Welcome to the Storytellers Live podcast where everyday people share real and personal stories.

Some are profound and challenging, while others are more common and relatable shared with honesty and

humor.

But all of these stories reveal what God can do in our lives when we trust Him with the details.

Thanks for joining us. Hi, everyone. This is your host, Kelly, from the Storytellers Live team. On each episode,

you'll hear a different woman share her story of God's transforming love. These stories are recorded

in a live setting at weekly local gatherings, where we're aiming to build community through

sharing, connecting, and encouraging

one another.

Most importantly, these stories reveal the faithfulness of God and how he can take what's

ordinary and broken and exchange it for extraordinary and redeemed.

Today's story comes from Vestavia, one of our Birmingham communities.

Meredith opens up about a topic that I would say nine out of ten women wrestle with, and that is body image.

Meredith shares her journey of finding balance with both food and exercise, and even more recently her discovery that she could find stress release and peace solely in the Lord when an injury prevented her

from running or working out. Listen to her story to find out the key step in her process of

finding freedom, freedom from diet pressures, body comparisons, emotional eating, gill,

all those traps that steal our joy in our confidence. Here's Meredith.

Okay. So I just want to start and say, like, for sure, my sin struggle is totally just body

image and it's not even like, it's pride and vanity, but it's not even, like, clothes I wear

my hair and makeup. Like, it's totally, like, if you said, I had to gain gain five pounds. Like I'm like, oh my gosh, my thighs will touch. Like it stresses me out and that's my sin. And I have to give it to Jesus every day. And so I just really like have an image in my head of how I want to look and how I want to feel. And that's my sin that I deal with. But for sure, I feel like it's generational.

Like, for example, my grandmother, like, when she was, like, 99 and we'd go visit her.

Like, she lived at home.

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