Eating Disorders on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face.

This week on the podcast, I have with me Hannah Carter.

She serves as the executive administrative assistant to the provost at the Southern Baptist

Theological Seminary and adjunct instructor of biblical counseling at Boyce College in Louisville,

Kentucky.

She received a master of divinity from Southern Seminary and has been

counseling and discipling women for over 13 years. Hannah has been a certified member of ACBC since 2011.

Prior to coming to Louisville, Kentucky, she served as a missionary to an unreached people group

in Central Asia for nearly five years. Hannah, it's so good to have you on the podcast today and talking about

a really tough topic. And so looking forward to the discussion. So welcome to the podcast.

Thank you. It's great to be here today, Del. Thanks.

Now, we're talking about this issue of eating disorders. And this is certainly a problem. And it seems

to have a cycle where it grows in, you know,

popularity within a culture or dominance within a culture. And then it sort of takes a backseat

to maybe other issues. And then it comes out again. We see this obviously a lot with,

with young teen girls, but it's not exclusive to young teen girls. So we want to approach this today

if we can. The Bible speaks a lot about eating in and of itself, and so the Bible is not blinded

to how we should think about eating and how we should approach this issue of eating. I want to

start with maybe describing a little bit about what the Bible describes relative to eating,

how we are called to eat, what's our purpose in eating, what are some of the things that can

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