Episode 65: Back in My Body

The Jess Connolly Podcast

Jess Connolly

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Today on the Podcast, we’re exploring what it means to truly live in our bodies—the ones God fearfully and wonderfully made—and why it matters for our faith and our lives.

If you’ve ever felt disconnected from your body, stuck in shame, or struggled to connect with yourself physically, this episode is for you. It’s for anyone with a body who wants to live fully awake to all God has for her.

Let’s explore what it means to get back in our bodies together, in Jesus’ name.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, I'm Jess Connolly. I'm an author, a coach, a Bible teacher, and a local church leader,
0:07.1	and I love talking to real people who know what it means to have full lives, but also want to walk in abundance.
0:14.5	This podcast is for you. It's not my podcast. It's ours. It's for people who crave lighthearted conversations and deeply spiritual truth.
0:25.0	It's for people who are busy, tired, waiting, growing, dreaming, working, or praying about what's next.
0:33.3	Wherever you're listening from, if it's quiet, mundane, or busy, I am praying for you
0:38.8	and I'm so glad you're here. Let's go.
0:44.7	The truth is, out of all the listeners and friends of the Jess Connolly podcast, we have a
0:50.2	broad spectrum of perspectives on all things, health, wellness, mental health, and holistic
0:57.4	living. You might be a person who deeply embraces the idea of embodiment, or you might be a woman
1:04.1	who was taught to deeply distrust her body, seeing any of its desires as sinful or carnal.
1:13.2	Honestly, you could be both of those things combined. Wherever you land, this episode is for you. It's for anyone who has a body and wants
1:21.1	to live fully awake to all God has for her. So today we're asking,
1:27.8	what does it mean to truly live in our bodies?
1:32.0	The ones God fearfully and wonderfully made.
1:35.2	And what does it matter?
1:36.8	How does it impact our faith and our lives when we do so?
1:41.9	If you've ever felt disconnected from your body,
1:44.0	caught up in shame,
1:45.1	or just had a hard time connecting with your own body, this conversation is for you. We're getting
1:52.1	back in our bodies in Jesus' name. So here's the deal. When I wrote Breaking Free from Body Shame back in 2020, I didn't really set out to write a body theology book. And that's not what that book is. But as I researched for the book, I realized, wow, this really needs to have some deep groundings of theology because our understanding of our bodies, its purpose,
2:20.6	what it's for, can we trust it? Why was it made? Where is it going? What happens next? All of this
2:27.9	actually really matters. And our lack of understanding or lack of teaching around this
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