17: Applying the Gospel to Food and our Bodies with Aubrey Golbek
Trendy diets. Clean food. Bikini bodies. 👙
It’s easy to see our society values physical appearance. It is also easy to get swept up in putting too high of a value on physical appearance or health which can start to shift our theology. “I am good, when I eat good. My body is good, when I exercise.” We start creating morality behind our food choices and the way our body looks. But, God has a different perspective about how we look at food and our bodies.
God wants us to have abundant life. He deemed our bodies good when He created them in His image. He wants us to love ourselves because He loves us and made a good creation. As we learn to receive His love and rest in the new, unshakeable identity He has given us, we desire to care for our bodies.
In this episode, I talk with registered dietitian, Aubrey Golbek, about how to look at our bodies and food through the lens of the gospel. 🤸♀️ Aubrey is passionate about helping people understand how the gospel and grace impacts our everyday life, such as our relationship with food. She shares about how she felt giving her patients diets was never leading them to true freedom, so she started searching the Bible to see if God had another way. He gave her a deeper revelation of grace and she saw how God could transform and heal our thoughts about and relationship with food.
So many women let the enemy determine their worth with how their body looks. 😠 I stayed in that bondage for years until Jesus set me free. I want that freedom for every woman I know. I hope this episode inspires you and encourages you to notice your thoughts about food and your body. Maybe there is more freedom God wants to give you in this area of your life. He loves you so much and wants you to experience all the joy and abundance He has for you. 😊 Enjoy this episode!
Resources
Grace, Food, and Everything in Between by Aubrey Golbek
Feed Yourself by Leslie Schilling
Intuitive Eating for Christian Women Podcast
Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
