I don't know about you, but there have been many times in my life that I have felt very frustrated

and maybe even a little bit angry with my body. Maybe you can relate to that in some way or another.

I'm sure the details are different, but there have been so many times where I was either

frustrated with how my body looked or how it was working. And, you know, I think back to

different times that I felt that way. And I realized now, and I wrote about this and be good to your

body, I realized now that when I was frustrated with the way it looked or the way it was functioning,

the form or the function,

I was so much more likely to start treating my body as if it were a problem to fix or a project

to work on rather than a gift from God. How we view our bodies, whether we view them wrongly

or rightly, greatly influences the way that we

treat them, the things that we do, the decisions we make, the disciplines we take on. And while,

you know, disciplines or decisions or protocols we follow or supplements we take or workouts we do

may look good and disciplined and great on the outside. Really, like,

the Lord knows our hearts, you know, and sometimes something that can look like it's just,

you're just eating healthy or you're just working out or whatever. And I had to learn,

personally, probably the hard way, that when I view my body through the lens of this is a problem,

I need to fix it, or this is a project to work on more so than this is a gift from God,

hard, like full stop, right?

The things that I may do, the efforts I may make, the decisions I might, you know,

make the things that I implement, the habits I implement, those can quickly spiral

from trying to support my body and my health and my well-being to punishing my body and

restricting my body and actually like trying to control the outcomes of things, trying to control

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