The Joy-Filled Eater Podcast | Food Freedom and Body Image Support for Christian Women Brittany Braswell

Unresolved emotional pain can manifest in physical symptoms and lead to a cycle of negative emotions and behaviors, hindering progress towards food freedom.

This episode equips listeners with tools to identify and address unresolved emotional pain that may be impacting their relationship with food.

In today’s episode, registered dietitian Brittany Braswell chats with Pastors Travis & Tina Hall, diving deep into the connection between unresolved emotional pain and food struggles. They explore how past hurts, traumas, and unhealed wounds can show up as cravings, emotional eating, and body image issues.  But don’t worry, Joy-Filled Eaters!  Travis & Tina also offer practical takeaways and guidance for uncovering the root of that pain to help you achieve greater levels of freedom in your faith and relationship with food and body.

A few things you’ll hear about in this episode include:

🧠 The mind-body connection: How unresolved pain can manifest in physical & mental health symptoms

♻️ Breaking the cycle: Understanding how emotional eating can be a way to numb pain, but ultimately keeps us stuck.

🫚 Finding the root cause: Practical steps to identify the core issues behind your food struggles. 

❤️‍🩹 Healing the heart, healing your relationship with food: Tools and resources for emotional healing that can lead to lasting food freedom.

✝️The power of faith: How faith-based approaches can support emotional well-being and a healthy relationship with food

Resources mentioned:


Connect with Pastor Travis & Tina on Instagram!


Get Pastor Travis’s book, Enough – Living a Life Beyond Performance


Enroll in The Joy-Filled Eater course!



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*Reminder - Podcast content is not meant to be taken as professional nutrition or medical advice or to replace counseling with a licensed therapist. Please consult with your own treatment team.

Feeling lost on how to support a friend or loved one struggling with an eating disorder?

This episode equips you with practical tools for offering compassionate and effective support, without feeling like you need to become their therapist.

We're joined by Jessica Shafer, MS, LMFT, a family therapist specialized in eating disorder treatment, who shares powerful communication strategies, healthy boundaries, and ways to show you truly care (without the pressure).

Topics you’ll hear discussed in this episode include:

✈️  The Airplane Safety Analogy: How prioritizing your own well-being strengthens your ability to support others.

🗣️ Communicating with Love: Ditch the lectures and learn how to validate their experience.

🚫 Setting Healthy Boundaries: Discover ways to offer support without becoming a drill sergeant.

👂🏻 The Power of Active Listening: Create a safe space for your friend to share their struggles.   

📌 Building a Support System: Learn how to navigate complex situations and access additional resources.

Resources mentioned:

> Reach out to Jessica for questions regarding treatment for family support via email at jessica.shafer@odysseybh.com or by phone at 334-436-1531

> National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA)

> Life Without Ed

> How to Nurse Your Child Through an Eating Disorder

Become a VIP Podcast Insider HERE to access BONUS resources only available to our VIP list.

Enroll in The Joy-Filled Eater course!

>>> Join me and a community of crazy incredible women inside The Joy-Filled Food Freedom Society!

Join our FREE community in the Food Freedom & Body Image Support for Christian Women Facebook group to ask your questions about cultivating a joy-filled relationship with food, your body, & Jesus.

Got a burning question about food freedom, body image, faith, or nutrition? Leave me a SpeakPipe voice note here for a chance to have your question answered on an episode of The Joy-Filled Eater Podcast!

If you love the show and are finding it valuable, be sure to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Listen to your podcasts somewhere else? No worries!  You can leave your podcast review here instead 😉.

Connect with Brittany on Instagram

*Reminder - Podcast content is not meant to be taken as professional nutrition or medical advice or to replace counseling with a licensed therapist. Please consult with your own treatment team.

Integrity is essential if you want to achieve and maintain recovery from a disordered relationship with food, your body, or even exercise.

