Your Body is GOOD :: Jess Connolly [Ep 329]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Jess Connolly has not always seen her body as good. It’s a struggle all of us can relate to. Whether it’s a concern over weight and external beauty or a physical disability or medical issue, there’s always something about our bodies that cause “trouble.”

Jess shares about her struggle with an autoimmune disease and feeling body shame from an early age.

“I spent a few years treating that disease, as if my body was a huge problem that just needed to be solved or a project that needed to be completed. My healthier behaviors as a young mom weren't rooted in love, but in extreme frustration.”

And she takes us into her journey of asking God to give her a kingdom body mindset to break free of body shame. We talk about shifting our perspective on what makes a body good and so much of it comes down to a key question Jess shares:

“Do you treat your body as if it is loved or as if you want it to be lovable? Are you trying to make it good? Are you trying to treat it as if it is good? Because when I treat my body as if it was made good, and I want to steward that.”

For more on this, grab a copy of Jess’ new book Breaking Free from Body Shame.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.
0:11.1	I'm your host Heather McFadian and this is a place where I get to walk alongside you
0:16.3	and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.
0:22.4	And in this episode number 329, I'm bringing back one of my fun friends.
0:27.0	We are going to have a fantastic conversation all around body shank.
0:32.1	What's even more interesting is that inside the church we take some of those perceived
0:35.6	weaknesses and people listening should know I'm using like ear quotes because I actually
0:40.2	don't necessarily think of wrinkles as a weakness.
0:42.7	I think of them as like a sign of getting older and that is a good thing and that's a beautiful
0:47.6	thing.
0:48.6	And so it's so interesting how we've taken some of those things stretch marks or wrinkles
0:52.6	or like weight gain when you're carrying a baby.
0:56.8	And we've attributed righteousness or the lack thereof to them.
1:03.4	And if you want to talk about something that I can increase God's heart, I would say that
1:07.1	feels like one.
1:08.8	You know that we assume people are more gifted or we assume people are more loved or more
1:15.6	lovable or more honored or favored by God if they fit our current American cultural
1:24.6	standards of what beauty looks like.
1:28.2	And it gets reinforced.
1:29.2	Not to bummer.
1:30.2	And it gets reinforced.
1:31.2	And like, oh, let's throw another hood.
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