If you’re like many Israelite women living in the States, comparing yourself to Eurocentric beauty standards or making excuses for the women in our community having the highest obesity rates in America? It’s the norm. The truth is, the “generational curses” of diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, and a myriad of illnesses are often rooted in childhood trauma and perpetuated by awful diets.

I fought with the Most High Yahuah in this area for far too long. I went to the gym to slim my midsection, obsessed with thinness, instead of focusing on gaining the core strength that would help me support my back and reduce the risk of injury in older age. I was obsessed with aesthetics instead of mobility, too focused on looking good to fit the world’s metrics for beauty instead of feeling good. I’m just thankful I’m still young enough to course correct and can hopefully inspire other women to stop starving themselves for an image and build a body that not only honors what the Most High has blessed you with, but encourages others to also steward theirs well.

Here are books helping me to heal my body, because the beauty standards of the American Dream were utterly killing me.