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The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

1KHO 645: The Cost of Ignoring Our Limitations | Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Justin Whitmel Earley once believed he could outwork sleep, outrun stress, and think his way out of anxiety until his body forced him to face the truth. In this powerful return to The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, Justin shares how a sudden collapse into panic, insomnia, and intrusive thoughts exposed the danger of living as if we are machines instead of human beings with God-given limits. Together, Justin and Ginny unpack the core message of his newest book, The Body Teaches the Soul—that many of our deepest struggles aren’t solved by trying harder, but by relearning how to live inside the design of our bodies through breath, rest, rhythm, and habit. From box breathing and breath prayers to Sabbath, sleep, and the quiet power of daily “trellis habits,” this conversation brings theology down into the lungs, the nervous system, the dinner table, and the bedtime routine. You’ll hear how limits are not a punishment but a gift and how ignoring them quietly erodes our peace, our families, and our faith. This episode is for anyone who feels stretched thin, chronically tired, or quietly anxious as well as for parents trying to pass something better to their children. Check out Justin’s podcast here: https://www.intentionalfatherhood.org Get your copy of The Body Teaches the Soul here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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All right. Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Urge. I'm the founder of

0:33.9

1000 Hours Outside. And back for time at number four because he's written an incredible new book is Justin Whitmill. Early, welcome. Thank you, Jenny. I often say, like, oh, thanks for having me back. But I don't think anyone has had me back for the fourth time. So this is a new record for me that I'm super proud of because of how much everyone in my life loves you and I'm like, wow, I feel really special

0:54.7

to get to come back for our fourth time. Four times. We talked about all of your different books. One of the books I got was, we talked about this, but it was like a large print edition. Yeah. I got it in the mail and it was like three feet big. You know, it's like, this is interesting. but I've really gotten so much about habits for the household and the way that we structure our daily lives.

1:15.7

So you come out with this new book that is so relatable to Christians in particular, but to anyone who, you know, is working on their faith.

1:23.1

And it's called The Body teaches the Soul, Ten Habits, Ten Essential Habits from a Healthy and Holy Life.

1:28.5

And the whole premise is that we often look at our faith from this head perspective.

1:32.8

Like if I could just force my head to not be anxious, if I could just tell my head, if I could

1:38.3

just repeat these verses.

1:40.5

And you have this whole breakdown of your body and it changes the course of your life where you're like, wait a minute, there is theology in the way that we treat our body. It's all connected. So can you talk about the breakdown? Because the breakdown was pretty extensive, even though the doctor was like, this is common. But part of it was because you couldn't sleep, you're having all this

2:00.9

anxiety, and they give you sleeping pills, and your body actually reacts negatively to the sleeping

2:05.5

pills. Yes. This was a really awful time in my life. Fortunately, it's 10 years ago now. But I learned

2:12.8

so much from it, Jenny. And one of the things I learned was that this is actually such a common experience

2:18.2

for people. So I do think it's worth sharing about a lot because of that. It was about 10 years ago.

2:24.3

I had just become a lawyer. I was a missionary before that. So, you know, I am a stress-free, very

2:32.8

spiritual person, new family, my, you, my wife and two kids, there's nothing in my life

2:39.6

that would have signaled for me, this guy's about to collapse mentally.

2:44.3

And I've found a lot of people are like me in that somewhere in their 30s, tends to be early 30s, but it could be late too.

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