In this powerful episode of Mission for More Podcast, Courtney sits down with Christian health coach and Bible teacher Jaclyn Renee for a deeply honest conversation about healing, diet culture, chronic illness, and learning to steward your body as a temple of the Holy Spirit—God’s way, not the world’s way.
Jaclyn shares her raw testimony of being chronically ill from childhood into adulthood, struggling with gut issues, hormonal imbalance, anxiety, acne, and years of unanswered questions from doctors. In desperation, she turned to holistic health and naturopathic medicine, which initially brought relief—but over time turned into obsession, burnout, anxiety, and orthorexia. After nearly two decades in diet culture and performance-based “wellness,” God gently revealed that healing itself had become an idol.
During the Daniel Fast, the Lord began to expose the lies of diet culture, self-discipline, restriction, and striving—and invited Jaclyn into a new way of healing rooted in peace, surrender, Scripture, and spiritual discipline. In this episode, Jaclyn and Courtney unpack the difference between self-discipline and Spirit-led discipline, how diet culture distorts a woman’s identity and worth, and why true healing must begin with the Healer, not the method.
This conversation dives into:
- Breaking free from diet culture and body idolatry
- Healing from chronic illness, burnout, and anxiety
- The spiritual roots of emotional eating and striving
- Why performance-based wellness leads to burnout
- How to steward your body as a temple of the Holy Spirit
- The connection between peace, hormones, and women’s health
- Why women’s bodies are designed differently than men’s
- How to walk in healing without shame, perfectionism, or all-or-nothing thinking
- Learning to abide in Christ instead of striving for results
Jaclyn also shares about her 8-week wellness Bible study designed to help women dismantle the enemy’s lies hidden in diet culture and replace them with biblical truth, spiritual discipline, and sustainable, Spirit-led rhythms for health and freedom.
If you’ve ever felt trapped in cycles of dieting, restriction, burnout, emotional eating, body shame, or striving for worth through performance—this episode will bring conviction, freedom, hope, and clarity. This conversation is for the woman who is tired of chasing healing and ready to receive it from God.
All sessions & free guides:
👉 https://stan.store/iamjaclynrenee
Jaclyn Renee Podcast (Spotify):
👉 https://open.spotify.com/show/7671iC1zXlOzq7cJASQGdZ?si=b185a2f9e6264a02
YouTube:
👉 https://www.youtube.com/@jaclynrenee
Instagram:
👉 https://www.instagram.com/jaclynreneewellness