Rescue, Recovery, & Freedom - Erin Yost's Eating Disorder Story :: [Episode 269]
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4.9 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever found yourself saying "I got this" to God?
Erin Yost, from our Homewood community, spent years striving for physical and spiritual perfection, living out a false-gospel narrative that told her everything was up to her. Eventually, she found herself completely broken and in the grips of a full-fledged eating disorder.
Through moment-by-moment surrender, persistent prayer, and running to Him for help, Erin shares how she found rescue, recovery, and freedom in Jesus.
In this episode, you will learn:
— His grace is sufficient; it's not up to us.
— Coming to the end of ourselves is an opportunity to learn full reliance on God.
— Surrender to the Lord often requires moment-by-moment trust and obedience.
Links:
Ep. 117- Mari Beth Poor -"The Octopus of Anorexia"
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Book by Brennan Manning: Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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| 0:00.0 | I knew I couldn't change. I really didn't want to change. And so I just started praying for him to change my desires. God, I want to desire you. Make me desire you more than I want to be thin. I want to desire you more than anything. |
| 0:19.4 | Storytellers, listeners, we have an opportunity for you and we want your help. |
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| 0:46.0 | And now we want to welcome you to the Storytellers Live podcast where everyday women share stories |
| 0:51.9 | of hope found in Jesus. I'm Robin and I'm here with Katie and |
| 0:55.2 | Lindy and we are your podcast host. Today we are bringing you a story, one, where you're going to |
| 1:00.8 | laugh and two, you are going to learn from Aaron Yost from our Homewood community. |
| 1:05.6 | You know, while Aaron's story is one about an eating disorder and she's going to get into that |
| 1:09.8 | pretty quickly in her story, but it's also one about this eating disorder, and she's going to get into that pretty quickly in her story. |
| 1:11.5 | But it's also one about this drive for perfection and performance and achievement that I think |
| 1:17.3 | all of us can really relate to. |
| 1:19.5 | You know, Erin, as you said with humor, she kind of talks about just the struggle with an eating |
| 1:23.9 | disorder. |
| 1:24.4 | I appreciated her vulnerability in that, and I honestly learned so much |
| 1:28.0 | about that as well. So be prepared in your walk with God and the challenge that honestly |
| 1:33.2 | he brings all of us to surrender to him. Here's Erin. |
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