Meet Lisabeth Kaeser
My own lifelong journey in eating disorder recovery brought me to my life calling.
Lisabeth (Liz) is a graduate of Hanover College with a BA in Sociology. She has a unique perspective on suffering and recovering from Anorexia/Purging Type as an adolescent and a middle-aged woman. Author of Eating by Faith. A Walk with God. My Eating Disorder from the Inside Out. Taste and See… Liz worked for 4 years with The Tri-State Eating Disorders Resource Team (TSEDRT) where she was certified as a trainer and facilitator for The Body Project™, an evidence-based program aimed to increase body acceptance and may reduce disordered eating symptoms.
While working with TSEDRT, she worked in local schools to spread eating disorder awareness as well as organizing Cincinnati’s National Eating Disorders Association’s (NEDA) walk. She has been a keynote for Cincinnati’s NEDA Walk, The Ohio State University’s Project Heal Gala and Outpost, a Greater Cincinnati’s Christians Women’s summer speaker series.
She has volunteered as a lay pastoral peer counselor for The Eve Center of Cincinnati, a community of women devoted to promoting growth through biblical, no cost, safe and confidential peer counseling and training. She has been trained in Rooted Prayer, a listening and healing prayer model developed by Roots&Branches Network.
Her recovery and work reflect the need for those who suffer from eating disorders to find their identity in something other than their illness. While working with clients, Liz realized that most women had a distorted image of God as a God that is transactional and needs his children to please him by being a “good Christian.” Due to this, she is currently pursuing her credentials as a spiritual director through Sustainable Faith, helping people experience God’s unconditional love.
Liz used Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy (EDIT)™ to assist others in finding their true identity from the inside out. She found her identity in the love of Christ. Let her help you explore where you will find your true identity. She looks forward to helping all people experience Christ through spiritual direction.
Meet Lisabeth Kaeser
My own lifelong journey in eating disorder recovery brought me to my life calling.
,””edLisabeth (Liz) is a graduate of Hanover College with a BA in Sociology. She has a unique perspective on suffering and recovering from Anorexia/Purging Type as an adolescent and a middle-aged woman. Author of Eating by Faith. A Walk with God. My Eating Disorder from the Inside Out. Taste and See… Liz worked for 4 years with The Tri-State Eating Disorders Resource Team (TSEDRT) where she was certified as a trainer and facilitator for The Body Project™, an evidence-based program aimed to increase body acceptance and may reduce disordered eating symptoms.
While working with TSEDRT, she worked in local schools to spread eating disorder awareness as well as organizing Cincinnati’s National Eating Disorders Association’s (NEDA) walk. She has been a keynote for Cincinnati’s NEDA Walk, The Ohio State University’s Project Heal Gala and Outpost, a Greater Cincinnati’s Christians Women’s summer speaker series.
She has volunteered as a lay pastoral peer counselor for The Eve Center of Cincinnati, a community of women devoted to promoting growth through biblical, no cost, safe and confidential peer counseling and training. She has been trained in Rooted Prayer, a listening and healing prayer model developed by Roots&Branches Network.
Her recovery and work reflect the need for those who suffer from eating disorders to find their identity in something other than their illness. While working with clients, Liz realized that most women had a distorted image of God as a God that is transactional and needs his children to please him by being a “good Christian.” Due to this, she is currently pursuing her credentials as a spiritual director through Sustainable Faith, helping people experience God’s unconditional love.
Liz used Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy (EDIT)™ to assist others in finding their true identity from the inside out. She found her identity in the love of Christ. Let her help you explore where you will find your true identity. She looks forward to helping all people experience Christ through spiritual direction.
Our Commitment to You
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Creating a Fear and
Judgement-Free Space
Healing cannot occur where there is judgment and shame. Eating disorder behaviors (deprivation, binging, purging or over-exercise) are symptoms of an illness and not a reflection of your true self. You need a supportive and understanding environment to overcome the eating disorder and become person you are meant to be.
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Understanding Gradations of “Sick-Enough”
You may struggle with feelings of guilt and shame around eating and body image, but you don’t fit into the traditional definitions of anorexia or bulimia. Size and shape alone are not indicators of your overall physical and mental health. If a life event has triggered eating disorder behaviors, supportive coaching could be exactly what you need.
