Eating Disorders, Part 2 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.

Well, just like last week, we have with us Hannah Carter. She serves as the executive administrative assistant to the provost at the Southern Baptist Deological Seminary.

In Louisville, Kentucky, she's also an adjunct instructor of biblical counseling at Boyce College.

She received a master divinity from

Southern Seminary and has been counseling and discipling women for over 13 years. Hannah's been

certified with ACBC since 2011. Prior to coming to Louisville, she served as a missionary to an

unreached people group in Central Asia for nearly five years. Hannah, I'm so grateful for you. Thank you for your work there at Southern Seminary. And even from our discussion last week, talking about eating disorder, I think it would be important for us to continue some of that conversation. So thank you for coming back and being with us today. Yes, I'm so glad to be. Last time, we were talking a little bit about issues related to

eating. I love the way that you frame it. We start with the ideal. What does God give us as the purpose

for eating? We don't just start with the problem and try to understand the problem itself. We start with

what God intended for eating, that we're to eat to his glory, we're to eat for the sake of

nourishment. We see provision that he's given us through this process of eating. But then we see

where that purpose is not used in proper way. And we see the manifestation of sin in our hearts

and the ways that we eat and the consequences that ensue. And so we can

observe those problems within the framework of what God designed. And then you went into a little bit

about sort of a first session. Okay, man, so we don't get overwhelmed as counselors. How do we

approach situations like this? Because there's so much to think about. And you described different ways to

triage what's going on, the level of care, what needs to happen, do we need to give referrals

to physicians, all that good stuff is really important. You talked a lot about the variables and

knowing this particular individual who's sitting across the table. I think that's one of the most

valuable pieces as you get to

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