like a physiological standpoint?
And then maybe you can also give that spiritual perspective too of why intuitive health with the Lord, like the intuitive leaning into the Spirit, like leaning into your body and leaning into the spirit. Why is that beneficial for someone in this stage of life?
How is Intuitive Eating with God Good for Both Body and Soul for Disordered Eating Patterns?
00:12:55:21 - 00:13:17:05
Brittany
Well, I think, number one, that is how we were designed. That's how the Lord created us, right? Like when you were a baby, you just already were born eating intuitively, right? Babies, whether they're nursing or taking a bottle, they usually just kind of turn their head when they're done, or they fall asleep. And so we know from the get go that we were given the ability to trust our bodies. And somewhere along the way, diet culture influences, family influences, so many different things can get us sort of out of sync with our bodies and recognizing what's going on.
And so physically, I think it's so important to be able to it takes more intentionality, and I think it feels more scary to try to get back to that place of intuitive eating because if you're used to a set of diet rules that can kind of feel safe, like somebody else is telling me what to do.
So if it doesn't work, it's not my fault. I hear that all the time, like I can't trust my body. What if I do something wrong? I won't say it plays the blame game, but it kind of gives you that. I've had clients say, well, you know, like if I mess up, at least I know it wasn't on me.
Like maybe there was something wrong with that diet. It just doesn't work for me. And so it kind of almost gives you this this point of like, I got to put my big girl panties on and trust that I can, like, make my own decisions. And that's where I can be really helpful for a someone because depending on what stage of recovery you're in, you may not be ready for every part of every principle of intuitive eating.
If you start, it can be physically pretty dangerous. If your hunger fullness cues are really off and you're trying to honor your hunger, but you're getting hungry very infrequently or you don't even recognize when you're hungry, right? That can be physically pretty dangerous. But once you start eating more consistently, that would be my number one encouragement.
Just like a simple tip, if you are trying to learn how to become an intuitive eater rather than so much focusing on hunger and fullness, maybe from the get go, you want to observe that. You want to focus on things like:, what am I recognizing or not? But starting to eat consistently and when I say consistently, like usually four to six times a day, you know, kind of depending on the person spreading it out gives you a chance for those hunger fullness keys to get more consistent.
We want to work on doing that and physically also that's going to help repair potentially your metabolism or metabolic processes that maybe some disordered eating habits or other behaviors have kind of interfered with and taken the place of maybe some of those natural keys that you're given. So that would be my stand, my, I guess, encouragement from a physical standpoint.
And it's just really exhausting, right, when you're not nourishing your body well physically and mentally, exhausting. And so I think in order to move forward, you want to also know your limits, right? Like as a mom, as a woman, like there's only so much energy I have, regardless of how I will nourish my body, I still need sleep at the end of the day.
Right. And so being able to say I can't expect perfection, I can expect to allow myself to rest. I think rest is such a huge part of physical recovery. Process and the intuitive eating process, knowing physical rest, maybe sleeping, maybe just relaxing, but also the mental respite you need from that. I love the passage from a spiritual growth standpoint and Isaiah and I won't read the whole passage for lack of time, but it's in Isaiah chapter 40 and we regularly hear the verse that says, Even when you’re tired, weary, and young men stumble and fall, but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength and I love that.
But I always encourage people like, Okay, back up a couple of verses, because the verse 30 before that talks about how the Lord will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding is one that no one can fathom, and he gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. And so I love that because it again, you kind of just give yourself that permission, okay?
It's normal for me to be tired. It's normal maybe even for this intuitive eating journey to feel difficult, but I can rest in the Lord and I can know that He's going to renew my strength throughout the process of this and that his thoughts are higher than my thoughts and his ways are higher than my ways. And so I think giving yourself that permission, both physically and spiritually, mentally, to rest in this process is something that I don't think enough people prioritize or think about. So that would be my encouragement.
