Healthy Self / Healthy Marriage: Why Does Physical Health Matter for Marriage? | Ep. 520
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Today Dr. Kim and I are talking about how physical health impacts a marriage. It turns out we're both passionate about pursuing good stewardship with physical health! Dr. Kim shares some of the struggles he and Nancy have had to deal with and how they worked through them, and I share how going from a mentality of body shame to one of gratitude shifted how I approach physical health.
Episode highlights include:
- Why we need a proper theology about our bodies
- How physical health impacts our marriage
- How to start overcoming body shame
- Plus This week's anonymous listener question is about getting on the same page with your spouse about parenting
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
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RESOURCES
- In Breaking Free From Body Shame Jess Connolly gives sound and effective theology about the body
- Are you and your spouse as unified as you'd like? It's time to get on the same page! This Unity Building Journal is designed to help you look at key areas of your marriage and work to get unified.
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. |
| 0:13.4 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. |
| 0:17.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:21.8 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:29.8 | So we are going to spend the next few weeks on the awesome marriage podcast talking about how our health impacts our marriage physically, mentally, |
| 0:38.5 | emotionally and spiritually. We are created in the image of God. We are in bodies. We wouldn't |
| 0:44.7 | be alive if we weren't. And so we need to pay attention to how we steward all these aspects |
| 0:49.3 | of our health that God has given us. Because without them, we would not be able to live. |
| 0:54.7 | We would not be able to have a marriage. |
| 0:55.9 | We wouldn't have relationships. |
| 0:57.4 | So we need to take care of ourselves. |
| 0:59.9 | So today, Dr. Kim, will you start us off by sharing how you realized that physical health is important to your marriage? |
| 1:09.3 | Yes. |
| 1:09.8 | I mean, I think for us, it was probably that first year marriage at the end of that. |
| 1:17.6 | We both coming out of college, we a lot of energy, all this kind of stuff. |
| 1:23.3 | And basically, Nancy tried every recipe her mom had that first year married. |
| 1:28.9 | We both, at the end of that time, were heavier than we ever had been. |
| 1:32.4 | Now, I think we didn't look bad, but we knew we were, it was bothering us. |
| 1:38.1 | We didn't feel quite as good. |
| 1:39.6 | We didn't quite have as much energy. |
| 1:41.3 | And I can remember just sitting down and said, we can't keep eating like this. |
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