August 2, 2025 • 43 mins
Welcome back for Part 5 of the official crossover series of the "What’s God Got To Do With It?" and Outweigh podcasts.
This week we’re diving deep into a crucial part of the food and body image conversation—what Leanne likes to call your “body brain.”
If you’ve been following along, you know we’ve been exploring how faith intersects with our struggles around food and self image. Today, we’re turning our focus to the physical side of things, and how your body (and your perception of it) are deeply intertwined.
We’ll be looking at this from both a nervous system and physiological perspective, but we can’t ignore the importance of how you view your body and your relationship with it.
This episode isn’t about offering a quick fix; it’s about helping you understand the deeper layers that contribute to your struggles.
Leanne also shares her personal journey of overcoming her own body image (and chronic pain) battles, so you can see that real, lasting change is possible...but it starts with breaking the chains of your own harsh self-criticism, guilt, and shame.
The hope is that by the end of this episode, you’ll feel empowered to start dismantling your own beliefs and step into a new story about your body. Remember, this isn’t just about what you weigh or how you look—it’s about freeing yourself from the heavy burden of judgment and stepping into a place of peace and self-compassion.
HOST: Leanne Ellington // StresslessEating.com // @leanneellington
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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I am so excited as this is the very first
official crossover series of What's God Got to Do with It?
In the Outweigh podcast, Because if you've been listening to
me on Outwegh, you know that that podcast is all
about helping women break them selves out of the food
and body prison, end the dieting madness, and take control
of their health for good, but without all that restriction,
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obsession and shame, and without dragging it out.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
For years to address it. And if you've been.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Listening to me on What's God Got to Do with It,
you know that we are all about the fusion of
where science meets faith and where faith meets transformation and miracles.
So this is a beautiful opportunity to talk about the
crossover of where science meets food and body image and
self image struggles and where that intersects faith or what's
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God got to do.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
With all of that.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And that's exactly what this six part series is all about.
So Part one is really just an introduction where we're
simply going to set up this massive topic. Part two
is all about the big picture of where faith meets
science meets food and body image struggles. In Part three,
we go deep into the self image and idea that
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you would need to actually step into the version of
you that would have that health, that would have that
relationship with food in her body, and who would actually
be at peace and feel free, and of course how
that fuses with this faith brain conversation. In Part four,
we dive deeper into what God has to do with
what I call your food brain and disordered eating patterns
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and filling voids in your head hard in spirit with
food or netflix or wine or whatever your drug of
choice is, and it's a whole that will never be
filled by those things. In Part five, we dive into
the complicated relationship that women have with their bodies and
their body image and physical pain, which is not talked
about enough in my opinion, and how to heal all
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of that from a faith meets science perspective and invite
God into the conversation, and then wrapping it up in
part six, we get into the strategy side of things,
as in, what does it look like to use what
you've learned about neuroscience and faith and healing your relationship
with food and your body image to go create a
winning game plan that sets you up to win and
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one that your brain just learns so you can go
live your life. Food can be food, and you can
feel comfortable in your skin and free from the chains
of restricting or punishing your body. So let's dive on in.
Here's part five. Welcome back to the Outweigh and What's
God Got to Do with It crossover series, and we
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are back to go narrower and deeper into this food
and body image conversation while we invite God into the conversation.
And so if you missed parts one, two, three, and four,
definitely check those out because we talked about the big
picture of this entire faith meets science meets food and
body image conversation, and we took a deep dive into
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the self image and identity that you need to actually
step into the version of you that would have that
health that would have that relationship with food in her body,
and who would actually be at peace and feel free.
And then last week we talked about what God has
to do with what I call your food brain and
disordered eating patterns and just filling voids in your heart
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and your head and your spirit with food or netflix
or wine or whatever your drug of choice is. And
it's a whole that will never be filled by those things.
And then of course how to fuse that with this
faith brain conversation. And today we're going to talk all
about what I call your body brain, which includes your
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physical body. And we're going to talk about this from
a nervous system perspective and a physiological health perspective. But
I'm sure you're probably starting to understand that we can't
talk about the physical body side of things without also
talking about the body image and your view of your
body and your relationship with your body. And as you'll learn,
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I believe that the physical body and your perception of
your body are one thousand percent intertwined. I want to
remind you that this is a massive topic and I'm
not here claiming that this podcast episode is going to
solve you know, years of struggles with your body or
your body image, or even chronic pain, because we're going
to talk about that too, actually, but this is not
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even close to a substitute for actually getting the support
and the one on one guidance that you need. And
so a lot of women and of course men if
you're listening, have a really complicated relationship with their bodies.
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You know, just keep in mind I work with.
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People very intensively for months at a time to help
them really heal this and put the problem to bed
and get off the put a band aid.
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On it roller coaster.
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And so to try to distill it down into one
podcast episode, you know, we're going to cover a lot
of ground. But this is not me promising like a
one and done solution, right. My hope again is just
to help you understand yourself better so that you can
approach your struggles with compassion and care rather than judgment
or shame. And that's why I'm going to, you know,
share my own journey as we go. But first I'll
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start by kind of bottom lining it again for you,
because you know I like to do that, and so
if I were to bottom line how to heal your
body and your body image, struggles through the lens of faith.
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I would say this, First.
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You must end the love hate war that you're in
with your body and your body image, and really, you know,
die to your old self and step into a whole
new identity with new beliefs and thoughts and behaviors. In
a way, you have to become a new version of yourself,
and you have to radically transform your being, and you
must become the version of yourself that thinks and lives
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and believes this.
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New way of being.
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And then from that place you can address the habits
and the behaviors. And yes, this is the part that
most people skip over because it's not as sexy as
a band aid or you know, lose thirty pounds and
thirty minutes, But again it is so imperative. And then
after that we can talk about the other part of it,
which is you have to heal the cycle and the
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habits and the behaviors, and you've got to address the
wiring in your brain that's causing you to believe what
you're believing and seeing what you're seeing about your body,
and that's causing you to move the way that you
move or don't move, and treat yourself in your body,
the way that you treat it or don't treat it,
and just feel the way that you feel or don't
feel about yourself. And so as you remember, you know
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I shared this from last week, you've got to ditch
what I call the weight of the weight if you
truly want to be free. Because again, when you've been
stuck in the food and body struggle for years or decades,
or you know, sometimes it's a lifetime, it's like there's
these heavy chains of thoughts and beliefs and behaviors that
you've been carrying around in your brain and your heart
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and your spirit really for probably as long as you
can remember, if not many many years, And those heavy,
rusty chains are what feels so heavy day to day.
And so the weight on your body isn't the real
weight that needs to be ditched. The real weight is
all of this other stuff, like those chains of beliefs
and behaviors and shame that you've been carrying around with you.
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And there is no shame in this whatsoever. It's what
I learned, It's what happened to me, it's what happened
to all of my clients too.
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They learned it too.
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But until you break the chains, you are going to
keep walking around with them, and they're just gonna keep
getting heavier. And if you're anything like I was, and
like my clients were, you kind of become desensitized to
them and they start to feel normal because they're disguised
as you being air quotes, you know, health conscious or
I'm just getting fit or I'm just you know, taking
care of myself. Right, But these chains are not normal.
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The chains that bog down your head and your heart
and your spirit and really inturn your body, they are
chains that also do not have to be there.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And so we're having.
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These important conversations today because you don't want to be
carrying them around anymore. But again, it's just been happening
so long it finally like essentially becomes normal.
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It feels like it's normal.
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Right, So let's break those chains and so that we
really can go ditch that weight. And that's why we're
going to cover two more weight of the weights that
are so relevant to this body, brain and body image conversation.
But first, do you remember maybe you don't, I'll share again,
but in part one I kind of shared how my
first weight Watchers meeting was the catalyst for everything. I
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was taken there when I was seven or eight, and
from there on out, food and my body became this
very personal and emotional thing, and more importantly, you know,
toxic shame became a very integrated.
