#116: Grace + Your Body: Embracing the body God gave you with Amber O’Neal Johnston

How can we embrace and accept the body God gave us? I don’t know about you, but I have often wished for a body built very differently from mine. God gave me a body I keep wishing away.

So how do we accept and embrace the body God specifically picked for us? How do we find belonging in our own skin?

Key Quotes

“There was this nagging feeling that being different meant that I wasn’t quite enough.” – Author, speaker, and world-schooling mama Amber O’Neal Johnston
“Can I go to my friends and say, ‘There’s something in my home that’s horribly broken, and will you help me fix it?’” – Author, speaker, and world-schooling mama Amber O’Neal Johnston
“Invisibility is cancerous to children.” – Author, speaker, and world-schooling mama Amber O’Neal Johnston
“Be an ask-able parent.” – Author, speaker, and world-schooling mama Amber O’Neal Johnston
“Representation is life-giving.” – Author, speaker, and world-schooling mama Amber O’Neal Johnston
“We have to care as much about each other’s children as we do for our own.” – Author, speaker, and world-schooling mama Amber O’Neal Johnston
“Remain open-hearted to the idea that everyone’s experience is not the same as your own, and that what we can do most is listen.” – Author, speaker, and world-schooling mama Amber O’Neal Johnston
“Listen to the stories. Listen to the things people are telling us because behind those stories, they are letting us know what they need.” – Author, speaker, and world-schooling mama Amber O’Neal Johnston

About Amber O’Neal Johnston

Amber O’Neal Johnston is an author, speaker, and world-schooling mama who blends life-giving books and a culturally-rich environment for her four children and others seeking to do the same.

She recommends we offer children opportunities to see themselves and others reflected in their lessons and especially throughout their books, and she’s known for sharing literary “mirrors and windows” on her platforms.

Amber is also the author of A Place to Belong, a guide for families of all backgrounds to celebrate cultural heritage, diversity, and kinship, while embracing inclusivity in the home and beyond.