#103: Strong and Broken All at Once with Lee Blum
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Lee Blum is an author and Mental Health Practitioner whose story has become a testimony of how God can use the ugliest parts of your life and turn them into something beautiful. For much of her youth, Lee lived with deep depression and a life-threatening eating disorder. After being hospitalized, and by God’s grace, she made the decision to begin the brave journey to choose a different life - not a perfect life, but one defined by bravery, strength and brokenness. What we chat about: Accepting that God's plan for our lives is likely different than our own Understanding the factors that can lead to eating disorders A healthier way of speaking about food to our children Building community through transparency The struggle to see ourselves through God's eyes Links mentioned: Table in the Darkness: A Healing Journey Through an Eating Disorder Brave Is the New Beautiful: Finding the Courage to Be the Real You Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World Compared to Who?: A Proven Path to Improve Your Body Image Where to find Lee: website // facebook // twitter Episode Sponsor: Cultivate What Matters Shop by Lara Casey The Write the Word Bible journal is unique. With my small business, and three littles running under the same roof, my "quiet time" each day is pretty loud! I prayed one morning for God to give me a simple way to connect with Him, right in the thick of it, and the Write the Word journal was born. On each page, you'll get a selection of specially-selected key verses to write out, along with space to write your thoughts, prayers, or whatever God places on your heart. Use your Write the Word Bible journal in whatever ways you wish! These journals are all about grace and digging into God's life-giving truth. Buy yours today! Save 15% off Write the Word journals through October 24 with code MOMSTRUGGLINGWELL Support the show: Shop Amazon Affiliate Link Share the Struggle! Find me on Instagram or Facebook because I want to hear YOUR thoughts on this episode! If you've been encouraged by the show, please share it with another mom. The struggle is real. We might as well do this together!
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| 0:00.0 | This is Emily Thomas and you are listening to the Mom Struggling While Podcast. Hey ladies welcome back. I'm so glad that you're here. You have so many other |
| 0:13.9 | podcasters. Hey ladies welcome back I'm so glad that you're here you have so many other |
| 0:24.3 | podcast choices I know I personally have a little exclamation points next to so many |
| 0:29.0 | podcasts because I just literally can't get to all of them so fact the fact that you're here, it means a lot. You are |
| 0:35.0 | listening to episode 103. Pretty positive. Yep, 103. And I am talking to |
| 0:41.0 | Lee Bloom. She is author of several books. There are a good |
| 0:45.3 | Gillian books and I get asked to have lots of authors on and I cannot have them all |
| 0:51.3 | on but I want you to know why I chose Lee. |
| 0:54.1 | Her first book is called Table in the Darkness, and she talks about when she literally almost |
| 0:59.6 | died from an eating disorder. |
| 1:01.6 | And I know, because I'm a woman myself that we may not have full-blown |
| 1:05.8 | eating disorders, but so many of us have disordered eating. So we're going to talk about that. |
| 1:10.8 | Then she has a new book called Brave is the New Beautiful where her main deal is. You guys, being |
| 1:16.0 | brave, authenticity, that's where it's at, not perfection and pretending and comparing and all that stuff. So I feel like this hits on lots of nerves for lots of women and so I asked her to be on and I'm so excited that she's here. I love our chat, very practical. She talks about how to talk to our kids about food in ways that can be helpful. |
| 1:36.6 | She kind of takes us off the hook if we end up, hopefully not, but if we end up with a child |
| 1:40.9 | who has an eating disorder, |
| 1:42.5 | she kind of talks about what goes into making that happen. |
| 1:45.8 | And I promise it's not because that one time |
| 1:47.9 | you yelled at him because they didn't eat all their food. |
| 1:49.8 | I personally got a lot out of this episode, |
| 1:52.0 | and I'm really excited to share our |
| 1:53.4 | chat with you. Before we get going I want to tell you about today's sponsor |
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