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Character in the story of my life.
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But it's also when I started thinking that there was
something bad or wrong or broken about me and my body.
And I started from a young age also learning about
movement and exercise as something that you just did if
you wanted to work it off, work off what you ate,
or you know, try to lose some weight. I remember
in elementary school like thinking that was what exercise was,
and that in itself actually became a prison for me.
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And even though I finally you know, I've shared this before,
but I hit my first enough as enough point, and
then through a lot of wrong ways and some of
the right ways, I went on and I lost a
lot of weight, close to one hundred pounds, and this
even inspired me to start my first business working with
women on their own weight loss journeys.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
But here's the thing, I.
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Learned the same eat less, move more, no pain, no
gain equation that a lot of the mainstream teaches young
women who kind of think that losing weight will magically
solve all their problems.
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I mean, that's what I thought.
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And even though yeah, I did technically lose the weight, like, yeah,
I lost one hundred pounds, I got to my lowest weight,
and I could wear sleeveless halter tops any days of
the week without feeling ashamed of my arms. But I
never addressed my addiction like pull to food and then
of course my punishment driven relationship to exercise. So I
still felt like I was a slave to whatever it was,
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whether it was dieting or exercise, because I would bounce
from one extreme to the other, like I would restrict
and punish my body until let's face it, I just
couldn't take it anymore, like I had something had to give,
and so of course I would just rebound to the
opposite where for me it was like you know, care free, abandonment,
eating whatever I could get my hands on, and then
of course I would feel guilty and I would try
to go out exercise my overeating, and so of course,
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like not only was I the opposite of free, because
this is not freedom, but I was the opposite of happy,
right And because yeah, like I lost the weight, but
I never transformed my identity and I brought all of
my old habits and thinking and behaviors with me. Now,
keep in mind, at this point, I still didn't really
have God in my life, or you know, at least
I didn't know that I did. I didn't know that
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God was there, even though I know he was there.
But by some divine miracle that I just have to
give glory to God, I did eventually have the insight
and the awareness to realize I was never going to
be able to outdiet or outwork or outsmart the wiring
in my brain and in my self image.
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And so I hit my next enough is.
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Enough point, because I had a lot of them right,
and I finally drew that line in the sand, and
I just I made a firm commitment to myself that day,
even though I didn't know what it looked like, that
I would never be in a place of that crazy
restriction or obsession again. And I decided to examine my
habits and my mindset around food and my body. But
that was only one side of it, okay, Because yeah,
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I definitely had to go do that. I had to
heal my relationship with food, my body, image, rewire my brain, all.
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Of that good stuff.
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So that's what I did, and ironically, that's what God
had in store for me to help other women do
for themselves and what paved the way for my stressless
eeding and self image curriculum that I've been teaching for
over a decade. But like I started to say, that
was only one side of it. There was actually another
curveball in the mix that took place essentially smack dab
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in the middle of the part of the story that I.
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Was just sharing.
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So now I want to rewind back, you know, sixteen
seventeen years something like that. So it was like two
thousand and seven, two thousand and eight, and my anesthesiologist
had me counting backwards from one hundred as the surgical
team was getting ready to go in and microscopically remove
the calcified hardened disc fluid that had been sitting on
my nerves, the nerves of my lumbar spine for the
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past eight months. And so now it's a procedure that
I endearingly call the cost of skinny, and I lovingly
call it that because I was so focused on getting
skinny or lean or toned or whatever words ruled my brain.
At the time, I didn't pay attention to or really
tune into what my body needed and what it was
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screaming at me to do. And so, you know, I
look back and I'm like, if only I had listened
to the screams for my body to slow down and
chill out and actually just take care of my body,
because I really see now it was screaming at me,
maybe it could have all been avoided, but at the
time I didn't care. Right at the time, I just
wanted to be you know, skinny or beautiful or whatever
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vision I had in my mind of the thing that
would make me happy, and no back pain or injury
or pesky flare up was gonna stop me until it
finally did stop me, and I didn't have a choice.
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It didn't just stop me.
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It landed me on an operating table at the Cleveland
Metro Hospital for major spine surgery at the ripe old
age of twenty five.
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But it wasn't just that.
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I also afterwards had a lot of neurological struggles after
the surgery that no one could really help me with.
Like the original back pain wasn't really there anymore, but
now I had nerve damage. I had all of a sudden,
I had balance issues, I had what I now would
consider like a sensory processing disorder that I'd never had before.
And I had residual pain in other parts of my body.
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So now it wasn't my back, but it was like
my knee, I hit my foot whatever. Right, Plus the
anesthesia is most likely what gave me something called postural hypotension,
which is a very benign thing.
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It's just more annoying.
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But again, it was more things that I was like, great,
how else is my body broken? But then on top
of that, emotionally and mentally, I just felt different. It
was hard for me to describe, but it's almost like
when the lights went out when I went under anesthesia.
I just felt different when the lights came back on.
I can't fully describe it, so I'm just doing my
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best to describe it here.
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But so now picture this.
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If you take a girl, a woman who already feels
unworthy and unlovable and undesirable because all she's ever known
is seeing herself through what I now lovingly call the
fat goggles of her self image. Like I literally was
calling myself that from a young age. Right, So that
became my fat goggles. And then now you throw on
the story that she's also you know, damaged goods or broken,
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because that's how I felt because of my body. You
can only imagine how low my inner world god at
that point. But I will say the spoiler alert, God
redeemed all of that too, as you're gonna come to learn.
Because that major spine surgery and what I now call
the face off between you know, my fat head and
my skinny head, it's really what drove me to start
obsessively studying the female brain, more specifically this science of
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the self image that I talk about all the time,
and then what caused me to dieve really head deep
into studying and getting to know this little thing called
the nervous system. It really started with the physiological stuff
that I was telling you, and I was like, oh,
there's something called a nervous system I should know about
that because this is not a muscular, skeletal thing, this
is higher up. Which also, like studying about the nervous
system completely transformed my life because it helped me take
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ownership of my new physiological struggles that I mentioned, but
also my chronic pain, which is something I never had before.
I had a cute pain from the back injury, but
I never had chronic pain like this, and sensory issues
and balance issues and all the things. But the point
of me sharing this is that I promise you your
journey has a purpose. Even if you've been struggling or
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suffering for years. God has been and will continue teaching
you through those experiences if you wake up to the lessons,
if you allow Him to teach you through those right.
And there are so many faces of disorder that have
nothing to do with food, and that that's why I'm
continuing to just share the many layers of my journey
because they all have a place, and they all have
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a purpose. And I truly believe there's a message for
you in your messiness, and there's clarity waiting for you
on the other side of your own chaos, and there's
purpose for you to find in the midst of your
own pain. But first you must break the chains, and
you must break the strongholds, and you've got to dismantle
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the beliefs that are keeping you stuck in an identity
that's just perpetuating more and more pain and heartache and disorder.
And so you've got to break those chains and ditch
the weight of the weight and die to that old
story and step into a new one.
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So that's literally what we're going to start doing right now.
So let's dive on in.
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And that's why the next set of chains that we
have to break, and the next weight of the weight
is the weight of being your own biggest critic and
the weight of being in a war with yourself and
with your body. It is the weight of harsh judgments
and self criticism and guilt and shame and blame and
comparisonitis and perfectionism in your self image and your self talk.
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And so when I talk about ending this war that
you're in with yourself and waving the white flag and
stepping into a new story about your body, this is
what I mean. And I love this non biblical parable
because it just sums up what I'm trying to say perfectly.
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Goes like this.
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One evening, an old Cherokee Indian told his grandson about
a battle that goes on inside people.
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He said, my son, the battle is between.
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Two wolves inside of us. All one wolf is evil.
It's anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, pity, self, pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies,
false pride, superiority, and ego.
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The other is good. It is joy, peace, love.
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Hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then
asked his grandfather which wolf wins. The old Cherokee simply replied,
the one you feed. So really, I mean, you can
look at this darkness light, the enemy Satan versus God,
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right like, so what are you feeding?
