Coping with Trauma Through Food

Reflective Hour with Tammy Toney-Butler

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In today's episode of Reflective Hour with Tammy Toney-Butler, we discuss coping with trauma through food addiction. For years, I was driven to the refrigerator as a means of dealing with the aftermath of childhood trauma, i.e., shame, guilt, fear, regret, and self-loathing.
I used food as a soothing salve over a wound that never healed. I yo-yo dieted and went from one weight extreme to another until Christ delivered me from my spirit of gluttony and overindulgence. But wait, how did I get here? To this place of brokenness that led me to cope through a bag of chips, a foot-long sub, an entire pizza, a bag of cookies, a box of brownies, or a bottle or two of wine?
My journey is not a unique one, paved with misery and heartache, for so many suffer in silence like I did, never disclosing the root of the spiritual attack on my life that led me into bondage.
Today, we explore this and more as we dive into scripture and God's promises to heal, deliver, and foster a victorious life over the bondage of temptation.
Victory, freedom, hope, and an abundant life are possible when we surrender to Master Potter and become clay in His hands. Shaped, molded into daughters or sons of the King, instead of living as broken clay vessels, destroyed by satan himself disguised as a relative, ex-boyfriend, former colleague, parent, caregiver, faith leader, spiritual mother, or father.
Trauma shaped our formative years, but we have the victory now! As new creatures, a new birth, into a royal family, Abraham's seed and heirs to the promise.
Watch out; the Esthers, Deborahs, Davids, Ruths, Naomis, and Josephs are rising and taking their rightful place in the world.
Let's dive into this episode and become empowered, set free, and ultimately healed! Restored into our authentic self and in alignment with our purposeful path designated by God Almighty, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Father of our precious Savior, Lord Jesus Christ.
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