• Jessie

• Fri, 23 Dec 2011

For 6+ years I led a double life, bound by hidden sin. I was consumed with the way that I looked, obsessed with meeting the worlds and others expectations of how I was supposed to look. And I was willing ...

• Heidi

• Fri, 16 Dec 2011

I am in awe of all that the Lord has done in my life within the past 60 days. I was stuck in a terrible and sinful habit of binging and purging and sometimes skipping meals. While I wanted to ...

• Erin

• Thu, 17 Nov 2011

I've been a dancer since I was 8, and I didn't really know that dancers were "supposed to be skinny" or that I "needed" the perfect body. I didn't care about all that stuff, I was just ...

• Karen

• Tue, 18 Oct 2011

I heard about Setting Captives Free while visiting with a friend in Kansas City. She was going through The Lord's Table. I was not aware that this course existed, so when I was looking at the web site and ...

• Laura

• Thu, 22 Sep 2011

My entire life I was known for being athletic. This would seem to be a good thing but in the end it became my prison. I defined myself as fit and athletic. I was good at sports and loved being ...

• joann

• Wed, 31 Aug 2011

Four years ago I began eating healthy for the first time in my life. When my clothes starting getting to big for me, I weighed myself. It was then that I discovered I had lost 14lbs without ever going hungry ...

• Kelley

• Wed, 31 Aug 2011

I’ve struggled with my weight since I was eight. I was raised in a 'Christian home' and gave my heart to God when I was twelve; however, but my obsession with weight kept taking my focus off God. After ...

• Emily

• Wed, 17 Aug 2011

I have struggled with food idolatry issues from a young age and was very overweight and inactive by the time I graduated high school. I was determined to change my ways and put all my energy and hope into the ...

• Carrie

• Tue, 16 Aug 2011

Since I had my first boyfriend in high school, I equated my worth in how I looked, how my clothes fit, and my weight. I accepted Christ as my Savior but did not let my new found freedom affect every ...

• Sandra

• Mon, 15 Aug 2011

I am so grateful for Setting Captives Free. I definitely feel as though I have been set free after taking this course. I tried and tried and tried on my own to quit binging and purging but I could never ...

• shilo

• Sun, 14 Aug 2011

I've had an eating disorder most of my life, I was diagnosed bulimia and anorexia at age 15 years old....I have always been able to pound down alot of food at one sitting- I also suffered from if ...

• Alayna

• Wed, 10 Aug 2011

A few months ago, I was having a lot of problems. I felt completely alone. I thought my best friend was gonna kill herself. I saw myself in the worst way possible. I was whipping myself with a rubber band ...

• lauralee

• Sat, 30 Jul 2011

as a small child, food was always abundant, I loved my mothers homemade goodies adn found comfort in her chocolate cream pies. both paretns had been raised in a chaotic abusive alcoholic home, this left them both with deficits in ...

• Susan

• Thu, 30 Jun 2011

I loved food. I hated food. I was obsessed with body image and strived for that "perfect" body. I tried following diet plans, counted calories, counted carbs, tried all kinds of exercise plans, binged, starved, over-exercised... I was a slave ...

• Andrea

• Tue, 24 May 2011

"But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light." I Peter 2:9
This is ...

• Tracey

• Mon, 16 May 2011

Before I trusted Christ, my values were based on whatever seemed right in my own mind and what most of the people around me were doing. The thing I remember most about my life before I trusted Christ was that ...

• Makaela

• Sun, 15 May 2011

When I came into Setting Captives Free, I had no desire to go forward with it. In fact, I didn't think that I needed it and when I heard that there was a mentor who would "check in" on ...

• Angel

• Thu, 05 May 2011

I spent much of my teen years not eating very much so that I could maintain a smaller size in hopes that I would catch the eye of whatevery guy I wanted that particular week. After high school I married ...

• Liz

• Fri, 01 Apr 2011

Before coming to SCF I was in complete bondage to my eating disorder. I had tried everything from books, prayer ministers, and treatment. THese things all worked temporarily, but it was not long and I was back at it again ...

• Alex

• Tue, 29 Mar 2011

I'm struggling to write my testimony because I'm still wrestling with the Lord. I like I'm getting freer all the time, but I'm not quite there yet. He is faithfully working with me all the time ...