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You know?
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Are you feeding your relationship with God and how he
sees you? And really the beauty and perfection that you
already are. And you don't have to hustle for it.
You don't have to lose weight for it, you don't
have to change a thing about yourself for it. And
I'll say this too, like, even if you don't like
what you weigh right now, or there's certain elements of
your body that you don't like, it does not have
to strip you of your right to feel worthy and
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loved and known right now, Like two things can be
true at the same time. And so are you pursuing
your own pursuits of getting your you know, metaphorical self
image cup filled from your gene size or your scale
weight or your calorie count or whatever.
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And what are you feeding?
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Are you feeding guilt by feeling guilty about what you
did or didn't eat or do, or you know, feeding
shame by feeling ashamed of your body and ashamed of
your habits or the behaviors or who you're showing up as.
And are you feeding blame by continually blaming yourself or
blaming others or blaming those darn irresistible cookies? Are you
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feeding comparison ititis by constantly comparing yourself to where.
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You think you should be or what you should.
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Be doing, or you know, just really comparing your worst
to someone else's best or the like what you think
are other people's best, like the highlight reel on social media?
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Right?
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And are you feeding perfectionism by letting your inner perfectionists
run the show? And I promise you with her, it
is never enough, okay, you will never be doing enough
or good enough, or smart enough or skinny enough or
just enough period.
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And this is the part that's not working.
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And this is what's causing you so much unhappiness, And
this is what's causing you to feel like you're in
a war with yourself and with your body, and this
is what's causing you to feel further from God, which
I promise you God just wants to be close to you.
And that's why, little by little we want to feed
this less and feed God's view of you more. So,
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what's the faith meets science perspective of this look like? Right?
That's that's my thoughts and I'm using a parable to
describe it. But let's take a look at the clues
that we kind of left ourselves a little breadcrumbs from
a couple weeks ago. And so remember how I told
you that the experiment that when humans have what they
call the ultimate friend, and this is from the science
based research that we looked at a couple weeks ago,
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when humans have what they call the ultimate friend on
their side, it made a big difference when it comes
to self respect and self worth. And how I shared
with you, there was literally a study that showed the
impact of faith on self image and self worth. And
so if you miss that, go ahead and listen to
part two of this series. But again, I want to
point out that the kind of relationship with God and
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Christ that this study specifically talked about they were referred
to having a relationship with Christ where he was like
the ultimate friend, and they called it a divine being
who cared about them. And so this is relationship that's
not religion. It's not a punishment or shame driven God.
It's a relationship with a loving, redeeming God and a
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heavenly Father who sees you and loves you just as
you are. And you don't have to earn.
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It or work for it.
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So let's look at what God has to say about
it by going to his word. And so this is
from First Samuel sixteen seven, and it says, but the
Lord said to Samuel, don't judge by his appearance or height,
for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn't see things
the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance.
But the Lord looks at the heart. The Lord looks
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at the heart. And so how often is our self
image and body image based solely on what we look
like or quantifiable things like skill weeight or gene size. Right, Remember,
the Lord looks at the heart.
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I love this from Isaiah sixty one seven.
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It says, instead of your shame, you will receive a
double portion, and instead of disgrace, you will rejoice in
your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion
in your hand, an everlasting joy will be yours. And
I promise you it is true. If you stop basing
your view of yourself based on your own worldly self,
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or at least ask God to show you. God will
show you worthiness that you could never have imagined. And
Scripture says double portion, but I honestly feel like he
one hundred xd my own self worth when I stopped
looking for the worldly ways and I started just asking
God how he sees me? And yeah, that started with
me going down the brain and science rabbit hole. But
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when I started asking, you know, what's God got to
do with all this, you know, body image stuff and
this self image stuff, and what does God reflect back
to me in the mirror of my own self perception?
What happened is beyond description. And so I use words now,
like you know, miracles, because that's what it felt like
after thirty years of toxic shame and having self rejection
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and self abandonment as my emotional home. And that's why
I'm just inviting you to try this on, like try
on that you're not crazy or weak willed, and that
you just have a brain, and ask God to fill
you with new beliefs and new elements of your identity
and step into your own rebirth, because the alternative is
simply walking around with more and more heavy heavy chains
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and the weight of the weight of your own harsh
judgments and self criticism and guilt and shame and blame
and ugly comparison itis and perfectionism. That's in your self
image and self talk and body talk.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
You know, most women take a look at this last
when thinking about food and body struggles.
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They think like, Okay, what can I do?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
But it's like, no, if you've been being your hyperjudgmental
self critical, shaming, blaming and comparing self your whole life,
that does and just magically go away if you lose
weight or if you you know, work out for a
few days, Because this is not just in your mind,
and it's not in your body. It's in your brain
and self image, and it's as you're learning, it's in
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your spirit and identity. And you can't outdiet and outperform
or outsmart your identity. But when you invite God into
the conversation. That's when chains can actually break. And that's
why if somewhere along the line, your body or you know,
really the enemy tricked you into thinking that it was
unattractive or undesirable or a pain in the butt, a
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nuisance or a burden. And also like for me it
was like my body was like I built stories like no,
you're never going to be able to trust it or
predict it or like it. If you feel any of
those things, I truly believe you need a better story
about your body. And if your body image was formed
in the eyes of food shame or fat shame or
body shame, and it's really keeping you from feeling beautiful
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and powerful and confident and worthy, you need a bye
story about your body and a new story. And if
you're comparing your body to someone else that you think
is smaller or more desirable or fit or perfect air
quotes perfect, and it's not making you feel very good,
you need a new.
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And better story about your body.
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And if you're comparing your body to something else like
a number or a measurement or a picture, or really
just a common opinion of what you think is good, bad, right,
or wrong, and again it's not making you feel very good.
You need a new and better story about your body.
And really it's time to end the war that you're
in with yourself so that you can stop fighting and
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restricting and punishing it and blaming it and shaming it
and comparing your body and just go get right with it.
And that's why I invite you to push pause on
starting that new diet and hold off on starting that
new workout thing or membership or whatever, and go get
right with your body.
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Wave the white flag, get on the.
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Same page, except that it's yours and you'll have to
have it the rest of your life, right, and that
you get to choose to take care of it the
rest of your life, and then commit to taking care
of it because you only have one, and then figure
out after that how you want to influence it if
you want to change it. But in the meantime, I'm
inviting you to stop being so cruel to yourself. In
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the meantime and you know, quit with the mental jobs
and the verbal smack talking and really treating yourself like dirt,
because you want to change your body and lay down
the weapons of judgment and restriction and punishment and control
that food and exercise have become to you, and go
get right with your body because you are only fighting
and battling and resisting yourself, and you deserve so much more,
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so much more. So I'll just leave it at that
for now, because I could go on and on about
this subject, because once again it's it's a biggie. But
I want to head on over to the next chain
that we have to break and the stronghold, and really
break it down. Break the chains, break the strongholds of
the next weight of the weight is what I call
the weight of waiting for the weight to go. Be
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who you want to be and do what you want
to do, or live the life that you.
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Really want to live. Are you waiting for the weight
to go?
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Do that?
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And this is again where I'll remind you.
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What God said when he said in two Corinthians five seventeen. Therefore,
if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
The old has passed, Behold, the new has come. And
I fell into the victim mentality for years, just kind
of waiting for that thing, that one magical thing that
I thought would make me happy, you know, or make
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me go live the life I truly wanted to live
and the life that was waiting for me right then,
like right now, And in my case, I thought it
was my weight that would make me happy, but it
kept me stuck in that victim mentality, feeling like I
had no choice, and it left me feeling like a
victim to my own circumstances. And trust me, I am
no victim, and neither are you. And so I'm just
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here to lovingly ask you, like, where are you waiting
for the wait? Where are you waiting for things to
get better on their own, or waiting for someone to
do it for you or want it for you, or
maybe waiting for discipline or willpower to magically show up,
or you know, waiting for the perfect time that you
know this is in air quotes, of course, the perfect
moment or for things to be air quotes perfect, and
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waiting to start finding the beautiful, confident, powerful, worthy version
of yourself that you are right now, but you just
haven't seen her in a while or maybe ever, maybe
you've never met her right and also waiting for the
weight to be who you want to be and do
what you want to do and feel how you desperately.