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Exploring Spirituality & Faith at Your Own Pace
As a Christ-centered recovery coaching practice we believe faith and spirituality are key to your growth and recovery. But we won’t force our beliefs on you. We use scripture to encourage and lift you up, not to condemn or shame you.
The Eating By Faith Approach
I am passionate about helping you break free from the critical inner voice of the eating disorder.
I will help clients challenge their inner critic as well as the cultural thin and beauty ideal. It is in challenging the client’s voice of ED (“false self”) and the culture, that they will move towards their True Self. Clients will transition from the eating disorder, disordered eating, and body dissatisfaction that holds them back from fully engaging in their lives.
Through developing the skills to:
Love Your Self
Be True to Yourself
Be True To Your Self
Express Your Self
Give To Your Self
Believe In Your Self
Clients will make this transition from ED (false self) “feeling fat”, general self-criticism, outer-directed/people-pleasing, diets/weight loss focus, disconnected from feelings, using food to change mood, self-sacrificing/selfless, minimal self-care attempts to control ED tendency to relapse… to Intuitive Therapist (IT) (True Self) Nurturing Body Image, Self-Compassion, Inner-Guided/Intuitive Eating, Intuitive Eating/Exercise, Aware of Feelings/Needs, Healthy Coping Strategies, Giving to Enhance Self, Intuitive Self-Care, Freedom from ED Behaviors, Complete Recovery (Source: Dr. Dori McCubbry DrDori.com)
A primary goal is to guide each client to connect with their Intuitive Therapist (IT) and/or The Holy Spirit. I believe that replacing the lies clients have come to believe about themselves, can be replaced with God’s truth about what he says about them, strengthening them at a spirit level to leave the eating disorder behind them for good.
To paraphrase renowned eating disorder researcher Cynthia Bulik “Eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder, are an illness and not a choice. Nor is it a result of unconfessed sin, as I have been told by well-meaning Christian friends. It is not lack of self- control, conscious rebellion, or a chosen deviant lifestyle. I have been a Christian since the age of 9 and had a strong faith yet I still succumbed to this illness.
Eating Disorders are such a shame based illness, and I promise not to heap any more shame on those with the illness by suggesting that they need to “Confess that sin, just eat, just not eat, exercise less, stop purging, or JUST PLAIN OLD STOP IT.
Having personally survived an eating disorder, I understand that people with ED are experts at shaming themselves and believing that they are somehow damaged goods. We believe the lies that Satan fires at us and forget The Lord’s promise to us in Psalms 34:5 that “those who look to him are radiant our faces never covered in shame.” I Believe if it we could ‘’JUST STOP IT,” we would. I would have just stopped it.
For many people with an eating disorder, it is in the eating disorder that they find their identity. I help clients replace the power of the eating disorder with the power of their identity in Christ. I help clients learn how to meet the needs that the eating disorder has been meeting with new life giving coping skills that are practical, safe, healthy and aimed at restoring freedom. John 8:36 “So, if the son sets you free you are free indeed.” (NIV)
I have taken the Health at Every Size™ Pledge and believe that every body deserves to be celebrated regardless of size or shape. I know that you don’t have to “look” sick to suffer from an eating disorder. If you are asking yourself “am I sick enough?” Then you are sick enough to seek the treatment you deserve to live in freedom from eating disorders, disordered eating and body dissatisfaction. Through EDIT™ worksheets and exercises clients will have the opportunity to explore who they are beyond ED.
Clients will also have the opportunity (if desired) through Listening Healing Prayer to dive deeper into hearing from God.
Eating By Faith Keynotes & Seminars
Helping people recognize eating disorder behaviors in yourself and others.
Lisabeth available for speaking engagements in person or virtually covering a variety of topics:
- Eating Disorder Awareness
- Body Image for teens and adults
- Christ in Recovery.
- Lisabeth’s Testimony.
- Recovery is a process
- Special Topical Requests
- School and parent education about eating disorders.
- How to recognize and offer help.