Renew your Mind

With lots of scriptural encouragmeent

I first wrote this in my email but wanted it to live here with graphics for the scripture verses. You can save them to your camera roll. I have a whole folder called “verses” and put screenshots of Bible verses, devotionals, and things I see that are encouraging to my faith. I recommend that so you always have something to read or look at when you need some encouragement in the Lord.

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I didn't mean to take all of December off of sending emails and doing business. I honestly really enjoyed the Thanksgiving- New Year season and didn't feel like I had a lot to say or share. So I didn't.

I used to always be so consistent with emails and posting on IG, even if I didn't feel like I had a lot to say. And I'm doing business so differently now and only sharing when I feel like I have something I want to share with you.

Do you know what has been rattling in my head for a long time... what if all of our hyperfocus on health makes us LESS healthy because we are more STRESSED? We got into this holistic health world because we had symptoms that needed healing or we learned our food and environment were full of toxins.

And then our attempt to get healthy began bordering on obsession or orthorexia? And pretty soon you were stressed about EVERYTHING being a toxin and your whole life and brain was swirling with that all day/every day and that became your main focus.

Does that sound like you? Or maybe just me 🤷🏻‍♀️ (please tell me I'm not the only one!)

I just don't think that's the Lord's plan for our lives and thought lives. YES... I think that we have tons of unregulated toxins in our food and environment. Those aren't healthy and we need to make diet and lifestyle changes to become and stay healthy long-term. We want to raise our kids in a different way than the standard American way and with the standard American diet.

But isn't there another way to do health differently than our country and yet not become fearful and all-consumed with it all? Yes, I think there is!

We can be aware, make wise decisions, and let the rest be in the Lord's hands. I can't control everything. I can't use my knowledge of holistic health to predict every positive outcome. But I can make good decisions from a place of peace and surrender the rest to the Lord.

Most of you know I've taken 7 months off of posting regular content on my @drmeghanbirt Instagram page. I only intended to stop posting for 2-4 weeks. But I realized I was stuck in this mental loop of always thinking about my health and my symptoms and then I was in a business where I only posted about health. That needed to stop. And when I slowed that loop I realized hey, I don't know what to post and I don't really want to post. Which means the 2-4 weeks became 7 months.

And I trust the Lord to put on my heart when it is time to post again. And what to post. I do know there is a way to post about holistic health without making it obsessive and controlling. I know we can live with a healthy awareness of health and healing and yet not let it be the main part of our life. There can be a balance.

Are you living in that balance now? Or teetering more on the imbalanced obsession with health? If you are feeling imbalance the first thing is to NOT beat yourself up about it. If you have had chronic symptoms, I think it is our body's protective mechanism to try and help with chronic symptoms is to focus on them and obsess about them to keep us safe. But the lie is that we aren't safe... we are totally safe if things medically check out fine.

To get out of that mind loop, I would encourage you to take these thoughts captive. When they come in, give them to the Lord, and choose to think about something true and lovely and beautiful. It sounds easy but it isn't. Simple, yes. Easy, no. But put your faith in Christ and trust that He can and renew your mind back to a healthy balance of holistic health.

And if you suffer from symptoms... I do believe this same thing is a foundational tool to help us on our healing journey. Renew your mind in Christ multiple times per day!!!