Ever check the mirror and wonder if you look good enough? Do you choose your clothes to disguise your flaws? Do you sometimes think plastic surgery might be the only way for you to feel good about your body? Do you ever feel squeezed into someone else's mold?Come and join Margot Starbuck in her journey to become unsqueezed! In twenty-seven brief, funny and reflective chapters she helps us discover why God really gave us bodies and what we can do with them to serve him and others.Jump out of that suffocating mold and discover what your body is really for.
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Introduction: A Third Way
Part One: The Problem
1 LIES: Digital Fluff and Other Modern Temptations
2 SHAME: What’s Particularly Devilish About Hollywood Makeovers
3 MARKETING: Shame Sells, and We’re Buying It
4 TEMPTATION: Even Jesus was Tempted by Carbs
5 JUDGMENT: My Butt Is Ranwd
6 GLUTTONY: Enough Really Is Enough
7 OBJECTIFICATION: How Women Agree with Our Thingification
8 SELF-PREOCCUPATION: The Boiling Frog Syndrome
Part Two: The Purpose
9 FREEDOM: Chain Saw Liberation
10 VALUE: Living into a New Reality
11 RECOGNIZABILITY: Water Park Epiphany
12 FUNCTION: JD’s Fabulous Breasts and Other Useful Body Parts
13 CELEBRATION: Embracing Our Queenliness
14 NEED-MEETING: The Life-Changing Day I Actually Needed a Milkshake
15 ACCEPTANCE: Unfortunate Stereotypes and the Lies We Believe
16 LOVE: Christian Bumper Fish
17 TOUCH: ‘Burrito Me!’
18 RELATIONSHIP: The Truth About Bodies You Won’t Hear About on MTV
Part Three: The Plan
19 MISSION: The Look of Unconditional Love and Acceptance
20 IMAGE-BEARING: ‘Yep, You Belong Together’
21 MOVEMENT: Some Tough Questions About Simulated Exercise
22 OTHER-CENTEREDNESS: Skating Grandma, Rap Mama, and the Pigment-Deficient
23 JUSTICE: From Doritos to Discipleship
24 MINDFULNESS: Why I?m Most Jazzed About My Fabulous Couch Pants
25 AUTHENTICITY: B Who U R
26 FRIENDSHIP: I Get by with a Little Help from My Friends
27 PRACTICES: The Next Thing
Epilogue: Sermon on a Twenty-First Century Mountain
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Margot Starbuck is a writer and speaker in Durham, North Carolina. The author of The Girl in the Orange Dress and Unsqueezed, she is passionate about communicating God's great love for all of us. Keep up with her adventures at www.Margot Starbuck.com.