If you’ve ever struggled to maintain integrity by sticking to your commitments, the buck stops here.  By the end of this episode, you’ll have some effective tools and strategy that will help you become the kind of person who keeps their word… even for yourself!

In today’s episode, I’m joined by non-diet personal trainer, Kasey Shuler, who shares her personal story about how she had to learn to navigate her commitments with both flexibility and grace and the strategy that can help you do the same.

Kasey gives you practical steps to help you identify and challenge the fears and anxieties that might be holding you back from staying committed to yourself and your goals in recovery from a disordered or unhealthy relationship with food or your body.

Topics discussed in this episode include:

❤️ How to navigate the nuance of commitment with flexibility and grace

😊 Kasey’s 4-step strategy for battling anxiety

👋🏻 A practical step to help you walk in integrity

Resources mentioned:

Connect with Kasey on Instagram @joyfulhealthco

Check out other podcast conversations between Brittany and Kasey in episodes 59 and 11 on The Joyful Health Show.

Purchase Kasey’s book, Aligned: Returning to God's Perfect Peace in an Anxious World

Become a VIP Podcast Insider HERE to access BONUS resources only available to our VIP list.

Take your next steps towards food & body freedom with The Joy-Filled Eater course!

Join me and a community of crazy incredible women inside The Joy-Filled Food Freedom Society!

Join our FREE community in the Food Freedom & Body Image Support for Christian Women Facebook group to ask your questions about cultivating a joy-filled relationship with food, your body, & Jesus.

Got a burning question about food freedom, body image, faith, or nutrition? Leave me a SpeakPipe voice note here for a chance to have your question answered on an episode of The Joy-Filled Eater Podcast!

If you love the show and are finding it valuable, be sure to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Listen to your podcasts somewhere else? No worries!  You can leave your podcast review here instead 😉.

Connect with Brittany on Instagram

*Reminder - Podcast content is not meant to be taken as professional nutrition or medical advice or to replace counseling with a licensed therapist. Please consult with your own treatment team.

Do you ever feel like learning to make peace with and trust your body is too much effort, and you can’t do it all yourself? 

Working towards building a better relationship with your body can be daunting when you feel like you have to take it on alone. Luckily, you don’t have to! In this episode, you’ll learn how much easier it is to trust your body when you let go of the control you think you have to cling so tightly to.

In today’s episode, we’ll be taking a look at the third and final component of body trust. This last piece may feel unnatural at first, and like the opposite of everything the world tells us to do. But, when we lean into it and learn to understand the real purposes for it, learning to trust your body and the design the Lord has for it becomes so much easier. 

We’ll focus on why it's not sustainable to rely on your own strength, reveal some truth about the Lord’s character, and discover how you can turn over your goal of body trust to Him.

In this last episode of the body trust framework series, you're going to…

👉 Identify the 3rd and final component needed in order to cultivate body trust.

🔎 Uncover a lie the world’s been telling you

🕊️ See what’s possible when you learn to let go of control

Resources mentioned:

>>> Download the FREE companion workbook to go along with this series HERE!

Become a VIP Podcast Insider HERE to access BONUS resources only available to our VIP list.

Enroll in The Joy-Filled Eater course!

Join me and a community of crazy incredible women inside The Joy-Filled Food Freedom Society!

Join our FREE community in the Food Freedom & Body Image Support for Christian Women Facebook group to ask your questions about cultivating a joy-filled relationship with food, your body, & Jesus.

Got a burning question about food freedom, body image, faith, or nutrition? Leave me a SpeakPipe voice note here for a chance to have your question answered on an episode of The Joy-Filled Eater Podcast!

If you love the show and are finding it valuable, be sure to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Listen to your podcasts somewhere else? No worries!  You can leave your podcast review here instead 😉.

Connect with Brittany on Instagram

*Reminder - Podcast content is not meant to be taken as professional nutrition or medical advice or to replace counseling with a licensed therapist. Please consult with your own treatment team.

