Breaking Free from Body Shame with Jess Connolly

Stay True with Madison Prewett Troutt

Madison Prewett Troutt

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Hey True Crew! This week, Madi is joined by best selling author and speaker Jess Connolly for a raw and redemptive conversation about body image, body shame, and the deep wounds we carry when it comes to how we see ourselves. Together, Madi and Jess open up about their personal battles with body shame and how to find freedom, healing, and a new identity rooted in truth. Body image isn’t just a physical struggle, it’s a spiritual fight. And the truth is: God didn’t get it wrong when He made you. If you’ve ever stood in front of a mirror and felt disgust, defeat, or deep shame, you are not alone. This episode is for the person who feels stuck in a cycle of comparison, for the one striving to meet impossible standards, and for anyone ready to find freedom from the lies we believe about our bodies.

As always, stay you and stay true!

Questions/topics discussed and answered:
-What body shame really is and how to recognize it in your own life
-Why body image issues often go deeper than we realize
-How to break free from society’s standard of beaut
-Practical advice for people struggling with a need for validation
-The root of body shame
-What to do when someone you love is body-shaming you
-How to break free from body shame

Helpful Resources:

Breaking Free From Body Shame: Dare to Reclaim What God Has Named Good
by Jess Connolly: https://a.co/d/9gQUagh

Dare To Be True: Defeat The Lies That Bind You and Live Out The Truth That Frees You by Madison Prewett Troutt: https://a.co/d/gdfpHX5

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💙 Follow Jess | @jessaconnolly

Transcript

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0:00.0	What is the root of body shame? We don't know the purpose of our bodies. Human approval will take us out every time.
0:07.2	Anytime you are craving human approval, you are trying to steal glory from God.
0:12.2	What do you do when you're trying to break free from body shame, but it feels like you can't break free from your environment that is shaming your body.
0:22.5	You can receive your honor here or you can get it in heaven.
0:25.3	I want it in heaven.
0:26.5	I don't want it here.
0:27.5	What does it look like to have obsession with the way that we look and with the way that
0:32.4	we want other people to perceive us?
0:34.6	A lot of us are waiting for maybe someone else to come and speak truth over
0:37.9	ourselves. But we have autonomy and authority to speak life over our own flesh. We cannot make people
0:44.5	the enemy. The enemy of our souls is the enemy. He's the one who started this war. As an image bearer,
0:49.5	I am literally created to just reflect his image to the world. I think that for many of us, what we're
0:54.6	trying to do is make our bodies good instead of treating them like they already are.
1:06.6	What's up, guys? Welcome back to another episode of Stay True podcast. I'm your host, Madison Pruitt
1:12.4	Trout, here in the Stay True studio with my friend, Jess Connolly. I say friend. We met today,
1:19.3	but you already feel like a friend. You're not getting rid of me now. I might move in here.
1:23.5	I love it here. You guys, we've had to overcome some spiritual warfare to get here just today. And that means that this episode is going to be so good. We feel the Lord present here in this moment. And I'm so excited about today's conversation. Jess, I actually heard about Jess through her book, Breaking Free from Body Shame. Y'all, this book is so good. And I've had so many people tell me how helpful this has been I've had
1:44.7	girls in my life who have struggled with eating disorders that this has like truly been a huge
1:50.0	game changer for them um girls who struggle with just body image and body positivity the whole thing
1:56.0	this has just been such a helpful book so I'm so excited that's actually what we're going to be
2:00.1	talking about today but Jess has written so many other books and is also a mama for incredible kiddos.
2:07.0	And married and her and her husband have a church in South Carolina called Bright City Church.
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