Healthy For My Purpose

When Faith Meets Food: Terri Edwards on Health, Calling, and Bold Obedience

Show NotesLearn more about the Healthy Christian Woman Bootcamp: https://www.healthyformypurpose.com/healthy-christian-woman-bootcamp Check out our FREE Weight Loss Masterclass. Sign up today! https://www.healthyformypurpose.com/weight-loss-masterclass-opt-in-podcast In this deeply moving and power-packed conversation, we sit down with Terri Edwards, creator of EatPlant-Based.com, to explore her incredible journey from chronic pain, health struggles, and discouragement to renewed health, vibrant purpose, and bold faith. Terri shares how a plant-based lifestyle radically transformed her body, restored her vitality, strengthened her marriage, and ultimately led her into a God-given calling to serve others—through medical centers, classrooms, and now a thriving online food blog. We dive into her healing journey, how God opened impossible doors, why she boldly integrated faith into her platform, the resistance she faced, and why she believes God is moving powerfully in this season to bring believers to better health so they can fully live out their purpose. Get ready for truth, inspiration, and holy goosebumps. About Terri: Terri Edwards is the content creator behind the website EatPlant-Based and a licensed Food for Life instructor with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. After overcoming her own health challenges by adopting a plant-based lifestyle in 2013, she made it her mission to share the healing power of food. Terri has taught nutrition and cooking classes at hospitals, cancer centers, and medical offices throughout the Carolinas. Her blog, EatPlant-Based, is an oasis for those seeking wellness and restored health through scientifically proven plant-based nutrition. It features nourishing recipes, practical kitchen tips, and up-to-date insights from nutrition science. Through her teaching, writing, and faith-driven mission, Terri continues to inspire others to discover how whole-food, plant-based living can transform both body and spirit. Get recipes: https://eatplant-based.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EatPlantBased Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/eatplantbased/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eatplantbased.com14/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/EatPlantBasedTE About Sersie & Gigi The Healthy for My Purpose Podcast is designed to inspire you to reclaim your health and invite God into your health journey. This podcast will help you connect being healthy to your divine purpose. You will walk away seeing your health as a spiritual practice. Sersie Blue is a faith-based health coach and seminary graduate (MDiv in Counseling). Gigi Carter is a Certified Nutritionist (MS), Diplomate and Certified Lifestyle Medicine Professional through the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. These ladies are passionate about sharing the power of plant-based nutrition and faith. Music Credit: Bliss by Luke Bergs / bergscloud Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/33DJFs9 Music promoted by Audio Library • Bliss – Luke Bergs (No Copyright Music)

God Wants More For Your Health

If you’ve ever felt stuck in cycles of dieting, frustrated with your body, overwhelmed by cravings, or praying for your health but not seeing real change… this message is for you. We want to share something powerful from our recent Healthy Christian Woman Masterclass, because the women who watched it experienced lightbulb moments, freedom, tears, hope—and for many, the first real sense of, "I can actually do this with God."In the masterclass, we talked about a truth most of us forget:👉 God truly does want you healthy—because your health is tied to your purpose.We walked through the story of Daniel—how he refused the King’s diet and chose the foods God designed for his body. And at the end of those 10 days?He looked healthier, clearer, stronger, and more vibrant than everyone else.The same thing is happening today.Women who felt exhausted, defeated, burned out, or battling emotional eating shared testimony after testimony of what happened when they paired:✨ Faith✨ Daniel’s foods✨ A loving communityOne woman reversed her high blood pressure and lost over 30 pounds.Another dropped over 50 pounds and has kept it off.Another lost 90 pounds after years of heartbreak, depression, and emotional eating.Many more have reduced medications, regained energy, and finally felt free in their bodies.This isn’t another diet. This is alignment with a new lifestyle rooted in Biblical teachings and nutrition science.This is what happens when the Holy Spirit walks with you into your health journey, and you stop forcing yourself to do it all in your own strength.And now… it’s your turn.✨ The Healthy Christian Woman Bootcamp Is Open: https://www.healthyformypurpose.com/o...January 12–16 (with a bonus kickoff night on January 11!)This is our 5-day, virtual, faith-centered experience designed to reset your health, renew your mind, and reconnect your body to God’s purpose.During the bootcamp, you’ll learn how to:✔ Break cycles of emotional eating✔ Detox from foods that are inflaming your body✔ Reset your relationship with food✔ Hear God more clearly✔ Rebuild your identity around who God says you are✔ Finally create habits that lastYou’ll receive: meal plans, recipes, devotionals, daily live sessions, homework (the good kind), replays, and a powerful community of women doing it with you—not alone.🔥 If something in you is stirring… don’t ignore that nudge.If you felt seen while reading this…If you’re tired of starting over…If you know God is calling you to steward your temple differently…This is your invitation.➡️ Join the Healthy Christian Woman Bootcamp: https://www.healthyformypurpose.com/o...Your breakthrough is closer than you think.