00:17:55:24 - 00:18:27:23
Aubrey
Yeah. Yeah. I'm so glad that you hit on the fact that, you know, not everyone is ready for a full blown intuitive eating right away. And it's very important that you work with a dietitian who is familiar with treating eating disorders and that you have someone help you kind of start with that structure of a meal plan and and make sure you're eating enough and recovering because again, like we said, our hunger and fullness cues can be off in the beginning of recovery.
And we need to sometimes we need to go against those. And more often until we get to that place of being nutritionally restored. And what I love, love, love is the fact that you just gave people permission, that your strength comes from the Lord, even in your recovery journey. You're not doing this yourself. You're not going to probably go from point A to point B, even if you follow everything that your recovery team is telling you to do overnight.
It's going to be a process and just continuing to draw from the strength of the Lord. So that was awesome. Thank you, Brittany. And tell us, how have you worked with people from this to give a little hope for somebody? Have you worked with anyone from a full blown eating disorder where on a full meal plan to intuitive eating? And have you seen that process happen?
Hope for Those with an Eating Disorder
00:19:09:12 - 00:19:31:24
Aubrey
Yes, I love this question because just like you said, Aubrey, I think one of the biggest things that's missing and I see this and so many of my clients with your first getting started is that lack of hope or that lack of faith that it's possible. And they may say, well, yeah, I believe recovery is possible.
It is because it's possible for everybody else. I don't know if it's possible for me. And I have had the incredible opportunity to work in a treatment center setting. So a higher level of care where my clients were living there day in and day out for sometimes months at a time. And even from then and now, even in the outpatient sort of private practice setting.
I love getting to see that happen. And I've seen it happen so many times. It only gives me more and more hope for the clients that come in that are so determined that it's just not possible. They can't see a way out. And that's where, again, we're kind of like to go back to that scripture and saying pointing them to the Lord saying like his ways are higher than your ways, his thoughts or heart and your thoughts because it's okay that you can't see like, okay, maybe you're at point A and you're trying to get to Z in like a week or a month or maybe even a couple months.
And it can be, it can feel really discouraging if you're not seeing if you have a timeline set for yourself and you say, I feel like I should be this far long at this point. And so I want to encourage anyone listening to this. If you're on your intuitive eating journey or you're recovering from disordered eating, you've got to allow yourself to celebrate the ones along the way and recognize the progress that you're making because it's totally possible to go from just being totally inundated and diet culture covered in guilt and shame on a regular basis, afraid to even and then be able to say,
Okay, well, yeah, maybe this weekend I ate something and got a little past the point of fullness and it was uncomfortable. I can recognize that and I don't have to have guilt about it, and I don't have to start some diet over tomorrow and be good again. Right? Because as you guys know, and probably a lot of the listeners, there's no food that is good or bad or that makes you good or bad for eating it or not eating it.
So again, just to recap that answer, it's 100% possible to go from like in the depths of guilt and shame and disordered eating and negative body image to finding freedom, not just in intuitive eating, but also that spiritual freedom in the Lord then allows you to keep moving forward and continue to grow and the other areas of your life as well.
00:21:28:07 - 00:21:47:10
Kasey
Yeah, that's beautiful. So y'all have said that a few times, like point A to point Z, you know, like I'm trying to get there on my timeline. And the verse that popped up for me was that God said, I am the Alpha and Omega. Like, you start with me and you end with me. Like I am the beginning and the end.
And that comes from Revelation 22 and the verse before that, just like Brittany, you're saying, let's, let's backtrack a little bit. Let's look at the bigger context of not just and I think that's important too. And like when we have disordered eating, let's open up our perspective like you had, you know, you talked about the journaling exercise of writing down your celebratory milestones.
Like let's take a step back and look at the bigger picture. And this is from Revelation. This is the big picture like this is the revelation of what God is going to do, like he will do it. And he says the time is near in verse 12. Behold, I am coming soon…and none of us knows the actual timeline.
