Hi! I’m Rae Lynn DeAngelis, Founder and Executive Director of Living in Truth Ministries. We are a non-profit organization that specializes in helping women see themselves as God created them to be—BEAUTIFUL!
I’m also an author, speaker, wife, mom, and most importantly—follower of Jesus.
My greatest passion is to encourage women through the promises of God—Biblical Truth!
Why?
Because the promises of God literally saved my life!
Although I grew up in the church and was blessed with a very loving family, I still found myself struggling with low self-esteem and poor body-image, even at a very young age. Negative thought patterns developed in my mind and took root. The enemy’s deception set my feet on a path towards nearly three decades of self-abuse.
I was convinced that true love and acceptance hinged on my achievement of a certain standard of excellence with outward appearance. In my pursuit of external perfection, I stumbled upon the concept of purging as a weight management technique. I suddenly realized that I could ingest thousands of calories without gaining weight. This marked the beginning of my downward spiral with an eating disorder.
Weeks turned into months and months turned into years. Before I knew it, twenty-five years clicked by. Precious years were exhausted as I fought to control my weight. Never could I have imagined the eating disorder would hold me captive so long.
Bulimia became part of my everyday life. I was in bondage to the number on the scale. If my weight was down, it was a good day. If my weight was up, it was a horrible day. I just wanted to be loved, loved no matter what the scale said.
“I will stop tomorrow.” I promised myself. But tomorrow without bulimia never came. I eventually decided that my eating disorder was something I would have to live with for the rest of my life.
Thankfully, that’s not the end of my story…
Long before I realized it Jesus had set my feet on a path towards healing. He placed people and circumstances in my life to draw me closer to Him. Eventually, He showed me that my eating disorder was getting in the way of my relationship with Him and others.
It was time to come clean, time to deal with this monster called bulimia.
God showed me that my value and worth do not come from the numbers on a scale or the people around me. My true value comes from the fact that I am a daughter of the King, and I am precious in His sight.
Today, my years of bondage are covered over by years of freedom—twelve and counting!
What Happened After I Broke Free?
Immediately after God set me free from my eating disorder, He began bringing beauty from my ashes. He provided speaking and writing opportunities that allowed me to share what God had done in my life.
After I published my first book Nothing But Your Truth Will Help Me, God!, I was invited to share my story of recovery on a Christian radio program called Water Through the Word. During the interview, I talked about the importance of replacing worldly lies with God’s truth when trying to overcome strongholds in your life and suggested if anyone was trying to break free from an eating disorder, they should get involved in a Bible-based support group.
When the interview aired, people started calling into the radio station, wanting to know where they could find such a group. To be honest, I had just assumed they were out there. But after much research, I realized there was nothing like that in the entire tri state area where I lived.
Since I knew how important it was to have God’s truth and Christian support in my own recovery, this became a burden on my heart. I knew, deep down, God was asking me to do something about it.
After much prayer and seeking God’s discernment, I said yes to God. He did everything else.
In August of 2008, Living in Truth Ministries was born!
Today we are a non-profit organization that ministers to women of all ages. We have developed programs, support materials, and healing groups that are filled with biblical truth to help women overcome worldly lies surrounding body-image and self-esteem.
I have a passion and a dream. A dream that women around the world would take hold of their true identity in Christ and see themselves as precious daughters, worthy of love, just as they are.
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.” (Ephesians 3;20-21)
No that you’ve heard my story, I would love to hear yours! Email me at livingintruthministries@gmail.com and tell me how God has been working in your life. We might contact you and ask to share your story with our readers. Who knows, it just might be the inspiration someone needs to hear.
