Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 205 | You Can't Have It All

Episode Date: January 27, 2020

We're back! In a jam-packed new episode, we highlight Trump's historic speech at the March for Life and discuss the media's hatred for pro-lifers. We also break down the myth seen on both sides of the cultural spectrum: "You can have it all." Last but not least, we'll discuss Julianne Hough's ... interesting ... new "body cleansing" methods and why they're not as innocent as they may seem. 

Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort. We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed, you can watch this D-Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us.

Hey, guys, welcome to Relatable. I am so glad to be here. So it's been a little weird for the past few weeks because we've had a lot of replays, not last week, but the one before we had a new episode on Monday. And the one before that, we had a new episode on Monday. And then it was Christmas and New Year and all of that. that but it's been off because we had some personnel changes at relatable all good changes in transitions but that causes not to be able to have new episodes some of you even emailed me who aren't on instagram because i did talk about this on instagram but some of you emailed me saying like are you okay yes i am okay it was just kind of a little bit of a forced break which was actually good we went to at at g3 which was awesome it was very much much an honor to get to speak there. And then my family and I went to go see my husband's family in Georgia and that was all good and fun. But I missed you guys. I miss being able to talk about all of the

things that are going on and there are a lot of things that are going on. We did two Instagram lives a couple weeks ago. Those are my first ever. But you guys were so engaging and so fun and I really enjoyed them. I will try to do more going forward. But sometimes they take a long time because I end up getting carried away. And so it's like an hour and a half of Instagram living. And I can't do that every night. So sometime in the future, we will. We also will be, I asked you guys about this on Instagram. We will be starting a ladies only book club on Facebook and Instagram. I said that was going to be February 1st. I can't believe it's the end of January. It's gone by so fast. But I will figure out when and how we are going to do that. And I'm really excited for it. And you guys have

given me lots of suggestions about what you want to read and what the format will look like. And so I'm so excited about it. So we're going to be talking about a few different subjects today. Now, those of you who listen to Relatable regularly know that Monday is typically Theology Mondays and this is going to be a little bit different. The reason for that is I want to try a little bit of a different format. So don't be disappointed. Those of you who really love Theology Mondays the way that they are, I know for some of you, this is your favorite episode. of the week. But what I'm going to try to do, a thing that I think is going to add more value to your life and to your worldview three times a week is if I integrate the stories about

what's going on. So, you know, cultural trends, political stories, the news, something that some Christian said on Instagram, that's something we talk about a lot, integrate it with what the Word of God actually says about this or just what the Christian worldview is on a particular issue, rather than splitting up, okay, this is Bible Mondays, Theology Mondays, this is News Wednesdays, this is Interview Fridays. We'll keep the interviews on Fridays, but for the rest of the time, I want to try to kind of intertwine these things. Now, it might not work. If you hate it, we can always go back. The only people that truly determine what this podcast talks about is you and me. So if you don't like it, if you want to go back to the, you know, set in stone categories

or the more clean cut categories Monday, Wednesday, Friday, we can do that. That's totally fine. But give it a few weeks. See how you like it. See how I do. Give me feedback. Send me Instagram messages or send me an email and we can talk about it and we can rearrange this however is best for you.

My goal is for this show to add as much value to your life as humanly possible. That is my goal in 2020. That is always my goal in relatable. Okay, today we're going to talk about a few things with this new format. We're going to talk about President Trump at the March for Life and some of the media coverage about that. We're going to talk about this lie that I've seen perpetuated, whether it's in Christian circles or not. And that is the lie that you can have it all. We are going to talk about why leftism, parts of leftism, of course, maybe not all of it, but leftism at its core fights so hard against family and the children.

and why I want to talk about that today. I'll bring up. And then we're going to talk about Julianne Huff and demon worship, crazy stuff that seems to be going on in her life and on her Instagram. Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political.

