S3. E7. See the good
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[00:00:00] what we celebrate, what we recognize, what we reward gets repeated.
So if you want to see more good things happen in your life, if you want to see more wins. Then we have to recognize and celebrate and call out those wins once you start seeing the good, then you start to see it more often. And this practice helps us to overcome our negativity bias,
Welcome to Your Daily Bread podcast. I'm your host, Abbie Stasior, a registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor. My prayer is that these bite-sized episodes will help you heal your relationship with food, improve body image, and ultimately help you grow closer to God. Now, I can't personally heal you, but I'm gonna be directing you to the one that can, and that is Jesus. Also disclaimer, I'm not a pastor, but a sister in Christ that's offering you some food for thought that you can take into your quiet time with the Lord as your daily bread. Let's dig in.
Hello. Hello y'all. I am so excited for this [00:01:00] episode. This is a concept that I talk about with clients every single client call, and I've honestly never thought to do an episode on it. . And then the Lord dropped this in my spirit and this scripture, it just hit me in the face and I'm like, oh my gosh, Lord.
Yes, this is the perfect scripture to talk about this concept, and I'm really, really excited to bring this to y'all 'cause this can really improve body image as well as give you some encouragement on your healing journey of healing your body image and healing your relationship with food, healing your health overall.
So I will pray us in.
Father God, thank you for this day. Lord, thank you for giving us the perfect example in our creation story of how you want us to approach our journey of healing our relationship with food. Lord, I am just so grateful, so in awe, of how many different things we can take away from the creation story.
So we just praise you for fresh wisdom and revelation and [00:02:00] praising you for your word. Lord that just meets us in every season. Lord, I pray that this helps people to renew their mind.
I pray that listeners have ears to hear and open and soft hearts to be able to receive this truth into their heart.
Lord, ah Lord, I pray that everything that is said in this episode is what you want to say through me. Thank you for using me as a vessel, Lord, have your way. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Y'all. I'm so excited. , We are getting into Genesis and the creation story. I'm not gonna read the whole thing 'cause y'all know that is long and, and I'm sure we've read it a million times, but I would recommend y'all know that the point of this show is to have this b a devotional style show where you can take the scripture for this week into your quiet time with the Lord and use that as your daily bread.
So meditate on this. Throughout the week, and I really encourage you in your quiet time to read the creation story again slowly. [00:03:00] Especially if it's been a while, which some of you, you know, starting different Bible in a year plans, it's only March. So you might not have read Genesis too long ago, but I really encourage you to read it again, read it slow, with this concept that we'll get into in mind.
, I'll just read Genesis 1 31 to end it, and this is after all of creation God he created something, he took a step back and said, this is good. He declared it good. And then finally after everything that he made in creation, it says, God saw all that he had made and it was very good.
And there was evening and there was morning the sixth day. Y'all. Oh my goodness. So what we're gonna be talking about today is. To see the good and to find the wins. And if you're a client of mine, then you know, at the start of every single client call, I always ask you, okay, what's your win? What's [00:04:00] something that you wanna celebrate?
What's going well? And this is typically the hardest part of, of the client sessions. It is really hard for people to find a win, find something that's going well, especially if they're showing up to a coaching call. It's been a bad week or things haven't gone well with their relationship with food.
People are so eager to dive into that and get the coaching and I understand. Well, we'll get there. Don't worry. We'll get into the coaching, you know, rest assured. I started doing this eight years ago and starting every client call, what is a win?
Something that you want to celebrate Some of you might not know this, but I was a neuroscience major. In college, and I'm fascinated with the brain and psychology and how the brain works and how God wires our brain. And the concept of neuroplasticity, the brain is so fascinating and it is true that what we celebrate, what we recognize, what we reward gets repeated.
So if you want to see more good things happen in your life, if you want to see more wins. Then we have to recognize and celebrate and [00:05:00] call out those wins . Once you start seeing the good, then you start to see it more often. And this practice helps us to overcome our negativity bias, the way that our brains work.
We are always scanning for the negative, and this is out of survival. It really is. An innate feature that we have as humans we're scanning for danger. We're focused on survival, so we're looking for threats. We're looking for the negative. And if we've been through any sort of trauma or anything like that, we can be hypervigilant in that way or more focused on the negative.
But our brains can be rewired through this concept of neuroplasticity. The Lord can make it so that we have new brain pathways and. You can wire new habits by focusing on the good, seeing the wins throughout your journey, taking time to pause and recognize those wins, not only does it reflect God's nature because God literally did that, but it helps us to overcome our negativity bias
so we're not so [00:06:00] hypervigilant to see the negative, but we start to see the positive. And psychology talks about what you focus on, you end up creating more of. So when you focus on the good, you start to see more of the good and you're reinforcing those brain pathways and it makes it easier over time.
And I see that with the clients that I work with, the first couple calls and maybe even the first couple months of calls. Honestly, it can be very difficult for them to come up with a win in what's going well with their health journey because they only see all the things that they need to improve on.
All of the things that aren't going well. But then after a couple months of working together, after a couple calls, now they're actually coming to the call with their win.