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Want to feel.
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Okay, And I'm here to tell you don't have to
keep waiting, like don't make the same mistake that I made,
Like don't wait for your body to be a certain
size or a certain shape to go start living, and
don't wait for things to go magically.
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Go get better.
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Invite God into this conversation, and go meet yourself right now,
just as you are at this exact weight or gene size,
with your current level of skills and experience, and just
start living. That is my invitation to you and the
seeds that I really want to plant into your brain
before we dig a bit deeper into some research that
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actually supports faith meeting science on the physiological side of things.
I really wanted to get that planted in your brain first.
But now we're going to go into that side of
it because something that's happening to a lot of women
and again men, if you're listening, is this combination or
it's really like a sticky tangled web that happens with
our physiology as it relates to our emotions and our
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mental state.
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And so here's what I mean.
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So we looked at the ACC last week, the anterior
smulate cortex as it has to do with you know,
coping mechanisms and filling voids. Right, But you really can't
look at that side of the ACC without looking at
the part of your brain or the part of your
ACC I should say that manages or soothes pain, right,
So it's like seeking pleasure and soothing pain. They're literally
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in the same part of the brain. They're just two
sides of the same coin. And so something interesting about
the ACC, as we talked about last week, it has
one of the highest densities of opiate receptors in your brain,
but it also has one of the highest densities of
pain receptors in your brain as well. So, like I
said before, if I hurt my shoulder, the injury itself
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is in the shoulder, but a lot of the pain
that I'm experienced is actually being processed by the ACC.
And this is where I'll also say, and I won't
go too deep into this because it's also a big topic,
but there's a lot of evidence based research that's being
done and that has been done on the social emotional
pain that humans experience, where emotional pain is actually manifesting
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as physiological pain. So, for example, take something like fibromial
which is typically regarded as a physical pain disorder, and
still to this day it's almost like a mystery to
a lot.
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Of people, including the medical community.
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But there's been studies that show There's this one particular
study that shows when a FIBROMYALGA sufferer is placed under
an fMRI machine, the brain scan shows that the ACC
was essentially firing and overdrive. And that same study, it
showed that the number one treatment for fibromyalgia wasn't physical
therapy or pain management meds, and it wasn't weight loss
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or anything physical for that matter. The number one most
effective treatment for fibromyalgia in that study was getting them
connected with other fibromyalgia sufferers. It was getting them in
community and connecting their social brain their ACC to other
humans going through the same thing. That was the most
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effective treatment for fibromiologia in that study. And what this
study concluded was that fibrobiologia could very well be a
social emotional disorder, not a physical one. And so let's
break that down. In other words, the ACC was in pain.
It showed us on the brain scan, right, and there
was what would could be considered like a sensory mismatch,
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meaning that the emotional pain centers were firing, but it
was just manifesting physiologically. Because remember those emotional pain centers
and the physiological pain receptors are all a big like
they're in different parts of the brain, but they're predominantly
a lot of them are in the ACC. And so
when they attended to this social emotional pain in the ACC,
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so remember things like loneliness or isolation or all of
this self image stuff that we're talking about, the physiological
pain decreased significantly when they attended to the social emotional
side of it.
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It decreased the.
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Pain way more than with pain meds or PT physical therapy, right,
And so feeding and taking care of the social emotional
brain is what helped most with their physical thing, right,
And so this is so fascinating, right, Like this brain
stuff to me was revelatory because again it made me realize, like, Okay,
I'm not crazy, I'm not weak willed, I'm not weird
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or different. I just need to learn how to take
care of my brain, including my social emotional brain. Like
I take care of my body, right, like I brush
my teeth or wash my hair. But if you think
that's cool, let's take a look at another study. Where
faith meets science when it comes to physical pain. So
a study out of Canada in two thousand and eight,
and it was thirty seven thousand people aged fifteen years
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and up. Okay, so it was you know, teenagers were included,
but thirty seven thousand people is a pretty good amount
of people, right, And so this is what it concluded
faith based individuals. And by the way, they literally defined
faith based individuals as people that had worship. It was
measured by worship frequency together with the importance of spiritual values.
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So people that worshiped and had spiritual values. So faith
based individual us, based on that definition that I just shared,
we're associated with lower levels of chronic pain and fatigue syndromes.
But on top of that, frequent worship attendance was also
associated with better psychological well being in the population that
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had chronic pain and fatigue. So it didn't just help
chronic pain and fatigue, it helped psychologically.
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For the people that had chronic pain and fatigue.
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That's like two different things, right, And so faith was
associated with the use of positive psychological and positive physiological
coping mechanisms.
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And so here's the deal.
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The evidence based science is pointing to the fact that
having a faith life and our relationship with God and
prayer and worship is literally a pain reliever. So let's
take a look even further by looking to God's word
and seeing what God has to say about it. So
from Psalm six' to, two it, says have compassion on, Me,
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lord FOR i am weak Me, lord for my bones
are an.
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Agony AND i.
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Feel like this is literally a prayer that we can
call out To. God, right this is an example of
Asking god for healing and strength and for relief from the,
agony which we just learned that faith and prayer is
scientifically proven to help alleviate, pain and The bible just
aligns with.
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This and then In philippians.
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Four, thirteen it, says FOR i can do everything Through,
christ who gives me. Strength and this just reminds, me
so look To god for, strength and, yeah, like don't
hear What i'm not. Saying definitely do all that you
can do for yourself physically and heal from what's ailing, you,
like use your free. Will but to, me this reminds
me to Let god do the heavy lifting and he
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gives me true inner strength WHEN i might feel physically
weak FOR i can do everything Through, christ who gives me.
Strength and, then of course there's this scripture that has
given me so much peace in so many different. Situations
It's psalm thirty four, eighteen and it says The Lord
word is close to the broken. Hearted he rescues those
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whose spirits are. Crushed because let's be, honest and, like
when you think about, it pain or unexplained illness or
physical mental emotional distress and, yeah body image, struggles they
can all be this like soul sucking and spirit crushing.
Thing and even when the circumstances feel like it's more
than you can, bear this scripture reminds me that this
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is When god is closest to your. Reach The lord
is close to the broken, hearted and he rescues those
who are whose spirits are.
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CRUSHED i don't want.
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To make a blanket, statement BUT i know for, ME
i used to think that WHEN i was broken, hearted
that's When god was the Furthest and it's, like, no
that's when he wants you to lean. In that's when
he's the closest to, you like he wants to be
there for. You. Right so these are just some examples
of the healing power Of god's word and the healing
power of faith and the healing power Of. Jesus but,
again don't take my word for it, blindly like try it,
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on like Ask god to fill you with new beliefs
and new faith and new elements of your identity and
step into your own. Rebirth And i'm sharing scripture that
resonated with. Me but as you, know resonance is, Everything
so just make sure that you find scripture that resonates with.
You but also it's up to you to Meet god.
There that's really All i'm inviting you to. Do and
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really the big point of this, conversation like what if
you simply started looking at your relationship with your body
and your body image and even your chronic, Pain like
what if it was all A god and spiritual conversation
and a faith meets science conversation rather than just a
strictly physical. One you, know this is the stuff that's
happening in our own brains and, accs whether we're aware
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of it or. Not but this is also the part
of the brain THAT i believe if we Invite god into,
it who like absolute miracles can, happen like our minds
can be renewed and. Identities lifelong identities can be, reshaped
and hope and healing in our physical health and body
image can be something that we can continually Invite god
into the. Conversation and as, always it's an invitation without
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expectation to just try on a new story or new
perspective and see what meets you where you.