They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort.

we ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed, you can watch this T-Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. Let us get in to today's podcast. So President Trump was the first president ever, the first president ever to speak at the March for life. And the media coverage of this was pretty predictable. Now, there were, I would say there were

some articles. There were some outlets that covered this pretty fairly. But you see this phrase that is meant as a pejorative from the left, which the majority of the media, I think that we can acknowledge, is on the left side of the political aisle. They call it anti-abortion or anti-choice. And I know that they mean this to be offensive. They don't want to ascribe pro-life to us because they repeat this trope that has no grounding in reality whatsoever, that we're not really pro-life, that we're just pro-forced birth, that we're just pro-babies inside the womb. They say all of this terrible stuff about us caring, about fetuses. That's another word they use to try to dehumanize babies inside the womb, as if it's not Latin for a little one. They try to say that

we're not really pro-life because we don't care about babies born. or we don't care about babies after they're born, which of course isn't true. If you look at any study of who actually gives more to charity, who actually spends more of their own resources, helping the poor and helping the least of these, it is not for the most part. Again, this isn't true of all Democrats, but for the most part, it's not the Democratic side. It's not the left side. It is not by association the pro-choice side. It is pro-lifers. It is for the most part Christian conservatives that are running these pregnancy centers.

in which they are providing not just, you know, pregnancy tests or STI test or sonograms, but they're also offering free parenting classes or affordable parenting classes. They're helping women in crisis get to some kind of refuge. They try to save them from abusive situations. I know pregnancy centers that have helped women who are not citizens get their citizenship status or get a legal status so they can actually remain in the United States. pregnancy centers who are not on the left side of the political aisle, the people that these pro-choices are saying only care, those are the only people that care about kids after they're born. It is Christian conservatives, mostly, definitely conservatives, definitely pro-lifers that are running these pregnancy centers that are helping women, not just their children, but also women, and are helping people who are in poor, who are in vulnerable communities.

And so it is just this lie. It is just this myth that all of these people marching at the March for Life, they only care about the children inside the wound, that don't care about anyone outside of the wound. That's just fundamentally untrue. It's not backed by any fact, any study whatsoever. And I just praise the Lord for all of these people who marched the March for Life who, unlike the people at the Women's March, aren't marching for their own self-interest. Like all of these people, all of the people marching already survived abortion. We already survived abortion. So we're not marching for ourselves. They're marching for those not yet born. They are marching for

women who feel coerced or who feel manipulated into abortion, which, by the way, if you go listen to my interview that I did with Abby Johnson, that happens a lot where women are manipulated into abortion saying there's no way you could raise a child and go to college. Like there's no way that you could raise a child and chase your dreams and do all the things you need to do. You definitely just need to not worry about this. There's no way you could raise a third. child, women are given this kind of rhetoric because abortion makes money for planned parenthood. And so all of the people that are marching in March for Life or who marched, they don't have any profit incentive. They don't have any incentive really for themselves.

They are doing it for someone else who can't repay them in any way, by the way. If we want to talk about the least of these, if we want to talk about the most vulnerable, the most defenseless class of humans that exist, we can, we can talk about the most defenseless class of humans that exist, we can talk about unborn children. And so I got to go to the March for Life last year when I was pregnant. I was with my mom. I got to speak the night before at an event for Save the Stork to Save the Stork ball. And that was wonderful. And we got to March. And this year, I was actually supposed to, I was supposed to be at the March for Life Youth rally to speak. And I was so excited about it. I've been committed to that for months. And my whole family last week, after we got

back from visiting my husband's family in Georgia, we came down with the stomach bug. So, as you can imagine, flying, or we actually had to drive to the airport two hours. So my husband got the stomach bug first. I was feeling queasy. My husband felt terrible. Baby was okay. We had to drive two hours. We had to take all of our stuff.

And if you've ever traveled with the baby, as small as they are, they got a ton of stuff. They have so much stuff. You've got your stroller. You've got your car seat. got a million bags, plus we were gone for almost a week. So we had a lot of stuff. So we're going through the airport, sick, baby bags, all of this stuff. And then I, all of a sudden it just hits me. And I'm like, I have the stomach bug too. I was praying that my husband had just eaten something. So I get the stomach bug. I don't want to go into too many details about all that,

but I'll just tell you. I was sick, not just waiting in the airport for two hours, but also on the plane middle seat not a good experience carrying a baby who babies don't really like being on the plane praise god she actually slapped for a lot of the flight so that was terrible and then we were just praying we were like okay you know i pray that she doesn't get that the baby doesn't get sick because she hasn't been sick and i was like you know she's strong immune system it'll be fine unfortunately baby also came down with the stomach virus and uh that was terrible We are all good. We are all totally fine now. We've been fine for several days. But the reason why I didn't go is because she was still on the men. She had had a fever. And I, there was just no way. It didn't make any sense to me to leave, to leave my baby to go to a pro life rally to speak, even though it was something that I had been committed to. But to leave my own family and to leave my own child to go talk about vulnerable babies. It didn't make any, it didn't make any sense to me. And plus I wanted, I wanted. I. I wanted to stay with her and I find it to be a privilege and something that I am extremely grateful

