In today's conversation Pastor Kelsey talks with the woman behind Every Woman is Worthy, Maggie.

Maggie Winzel is a women's wellness advocate, business owner, writer, and coach. She recently launched a new social impact brand called Every Woman is Worthy that celebrates womens' value and gives back to marginalized and oppressed communities of women. Maggie has been featured in Shape, NBC News, Thrive Global, MyFitnessPal, The Washington Examiner, and dozens of other outlets for her holistic wellness advice through the years.

Website: https://everywomanisworthy.com/

Continuing the conversation from last week with our guest today, Anna Gustafson. This conversation feels like one that is needed but this time we talk about how toxic diet culture has made it's way into church culture. In this conversation we are reminded that we are wonderfully made, and are meant to love our body.

About Anna:
Anna Gustafson (she/her) is a non-diet, HAES-aligned (Health At Every Size) registered dietitian on a mission to help people heal their relationship with food. With a food science background, she challenges common misconceptions about “scary” ingredients and encourages folks to think outside the “good vs. bad” binary of food. Anna believes that we are all made whole and good in God’s image, and that we don’t need to eat “clean” to be clean because we are made clean each and every day, thanks be to God!

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"Whether your body is small or large, aged or young, disabled or abled, toned or soft, lithe or stiff--or somewhere in-between--anti-fatness affects us all, because it is intended to. Fat Church critiques anti-fat prejudice and the Church's historic participation in it, calling for a fatphobic reckoning for the sake of God's gospel of freedom."
- from the back cover of Rev. Anastasia Kidd's book, Fat Church: A Gospel of Fat Liberation.

All year long we hear messages of anti-fatness. At the beginning of the new year, goals of losing weight; not eating chocolate during Lent; prepping our "summer body"; not eating too many treats over the holidays. It's relentless, and those messages seep into our church pews, too. Rev. Anastasia Kidd invites us to bring the conversation around to understanding how anti-fat bias shapes our culture, and how we, especially as Christians, can work to change that. She invites us into a liberation rooted in God's love for us.

About Anastasia
Rev. Anastasia Kidd (she/her) is a lecturer and director of enrollment at the Boston University School of Theology. She was ordained by the Metro Boston Association of the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ and previously served as the Chair of the Leadership Development Commission of that Conference.