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Are in your own.
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Journey but now you're also seeing that this is the
perfect place to Invite god into the conversation Because.
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He wants to meet you.
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There he delights in supporting, you and again we know
he's closest to the broken. Hearted so if you're still
wondering What's god got to do with your relationship with
your body and your body image and your body, Brain
i'm here to tell you it's. Everything everything you know
and everything you didn't know you didn't. Know so we
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will be back next week for part six to round
out this series and our final weight of The, Weight
SO i will talk to you Then. Bye that's it
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I am so excited as this is the very first
official crossover series of What's God Got to Do with It?
In the Outweigh podcast, Because if you've been listening to
me on Outwegh, you know that that podcast is all
about helping women break them selves out of the food
and body prison, end the dieting madness, and take control
of their health for good, but without all that restriction,
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obsession and shame, and without dragging it out.
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For years to address it. And if you've been.
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Listening to me on What's God Got to Do with It,
you know that we are all about the fusion of
where science meets faith and where faith meets transformation and miracles.
So this is a beautiful opportunity to talk about the
crossover of where science meets food and body image and
self image struggles and where that intersects faith or what's
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God got to do.
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With all of that.
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And that's exactly what this six part series is all about.
So Part one is really just an introduction where we're
simply going to set up this massive topic. Part two
is all about the big picture of where faith meets
science meets food and body image struggles. In Part three,
we go deep into the self image and idea that
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you would need to actually step into the version of
you that would have that health, that would have that
relationship with food in her body, and who would actually
be at peace and feel free, and of course how
that fuses with this faith brain conversation. In Part four,
we dive deeper into what God has to do with
what I call your food brain and disordered eating patterns
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and filling voids in your head hard in spirit with
food or netflix or wine or whatever your drug of
choice is, and it's a whole that will never be
filled by those things. In Part five, we dive into
the complicated relationship that women have with their bodies and
their body image and physical pain, which is not talked
about enough in my opinion, and how to heal all
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of that from a faith meets science perspective and invite
God into the conversation, and then wrapping it up in
part six, we get into the strategy side of things,
as in, what does it look like to use what
you've learned about neuroscience and faith and healing your relationship
with food and your body image to go create a
winning game plan that sets you up to win and
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one that your brain just learns so you can go
live your life. Food can be food, and you can
feel comfortable in your skin and free from the chains
of restricting or punishing your body. So let's dive on in.
Here's part five. Welcome back to the Outweigh and What's
God Got to Do with It crossover series, and we
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are back to go narrower and deeper into this food
and body image conversation while we invite God into the conversation.
And so if you missed parts one, two, three, and four,
definitely check those out because we talked about the big
picture of this entire faith meets science meets food and
body image conversation, and we took a deep dive into
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the self image and identity that you need to actually
step into the version of you that would have that
health that would have that relationship with food in her body,
and who would actually be at peace and feel free.
And then last week we talked about what God has
to do with what I call your food brain and
disordered eating patterns and just filling voids in your heart
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and your head and your spirit with food or netflix
or wine or whatever your drug of choice is. And
it's a whole that will never be filled by those things.
And then of course how to fuse that with this
faith brain conversation. And today we're going to talk all
about what I call your body brain, which includes your
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physical body. And we're going to talk about this from
a nervous system perspective and a physiological health perspective. But
I'm sure you're probably starting to understand that we can't
talk about the physical body side of things without also
talking about the body image and your view of your
body and your relationship with your body. And as you'll learn,
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I believe that the physical body and your perception of
your body are one thousand percent intertwined. I want to
remind you that this is a massive topic and I'm
not here claiming that this podcast episode is going to
solve you know, years of struggles with your body or
your body image, or even chronic pain, because we're going
to talk about that too, actually, but this is not
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even close to a substitute for actually getting the support
and the one on one guidance that you need. And
so a lot of women and of course men if
you're listening, have a really complicated relationship with their bodies.
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You know, just keep in mind I work with.
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People very intensively for months at a time to help
them really heal this and put the problem to bed
and get off the put a band aid.
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On it roller coaster.
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And so to try to distill it down into one
podcast episode, you know, we're going to cover a lot
of ground. But this is not me promising like a
one and done solution, right. My hope again is just
to help you understand yourself better so that you can
approach your struggles with compassion and care rather than judgment
or shame. And that's why I'm going to, you know,
share my own journey as we go. But first I'll
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start by kind of bottom lining it again for you,
because you know I like to do that, and so
if I were to bottom line how to heal your
body and your body image, struggles through the lens of faith.
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I would say this, First.
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You must end the love hate war that you're in
with your body and your body image, and really, you know,
die to your old self and step into a whole
new identity with new beliefs and thoughts and behaviors. In
a way, you have to become a new version of yourself,
and you have to radically transform your being, and you
must become the version of yourself that thinks and lives
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and believes this.
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New way of being.
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And then from that place you can address the habits
and the behaviors. And yes, this is the part that
most people skip over because it's not as sexy as
a band aid or you know, lose thirty pounds and
thirty minutes, But again it is so imperative. And then
after that we can talk about the other part of it,
which is you have to heal the cycle and the
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habits and the behaviors, and you've got to address the
wiring in your brain that's causing you to believe what
you're believing and seeing what you're seeing about your body,
and that's causing you to move the way that you
move or don't move, and treat yourself in your body,
the way that you treat it or don't treat it,
and just feel the way that you feel or don't
feel about yourself. And so as you remember, you know
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I shared this from last week, you've got to ditch
what I call the weight of the weight if you
truly want to be free. Because again, when you've been
stuck in the food and body struggle for years or decades,
or you know, sometimes it's a lifetime, it's like there's
these heavy chains of thoughts and beliefs and behaviors that
you've been carrying around in your brain and your heart
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and your spirit really for probably as long as you
can remember, if not many many years, And those heavy,
rusty chains are what feels so heavy day to day.
And so the weight on your body isn't the real
weight that needs to be ditched. The real weight is
all of this other stuff, like those chains of beliefs
and behaviors and shame that you've been carrying around with you.
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And there is no shame in this whatsoever. It's what
I learned, It's what happened to me, it's what happened
to all of my clients too.
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They learned it too.
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But until you break the chains, you are going to
keep walking around with them, and they're just gonna keep
getting heavier. And if you're anything like I was, and
like my clients were, you kind of become desensitized to
them and they start to feel normal because they're disguised
as you being air quotes, you know, health conscious or
I'm just getting fit or I'm just you know, taking
care of myself. Right, But these chains are not normal.
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The chains that bog down your head and your heart
and your spirit and really inturn your body, they are
chains that also do not have to be there.
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And so we're having.
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These important conversations today because you don't want to be
carrying them around anymore. But again, it's just been happening
so long it finally like essentially becomes normal.
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It feels like it's normal.
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Right, So let's break those chains and so that we
really can go ditch that weight. And that's why we're
going to cover two more weight of the weights that
are so relevant to this body, brain and body image conversation.
But first, do you remember maybe you don't, I'll share again,
but in part one I kind of shared how my
first weight Watchers meeting was the catalyst for everything. I
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was taken there when I was seven or eight, and
from there on out, food and my body became this
very personal and emotional thing, and more importantly, you know,
toxic shame became a very integrated.
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Character in the story of my life.
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But it's also when I started thinking that there was
something bad or wrong or broken about me and my body.
And I started from a young age also learning about
movement and exercise as something that you just did if
you wanted to work it off, work off what you ate,
or you know, try to lose some weight. I remember
in elementary school like thinking that was what exercise was,
and that in itself actually became a prison for me.
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And even though I finally you know, I've shared this before,
but I hit my first enough as enough point, and
then through a lot of wrong ways and some of
the right ways, I went on and I lost a
lot of weight, close to one hundred pounds, and this
even inspired me to start my first business working with
women on their own weight loss journeys.
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But here's the thing, I.
