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The Girl Defined Show

Legalism and Eating Disorders with Gretchen Saffles

The Girl Defined Show

Bethany Beal and Kristen Clark

Religion & Spirituality, Christian Woman, Christian Girl, Girldefined, Womanhood, Christian Advice, Christian Teen, Society & Culture, Christian Dating, Christianity, Girl Defined

4.22.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Send a text Ep. 28 - Growing up in a loving Christian home can often make someone feel invincible. Almost like the struggles of the world world will never be their own personal struggles. Gretchen Saffles knows what that's like. She remembers hearing about eating disorders and thinking to herself "that's something I will never struggle with." How did she go from thinking those thoughts, to finding herself in that very place only a few short years later? In this open and honest conversation,...

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Today on The Girl To Find Show, we're talking with author Gretchen Saffles about her journey

0:03.7

struggling with legalism, eating disorders, just not enoughness, and ultimately how she

0:08.9

has found hope and freedom in Christ.

0:14.0

What's up, y'all? It's Bethany here, and I am so excited for us to get to jump into this

0:17.7

interview with Gretchen Saffles. You may recognize her name. She's the founder of The Well-Watered

0:22.3

Woman and the author of The Well-Watered Woman Book, which is amazing in the companion journal.

0:27.0

So we're going to jump into that conversation and just hear more about Gretchen's journey

0:30.5

of, you know, struggling with things that a lot of us have struggled with, legalism, just what

0:35.6

that is, what that looks like in her life, kind of going from the good girl to striving to measure

0:40.1

up. She also shares really openly and honestly about her struggle with eating disorder and how

0:46.0

she, in so many ways, was like, I could never imagine myself struggling with that and then

0:49.6

found herself in that very place. She also shares her journey of becoming a woman who actually

0:54.0

loves God's word and found freedom and hope in his word. So this is a conversation that's

0:58.8

going to be, I know, so encouraging to many of you. I just love that we get to bring these other

1:02.5

voices onto the podcast and get to share their experiences and just encourage the sisterhood.

1:07.9

It's awesome. I'm so excited. There's something huge happening though at Girl Define that I want

1:11.6

to share with you before we jump into that conversation. So if you've been keeping up with us over

1:15.7

on Instagram, that Girl Define, you know that the whole launch of our devotional Shine Bright,

1:20.5

60 Days Sweetcoming, a Girl Defined by God has been a little bit interesting. We launched it and

1:25.9

then it was unavailable on Amazon, unavailable on most booksellers and it was just kind of a disaster.

1:30.3

But God has been good and gracious and so many of you have went and grabbed a copy of the book

1:35.6

even when it wasn't available on the major seller. So thank you for that. But it is available everywhere.

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