The Joyful Health Show: A Non-Diet Wellness Podcast for Christians

By Kasey ShulerHealth & Fitness Nutrition Mental Health Religion & Spirituality Christianity

The Joyful Health Show: A Non-Diet Wellness Podcast for Christians episodes

August 14, 2023EP 43: From Striving to Surrender: Submitting your Health to the Lord with Katie Filkowski
In our latest episode, we invite you to join us as we talk with Katie Filowski, a former Joyful Health course participant, about how her walk with the Lord helped her realize she had an eating disorder and helped her overcome it. She talks about the pressures surrounding body image and dieting while in college and young adulthood. And now after a lot of healing and growth, she has some great advice for how to overcome disordered eating and unhealthy body image.
Three Key Takeaways:
How to go from striving for perfection with health to surrendering it to the Lord
Ways and methods to find healing from body image or eating struggles
Katie’s experience with the Joyful Health course
For show notes and resources, visit here.
35 min
August 07, 2023EP 42: Embracing Gentle Nutrition and Self-Control with Joy with Kasey Shuler and Amanda Reynolds
Join us as we explore how to incorporate self-control and gentle nutrition into your Intuitive Eating/joyful health journey. Revelation Wellness Fitness Instructor and Joyful Health COO, Amanda Reynolds, shares her journey with breaking free from health rules while also finding peace with nutrition. Discover practical tips on integrating nutrition into your life while staying free from shame and frustration.
Three Key Takeaways:
How nutrition can be a joyful and peaceful gift from God
How to weed through the noise of overwhelming health information
How to find joy in submitting to God
For more notes, check out blog post here.
28 min
June 12, 2023EP 41: Teaching Your Kids Freedom in Food: Nurturing Gospel-Aligned Eating Habits with Jennifer D’Amato
In our last episode of the season for the Joyful Health Show, we invite you to join us as we explore how to teach children the ways of freedom in food, even when we, too, are struggling. Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor Jennifer D’Amato shares her journey and insights on nurturing a peaceful relationship with food for the whole family. Discover practical tips on implementing gospel-aligned eating principles, breaking generational chains, and embracing joy in food.
Learn from Jennifer as she shares her personal journey and how she found peace with food
Explore threats to gospel-aligned eating and discover the promises God offers in this area
Gain practical tips on implementing these principles within your own family, fostering a nurturing environment, and empowering your children to develop healthy relationships with food
Read full show notes at joyfulhealth.co/blog/episode41

☀️Start your week with Mindful Moments for Present People: A free 1-minute devotional to debunk diet culture and savor God's abundance delivered to your inbox every Monday.
🙋‍♀️ Get Christian intuitive eating coaching and education with our monthly membership. Start your free 14-day trial here.
✅Want professional 1:1 non-diet support? Meet with one of our dietitians or joyful movement trainers here.
Learn more at joyfulhealth.co
Connect with us on Social Media
Instagram: @joyfulhealthco
Facebook Community: Joyful Health Co
47 min
May 30, 2023EP 40: The Body Revelation with Alisa Keeton
In episode 40 of The Joyful Health Show, we interview Alisa Keeton on how to metabolize the pain in and around our bodies, banish shame, and connect to God with our whole self. Emotional and relational pain affects our not just our mental health but our bodies as well. Instead of ignoring the problem or trying to push through the pain, this episode will invite you into a safe place with the Lord as Alisa teaches us how to bring that pain to a loving God who cares deeply for us. We discuss:
How processing past pain with God is essential for our relationship with health
God’s desires for us and how knowing His heart changes how we relate to our bodies
Six steps to connect our whole selves to God and make better, healthier choices
Read full show notes at https://joyfulhealth.co/blog/episode40
Get the Aligned video series at joyfulhealth.co/aligned.
Get started with Intuitive health by grace today with Body Blessings: A 30-Day Journal to Praise God with Your Body through Prayer, Intuitive Eating, and Joyful Movement and the companion course joyfulhealth.co/bodyblessings.
Learn more at joyfulhealth.co
Connect with us on Social Media
Instagram: @joyfulhealthco
Facebook: Joyful Health Co
38 min
May 15, 2023EP 39: How to Get Out of a Health Funk with Kirsten Schmidt
In episode 39 of The Joyful Health Show, we discuss the feeling of being in a health funk, knowing what the right thing to do is in the Lord but not being able to follow through or having the desire to be in healthy alignment. We address the battlefield of your mind when fighting thoughts about what your body should look like, using health habits to either manipulate that image, or controlling food and exercise to protect yourself from past wounds. We discuss:
What it feels like when your health goals are out of alignment with God’s desires for you
Four warning signs you might be self-sabotaging your health habits
How to begin rewiring your brain to heal old wounds and walk forward in faith
Read full show notes at https://joyfulhealth.co/blog/episode39
Return to God’s perfect peace in an anxious world with Aligned.
Get started with Intuitive health by grace today with Body Blessings: A 30-Day Journal to Praise God with Your Body through Prayer, Intuitive Eating, and Joyful Movement
Learn more at joyfulhealth.co
Connect with us on Social Media
Instagram: @joyfulhealthco
Facebook: Joyful Health Co
50 min
May 03, 2023Episode 38: Finding a Hope-Aligned Health Team with Chrissy Kirkman
In episode 38 of The Joyful Health Show, Kasey interviews Chrissy Kirkman on how to find a health team aligned with hope. Why is this important? Many seeking professional help struggle to find health providers we genuinely trust. In this episode, Chrissy shares how it can be harmful to our spirit when we are pointed away from God as the source of our health, what we can look out for in a hope-filled professional, and how to go about finding the right team for you. We discuss:
How secular psychology puts unrealistic pressure on the patient to be healthy
The four characteristics to spot when looking for a health team
How Finding Balance can be a resource to connect you with helpful providers
Read full show notes at https://joyfulhealth.co/blog/episode38
Join the Joyful Health Course at joyfulhealth.co/course
Get started with Intuitive health by grace today with Body Blessings: A 30-Day Journal to Praise God with Your Body through Prayer, Intuitive Eating, and Joyful Movement
Learn more at joyfulhealth.co
Connect with us on Social Media
Instagram: @joyfulhealthco
Facebook: Joyful Health Co
49 min
April 17, 2023EP 37: Aligning Body Image Beliefs with God’s Truth with Heather Creekmore
In episode 37 of The Joyful Health Show, Kasey interviews author and podcaster Heather Creekmore about how to align your body image with the way God sees you. Heather gets vulnerable and shares her personal stories of chasing body acceptance through diet, becoming a fitness professional, marriage, and more. Heather encourages us to start processing our thoughts when it comes to our bodies and notice how they line up with God’s words about us. Heather shares:
Generational idols and their influence on body image
How to conduct a “listen for the lies” exercise for your thought life around your body
What God requires for us when it comes to beauty and acceptance
Read full show notes at https://joyfulhealth.co/blog/episode37