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Learned the same eat less, move more, no pain, no
gain equation that a lot of the mainstream teaches young
women who kind of think that losing weight will magically
solve all their problems.
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I mean, that's what I thought.
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And even though yeah, I did technically lose the weight, like, yeah,
I lost one hundred pounds, I got to my lowest weight,
and I could wear sleeveless halter tops any days of
the week without feeling ashamed of my arms. But I
never addressed my addiction like pull to food and then
of course my punishment driven relationship to exercise. So I
still felt like I was a slave to whatever it was,
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whether it was dieting or exercise, because I would bounce
from one extreme to the other, like I would restrict
and punish my body until let's face it, I just
couldn't take it anymore, like I had something had to give,
and so of course I would just rebound to the
opposite where for me it was like you know, care free, abandonment,
eating whatever I could get my hands on, and then
of course I would feel guilty and I would try
to go out exercise my overeating, and so of course,
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like not only was I the opposite of free, because
this is not freedom, but I was the opposite of happy,
right And because yeah, like I lost the weight, but
I never transformed my identity and I brought all of
my old habits and thinking and behaviors with me. Now,
keep in mind, at this point, I still didn't really
have God in my life, or you know, at least
I didn't know that I did. I didn't know that
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God was there, even though I know he was there.
But by some divine miracle that I just have to
give glory to God, I did eventually have the insight
and the awareness to realize I was never going to
be able to outdiet or outwork or outsmart the wiring
in my brain and in my self image.
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And so I hit my next enough is.
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Enough point, because I had a lot of them right,
and I finally drew that line in the sand, and
I just I made a firm commitment to myself that day,
even though I didn't know what it looked like, that
I would never be in a place of that crazy
restriction or obsession again. And I decided to examine my
habits and my mindset around food and my body. But
that was only one side of it, okay, Because yeah,
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I definitely had to go do that. I had to
heal my relationship with food, my body, image, rewire my brain, all.
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Of that good stuff.
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So that's what I did, and ironically, that's what God
had in store for me to help other women do
for themselves and what paved the way for my stressless
eeding and self image curriculum that I've been teaching for
over a decade. But like I started to say, that
was only one side of it. There was actually another
curveball in the mix that took place essentially smack dab
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in the middle of the part of the story that I.
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Was just sharing.
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So now I want to rewind back, you know, sixteen
seventeen years something like that. So it was like two
thousand and seven, two thousand and eight, and my anesthesiologist
had me counting backwards from one hundred as the surgical
team was getting ready to go in and microscopically remove
the calcified hardened disc fluid that had been sitting on
my nerves, the nerves of my lumbar spine for the
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past eight months. And so now it's a procedure that
I endearingly call the cost of skinny, and I lovingly
call it that because I was so focused on getting
skinny or lean or toned or whatever words ruled my brain.
At the time, I didn't pay attention to or really
tune into what my body needed and what it was
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screaming at me to do. And so, you know, I
look back and I'm like, if only I had listened
to the screams for my body to slow down and
chill out and actually just take care of my body,
because I really see now it was screaming at me,
maybe it could have all been avoided, but at the
time I didn't care. Right at the time, I just
wanted to be you know, skinny or beautiful or whatever
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vision I had in my mind of the thing that
would make me happy, and no back pain or injury
or pesky flare up was gonna stop me until it
finally did stop me, and I didn't have a choice.
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It didn't just stop me.
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It landed me on an operating table at the Cleveland
Metro Hospital for major spine surgery at the ripe old
age of twenty five.
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But it wasn't just that.
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I also afterwards had a lot of neurological struggles after
the surgery that no one could really help me with.
Like the original back pain wasn't really there anymore, but
now I had nerve damage. I had all of a sudden,
I had balance issues, I had what I now would
consider like a sensory processing disorder that I'd never had before.
And I had residual pain in other parts of my body.
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So now it wasn't my back, but it was like
my knee, I hit my foot whatever. Right, Plus the
anesthesia is most likely what gave me something called postural hypotension,
which is a very benign thing.
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It's just more annoying.
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But again, it was more things that I was like, great,
how else is my body broken? But then on top
of that, emotionally and mentally, I just felt different. It
was hard for me to describe, but it's almost like
when the lights went out when I went under anesthesia.
I just felt different when the lights came back on.
I can't fully describe it, so I'm just doing my
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best to describe it here.
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But so now picture this.
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If you take a girl, a woman who already feels
unworthy and unlovable and undesirable because all she's ever known
is seeing herself through what I now lovingly call the
fat goggles of her self image. Like I literally was
calling myself that from a young age. Right, So that
became my fat goggles. And then now you throw on
the story that she's also you know, damaged goods or broken,
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because that's how I felt because of my body. You
can only imagine how low my inner world god at
that point. But I will say the spoiler alert, God
redeemed all of that too, as you're gonna come to learn.
Because that major spine surgery and what I now call
the face off between you know, my fat head and
my skinny head, it's really what drove me to start
obsessively studying the female brain, more specifically this science of
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the self image that I talk about all the time,
and then what caused me to dieve really head deep
into studying and getting to know this little thing called
the nervous system. It really started with the physiological stuff
that I was telling you, and I was like, oh,
there's something called a nervous system I should know about
that because this is not a muscular, skeletal thing, this
is higher up. Which also, like studying about the nervous
system completely transformed my life because it helped me take
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ownership of my new physiological struggles that I mentioned, but
also my chronic pain, which is something I never had before.
I had a cute pain from the back injury, but
I never had chronic pain like this, and sensory issues
and balance issues and all the things. But the point
of me sharing this is that I promise you your
journey has a purpose. Even if you've been struggling or
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suffering for years. God has been and will continue teaching
you through those experiences if you wake up to the lessons,
if you allow Him to teach you through those right.
And there are so many faces of disorder that have
nothing to do with food, and that that's why I'm
continuing to just share the many layers of my journey
because they all have a place, and they all have
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a purpose. And I truly believe there's a message for
you in your messiness, and there's clarity waiting for you
on the other side of your own chaos, and there's
purpose for you to find in the midst of your
own pain. But first you must break the chains, and
you must break the strongholds, and you've got to dismantle
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the beliefs that are keeping you stuck in an identity
that's just perpetuating more and more pain and heartache and disorder.
And so you've got to break those chains and ditch
the weight of the weight and die to that old
story and step into a new one.
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So that's literally what we're going to start doing right now.
So let's dive on in.
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And that's why the next set of chains that we
have to break, and the next weight of the weight
is the weight of being your own biggest critic and
the weight of being in a war with yourself and
with your body. It is the weight of harsh judgments
and self criticism and guilt and shame and blame and
comparisonitis and perfectionism in your self image and your self talk.
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And so when I talk about ending this war that
you're in with yourself and waving the white flag and
stepping into a new story about your body, this is
what I mean. And I love this non biblical parable
because it just sums up what I'm trying to say perfectly.
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Goes like this.
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One evening, an old Cherokee Indian told his grandson about
a battle that goes on inside people.
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He said, my son, the battle is between.
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Two wolves inside of us. All one wolf is evil.
It's anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, pity, self, pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies,
false pride, superiority, and ego.
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The other is good. It is joy, peace, love.
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Hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then
asked his grandfather which wolf wins. The old Cherokee simply replied,
the one you feed. So really, I mean, you can
look at this darkness light, the enemy Satan versus God,
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right like, so what are you feeding?
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You know?
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Are you feeding your relationship with God and how he
sees you? And really the beauty and perfection that you
already are. And you don't have to hustle for it.
You don't have to lose weight for it, you don't
have to change a thing about yourself for it. And
I'll say this too, like, even if you don't like
what you weigh right now, or there's certain elements of
your body that you don't like, it does not have
to strip you of your right to feel worthy and
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loved and known right now, Like two things can be
true at the same time. And so are you pursuing
your own pursuits of getting your you know, metaphorical self
image cup filled from your gene size or your scale
weight or your calorie count or whatever.