to get to do that I got to stay home and to take care of her. Yes, of course, I believe in honoring commitments that we make, no matter what realm they are, personal or professional, but I made the commitment to be her mom far before I made any commitment to speak anywhere and it's far more important. So I was sad that I didn't get to be there, but I also was thanking God for privilege for the ability to be able to stay home and to take care of her. And I also praise God that we are all better now and that everyone is all good. I am very thankful for our immune systems who didn't have to, you know, take any medicine or anything like that. I am thankful for pediatricians. I am thankful for all of these gifts of common grace. And thank you to all of you

who prayed. I posted on Instagram asking for a prayer request. But I am also praying. for, I'm also praying for all of you who have sick kids and who are sick yourselves. Like I kind of feel like it was a right of passage into parenthood that I took care of a sick baby. Like while I was also sick, it was just like, yeah, this is, this is what, this is what motherhood is. You really don't get a break. And it's beautiful. It's hard and it's awesome. And I'm praying for all of you who have babies, who have RSV, who have the flu. It's just going around this year. Maybe it's every year, but it's really difficult. And I might not even know the extent of it. Some of you have babies in the hospital. And gosh, I'm just so, I'm so sorry that you're going through that. And I really,

I actually did. I'm not just saying I'm praying for you. Like I took time last night and I just laid there and was like, God, please be with all of the moms and the dads whose babies are suffering right now and who are sick and the anxiety and the fear that comes with all of that. But I just want you to know in all of that, that if you weren't able to march for life over the weekend, if you weren't able to do any activism, if you weren't able to go anywhere and to show your support in some kind of public or tangible way for vulnerable babies because you are at home taking care of your own babies, like that is pro-life work. That is a pro-life cause.

And that is your calling. That is my calling. To be a wife and a mom. That is my calling. That is your calling if you are a wife and a mom. this whole like new agey weird glorified narcissistic thing that you need to find your identity and you need to find yourself outside of being a wife and a mom in order to have any confidence or to be worthy or to be you know a substantive part of society it's all a lie it's not biblical at

all and i'm very thankful for those of you who respond to the calling who of being a mom and a wife if you are a mom and a wife i'm very thankful for those of you who uh do that well and I'm thankful for the grace of God that allows us to do that, those of us who are in that position. Let me loop back really fast, though, to the actual March for Life because I do want to play you a little bit of President Trump's speech. But we know this. Every life brings love into this world. Every child brings joy to a family.

Every person is worth protecting. And above all, we know that every human soul. is divine in every human life. Born and unborn is made in the holy image of Almighty God. That was awesome. Like I said, he was the first president ever to speak of the March for Life, which is kind of crazy. I mean, it's been going on since I believe 1974, so the year after Roe v. Wade and no president has ever spoken there, including Ronald Reagan. You guys know, I love Ronald Reagan, favorite president, someone who I believe was at the core of of who he was pro-life.

Like he was actually ideologically pro-life, whereas President Trump, several years ago, said he was pro-choice and maybe he has genuinely switched his position, which is awesome. But as far as policy goes, Trump's administration has been extremely pro-life. And that's one reason, a major reason, if not the main reason why evangelicals support him,

despite all of his bad habits and hang-ups and the things he says on Twitter, his lack of decorum, some things that we wish that he didn't say or do, that is huge, is being for the babies inside of the womb. There is just not going to be an evangelical Christian who is, I mean, for the most part, who is going to vote for someone who is for the slaughter of babies inside the womb, especially the current Democratic Party, who supports virtually no regulation on abortion at all. So we're talking about, I mean, sometimes I just have to, it just strikes me. what we're talking about. Like it's kind of crazy. When you just sit there for a second, you're saying,

okay, wait, we're actually talking about this as if it's a policy debate, whether or not it's okay to kill a baby at nine months gestation. Anytime is wrong. But we're talking about a living, moving, kicking, feeling baby that could survive outside the womb. Like there are actually people who believe ideologically that that's okay. It's crazy that we're even having that. debate when you sit back and actually think about it. This is not just a clump of cells. Like this is a human being. This is a baby. It's crazy that we are even going there. But no evangelical Christian is going to be on board with a party or a candidate who represents that party who is okay with that. And so President Trump being the only president who has ever

