This episode continues the discussion around sweets and how to reintroduce them after Advent. Do you feel out of control around sugar? Is Christmas Day consumed with thoughts about how many cookies you’ve already had, and how many more you should allow yourself to have? Does your feasting plate come with a heaping side of guilt? If so, this episode offers three ideas for reorienting our celebration of the Nativity, and recapturing the joy of the Incarnation.

One of the most common fasting challenges we hear about during the Nativity fast is how to handle all the sweets! This episode discusses how to treat these sweets, how we might incorporate them into our celebrations with a fasting spirit, and what might help us fast from them so that we can prepare our hearts for the upcoming feast of the Nativity of Christ.

Many may enjoy a special dispensation to eat meat on Thanksgiving day, so Krista gives her top 5 tips for keeping the spirit of the fast on this joyous day.

People use the words “good” and “bad” to describe food all the time, usually in reference to a food’s nutritional value. But when viewed as a gift from God, all food has the potential to be good food. Listen to expand your definition of “good food.”

In this introduction to her new podcast, Krista explains how fractures in our relationship to food and our bodies can separate us from God. She also outlines the goals of the podcast, the most important of which is to help listeners cultivate peace with food.