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And what are you feeding?
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Are you feeding guilt by feeling guilty about what you
did or didn't eat or do, or you know, feeding
shame by feeling ashamed of your body and ashamed of
your habits or the behaviors or who you're showing up as.
And are you feeding blame by continually blaming yourself or
blaming others or blaming those darn irresistible cookies? Are you
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feeding comparison ititis by constantly comparing yourself to where.
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You think you should be or what you should.
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Be doing, or you know, just really comparing your worst
to someone else's best or the like what you think
are other people's best, like the highlight reel on social media?
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Right?
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And are you feeding perfectionism by letting your inner perfectionists
run the show? And I promise you with her, it
is never enough, okay, you will never be doing enough
or good enough, or smart enough or skinny enough or
just enough period.
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And this is the part that's not working.
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And this is what's causing you so much unhappiness, And
this is what's causing you to feel like you're in
a war with yourself and with your body, and this
is what's causing you to feel further from God, which
I promise you God just wants to be close to you.
And that's why, little by little we want to feed
this less and feed God's view of you more. So,
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what's the faith meets science perspective of this look like? Right?
That's that's my thoughts and I'm using a parable to
describe it. But let's take a look at the clues
that we kind of left ourselves a little breadcrumbs from
a couple weeks ago. And so remember how I told
you that the experiment that when humans have what they
call the ultimate friend, and this is from the science
based research that we looked at a couple weeks ago,
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when humans have what they call the ultimate friend on
their side, it made a big difference when it comes
to self respect and self worth. And how I shared
with you, there was literally a study that showed the
impact of faith on self image and self worth. And
so if you miss that, go ahead and listen to
part two of this series. But again, I want to
point out that the kind of relationship with God and
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Christ that this study specifically talked about they were referred
to having a relationship with Christ where he was like
the ultimate friend, and they called it a divine being
who cared about them. And so this is relationship that's
not religion. It's not a punishment or shame driven God.
It's a relationship with a loving, redeeming God and a
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heavenly Father who sees you and loves you just as
you are. And you don't have to earn.
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It or work for it.
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So let's look at what God has to say about
it by going to his word. And so this is
from First Samuel sixteen seven, and it says, but the
Lord said to Samuel, don't judge by his appearance or height,
for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn't see things
the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance.
But the Lord looks at the heart. The Lord looks
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at the heart. And so how often is our self
image and body image based solely on what we look
like or quantifiable things like skill weeight or gene size. Right, Remember,
the Lord looks at the heart.
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I love this from Isaiah sixty one seven.
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It says, instead of your shame, you will receive a
double portion, and instead of disgrace, you will rejoice in
your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion
in your hand, an everlasting joy will be yours. And
I promise you it is true. If you stop basing
your view of yourself based on your own worldly self,
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or at least ask God to show you. God will
show you worthiness that you could never have imagined. And
Scripture says double portion, but I honestly feel like he
one hundred xd my own self worth when I stopped
looking for the worldly ways and I started just asking
God how he sees me? And yeah, that started with
me going down the brain and science rabbit hole. But
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when I started asking, you know, what's God got to
do with all this, you know, body image stuff and
this self image stuff, and what does God reflect back
to me in the mirror of my own self perception?
What happened is beyond description. And so I use words now,
like you know, miracles, because that's what it felt like
after thirty years of toxic shame and having self rejection
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and self abandonment as my emotional home. And that's why
I'm just inviting you to try this on, like try
on that you're not crazy or weak willed, and that
you just have a brain, and ask God to fill
you with new beliefs and new elements of your identity
and step into your own rebirth, because the alternative is
simply walking around with more and more heavy heavy chains
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and the weight of the weight of your own harsh
judgments and self criticism and guilt and shame and blame
and ugly comparison itis and perfectionism. That's in your self
image and self talk and body talk.
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I get it.
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You know, most women take a look at this last
when thinking about food and body struggles.
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They think like, Okay, what can I do?
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But it's like, no, if you've been being your hyperjudgmental
self critical, shaming, blaming and comparing self your whole life,
that does and just magically go away if you lose
weight or if you you know, work out for a
few days, Because this is not just in your mind,
and it's not in your body. It's in your brain
and self image, and it's as you're learning, it's in
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your spirit and identity. And you can't outdiet and outperform
or outsmart your identity. But when you invite God into
the conversation. That's when chains can actually break. And that's
why if somewhere along the line, your body or you know,
really the enemy tricked you into thinking that it was
unattractive or undesirable or a pain in the butt, a
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nuisance or a burden. And also like for me it
was like my body was like I built stories like no,
you're never going to be able to trust it or
predict it or like it. If you feel any of
those things, I truly believe you need a better story
about your body. And if your body image was formed
in the eyes of food shame or fat shame or
body shame, and it's really keeping you from feeling beautiful
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and powerful and confident and worthy, you need a bye
story about your body and a new story. And if
you're comparing your body to someone else that you think
is smaller or more desirable or fit or perfect air
quotes perfect, and it's not making you feel very good,
you need a new.
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And better story about your body.
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And if you're comparing your body to something else like
a number or a measurement or a picture, or really
just a common opinion of what you think is good, bad, right,
or wrong, and again it's not making you feel very good.
You need a new and better story about your body.
And really it's time to end the war that you're
in with yourself so that you can stop fighting and
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restricting and punishing it and blaming it and shaming it
and comparing your body and just go get right with it.
And that's why I invite you to push pause on
starting that new diet and hold off on starting that
new workout thing or membership or whatever, and go get
right with your body.
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Wave the white flag, get on the.
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Same page, except that it's yours and you'll have to
have it the rest of your life, right, and that
you get to choose to take care of it the
rest of your life, and then commit to taking care
of it because you only have one, and then figure
out after that how you want to influence it if
you want to change it. But in the meantime, I'm
inviting you to stop being so cruel to yourself. In
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the meantime and you know, quit with the mental jobs
and the verbal smack talking and really treating yourself like dirt,
because you want to change your body and lay down
the weapons of judgment and restriction and punishment and control
that food and exercise have become to you, and go
get right with your body because you are only fighting
and battling and resisting yourself, and you deserve so much more,
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so much more. So I'll just leave it at that
for now, because I could go on and on about
this subject, because once again it's it's a biggie. But
I want to head on over to the next chain
that we have to break and the stronghold, and really
break it down. Break the chains, break the strongholds of
the next weight of the weight is what I call
the weight of waiting for the weight to go. Be
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who you want to be and do what you want
to do, or live the life that you.
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Really want to live. Are you waiting for the weight
to go?
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Do that?
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And this is again where I'll remind you.
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What God said when he said in two Corinthians five seventeen. Therefore,
if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
The old has passed, Behold, the new has come. And
I fell into the victim mentality for years, just kind
of waiting for that thing, that one magical thing that
I thought would make me happy, you know, or make
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me go live the life I truly wanted to live
and the life that was waiting for me right then,
like right now, And in my case, I thought it
was my weight that would make me happy, but it
kept me stuck in that victim mentality, feeling like I
had no choice, and it left me feeling like a
victim to my own circumstances. And trust me, I am
no victim, and neither are you. And so I'm just
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here to lovingly ask you, like, where are you waiting
for the wait? Where are you waiting for things to
get better on their own, or waiting for someone to
do it for you or want it for you, or
maybe waiting for discipline or willpower to magically show up,
or you know, waiting for the perfect time that you
know this is in air quotes, of course, the perfect
moment or for things to be air quotes perfect, and
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waiting to start finding the beautiful, confident, powerful, worthy version
of yourself that you are right now, but you just
haven't seen her in a while or maybe ever, maybe
you've never met her right and also waiting for the
weight to be who you want to be and do
what you want to do and feel how you desperately.
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Want to feel.
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Okay, And I'm here to tell you don't have to
keep waiting, like don't make the same mistake that I made,
Like don't wait for your body to be a certain
size or a certain shape to go start living, and
don't wait for things to go magically.
