174. Ready or Not: How to Start Your Food Freedom Journey (Even If You Don’t Feel Prepared)

What if the very fact that you don’t feel ready for food freedom is the proof that you actually are?

So many women delay healing their relationship with food and body image because they’re waiting to feel confident, motivated, or “enough.” But here’s the problem: waiting only keeps you stuck in the same exhausting cycles of dieting, shame, and frustration. 

In this episode of Faith-Filled Food Freedom, Brittany shares why you’ll never feel perfectly ready for intuitive eating and recovery, and why that’s actually good news.

You’ll learn the 5 biggest lies women believe about “not being ready” for food freedom and why those lies are actually signals it’s the perfect time to begin. With a mix of real-life stories (including a not-so-thriving garden experiment), biblical truth, and practical encouragement, this episode will help you see that starting messy is better than not starting at all.

Topics discussed in this episode include:

📉 The #1 mindset keeping women trapped in disordered eating cycles

📅 Why “perfect timing” for intuitive eating doesn’t exist

🧹 How waiting to “fix yourself first” blocks real healing

🚨 The hidden cost of postponing recovery and food freedom

🙏 A biblical reminder that God meets you in the messy middle, not after you’ve cleaned it up

Resources mentioned:

👉 Apply to work with Brittany for 1:1 coaching: www.brittanybraswellrd.com/coaching 

👉 Join the FREE Food Freedom & Body Image Support for Christian Women Facebook group for Christ-centered food freedom encouragement and support     

👉 Become a VIP Podcast Insider when you subscribe to The Full Plate Press for bonus resources only available to our listeners.

👉 Subscribe to The Joy-Filled Eater PRIVATE PODCAST for step-by-step strategies to walk you through my proven Joy-Filled Eater framework for finding lasting freedom from negative body image and disordered eating

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*Reminder - Podcast content is not meant to be taken as professional nutrition or medical advice or to replace counseling with a licensed therapist. Please consult with your own treatment team.