The Body
The Pilgrim Soul
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The Importance of the Eucharist in Healing Disordered Eating
The Eucharist is such an education for us in this and I've mentioned this before on the podcast but I had a long history of disordered eating. One thing that really helped me was the testimony of this woman her name is Emily Stimson Chapman who too suffered from an eating disorder when she was younger. In receiving the Eucharist really she started to see food and her body not as a means to an end which was thinness or conventional beauty, but as a sign of God's goodness and his tender love. She began to be able to embrace the delight in food and its role in human life.
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