About
Hello and Welcome to the Creative Force Podcast, in this episode I interview Erin Weisbrodt, founder of New You Ministries and the author of the Healthy Habits Made Simple. Erin shares her powerful personal journey from a life of chaos to building a life full of peace, purpose, and God-directed healthy habits. This conversation covers the lies that keep people stuck, how to invite the Holy Spirit into your daily lifestyle choices, the role of identity in building lasting habits, the science behind the cue-routine-reward loop, and why consistency doesn't mean perfection. If you've ever tried to build healthy habits and failed, this episode will give you a fresh, faith-filled approach to try again.
My Takeaways
• Common lies that keep people stuck: 'This is just how I've always been,' 'Everyone in my family is like this,' 'I've tried before and failed so why bother,' and 'The goal is too far away so I won't even start.'
• Stop focusing on the mountain of change in front of you and focus on today. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
• The Holy Spirit is our source of wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, and knowledge (Isaiah 11:2). It is not our job to figure out healthy living on our own. We simply invite God in and ask him to lead.
• Habits added to Erin's life came as visions, divine insights of her future during time alone with God. Habits flow from identity, not willpower.
• Who you are in Christ is more real than anything you can see, taste, smell, or touch. Walking in healthy habits becomes effortless when you believe and embrace that truth.
• Identity empowers your no. When you know who you are in Christ, saying no to things that don't serve you becomes natural and not a struggle.
• Feed the one you want to be in charge. If you feed your flesh all day, your flesh leads. If you fuel your spirit, your spirit leads and healthy choices become effortless.
• Consistency doesn't mean never missing a day. It means making the most of what you have right now, getting back on the horse when you fall off, and letting God multiply the work of your hands.
• The Cue-Routine-Reward loop: set a cue (lay out your gym clothes), follow the routine (show up and work out), enjoy the reward (energy, peace, health). This helps your brain create feel-good chemical responses that reinforce the habit.
• Write down your goals. Habakkuk 2 says to write the vision and make it plain. Science also confirms that people who write down goals and revisit them are significantly more successful.
• Don't compare your journey to others. God's leading is life-giving and full of peace not shame or pressure to conform.
Scriptures
• Isaiah 11:2 — The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
• Zechariah 4:10 — Do not despise the day of small beginnings.
• Galatians 5:22–23 — The fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control.
• Habakkuk 2:2 — Write down the vision and make it plain so that he who reads it may run with it.