The Best of Strong Women: A Non-Obsessive Approach to Caring for Our Bodies with Lainey Greer
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We’re taking a small break this summer to gear up for season six of the Strong Women podcast. During this break, we’ll be re-airing episodes we think you’ll enjoy!
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? Today, I chat about this with Lainey Greer, who uses her background of exercise science and systematic theology to equip believers with a Christian view of the body. We talk about the big picture of stewarding our health and what that looks like practically.
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
Purdue study on obesity among religious
Providence by John Piper
The Practice of Godliness by Jerry Bridges
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, you guys. We are in our summer series. This is our third week in the series, and I want to let you know that the Strong Women podcast team is hard at work preparing for season six. Prayerfully, another awesome season with great stories and just God's work in people's lives on display, and I can't wait to bring you all the new |
| 0:22.9 | conversations for the new series. In the meantime, I'm bringing you some treasures that we've done |
| 0:29.0 | over the last couple years. This week, I've got a great one for you. But before I tell you about |
| 0:34.3 | this week's episode, I just want to remind you, we would love to connect |
| 0:38.3 | with you guys. |
| 0:39.3 | The best way to connect with me is through Facebook on our Facebook community page. |
| 0:45.6 | So go to Facebook and go to Strong Women Podcast Community. |
| 0:50.2 | And there you'll find lots of women like you who are just walking faithfully with Christ in their little corners of the world and trying to figure out what that looks like to live as a Christian in this cultural moment. |
| 1:03.7 | So there we will discuss all kinds of things like issues brought up from the podcast. |
| 1:08.6 | We talk about books. We talk about recommendations and all kinds of things. |
| 1:11.8 | So join us there. |
| 1:13.3 | And also, if you want to stay informed about all things strong women podcast and the |
| 1:18.5 | Colson Center, sign up for our monthly journal. |
| 1:21.9 | Go to colsoncenter.org slash strongwomen. |
| 1:25.4 | And you can sign up there and stay connected with us there. |
| 1:28.5 | Okay, you guys, our bodies matter. |
| 1:30.6 | We know that, right? |
| 1:31.7 | That's a very easy thing to say. |
| 1:33.1 | Our bodies matter. |
| 1:34.1 | But what does that mean? |
| 1:35.5 | How do we steward our health and our bodies, but not obsess about it? |
| 1:41.2 | Or not just like totally give up, right? |
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