TIL 558: Considering Body Image (feat. Andrea Lee)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
1. Why is body image an important discipleship and counseling topic?
2. What do you say to someone who says that they hate some aspect about their body?
3. How is the issue of body image an issue of worship?
4. How does God's Word help us to start untagling these issues?
5. How does the Bible correct our expectations?
6. How do we steward our bodies well without idolizing our body image?
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| 0:00.0 | Considering Body Image on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:15.8 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:19.7 | This week on the podcast, I'm thrilled to have with me, Andrea Lee. |
| 0:22.9 | She serves as biblical counselor for women in Roswell, Georgia. |
| 0:26.4 | She has a Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling from the Master's University. |
| 0:29.8 | She's certified with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors. |
| 0:33.5 | Andrew has been married to her husband, Darren, since 2006, and she's the author of a new booklet, Body Image, Valuing God's Good Gift. |
| 0:42.8 | Andrea, it's so great to have you on the podcast looking forward to this topic today. |
| 0:45.7 | I'm thrilled to be here. |
| 0:47.0 | Well, listen, this is not an easy topic, but it's an important one, especially in our culture, that values the concept of body image. |
| 0:55.5 | And I'm so glad that you have written on this topic. So many teens struggle with this issue. |
| 1:02.2 | So many adults, to be honest, in our culture, struggle with this particular issue. |
| 1:06.1 | I'm really looking forward to how we can think biblically about the body, how we steward our bodies well, |
| 1:12.5 | and how we think about this image of our own bodies in our minds, certainly over and against the |
| 1:17.9 | culture that we live in today. So let's just start in a basic place. Why is body image really an |
| 1:24.0 | important discipleship and counseling topic? We face a lot of intense non-stop messaging and pressure about our bodies. |
| 1:32.9 | That might be from social media. |
| 1:34.3 | It might be from friends who have social media, the entertainment industry, |
| 1:38.3 | and our just hyper-sexualized culture. |
| 1:40.9 | It places a lot of pressure on us to look a certain way. And some of that pressure comes |
| 1:45.9 | from half-truths or downright lies. Lies like physical beauty is the key to a happy, successful |
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