S5 22: A Non-Obsessive Approach to Caring for Our Bodies with Lainey Greer (Re-Air)
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Many of us struggle with body image. Our bodies matter and we are called to care for them—but how do we do that without obsessing? What does it look like to steward our bodies? This week, I’m re-airing an interview about these questions with Lainey Greer. Lainey uses her unique background of exercise science and systematic theology to equip Christians with a biblical view of the body. We talk about the big picture of stewarding our health and what that looks like practically.
Show Notes:
Lainey’s website: https://laineygreer.com/
Be Well: Learning to Steward Your Health by Dr. Lainey Greer
Lainey’s curriculum – Understand Healthy
Our Bodies Tell God's Story: Discovering the Divine Plan for Love, Sex, and Gender by Christopher West
Providence by John Piper
The Practice of Godliness by Jerry Bridges
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Strong Women podcast, where we explore the beautifully diverse ways God invites and equips women to participate in his story. |
| 0:16.0 | We're here to encourage one another as we step out of the shallow definitions of what it means to be a woman |
| 0:22.3 | and into the flourishing life that comes when we walk out our design. I'm your host Sarah Stone Street. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:32.5 | Happy New Year, everyone. I'm so glad that you've joined us back this week. I don't know about you, but every January, |
| 0:39.4 | I think, okay, now I need to get back on track after the holidays, after all the cookies that we've eaten. |
| 0:45.1 | It's time to get back on track. And as women, I don't know about you, but I'm guessing if you're |
| 0:50.3 | anything like me, we struggle with how to view our bodies well. |
| 0:55.0 | And we are embodied. |
| 0:56.7 | And that's a good thing. |
| 0:58.1 | And our bodies do matter. |
| 1:00.2 | But how do we care for them but not obsess about them? |
| 1:05.2 | Do you guys feel that tension? |
| 1:07.1 | I feel like sometimes I start to do it well and then I become obsessive. |
| 1:11.4 | Then I just kind of am like, oh, well, whatever. |
| 1:14.8 | So how do we have that balance? |
| 1:16.6 | How do we think well about our bodies and what we are to do with them and how we are |
| 1:22.7 | to steward them, especially when it comes to health? |
| 1:26.1 | As women, in an over-sexualized culture, it is so hard |
| 1:30.4 | not to compare ourselves and not to think, oh, I wish I was, you know, fill in the blank. I stretched |
| 1:36.6 | back for today's episode and got the conversation that I had with Lainey Greer about the non-obsessive approach to body image. |
| 1:47.5 | And in this conversation, Lainey takes this approach. How do we value that we are embodied |
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