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Go get better.
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Invite God into this conversation, and go meet yourself right now,
just as you are at this exact weight or gene size,
with your current level of skills and experience, and just
start living. That is my invitation to you and the
seeds that I really want to plant into your brain
before we dig a bit deeper into some research that
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actually supports faith meeting science on the physiological side of things.
I really wanted to get that planted in your brain first.
But now we're going to go into that side of
it because something that's happening to a lot of women
and again men, if you're listening, is this combination or
it's really like a sticky tangled web that happens with
our physiology as it relates to our emotions and our
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mental state.
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And so here's what I mean.
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So we looked at the ACC last week, the anterior
smulate cortex as it has to do with you know,
coping mechanisms and filling voids. Right, But you really can't
look at that side of the ACC without looking at
the part of your brain or the part of your
ACC I should say that manages or soothes pain, right,
So it's like seeking pleasure and soothing pain. They're literally
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in the same part of the brain. They're just two
sides of the same coin. And so something interesting about
the ACC, as we talked about last week, it has
one of the highest densities of opiate receptors in your brain,
but it also has one of the highest densities of
pain receptors in your brain as well. So, like I
said before, if I hurt my shoulder, the injury itself
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is in the shoulder, but a lot of the pain
that I'm experienced is actually being processed by the ACC.
And this is where I'll also say, and I won't
go too deep into this because it's also a big topic,
but there's a lot of evidence based research that's being
done and that has been done on the social emotional
pain that humans experience, where emotional pain is actually manifesting
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as physiological pain. So, for example, take something like fibromial
which is typically regarded as a physical pain disorder, and
still to this day it's almost like a mystery to
a lot.
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Of people, including the medical community.
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But there's been studies that show There's this one particular
study that shows when a FIBROMYALGA sufferer is placed under
an fMRI machine, the brain scan shows that the ACC
was essentially firing and overdrive. And that same study, it
showed that the number one treatment for fibromyalgia wasn't physical
therapy or pain management meds, and it wasn't weight loss
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or anything physical for that matter. The number one most
effective treatment for fibromyalgia in that study was getting them
connected with other fibromyalgia sufferers. It was getting them in
community and connecting their social brain their ACC to other
humans going through the same thing. That was the most
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effective treatment for fibromiologia in that study. And what this
study concluded was that fibrobiologia could very well be a
social emotional disorder, not a physical one. And so let's
break that down. In other words, the ACC was in pain.
It showed us on the brain scan, right, and there
was what would could be considered like a sensory mismatch,
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meaning that the emotional pain centers were firing, but it
was just manifesting physiologically. Because remember those emotional pain centers
and the physiological pain receptors are all a big like
they're in different parts of the brain, but they're predominantly
a lot of them are in the ACC. And so
when they attended to this social emotional pain in the ACC,
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so remember things like loneliness or isolation or all of
this self image stuff that we're talking about, the physiological
pain decreased significantly when they attended to the social emotional
side of it.
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It decreased the.
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Pain way more than with pain meds or PT physical therapy, right,
And so feeding and taking care of the social emotional
brain is what helped most with their physical thing, right,
And so this is so fascinating, right, Like this brain
stuff to me was revelatory because again it made me realize, like, Okay,
I'm not crazy, I'm not weak willed, I'm not weird
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or different. I just need to learn how to take
care of my brain, including my social emotional brain. Like
I take care of my body, right, like I brush
my teeth or wash my hair. But if you think
that's cool, let's take a look at another study. Where
faith meets science when it comes to physical pain. So
a study out of Canada in two thousand and eight,
and it was thirty seven thousand people aged fifteen years
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and up. Okay, so it was you know, teenagers were included,
but thirty seven thousand people is a pretty good amount
of people, right, And so this is what it concluded
faith based individuals. And by the way, they literally defined
faith based individuals as people that had worship. It was
measured by worship frequency together with the importance of spiritual values.
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So people that worshiped and had spiritual values. So faith
based individual us, based on that definition that I just shared,
we're associated with lower levels of chronic pain and fatigue syndromes.
But on top of that, frequent worship attendance was also
associated with better psychological well being in the population that
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had chronic pain and fatigue. So it didn't just help
chronic pain and fatigue, it helped psychologically.
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For the people that had chronic pain and fatigue.
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That's like two different things, right, And so faith was
associated with the use of positive psychological and positive physiological
coping mechanisms.
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And so here's the deal.
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The evidence based science is pointing to the fact that
having a faith life and our relationship with God and
prayer and worship is literally a pain reliever. So let's
take a look even further by looking to God's word
and seeing what God has to say about it. So
from Psalm six' to, two it, says have compassion on, Me,
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lord FOR i am weak Me, lord for my bones
are an.
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Agony AND i.
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Feel like this is literally a prayer that we can
call out To. God, right this is an example of
Asking god for healing and strength and for relief from the,
agony which we just learned that faith and prayer is
scientifically proven to help alleviate, pain and The bible just
aligns with.
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This and then In philippians.
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Four, thirteen it, says FOR i can do everything Through,
christ who gives me. Strength and this just reminds, me
so look To god for, strength and, yeah, like don't
hear What i'm not. Saying definitely do all that you
can do for yourself physically and heal from what's ailing, you,
like use your free. Will but to, me this reminds
me to Let god do the heavy lifting and he
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gives me true inner strength WHEN i might feel physically
weak FOR i can do everything Through, christ who gives me.
Strength and, then of course there's this scripture that has
given me so much peace in so many different. Situations
It's psalm thirty four, eighteen and it says The Lord
word is close to the broken. Hearted he rescues those
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whose spirits are. Crushed because let's be, honest and, like
when you think about, it pain or unexplained illness or
physical mental emotional distress and, yeah body image, struggles they
can all be this like soul sucking and spirit crushing.
Thing and even when the circumstances feel like it's more
than you can, bear this scripture reminds me that this
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is When god is closest to your. Reach The lord
is close to the broken, hearted and he rescues those
who are whose spirits are.
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CRUSHED i don't want.
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To make a blanket, statement BUT i know for, ME
i used to think that WHEN i was broken, hearted
that's When god was the Furthest and it's, like, no
that's when he wants you to lean. In that's when
he's the closest to, you like he wants to be
there for. You. Right so these are just some examples
of the healing power Of god's word and the healing
power of faith and the healing power Of. Jesus but,
again don't take my word for it, blindly like try it,
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on like Ask god to fill you with new beliefs
and new faith and new elements of your identity and
step into your own. Rebirth And i'm sharing scripture that
resonated with. Me but as you, know resonance is, Everything
so just make sure that you find scripture that resonates with.
You but also it's up to you to Meet god.
There that's really All i'm inviting you to. Do and
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really the big point of this, conversation like what if
you simply started looking at your relationship with your body
and your body image and even your chronic, Pain like
what if it was all A god and spiritual conversation
and a faith meets science conversation rather than just a
strictly physical. One you, know this is the stuff that's
happening in our own brains and, accs whether we're aware
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of it or. Not but this is also the part
of the brain THAT i believe if we Invite god into,
it who like absolute miracles can, happen like our minds
can be renewed and. Identities lifelong identities can be, reshaped
and hope and healing in our physical health and body
image can be something that we can continually Invite god
into the. Conversation and as, always it's an invitation without
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expectation to just try on a new story or new
perspective and see what meets you where you.
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Are in your own.
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Journey but now you're also seeing that this is the
perfect place to Invite god into the conversation Because.
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He wants to meet you.
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There he delights in supporting, you and again we know
he's closest to the broken. Hearted so if you're still
wondering What's god got to do with your relationship with
your body and your body image and your body, Brain
i'm here to tell you it's. Everything everything you know
and everything you didn't know you didn't. Know so we
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will be back next week for part six to round
out this series and our final weight of The, Weight
SO i will talk to you Then. Bye that's it
for today's episode of The What's God got To Do With?
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