Only the Father knows that timeline. And so I think to like we can get caught up in the control part of like I I'm supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be better now. And that can be frustrating when we don't feel better now. And it can lead to despair and it can lead to a loss of hope.
How to See Progress in an Eating Disorder
So you have walked women through this. If a woman cannot depend on timelines, then what are some benchmarks or some marks of freedom that she can look for? And to see that she is in step with the Spirit on her journey to freedom with, you know, maybe using intuitive eating as a tool. So what are some things that she can be looking for to know that she's on the right path with the Lord
00:23:25:03 - 00:23:47:01
Brittany
I love that question, Kasey. If you guys are anything like me, I am the kind of person who loves lists. I love to check things off or cross a line through something. And I find that is the case of so many of my clients. And if you're not, that's okay. There's other ways to go about this. But something I like to do with a lot of my clients is have them create a recovery to do list.
And it's not meant to be like, hey, I can check all of these things off today, but when you when you can put something objective on paper, I feel like sometimes recognizing hunger and fullness, like you can maybe start recognizing signs more objectively but it's kind of more subjective and kind of in the gray area for a while going, okay, well, is this really a sign of hunger or is this or how do I know?
How do I know I'm making progress? How do I know this is successful? And so when you can think about in recovery or further along in recovery, maybe if you feel like zero to 100 is your sort of range of recovery, like 90 to 100 is where I want to end up. Like that's the range I want to be in.
And I feel like I'm at a seven right now. We don't want a number one focus on goals that are going to be like someone who's in that 80 to 90 range yet. Right? So something that can be really helpful is to say, okay, over the next however long, right? Don't give yourself that time period. But here's maybe some markers of what I would love for recovery to look like when I make it to a 15 or to a 30 or whatever and that can help you get a little more realistic.
So maybe you want to start and say okay in recovery like the gold standard, this is what I would love to look like. No anxiety, no food, guilt, no food, shame. I'm so excited about my body. I think that's another conversation, and I don't necessarily promote body love or positivity. Exactly. But we want to get to that point where we can accept our body and steward it well.
So knowing like, hey, here's the goal here are things down the road, how can I backtrack that and make it more realistic and try to make those things as specific and measurable as possible. When I say measurable, I do not mean getting out your scale. I do not mean getting out measuring cups for your food. Right.
These are things that you can see that are measurable, something you can know if you did it or not, right? So maybe it's okay. Within the next month, I want to challenge three fear foods. I don't have each one X number of times over the next month that gets very specific and you can celebrate that win. And if you don't get to it, that gives you still an objective way to say, Okay, what kept me from it?
What can I do to make this happen the next time? Do I need some more support? Was my goal maybe a little bit lofty for the stage of recovery. And so instead of condemning yourself or putting yourself down for not reaching those goals, it's just a really good way to evaluate and to have rather than just one, to have less anxiety is not a bad goal.
Right. We want to get to that point, but going, okay, well, what are some signs of anxiety like high anxiety and low anxiety? And let's focus on how we can maybe reduce one of those things or how do I know if my anxiety is a little bit less? Maybe I am going out to eat with people once a week instead of isolating and only eating them out so coming up with some more realistic short term goals.
And then building on that can be something really good to measure or track if you want to be able to sort of tangibly see some progress along the way in your recovery, eat in your eating disorder, recovery, your intuitive eating journey.
00:27:14:06 - 00:27:37:16
Aubrey
Yeah. I love that. And I think just like you said, making sure it's something that's just right, like right above where you're at right now, just moving, making those small increments of change and setting yourself up to celebrate.
So that's awesome. Something I'm listening to you and to Kasey talking about these verses and I'm thinking, you know, I see a lot of people who are struggling with eating disorders or who have feeling like just a lot of guilt over that they've wasted years of their life or that, you know, I hear that a lot, honestly. And it's like this time that keeps building in their mind.
