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Feeling Things with Amy & Kat

What's God Got To Do With It?: The Spiritual Cost of Food and Body Fixation

Feeling Things with Amy & Kat

Nashville Podcast Network

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.95.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

You think your struggle with food is about willpower. Or that your body image issues are just about confidence. But what if the real cost isn’t on the scale, but it’s actually in your spirit?

In this powerful episode, Leanne Ellington pulls back the curtain on what food and body obsession is really stealing from you. From missed moments with your kids to constant inner criticism and spiritual disconnection, she exposes how fixation around food and your body hijacks your peace, your presence, and your identity.

But this isn’t just about the pain. It’s about the pathway to healing. Leanne reveals how your brain was designed by God to heal, and introduces the science behind how that healing actually happens—through identity rewiring, spiritual renewal, and working WITH your brain instead of against it.

This episode will help you:
- Understand how food and body obsession hijacks your God-given peace, rewires your brain for fear and shame, and drains your spiritual bandwidth
- Finally put words to the invisible war you’ve been fighting—between your faith and your fixation, your logic and your longings
- See why white-knuckling through cravings or repeating “I love my body” in the mirror won’t work if your nervous system still feels unsafe—and what to do instead to rewire it at the root

Because God doesn’t just want your body free. He wants you free.

HOST: Leanne Ellington // StresslessEating.com // @leanneellington 

To learn more about Leanne, head over to www.LeanneEllington.com, and to share your thoughts, questions, feedback, or guest suggestions instantly, head on over to www.WhatsGodGotToDoWithIt.com.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:12.9

If you want to go on a journey, if you're skeptical, don't worry.

0:18.0

Not here to preach, you're going gonna keep it clean and talk miracles

0:21.1

where faith meets

0:23.3

all of nature

0:24.4

get in touch with your creator

0:26.5

with a baking love

0:28.3

and Jew

0:28.9

she even speaks Hebrew

0:31.1

what's not got to do with it

0:34.4

what's not got to do with it?

0:40.3

There's no separation when we're talking transformation.

0:45.3

What's not got to do with it?

0:48.3

Hey, hey, and welcome back to what's God got to do with it.

0:52.3

I'm your host, Leanne Ellington, and I'm so glad that

0:55.2

you're here today because we are going to kick off a special three-part series that sits

1:00.7

at the intersection of faith, brain science, and then, of course, the deeply personal struggles

1:06.8

that so many women face around food and their bodies and ultimately their self-worth.

1:12.6

And for me, those struggles started super early. I was just eight years old when I attended

1:17.3

my first Weight Watchers meeting with my dad. And that was the moment I started measuring my

1:21.7

own worth by my body and the scale. And it became the backdrop of how I viewed myself for decades. And so here's what

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