Do you ever have a hard time making yourself renew your mind? Maybe you’ve found that truth journaling or doing the I Deserve a Donut questions works, but you just can’t make yourself do it. Or you’re willing to do it, but can’t remember to do it. In today’s episode of the Taste for Truth Podcast, I’ll be coaching Jamila about how to renew consistently.
We’ll talk about what renewing looks like and how to do it in less than five minutes.
Other Things We Talked About:
- How perfectionism gets in the way of renewing
- Can you truth journal in less than five minutes?
- Why it’s important to start small with Bible study and renewing
- A new way to look at failure
- Practical things you can do to help you remember to renew
- How to find the time to renew
- How to renew consistently
Lies We Talked About:
- I’m hungry (so I should eat).
- I’m tired (so I should eat).
- I already broke my boundaries so I might as well eat.
- I’ll start tomorrow.
Resources We Talked About:
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This was such a great interview! I’m so grateful for you and Jamila. I have a question about the shortbread cookie, Barb. I tiptoe up to the edge of my boundaries to take “one bite” here and there often. I am not technically breaking my boundary because I don’t have a “no snacking boundary” and I don’t eat more than one bite. (My current boundary is flour, sugar, and gluten.) However, I feel that this is becoming a bad habit that I am using to tiptoe back in to using food as an emotional crutch. Would you advise a quick one sentence boundary that I can use to keep this habit in check? I’d be so very grateful.
– Caroline
Hi Caroline, Have you listened to my Facebook Live on how to choose boundaries? That might be helpful. Here’s a link to it: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=185922358998734 – If your only boundary is no flour, no sugar, and no gluten, I agree that you’re technically not breaking it. If that’s a good enough boundary to keep you healthy, I probably wouldn’t worry about one bite unless you’re eating a bite of something that contains flour, sugar, or gluten. After all, if we’re emotionally eating, it’s usually far more than one bite! I think any time though we allow ourselves to eat unlimited quantities of anything, though ( and this is also true of Weight Watchers where you get unlimited quantities of fruit and veggies and a few other things), we can open ourselves up to the bad of habit of eating for emotional reasons or just for fun so we need to be careful. I can’t think of a one sentence boundary but maybe you could make a secondary boundary based on the type of things you always eat with those one bites.
Those are great thoughts and resources, Barb. I am working through your Bible study on Emotional Eating and love it. Thank you!
You’re welcome!
I throughly enjoyed this one. I have had the same questions as Jamila.
Also, talking about those small victories was comforting to me. I’ve been doing that, and showing myself grace. I just finished Freedom from Emotional Eating. This morning I feel a bit lost without it. Like I’m out of my routine. I figured coming here would help, and it has.
Thank you, Barb for listening to God when he placed it on your heart to write these Bible Studies. They have helped me immensely.
I’m so glad the Bible studies and other resources have helped, Vickie! Hope you can find one of the other Bible studies to help now that you’ve finished Freedom from Emotional Eating!
This was a wonderful interview. Very helpful for me as I struggle with renewing. Also I live in midwest Michigan and I wondered where Jamila lives? Just city not address lol
Michelle Davis
Hi Michelle, I’m not actually sure what town Jamila lives in! I’m so glad the interview was helpful!