spoken at this event really is a big deal. But it's not just speaking at this event that is a big deal. He has also done things policy-wise in the way of the pro-life cause that are very good. Now, did Congress just pass a spending bill that still funds Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion mill in the nation? Yes, they did, which is a problem. But remember that the Trump administration also did something. Pretty amazing. I covered this on episode 154 of Relatable, if you want to listen to this explanation in full. But they also did something, like I said, last year that hurt Planned Parenthood. They made a rule that said health facilities have to physically and financially completely

separate abortion services from the rest of their services in order to receive Title X funds. Planned Parenthood refused to do so foregoing more than $60 million. The administration also said that Planned Parenthood or any health care provider or any health care facility cannot expressly recommend abortion. they can offer it. They can say that abortion exists as an option, but they can't say you should get an abortion. And Planned Parenthood calls this a gag rule. It's not a gag rule.

Like I said, you can listen to the explanation for that on episode 154. But that's a really big deal. That was their way of trying to cut funding in a way from Planned Parenthood instead of going through the spending bill, which obviously is something that failed. And like I said, is a problem. They have also, the Trump administration has also done. other things to help unborn babies. And to find that information, all you have to do is to look at Planned Parenthood's own website.

So here's what the Trump administration has done that is so egregious to Planned Parenthood. And if it's egregious to Planned Parenthood, then it is godly and righteous and good. He has nominated more than 150 federal judges, nominating, of course, two Supreme Court justices, changes to Title 10, which we just talked about, expanded the Mexico City policy, which says foreign organizations receiving U.S. health assistance, can't make abortion referrals, Department of Health and Human Services, strategic plan sets forth, that is something that sets forth policy goals until 2022 explicitly defines life asserting at conception.

And I think it's so funny that they, that Planned Parenthood includes that as like, oh, no, science. So praise God. Praise God for the Trump administration. And yes, Trump, of course, is flawed. I've talked about that several times on this podcast. I know some of you don't like when I bring that up. and some of you are on the opposite end.

You think I don't bring it up enough. But yes, of course Trump has his flaws. And there are people who say, how can you support this person who is so ungodly? Well, it's not even really supporting Trump, at least not for me. And supporting his administration and what they've been able to accomplish, which is not just in the way of pro-life,

but they've accomplished a lot of good things that we've talked about on this podcast. And I think that it's something that we should celebrate when there are celebrations to be had. So praise God for the Trump administration, advocacy on this. issue for how they thought on this issue, and I pray. I truly pray that they continue to do so. We've talked about before abortion breaks God's heart. That's just the end of the story.

Of course, it breaks God's heart now. Some people are going to say, well, so does rape, so does incest. Yes, it does. But so does abortion. It doesn't negate. One doesn't negate the other. I've done several podcasts on this. I'll list them in case you guys want to go back and listen to them. What is titled Abortion Ain't Biblical. Another is titled Just Abortion, where we go through the entire issue. Another is titled Calling Evil Good. Another is an interview that I did with my friend Virgil Walker, who also hosts the podcast Just Thinking,

where we talk about what you can actually do in the fight against abortion. I have also interviewed Abby Johnson. As I said earlier, I interviewed her a few weeks ago. And then the most listened to episode of Relatable ever in Relatable's existence is titled My Pro Life Fight Against. or in Congress where I recap to the congressional hearing in which I was called to be a witness regarding abortion legislation. I highly recommend, if I do say so myself, all of these episodes to equip you with knowledge on scientifically what an abortion is. Why biblically and morally,

it is wrong legislatively what has been done and can be done. All of these episodes will make you feel outraged. They will make you feel sad, but they should also make you feel hopeful and equipped. that is my goal. We know from Psalm 139 that God takes care to create all of us inside of our mother's wounds that he knits us together with attention to detail. We know from the creation account that human beings are uniquely made in the image of God. We have souls that live forever. We are set apart from animals and plants because of this.

We are uniquely included in his plan of redemption. We know from Jesus' life in words that God cares for the least of these. we know that Jesus specifically cares for children. He cares for the vulnerable. He cares for the defenseless. And as we have stated many times, there really is no more vulnerable or defenseless than an unborn child. Fighting for unborn children is a great way to seek justice,

to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God. It's not the only way to do that, but it is a great way to do that. Okay, that is the March for Life. and we're going to move on to this second thing that I want to discuss that really I was supposed to intertwine a little bit better, but I kind of went out of order when I talked about our family having a stomach bug. So I'm going to have to kind of like do a call back and then I'm going to link it together.

