172-Body P1: Behold Your Body
Delight Your Marriage
Belah Rose
4.7 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to this brand new series all about body. Body image, food issues, body acceptance, comfort in sex... all of it affects how you make love.
But who made it? Is it yours? Are you responsible for how it looks?
My body image struggles caused me great pain throughout my life. It was my "project." It was my obsession. It was my thing that made me feel OK but also horrible. But as my eating increased, so did my body. And I hated it. I wanted to get liposuction. I prayed God would make me thin. I prayed He'd increase my metabolism. I ordered many ridiculous contraptions that were supposed to make me lose the weight. I binged. I purged.
I share about my eating disorder and what God has brought me out of. Even the times I did lose the weight, did it fix my life? Or were there still things underneath that were still broken?
You can imagine what this all meant about my sex life and connecting to my husband.
If you're anything like me, this is a journey. And in this series where I want to join with you on this struggle.
I think this is a huge barrier to a fulfilling sexual intimacy in your marriage. But where is God in all of this? What might He want you to know about your body?
Do the work to actively engage in this series to change.
Homework:
- What's your food story and your body image?
- Where are you now?
- Where do you want to go, what do you want to feel, what do you want sex to be like?
- And make love to your man this week ("do before you feel")
Next week we continue with Body P2: Know Your Worth, Freedom With Food
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Delight Your Marriage podcast, the show where you hear from amazing and inspiring |
| 0:08.1 | wives sharing their struggles, triumphs, and advice for this journey called marriage. |
| 0:13.9 | Here's your host, Bella Rose. |
| 0:19.6 | Hey, hey, and welcome. This is Bella Rose, and I have got to thank you so much for joining me back in the new year 2018. I'm excited you're here. I hope you had a wonderful, wonderful holiday. And I will say if you haven't gotten a chance to go back and listen to my new year episode, |
| 0:39.3 | I would encourage you to do that. |
| 0:40.7 | There's really fantastic reflections in there that I believe God could really speak to you through. |
| 0:48.1 | So feel free to run back to that one. |
| 0:51.1 | Otherwise, let's dive into this brand new series I am so excited about. I feel like |
| 0:57.4 | God has given me just so much freedom in this area. And I really want to share it with you. |
| 1:03.0 | And I really want to pray that God would change your heart, your life, the way you think about |
| 1:10.1 | yourself, your body, food, all of it. I'm just |
| 1:13.9 | praying that God would give you a greater capacity to be free in it. So I titled this episode, Behold |
| 1:26.1 | Your Body. Because I think that for a lot of my life, I have thought of my body as my |
| 1:35.8 | project, essentially. This is the thing that I have hated from elementary school. I remember being excited to go to middle |
| 1:48.9 | school because in middle school you would walk between classes. So you'd be in like one class, |
| 1:55.9 | science class for an hour and then you would walk down the hallway across the school building to math class for an hour |
| 2:04.2 | and then you would walk across the building around your locker and then back to social studies class |
| 2:13.3 | and all that rock walking i was sure was going to make me lose weight. |
| 2:27.1 | And then I also had the food thing, obviously, which was the, you know, the reason of the, the weight thing and the food thing was a constant issue, right? |
| 2:32.4 | I was always going back for seconds or thirds of things that I really |
| 2:37.4 | liked, especially sweet things. And, you know, I remember awful, but I remember sleeping over |
| 2:45.7 | at friends' houses. And I remember the specific time, but I am sure it happened more than this, but one specific |
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