A personal reflection by Dr. Tabatha Barber about how upbringing shapes attitudes toward health, food, and fitness, and how those attitudes can require conscious reprogramming. The speaker describes complicated relationships with food and body image, reflects positively on entering her 40s and anticipates turning 50, and frames self-care through a faith-based lens.
Your health, your. Whether it's fitness levels, how you view food. All of that really starts at your upbringing and what you're introduced to, how the people around you spoke about those types of things. And it really creates or can define how you view yourself, how you view those aspects of your life. And sometimes we need to reprogram and we need to reset. And I think that also some people might not have had terrible experiences with food or fitness, but as our body changes when we get older, we just find ourselves not understanding it and looking at it like, what just happened? What changed? What is my body doing? And it feels really complicated. I've had really complicated relationships with food in my life and just body image in general. Living in our world, in our culture, comparing myself to so many other people. And at this stage in my life, I think entering the 40s was. Has been my favorite decade so far. I haven't hit 50 yet. That's next year. I don't want to be scared about it. I want to ask all the questions and just try to tackle it as best as I can. But truly through the lens of how God sees me, first.
