210. Coping vs. Healing: The Grief No One Talks About in Food Freedom with Teresa Davis

What if the reason food feels so hard right now isn’t a lack of discipline, but unprocessed grief your body has been carrying for years?

You may feel like you should be “past this by now,” especially if your grief doesn’t look dramatic or obvious. But when grief goes unseen, it often shows up through control, coping, and patterns with food that leave you exhausted and confused. Loving Jesus doesn’t make you immune to survival mode, and that disconnect can feel incredibly lonely.

In today’s episode, I sit down with grief mentor Teresa Davis for an honest, faith-centered conversation about the kind of grief that lives in your body and quietly shapes your relationship with food. We explore the difference between coping and healing, why control can feel so comforting, and what it really means to surrender—not in theory, but in real life. This conversation is gentle, deep, and full of hope if you’ve been longing for freedom but don’t know where to start.

A few things you can expect to hear in this episode include…

🕯️ How grief can exist even if you don’t consciously think of yourself as “grieving”

🌊 Why coping feels productive, but often keeps you stuck

🪞 The hidden identity loss that can surface in eating disorder recovery

🫱🏽‍🫲🏼 What it actually means to let grief be witnessed (and why it matters)

🕊️ A different picture of surrender that feels safer than “letting go”

Resources mentioned:

Hear more from Teresa on The Grief Mentor Podcast (specifically the episodes on spiritual warfare)

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