Just knowing why and how to trust your body doesn’t solve everything when it comes to body trust.  There’s a second component that’s 100% necessary but can seem tedious and frustrating at times. 

The easy thing to do when things get hard is to give up, and that’s the reason so many women never come to experience full body trust. But, we’re working to solve that problem in episode 75 so you can learn how to grow, even when things may be uncomfortable.

In today’s episode, I’m discussing the 2nd component of developing body trust. We’ll focus on how this is really a process, and the importance of learning to lean on God throughout it. I’ll talk about accepting the discomfort, the power of giving yourself grace, and how to reframe your thoughts so that you can keep working towards trusting your body. 

In this week's episode, you're gonna learn…

❤️‍🩹 Why so many women give up on body trust too soon and how to stick with it

🌎 What the world says about the 2nd component of body trust and why we’ve got to tune it out

🤓 A nerdy, but impactful, language hack that can turn a frustrating situation into a massive potential for growth

Resources mentioned:

>>> Download the FREE companion workbook to go along with this series HERE!

Become a VIP Podcast Insider HERE to access BONUS resources only available to our VIP list.

Enroll in The Joy-Filled Eater course!

Join me and a community of crazy incredible women inside The Joy-Filled Food Freedom Society!

Join our FREE community in the Food Freedom & Body Image Support for Christian Women Facebook group to ask your questions about cultivating a joy-filled relationship with food, your body, & Jesus.

Got a burning question about food freedom, body image, faith, or nutrition? Leave me a SpeakPipe voice note here for a chance to have your question answered on an episode of The Joy-Filled Eater Podcast!

If you love the show and are finding it valuable, be sure to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Listen to your podcasts somewhere else? No worries!  You can leave your podcast review here instead 😉.

Connect with Brittany on Instagram

*Reminder - Podcast content is not meant to be taken as professional nutrition or medical advice or to replace counseling with a licensed therapist. Please consult with your own treatment team.

One of the biggest obstacles to letting go of dieting is learning to trust your body’s natural cues.



For many women, the idea of letting go of a diet plan is scary because it means stepping away from a source of control and direction over what or when they eat. But in this episode, we’re addressing why it’s SO much better to trust your body when it comes to eating, and you’ll learn the key component to doing it!



In today’s episode, we’re continuing our discussion of body trust. I know that cultivating body trust can help you improve your body image, but often it’s hard to lean into that trust.



That’s why I’m breaking down exactly how to do it, but it’s up to you to take action on it for yourself. We’ll talk about the key component to learning to get in tune with your body’s natural cues and the truth about how God has designed your body purposefully and why you can trust it because of that.



In this episode, you’ll learn…

😌 The 1st component of body trust that will eliminate the need to ever go on another diet

🧠 Why you might have trouble recognizing and understanding your body’s signals and what to do about it

⚖️ How to find the balance between focus and intentionality

📖 What scripture has to say about your body’s design

⭐️ An effective strategy to get back in tune with your body

Resources mentioned:

>>> Download your FREE companion workbook HERE to check out the hunger and fullness scale bonus resource!

Become a VIP Podcast Insider HERE to access BONUS resources only available to our VIP list.

Enroll in The Joy-Filled Eater course!

Join me and a community of crazy incredible women inside The Joy-Filled Food Freedom Society!

Join our FREE community in the Food Freedom & Body Image Support for Christian Women Facebook group to ask your questions about cultivating a joy-filled relationship with food, your body, & Jesus.

Got a burning question about food freedom, body image, faith, or nutrition? Leave me a SpeakPipe voice note here for a chance to have your question answered on an episode of The Joy-Filled Eater Podcast!

If you love the show and are finding it valuable, be sure to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Listen to your podcasts somewhere else? No worries!  You can leave your podcast review here instead 😉.

Connect with Brittany on Instagram

*Reminder - Podcast content is not meant to be taken as professional nutrition or medical advice or to replace counseling with a licensed therapist. Please consult with your own treatment team.