So like I said, the reason that I didn't go to the March for Life Youth rally was because we were hit with the stomach bug and were all better. and I took care of my baby, which was a privilege to be able to do. But I saw, so the reason why I thought about this idea that you can have it all or you can do everything or that you don't have to choose, that's a really big thing. It's been a big thing for a long time, but especially nowadays. And it's kind of like wedded and conservative thought of wanting to have a family and progressive thought of women have to go out and have a full-time job in order to be valuable. and so those two ideas have kind of come together into this pseudo-feminist, pseudo-conservative idea

that you can have it all, that you can do everything that you don't have to choose between family and a job, which in some ways is true. Of course, it is possible for women to be able to balance work that they have to do with their, what I believe, if you are a wife and a mom, you're true in higher calling to be a wife and a mom. balance is necessary and balance is possible as long as your job isn't taking you away from your primary role if you are a wife and a mom but this idea that you can have it all so this is this is why i thought about this because kim Kardashian posted this picture of her and her beautiful gorgeous family eating breakfast and it said like Monday madness or something like that and um

she makes it look like you really can have everything like you can have this Awesome, wonderful family. Like, you can have four kids. You can be a mom and you can also be on the cover of every magazine, millions of followers and travel as much as she does, go to as many parties as she dies, have as many photo shoots as she dies. One, I think logistically, we all know that most of us are not as rich as Kim Kardashian. So we don't have as much actual help as Kim Kardashian does.

She has lots and lots of help that most of us cannot afford and would not, you know, purchase even if we had the money. So that's just one logistical thing of why it's unrealistic to look. at that person's life and to say, oh, we can do everything that she can. But also, it's not possible. It is not possible to be a full-time mom and to work full-time. Like something's just got to give. I've realized that in my own life. I have taken a huge, multiple big steps back from my job while still fulfilling the responsibilities that I have to the commitment that I have made to work. And I love this job. Like I love doing this podcast and I get to do it. And I get to do it from

home. So that's awesome. And I am totally privileged to be able to do that and I am so glad. But there have been so many things that I have said no to that I've decided not to do. The part of my brain that used to fear missing out on things has just died. It's just gone away. I don't even know where it is. And when I think about it, the fear of missing out is really ungodly anyway, no matter what stage of life that you're in because you're not trusting in God's sovereignty. You're not trusting in God's control over your life. You're not trusting that God knows. knows better. You are anxious and thinking erroneously that you are in control. So God thankfully has used motherhood to show me what's important and to show me that I don't constantly have to be

worried about what opportunities that I don't have that other people have because I am constantly reminded by him of what is important. And I've realized I cannot do it all. I can't. And it goes back to the title of my book and the theme that we talk about so much, this lie that Christian women, that secular women are told that you are enough. No, you're not enough. You're not enough. You are not enough. You don't have all the capabilities to be a good mom, to be a solid worker, to be a perfect wife, to be all of the things that you have to be. As a woman, you've got a million different roles that you have to fill in your life and you don't have the capacity, you don't have the talent, you don't have the ability, you don't have the know-how to do all of it. And neither do I. And

is amazing. That's why 2 Corinthians 12.9, or that's not why, but that's why we can find solace in 2 Corinthians 129, that God's power is perfected in our weakness. God made us fallible. God made us weak. God made us needy. God made us incomplete. God made us to need a Sabbath. God made us to need sleep. God made us to need other people. God made us most importantly and most fundamentally to need him. And so no, you are not enough and that's okay because God is enough. That is from whom we find our sufficiency. And that is why we talk so much about the problem with self-care and self-love and all of these things.

