What if the parts of yourself you've learned to distrust--your body's hunger, its exhaustion, its refusal to keep shrinking--are where God's love has been trying to reach you all along? For every person who has ever felt the sting of having her body weaponized against her, here's a sacred invitation to lay the lies down and change the way you see your body for good.

When the Body Knows it's Loved isn't a therapeutic body book with some Bible verses thrown in for good measure. It is a deeply personal look at what happens when a person stops seeing her body as a problem and starts seeing it as a place where God is at work.

With unflinching honesty, Lisa Whittle brings a doctrinally rich, research-based resource with real theological teeth to people who have tried everything and need more than another expert's advice, program on the internet, or new plan to try on Monday to finally have a good relationship with their body.

Across five sections, Whittle challenges the false scripts many Christian women were handed and one by one, she dismantles them. She details the five major outlets our body is loved through and shows the reader how a whole-body theology isn't a wellness add-on but a reshaping of our entire embodied life.

This book will help readers:

• Discover a different body story than the one they have always lived
• Stop working to impress people in order to validate their worth
• Call a truce on their war with food and the gym
• Learn how to stop comparing themselves and stop apologizing for their calling
• Set boundaries without confusing self-care with selfishness or spiritual failure
• Rediscover rest, creativity, and pleasure without guilt
• Build friendship and community around mutual care, not performance
• Bring more honesty--not more polish--to prayer, grace, and desire
• Finally start believing that God's not mad at them

If you're tired of separating your faith from your physical, When the Body Knows it's Loved is here to close that gap for you. Welcome to a whole new life, where you can get off the crazy train of consuming body thoughts and be confident in your whole self instead.