Molly, give yourself grace in that situation. Yes, you blew it but don’t look at that; move forward to what God has for you now. God wants you to learn from something. I do think that talking the truth to myself – the word of God over myself is probably the most important thing. Staying connected. I have a wonderful small bible study group.
My time with God is important in the morning or whenever. That is important so these are steps that i do to keep myself being healthy and healthy- minded and to love myself, valuing my own personal growth, that I’m worthy of it. Yeah!
Joyce: Linda, as a psychologist I know that you see people like molly all the time who have a terrible self-image and it really is a growing problem, isn’t it?
Dr. Linda Mintle: It is and I think again because of the culture we live in and because of the way we tend to try to define ourselves. Once we try to do that in any way outside of God, nothing is really gonna bring satisfaction. We’re gonna look for it but we’re never gonna be satisfied no matter how thin we are, no matter if we’re at the right weight, no matter how much we work on something or accomplish something, it’s not gonna bring us that kind of satisfaction apart from God.
Joyce: I have a statistic here that says that we combat 8,000 daily media messages that confuse us about what we’re supposed to look like, what we’re supposed to act like, how we’re supposed to be. That is amazing.
Dr. Mintle: Take that and compare it to how much time maybe you spend in the word or how many times you say something positive about who you are or you hear a positive comment. It really is imbalanced.
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