Chapter 10: Please Hold, The Refrigerator is Calling
Watch now (14 mins) | Today, let's delve into an exciting topic that touches all our hearts - the victories that each one of us has achieved. You know the ones - those victories over challenges, big or small, that make us feel like champions. In fact, let's spotlight a collective victory that I want to celebrate with all our listeners who've completed Dear Food I Love You I Hate You Don't Leave Me Workbooks 1 and 2.
Chapter 1: Surprise! Maintenance Starts NOW (Part 2)
Watch now (19 mins) | Welcome to the Dear Food Podcast, where host Julia Fikse invites you to join her on a journey to health, joy, and food freedom. In this podcast, we explore the power of faith, perseverance, and positivity in our quest for a healthier and more fulfilling life. Today, we'll dive into an episode that's packed with wisdom, inspiration, and practical advice to help you on your path to wellness.
Chapter 2: Stop the Juice Presses, I Am Special
Welcome to the Dear Food Podcast, hosted by Julia Fikse, where we explore the intricate relationship between food, emotions, and spirituality. If you're wrestling with overeating, weight gain, or food addiction, this podcast is your companion on the path to lasting health and joy. In each episode, you'll discover practical tips, inspiring stories, and expert insights to help you shatter the shackles of food strongholds and attain genuine food freedom.
Celebrating Victories on the Journey:
Julia Fikse starts each episode by inviting listeners to share their victories on their journey to health, joy, and food freedom. She believes that the Lord provides victories and that sharing them can inspire others to keep moving forward, knowing that God is by their side.
Julia encourages her listeners to send their victories to her email at Julia@Onesteptowellness.com with the subject line "I have a victory." These victories can be of any size, as long as they relate to your journey with food.
Expanding Globally:
The impact of the Dear Food Program extends far beyond the podcast. It has reached listeners in the United States, Canada, and the UK. You can also find it available on major platforms like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, and Target.
Julia shares a heartwarming victory from a review on Amazon, where a reader gave her book, "Dear Food, Workbook One," a glowing five-star rating. The review highlights how the book serves as a guide for a weight loss journey intertwined with spirituality, offering insights, clarity, and motivation through prayer, reflection, and worship.
Unlocking Your Personal Strengths:
In this particular episode, Julia delves into the concept of personal strengths, often described as our God-given gifts and abilities. Drawing inspiration from C.S. Lewis's "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," Julia emphasizes that just like the characters in the book receive special gifts tailored to their personalities, each of us has been endowed with unique personal strengths by our Creator.
These strengths are designed to help us in times of need and can be harnessed on our journey to food freedom. Julia explores two key strengths: gratitude and an appreciation for beauty, showing how they can be used to overcome food-related challenges and sustain victories.
Identifying Your Personal Strengths:
Julia encourages her audience to identify their personal strengths through self-reflection and a free online survey, which she provides a link to in Workbook 2 Chapter 2. She suggests listing three of your special strengths and then linking each one to the good works you do for the Lord using that strength.
This exercise helps individuals recognize how their strengths can be applied not only to serve others but also to overcome their own food struggles. By identifying and using these strengths intentionally, you can transform your approach to food, focusing on gratitude, hope, and the strength provided by God.
Steps to Harnessing Personal Strengths:
Julia outlines a four-step process to harness your personal strengths for food-related victories:
1. Pray: Seek the Lord's guidance and assistance as you explore how to use your strengths effectively.
2. List Your Top Three Strengths: Identify your signature strengths, the ones that resonate most with you.
3. Define Your Healthy Change: Specify the food-related change you want to make, making it as clear as possible.
4. Invite the Holy Spirit: Ask for divine assistance in using your strengths to overcome food challenges.
Julia provides examples of how these strengths can be applied to tackle common food-related issues, demonstrating that with the right approach, you can achieve your health goals while deepening your faith.
Closing Thoughts:
Julia Fixey wraps up this empowering episode by encouraging listeners to journal about the insights gained from recognizing their personal strengths and their potential to transform their health and wellness journey. She also invites them to take action and use their strengths to serve God, others, and themselves on the road to food freedom.
If you're interested in diving deeper into this topic, you can explore Workbook Two, Chapter Two of "Dear Food, I Love You, I Hate You, Don't Leave Me." This chapter provides additional resources, including workbook questions, prayer prompts, Bible verses, tools, and tips, as well as the link to the Strengths Survey.
In conclusion, Julia Fikse’s Dear Food Podcast is a source of inspiration, guidance, and spiritual support for those striving to break free from food strongholds and embrace lasting health and joy. Your unique personal strengths are powerful tools on this journey, helping you unlock the door to food freedom.
Don't forget to subscribe to the Dear Food Podcast on your favorite platforms to stay updated on future episodes and continue your quest for food freedom.
For more resources, visit Julia’s Website and sign up for our newsletter. Join the Dear Food community and share your journey to food freedom on our Facebook page, "Dear Food Study." Let's break food strongholds together!
Julia Fikse, FMCHC, NBC-HWC is a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach and Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, specializing in Emotional Eating as well as Mental Health and Weight Loss. Julia has personally experienced the frustration of weight gain, weight loss, weight related health issues and emotional eating challenges. Julia is not a therapist or a doctor and this should not in any way replace doctor’s advice.
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