Hello and welcome to the Emmis for Mama podcast I'm your host Abby Halberstadt

happy wife mama to 10 Bible Bible Believing Christian.

And on today's show, I'm taking a little bit of a pivot

from the thing that I thought I was going to talk about

and instead addressing kind of a hot button issue, hopefully and primarily and exclusively from a biblical perspective,

because it's what the Lord laid on my heart to talk about today.

And it's been on my brain for a couple of days because I had an absolute meltdown over this issue about three days ago.

So what's the issue? Well it's body image and I say it's a hot button issue because this

is something that has become sort of a battle cry for women, this concept of body

positivity, of accepting yourself, of rebelling against cultural norms for beauty or on the flip side we see reality shows like the

Kardashians and others I'm sure real housewives and things like that where they're

they're perpetuating completely unrealistic

stereotypes of beauty standards so you have

liposuction and injections and Botox and out of post, you know, enhancements in your rear end, Brazilian butt lifts, I think that's what they're called.

You have this idea that your face is never supposed to sag, never supposed to age, that your

hips are never supposed to widen even if you have children, that your breasts are supposed

to say perky and never have stretch marks, you know, that you're just never supposed to show your

age and that's the ultimate goal.

So I often find that while biblical Christianity is seen as extreme by many in our culture,

when you actually look at the reasonableness of it, at the truth of it, it's

nestled in this very middle ground, not lukewarm, but balanced area.

And again, it's undergirded by God's truth.

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