So when we look at Genesis one, we have to notice the rhythm. God creates God. Then pauses. He observes, he looks around to see what he created and he declares it good. He sees the good he doesn't rush past.
He doesn't critique it. He doesn't immediately go on to the next [00:07:00] thing that's unfinished. No, he really takes a second to pause and look at what he's done and how often, even throughout our journey when we accomplish something, are we like, okay, what's the next thing? And we move on. We don't take a time to pause and celebrate what we've been through
these successes and these milestones in life, we really want to pause and consider the good.
If God pauses and sees the good. Why don't we do that? Why, why don't we, if it's not too small too frivolous or not important, for God to do, why does God model that? It's important that we don't shy away from something that God prioritizes right in the beginning.
And it's important to note that throughout this journey of creation, the Lord is seeing the good in it. It's not just at the end that he declares everything to be very good, but he's seeing the wins throughout the journey. So often we want to just get the result and [00:08:00] we'll feel satisfied once we lose all of the weight.
And once our relationship with food is healed and our mindset is good and we've given ourselves full permission to eat all foods and our labs are perfectly all in the right range. Once we arrive, then I'll celebrate. But it's no the Lord along the way. Pauses. And declares things good. He sees the good and it's throughout the journey.
So it's important that we are taking time to do that as well throughout the journey
when he's declaring things good along the way, he's not ignoring what is unfinished. But he still celebrates what is and how far things have come. And it helps us to see that even if we are a work in progress, 'cause we're always gonna be a work in progress, even if we have opportunities for growth, we can still see what we're going through
as a positive, the in-between , the healing journey as a positive, and this helps us to really embody what Paul says in Philippians four,
That I have [00:09:00] learned how to be content in any circumstance, what James says in James one, considerate pure joy, what Paul says again in second Corinthians 12, that I boast about the persecutions and the trials and the weaknesses.
For when I am weak, then I am strong, all of these things we're able through this process of seeing the wins, seeing the good things that happened along the way, and pausing to celebrate those things. It helps us to see even the negative parts about our journey. We're able to consider it pure joy.
That's how you learn how to be content in any circumstance, is by pausing to see the good.
So instead of just critiquing your flaws, thinking about the snack that you probably didn't need, thinking about any weight gain, or any weight that you haven't lost yet, or eating past the point of fullness, instead of focusing on your failures, maybe taking a step back and think to yourself, wow.
But I'm not where I was this time last year, I actually have improved, or you know what? [00:10:00] Yes, I'm still eating past the point of wholeness. Yes, I'm still struggling with binging sometimes, but I'm binging less often. I have less guilt and shame after I have more compassion for myself.
I'm able to rebound faster, especially I have clients that travel a lot for work. Hey, I'm able to get back to return to my routines a lot faster, or, I'm actually letting myself rest and not pushing myself through a hard workout like I used to. . So I think even if we haven't arrived yet, we can still take time to pause and see the progress on our journey.
There's always a win sometimes with clients on calls, the win is still showing up. I have so many clients that will show up, they're already in tears and they're like, I was gonna cancel today's call, but I'm like, you know what? I'm proud of you that you didn't, you still showed up to get support and.
Your win is that, is that you showed up, you showed up for yourself, and you showed up to talk these things out and to get some encouragement and to get prayed over and everything that we do on, on our calls. Sometimes the win is [00:11:00] that you have an able body that your heart is still breathing, that your legs have carried you, that your stomach digested that food, , and that is a win.
And thinking about all of these different wins, it actually helps us to expand our definition of health and to see all of the things that can be going well.
Because typically when I start working with people, they only see success as weight loss and the number on the scale. They don't consider their quality or quantity sleep as a metric of health.
They don't really consider their water goal to be something or the amount that they exercise or their mindset around food. Like they don't really consider, it's like it's weight or nothing. If I don't see the number on the scale move. In a downward direction, then I'm failing. So actually focusing on the wins, you start to see God's hand in your journey, but it also expands your definition of health and what success looks like, which is amazing.
So this practice is extremely healing in untangling your weight from your worth. God saw that [00:12:00] everything that he made, and he called it very good. And you are included in his creation and he looks at you and he says, that is my masterpiece. I think of Ephesians two 10. That is my masterpiece. You are precious and honored in my sight.
Isaiah 43, and he looks at you and says, this is very good. And what if he is inviting you to see yourself that way too.
So just something to meditate on this week. I would encourage everyone to every day practice this week and make it a practice, because we've talked about this before, that practice doesn't make perfect, but practice makes permanence.
So when you practice this, this is another way to like learn how to be content In any circumstance you need to learn and practice seeing the good, seeing the positive, being more glass half full, seeing the silver lining in things. I really wanna encourage you this week to write down three wins before you go to bed at the end of the [00:13:00] day.
You can ask the Holy Spirit, Lord, reveal to me what are things that pleased you today? What, how did I make you proud? How did I represent you well? What is going well? And find three things to not only be grateful for, but three wins things that are going well. So you're taking time to practice what God modeled in the creation story to pause and see the good.
That would be my challenge for y'all this week, and I will see y'all next week.
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