What Your Relationship with Food Might Be Telling You: Exploring Disordered Eating and Leadership – A Conversation With Laura Yoder

In this episode, we turn the conversation inward as we talk about disordered eating, body image, and the often-overlooked ways ministry leaders can neglect their own well-being while caring for others. Dave Wiedis sits down with co-host Laura Yoder—licensed professional counselor, registered dietitian, wellness coach, and spiritual director—to explore how unhealthy patterns with food and our bodies form, and what true healing can look like.

Through both personal story and professional insight, Laura unpacks the deeper emotional and spiritual roots of disordered eating, the unique pressures leaders face, and how self-rejection can quietly take hold. This conversation offers a hopeful vision of freedom—inviting leaders to rediscover their worth, care for their whole selves, and cultivate a healthier, more grace-filled relationship with food, their bodies, and God.

Resources:
When Food is Love by Geneen Roth

Feeding the Hungry Heart by Geneen Roth

You Are the Beloved by Henri Nouwen

Spiritually Healthy Leader: Finding Freedom from Self-Sabotage by Dave Wiedis 

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