Breaking Up with Body Objectification with Allie Marie Smith

Today our guest on the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast is Allie Marie Smith. In this episode, we have a raw and vulnerable conversation about detours on our journeys toward food and body freedom and the importance of breaking up with body objectification.

Show Notes for Episode 44: Breaking Up with Body Objectification

In this episode we dig into:

• What it was like growing up an athlete in a health-conscious home
• Fighting an unseen battle with depression and suicidal thoughts as a teen
• Coming undone and coming to Christ in a psychiatric hospital
• Integrating her faith into the principles of intuitive eating and sharing what she was learning through a college ministry called H.E.A.L. (Healthy Eating Abundant Living)
• Detours on our journeys toward food and body freedom
• Laying down the idol of her ideal body
• Wrestling with the label of obesity in diet culture
• A raw and vulnerable conversation about struggling to choose freedom and facing temptation to control and change our bodies
• The power of feeling your feelings with God
• The dangers of body objectification and strategies to help stop objectifying yourself and others
• Her book and non-profit organization, both called Wonderfully Made

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Meet Allie Marie Smith

Allie Marie Smith is the author of the book Wonderfully Made and a director of the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Wonderfully Made, which is dedicated to helping young women know their value and equip them to live spiritually and emotionally healthy lives.

Connect with Allie

• Website: alliemariesmith.com
• Instagram: @alliemariesmith
• WonderfullyMade Website: wonderfullymade.org
• WonderfullyMade Instagram: @wonderfullymade_org
• Wonderfully Made: Discover the Identity, Love, and Worth You Were Created For By Allie Marie Smith

Resources Mentioned in Episode 44

Allie Marie Smith’s Wonderfully Made podcast episode on Body Objectification

Erin’s Best Health Podcasts for Christian Women list includes Allie Marie Smith’s Wonderfully Made podcast – check out some of Erin’s favorite episodes from Wonderfully Made on this list

SCRIPTURE MENTIONED:

“When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.” Genesis 3:6 (NIV)

Footnote from Zondervan’s NIV Life Application Study Bible 3:6

“Satan tried to make Eve think that sin is good, pleasant, and desirable. A knowledge of both food and evil seemed harmless to her. People usually choose wrong things because they have become so convinced that those things are good, at least for themselves. Our sins do not always appear ugly to us, and the pleasant sins are the hardest to avoid. So prepare yourself for the attractive temptations that may come your way. We cannot always prevent temptation, but there is always a way of escape (1 Corinthians 10:13). Use God’s Word and God’s people to help you stand against it.”

Footnote from Zondervan’s NIV Life Application Study Bible 3:6,7

“Notice what Eve did: She looked, she took, she ate, and she gave. The battle is often lost at the first look. Temptation often begins by simply seeing something you want. Are you struggling with temptation because you have not learned that looking is the first step toward sin? You would win over temptation more often if you followed Paul’s advice to run from those things that produce evil thoughts (2 Timothy 2:22).”

Closing Prayer from the Phenomenally Created Guide

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