Get Real with Meredith

This week’s podcast is all about how even though sometimes we feel like we can’t see the forest through the trees, God can. Listen as we discuss various life examples and great Biblical insight on the power of God’s right hand, his plan for those who love Him and the trust we can have in Him while we remain in that season. 

The leaves will fall and reveal to us what’s on the other side. But we’ve got to trust God knows even when we don’t.

This week's podcast is all about scars. We all have scars, whether they are inside or out and I believe God doesn't want us to try to hide them or fix them ourselves, but to turn them over to Him so he can heal them in His time. Watch, as we talk about how God can make your scars beautiful and learn how he pours gold into each one of your cracks, to make you shine bright for Him.

In this first episode as Guiding God's Daughters, we are doing just what it says in the subtitle: Getting Real and Going Deep.

I'll tell you why I decided to change the name and why the posture of your heart is so much more important to God than your highlight reel. We'll talk about some of the craziness going on in the world. I'll also give you specific examples from my life - i.e. my messy pantry - of how God works on my heart. We aren't comfortable with the uncomfortable but God is just fine when life is messy, because He's with us in all of it.

Well, we are a little less than ONE WEEK from the book launch next Tuesday (September 6th). Woot woot!

I'm so excited for you to hear this one. My friend Sherry Hoppen is a fellow author who I met at a writers conference and we just clicked. She's one of those people you know, you get around and you can't stop laughing together? Anyway, we had a great conversation about the connection between alcohol and food as recovering addicts.

Sherry's book is called, "Sober Cycle: Pedaling Through Recovery One Day at a Time," about her recovery from alcoholism as a Christian woman.

NOTE: This is the last episode of this interview series before the book launch AND the last episode as "Tune in with Meredith."

I've been saying it for a while, but we are finally moving into "Guiding God's Daughters: Get Real and Go Deep." I can't wait to bring you new episodes and tell you more about why I made this decision to change the brand.

Sherry's interview comes on the last day of August for a reason.

September is National Recovery Month and we are both advocates for choosing recovery.

So I hope you'll listen AND we decided to do a Zoom workshop before the holidays called, "Navigating the Holidays Around Alcohol and Food as a Recovering Addict." Make sure you follow me or subscribe to my newsletter to find out more about that.

Hello my friends! We are still in the series with experts on food addiction and treating mental health. THIS week I have the pleasure of introducing you to a very dear friend of mine. Marla Godette, who is a counselor, mentor and mental health advocate in our community of Michiana. She is a very special, radiant woman of God and I just love her. But I also love watching her live out God's call on her life to break the curse of mental illness and fight the stigma with her #silentnomore movement. We had a great talk about how food issues can be rooted in trauma and the connection between them. I think you'll enjoy it. So take a listen! 

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Okay, this week's podcast is an interview with my incredible friend Joan Ifland. When I think food addiction science and research, I think Joan. She is a wealth of knowledge and has done so much to raise awareness for food addiction, it's incredible. Not just that, she now has a community online of people who want to finally address why they are eating instead of going on another diet. I hope you'll listen because this woman has just so much to share and teach. I promise you will learn a LOT!

I'm so excited about this week's podcast. This expert is very special to me because Dr. Marty Lerner is the one who picked up the phone when I was ready to go to treatment for my addictions. He runs Milestones in Recovery Treatment center in Florida and he has influenced my life in so many ways. I learned a lot of good stuff from him in my time at Milestones that I still carry with me to this day. So today, you get to hear about some of it. I hope it educates you and opens up your mind to what is possible for addressing food addiction.

Hey everyone, I'm so excited to bring you the interview series I did earlier this year with some awesome professionals in the food addiction field that I just love. They've helped me in many ways and I just wanted you to hear it from them. I keep saying, "They are the experts. I'm just the guide."

This week's guest is Theresa Wright. She is a dietician and nutritionist who works with those of us who struggle with food addictions. As Founder of the Renaissance Nutrition Center, Inc. she's developed a ground-breaking gentle, sensible and evidence-based program of recovery from self-destructive eating that's been changing lives for nearly 30 years. There's so much to her experience but what I love the most is that she has written a personal guide for building your food plan (something I talk about in my book) called, "Your Personal Food Plan Guide." She's also authored three volumes of the cookbook Delicious Recovery, that I still need to get my hands on. When I think of food plans, I think of Theresa. So I want you to hear from her more of what they're all about.

So, here you go. I hope you enjoy it.

Also, my book officially comes out on September 6th but you can get on Amazon.com or my website to pre-buy it. Just click https://meredithterpeluk.com/2930-2/ . Make sure you keep your ears open and eyes peeled too because we are relaunching the Podcast name on September 17th to be "Guiding God's Daughters: Get Real and Go Deep."

What's up folks!? So this headline is probably not an easy one to read but I think every year around this time as we celebrate dads, some of us struggle with the ways our dads have hurt us or failed us and let's face it, none of our dads are perfect. My Dad was amazing and my hero and I loved him with every fiber of my being but I'm well aware that he had his flaws. I'm also aware that I had to work through the brokenness that was between us after he left when I was 8. Our relationship stayed strong even with the distance. But not having him there in the everyday definitely left a wound that I tried to fix with things like food, alcohol and men. It was one of the things I had to address when I finally faced my demons and got into recovery. It wasn't a "check the box" thing. It was just part of what was revealed as I started to heal and I'm so grateful we were able to work through some of the hurts before he died. I'm even more grateful that when He died, what I didn't know was that by bringing me closer to Him the Lord was preparing me for his sudden death. 

Today I don't live with regrets around our relationship. I don't feel like there were things unsaid, even though I didn't get to say goodbye. I'm just grateful I know that wherever my father doesn't fill in the gaps - my heavenly Father does. 

What I want for you with this podcast is to start to address those wounds. Small, big, old, new, whatever they are - they are probably there and I do believe the Lord wants you to bring them to Him so He can heal them. I pray this week's podcast brings you some clarity and some sense that the Lord wants what is best for you in this area of your life.

We are in a battle of good versus evil and it’s one that can’t just be fought with policy change. It has to be fought in our hearts because that’s where the battle begins. Our country has a heart problem and that’s where we need to start. Watch/listen as we discuss why Washington doesn’t have the answers to this and what we can do to work on our own hearts.