☀️Start your week with Mindful Moments for Present People: A free 1-minute devotional to debunk diet culture and savor God's abundance delivered to your inbox every Monday.
🙋‍♀️ Get Christian intuitive eating coaching and education with our monthly membership. Start your free 14-day trial here.
✅Want professional 1:1 non-diet support? Meet with one of our dietitians or joyful movement trainers here.
Learn more at joyfulhealth.co
Connect with us on Social Media
Instagram: @joyfulhealthco
Facebook Community: Joyful Health Co
48 min
April 03, 2023EP 36: Aligning with Truth in the Middle of Diet Culture with Laura Acuna
In episode 36 of The Joyful Health Show, Kasey interviews author, Bible teacher, and coach Laura Acuña about her story of ditching stressful diet culture lies for the relief that comes with God’s truth about her body. Laura shares her story of how becoming obsessed with weighT loss disconnected her from God. She shares where the enemy led her astray, what truths she can stand upon now, and what to do if you are struggling with diet culture. You’ll learn:
What diet culture is and how it affects our relationship with God
False promises diet culture sells us and what Scripture says instead
Five steps to follow when it feels diet culture has a hold on you
Read full show notes at https://joyfulhealth.co/blog/episode36
Get the Aligned video series at joyfulhealth.co/aligned.
Get started with Intuitive health by grace today with Body Blessings: A 30-Day Journal to Praise God with Your Body through Prayer, Intuitive Eating, and Joyful Movement and the companion course joyfulhealth.co/bodyblessings.
Learn more at joyfulhealth.co
Connect with us on Social Media
Instagram: @joyfulhealthco
Facebook: Joyful Health Co
47 min
March 20, 2023EP 35: Aligning with God’s Promises for Anxiety
In episode 35 of The Joyful Health Show, we discuss how to return to God’s perfect peace in an anxious world. When we focus on what we don’t know about our health or what could happen, we tend to worry. In this episode, Aubrey interviews Kasey about her devotional guide Aligned as they center in on what God has promised He will do when we are in the middle of indecision, and uncertainty. We discuss:
How worry affects our health
What we can do today to anchor anxious thoughts in God’s promises
The seven steps to get aligned with what God says when we are worried
Read full show notes at https://joyfulhealth.co/blog/episode35
Get the Aligned video series at joyfulhealth.co/aligned.
Get started with Intuitive health by grace today with Body Blessings: A 30-Day Journal to Praise God with Your Body through Prayer, Intuitive Eating, and Joyful Movement and the companion course joyfulhealth.co/bodyblessings.
Learn more at joyfulhealth.co
Connect with us on Social Media
Instagram: @joyfulhealthco
Facebook: Joyful Health Co
38 min
March 07, 2023EP 34: Praying Body Blessings Over Your Kids
In episode 34 of The Joyful Health Show, Aubrey and Kasey discuss how to pray body blessings over your kids throughout the day to keep them connected with what God says about their body. We may not be able to shelter our children from the pressure of diet culture, but we can teach them to trust their bodies as the Lord made them and set a foundation of grace. In this episode, Aubrey and Kasey discuss personal stories of their own childhood as they relate to body image, what they hope to instill in the way they parent their kids during meals, movement, and in front of the mirror. We share ways of how you can pray over your children throughout the day, integrating physical and emotional sensations with Scripture, and most importantly, prioritizing loving kids for the whole person they are in Christ. We cover:
The hidden diet culture messages that instill body ideals as young as three
How we can teach children to trust their bodies as we learn to reconnect with ours
Practical ways to nurture healthy body image and improve body esteem in kids
Read full show notes at https://joyfulhealth.co/blog/episode34
Join the Joyful Health Course at joyfulhealth.co/course
Get started with Intuitive health by grace today with Body Blessings: A 30-Day Journal to Praise God with Your Body through Prayer, Intuitive Eating, and Joyful Movement and the companion course joyfulhealth.co/bodyblessings.
Learn more at joyfulhealth.co
Connect with us on Social Media
Instagram: @joyfulhealthco
Facebook: Joyful Health Co
48 min