Confronting the Real Struggle Behind Body Image

🚨🚨This episode is sponsored by the FREE Weight Loss Masterclass. Sign up today! https://www.healthyformypurpose.com/w...🍽️🥗 Get healthy plant-based recipes here: https://danielsplate.com/In this raw and revealing episode, we’re pulling back the layers of body image struggles and exploring a deeper truth. What if the real issue isn’t with our bodies but with our view of God?Many women say, “I hate my body,” but what they're really saying is, “I’m angry with how God made me.” We’ll discuss the temptation to idolize the mirror, the shame that keeps us stuck, and how to shift from self-loathing to a Spirit-led healing approach. This isn’t about self-love for vanity’s sake; it’s about honoring the body God fearfully and wonderfully made for His purpose.Join us as we discuss:✨The spiritual root of body image issues✨How body idolatry keeps us in bondage✨What it means to be “fearfully and wonderfully made”✨How to begin healing the relationship between you, your body, and your God✨Steps to shift from criticism to gratitude, and from shame to honorScriptures:📖Psalm 139:14 – “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made...”📖Romans 12:1 – “Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice… this is your true and proper worship.”📖1 Corinthians 6:19-20 – “You are not your own; you were bought at a price…”About Sersie & GigiThe Healthy for My Purpose Podcast is designed to inspire you to reclaim your health and invite God into your health journey. This podcast will help you connect being healthy to your divine purpose. You will walk away seeing your health as a spiritual practice. Sersie Blue is a faith-based health coach and seminary graduate (MDiv in Counseling). Gigi Carter is a Certified Nutritionist (MS), Diplomate and Certified Lifestyle Medicine Professional through the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. These ladies are passionate about sharing the power of plant-based nutrition and faith.Music Credit:Bliss by Luke Bergs / bergscloud Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/33DJFs9 Music promoted by Audio Library • Bliss – Luke Bergs (No Copyright Music)

When Purpose, Prayer, and Plant-Based Living Collide

In this powerful episode of Healthy for My Purpose, we sit down with the radiant and unstoppable Alicia Lyles a woman of God, business owner, and now, purpose-driven athlete. Alicia shares her deeply personal health journey, from family tragedy and generational illness to hearing God’s call to get healthy or risk never fulfilling her divine assignment. What began as a simple yes to join a bootcamp turned into a full-body, full-spirit transformation that’s now taking her across the country, literally with a calling to walk or run in all 50 states while spreading God’s love. With humor, vulnerability, and unshakable faith, Alicia talks about how she went from barely moving to running races, launching a global notary business, helping her daughter find purpose, and redefining what it means to be “healthy for your purpose.” If you’ve ever doubted your ability to start or start again this conversation will stir your soul and show you what’s possible when you align your spirit, soul, and body with God’s will. Connect with Alicia: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Aliciasmlns About Sersie & Gigi The Healthy for My Purpose Podcast is designed to inspire you to reclaim your health and invite God into your health journey. This podcast will help you connect being healthy to your divine purpose. You will walk away seeing your health as a spiritual practice. Sersie Blue is a faith-based health coach and seminary graduate (MDiv in Counseling). Gigi Carter is a Certified Nutritionist (MS), Diplomate and Certified Lifestyle Medicine Professional through the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. These ladies are passionate about sharing the power of plant-based nutrition and faith. Music Credit: Bliss by Luke Bergs / bergscloud Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/33DJFs9 Music promoted by Audio Library • Bliss – Luke Bergs (No Copyright Music)

Zombie Christianity: How Toxic Food is Numbing the Church

Have we become the walking dead in the Church?In this eye-opening 30-minute episode, Sersie Blue pulls back the veil on a quiet epidemic. Many Christians are walking in spiritual truth, but physically asleep. The culprit? Toxic food!  It’s leaving us with high blood pressure, obesity, mental fog, and chronic fatigue, even as we lift our hands in worship and cry out for revival.Sersie shares her wake-up call from living with high blood pressure and mental fog to experiencing healing and clarity through the Daniel Fast. She reveals how what’s on our plate may be keeping us from fully stepping into our purpose.This isn't just about eating better; this is about being set free. Because the Holy Spirit doesn’t just want to renew your spirit, He wants to resurrect your energy, your clarity, and your health. It's time to stop living like zombies and rise into vibrant, obedient, Spirit-led living.Romans 12:2"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind..."How processed food creates a “zombie-like” state, spiritually foggy, physically drainedWhy our health struggles are not just physical but deeply spiritualSersie’s personal story of breaking free from the food coma through the Daniel FastHow the Holy Spirit partners with us to break strongholds, even in our eating habitsWhy changing what you eat is a radical act of worship and warfare Join the Free Weight Loss MasterclassLet this be your first step out of the food fog and into the life God designed for you. https://www.healthyformypurpose.com/weight-loss-masterclass-opt-in-podcast