Food Freedom Through Christ
Fostering a Peaceful Relationship with Food Through the Wisdom and Practices of the Orthodox Church
This podcast is geared towards Orthodox and non-Orthodox Christians looking to break free from the distractions of dieting by rooting the pursuit of a healthy body and healthy soul in the person of Jesus Christ and the teachings of the Orthodox Church. We explore the heights and depths of eating, how to approach the fasting and feasting seasons of the Church with a proper spirit, and how to allow food to nourish and sustain us so that we can do what we are called to do.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Embodiment in Lent, Part 4: Hunger and Fullness
Holy Week and Pascha are some of the most intense days of fasting (and feasting) in the Orthodox Church. In this episode, Krista explores the range of ways we experience hunger and fullness, offers us teachings from the saints, and gives us the hunger/fullness scale as a tool to help us take an embodied and intentional approach to the fast and feast.
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Embodiment in Lent, Part 3: Food Noise
In this episode, Krista explores the character of lenten food noise (a constant monologue of thought about food) and how to respond to it by keeping the spirit of the fast, and by transforming the monologue with ourselves into dialogue with God, aka prayer.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Embodiment in Lent, Part 2: Everyday Practices
In this episode, Krista highlights everyday practices – such as singing, breathing, praying, and acts of forgiveness and gratitude – that tone the vagus nerve, reduce stress, and strengthen the mind-body connection.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Embodiment in Lent, Part 1: Back to Self
In this first episode of a series on Embodiment in Lent, Krista reviews the definition of embodiment, why it's important for Christians to practice embodiment, and what can disrupt our body attunement. She then offers a revised definition of embodiment: the practice of returning to self, to reconnect with God, in my body.
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
The Entrance of the Theotokos and Body as Temple
In this episode, Krista reflects on the Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple, and how we seek to cleanse ourselves to be temples of God. She connects this to food and eating “clean,” the harm of "orthorexia," and the way the Church helps us to reframe this pursuit of cleansing & healing.
Krista Fedorchak