The enemy uses that; and maybe speak to someone who's feeling that, on how they can allow the Lord to use this time to draw him closer to them. And I know you've given us a ton of examples already, but speak to that specifically how you can use this time of recovery to draw closer to the Lord and how God doesn't waste anything yes.
How Can Eating Disorder Recovery Draw Us Closer to God?
00:28:06:23 - 00:28:26:08
Brittany
Gosh, that's such a great question and is such a phenomenal area to focus on, because again, you want to celebrate those wins along the way and at the same time you want to have full independence on God. So when you can recognize like, okay, maybe I feel like I've been stuck in this journey for decades.
I’ve had clients who have been struggling for years and years. Then to be able to say this isn't wasted time, I'm it's still something I'm learning and growing with right. And it's still something that I can use not only for my own recovery, but to also pour into someone else to show them. Even if you've been in it, this is still possible.
And so it just creates that extra dependence on the Lord. I think that I think that can be such a beautiful thing. And it gives you that opportunity again to seek intentional community, maybe with people who are struggling at the same level you are maybe people who have who, you know, have already surpassed and maybe they're a little further along in their journey and it gives you a chance to create that dependance on the Lord and open up the opportunity for community, because that's where a lot of the growth happens.
Even in James five 16, it says therefore confess your son's one to another and you will be healed. And it’s not that's different than forgiveness like we get forgiveness from the Lord that healing so often comes and community when you can recognize that you're not alone and when you're willing to open up with other people and that can feel really difficult when you can remind yourself like, hey, I probably wouldn't have said this to somebody else. They struggled with the same thing that creates the opportunity for that healing conversation as well.
00:30:01:18 - 00:30:34:19
Aubrey
Yeah, that's so helpful to know that we're not alone in this. And I feel like we could continue talking about this all day. And so we want to give the listeners a chance to put some of these things into practice on their own and also to create some more connection points with you.
So can you tell us a little bit more about how the listeners can continue to connect with you where they can find you? And if you have any other specific resources that you would like to tell them about?
Brittany
Yeah, absolutely. If you feel like you want to find that community of people, kind of like I just mentioned, if you want to find people to connect with and also have some support and accountability along the way, I do have a coaching program that I work with specifically for Christian women seeking recovery from disordered eating and working on intuitive eating.
And so you can find that on my website. It's called Fed Up with Ed so you can go to brittanybraswell.com/fedup and then if you want to head to the homepage, you'll be able to see the resources tab. And there's a lot of free resources there to help you with your intuitive eating journey as well.
And then I guess I'm on Instagram as well. If you guys want to connect with me, you can always shoot me a DM over there. And my handle there is@brittanybraswellrd.
Prayer for Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder
Father God, I just come to you today. Lord, I thank you so much for Kasey and Aubrey and for each and every person listening today. Lord Jesus, I pray that you spoke to someone through the conversation that we had today. And Father God, I pray that you would soften their hearts, help them to know something that came up in the conversation today was specifically a word that you had for them. I pray that you would help them to know that there is no guilt and no shame that you have placed on them and that there is freedom available for every person. God, you died, so that we can have freedom, including the person who's listening who might be saying, “it’s possible for everyone but me.”
So thank you, Lord, in advance for the way that you are bringing them out of there, maybe disordered eating right now, or their struggle with intuitive eating. And I pray, God, that you would just show them that freedom is possible and that you would provide them support and community along the way in your name. We pray in your name, amen.
00:32:09:11 - 00:32:43:14
Kasey
Thank you, Brittany. That's beautiful. I, I just, I feel the hope, and so I pray the listeners will experience that as well. Okay. This concludes our show. Thank you, Brittany. Thank you, everyone, for listening. And until next time, may you rest of his grace and follow the joy by we hope you enjoyed this episode. If you'd like a journal to put some of the practices into place that Brittany talked about, the priority list, the recovery to do items we recommend are the Body Blessings Journal.
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