Is it because you're supposed to hate yourself? Is it because you're supposed to never get your nails done? No, that's not why self-love and self-care in that whole world is wrong. The reason why all of that stuff is faulty is because it doesn't show you the source of satisfaction does it bring you to the well that never runs dry never brings you to the bread of life which satisfies forever it goes to you to care for yourself it goes to you to love yourself and you can't find the love and the care that you need inside yourself you just can't and so that's something that i was very much reminded of as i was sick myself trying to care for my sick child and coming

to the end of myself and realizing that no amount of self love no amount of self-care no amount of self-empowering mantras or whatever it is, is ever going to give me enough energy or give me the capacity to be able to fulfill the roles that I need. I had to say no to not just one, but two prior commitments that I had for work and say, you know, there's just no way that I'm going to be able to do that. And I have said no many, many times professionally over the past few months. and it truly is, it's my joy to do it. I'm going to say no, a million more times and realize that that's just, you know, my season

of life. That's just my season of life right now. And really, like I said, my true calling and everything else just kind of goes underneath it. And I'm learning that. And God has given me the grace to learn that. And I pray that he gives you the grace to learn that too. It's very difficult in a world that says, not just that you can have it all, but that you

have to have it all in order to be fulfilled, that you have to have all. that you have to have all the things that you have to be enough all the time that you have to love yourself and care for yourself enough and find yourself enough and empower yourself enough and be enough in order to be fully satisfied and be fully fulfilled. And as rejuvenating, I guess, is that might sound, it's actually very tiring to try to muster all of the strength inside yourself to be all those things. You just don't have it. That's why Jesus says his yoke is easy and his burden is light because he calls us to deny

ourselves to take up our cross and to follow him, which is difficult. Yes, that's why he asks us to count the cost of discipleship, but also it is liberating and it is freeing and knowing that our lives are not up to us, but up to him and that we are free to be weak because he is our strength. so that is just something that I was reminded of when I was looking at that Kim Kardashian Instagram picture it makes it seem like you can have it all you can't have it all something's always got to give and I learned that very tangibly this week and I'm thankful for it I'm very I'm very thankful for it and I pray that God would continue to make me thankful for those things because it's it's not fun being stressed

and being sick and all of those things um okay speak in the same thing of the self-love, self-empowerment stuff I want to finally get to. Oh, well, I was actually going to talk about something else in between. Okay, well, I don't have that much more time. I want to talk about this Julianne Huff thing. I was going to talk about leftism against the family, but maybe I'll just save that for Wednesday. I really want to talk about this Julian Huff thing. So Julian Huff has been on quite the journey to discover herself, it seems like. for a while. She was in Davos, Switzerland, you know, at the economic summit. And she was doing something. I don't even know how to describe that. She was doing the demonstration with the doctor, Dr. John Amaral.

And he is a, quote, body healing expert. And he is endorsed by Gwyneth Paltrow. You know, the woman who just made a candle that supposed to smell like her hoo-ha. that woman yes she apparently is the person that we need to be looking to for life advice well she likes this guy dr john ammerall and julian huff does too uh he said so this is what he said so i don't want to play the video because it's disturbing honestly and there's no well maybe there is sound she's like screaming in it and it's really weird but i don't think i want to i don't want to put that on my podcast anyway she's laying face down on this table and he is like not touching her, but he is waving his hands over her. It looks like he's pulling something out of her behind. It's really, really weird. So here's what he says. When energy was stored and bound up

in the muscles, it gets to dissipate. And if we're really free to express and allow energy that's been bound in our bodies to move through, this woman is like an incredible dancer, actress, just human being. And she has practiced just allowing things to move through. Okay. So apparently it is supposed to, you know, like release energy, make you feel better. I mean, the world is all about this. And this is all in the culture of self-love and self-empowerment that we've been talking about. What this is a kundalini spirit. So I've learned about this, a kundalini spirit. And this is a Hindu term. It is a form of divine energy believed to be located at the base of the spine. So kundalini actually means coiled snake. And so it's energy based at the spine. And

what this guy does, this doctor, he's supposed to release it and it's supposed to make you feel better. But it looks like an exorcism. That is what it, and she has to be acting. Like it's not real. It's really weird. But this is, I'm not trying to be dramatic. Like I'm really not trying to take this to a level where it doesn't actually exist, but it truly is pagan worship. That's what all of this is. You should go back and listen to the episode titled Personality Test. Where we talk about the intigram, we talk about personality test and how it all got started and how it really is Eastern mysticism. And Eastern mysticism has been making its way to the United States through a lot of different practices, including yoga. And I just recently have learned a lot

about this and have kind of changed my mind about yoga because I didn't actually ever think anything of it. And I've realized that all of this is Eastern mysticism, making its way over to the West. And all of it really is a journey to the self, a journey to find who you truly. are. It's this idea that who you are in the inside is really perfect and that if you can just release all these expectations, release all these layers that society has put on you, that life has put on you, that responsibilities have put on you, then you will be happy, then you will be fulfilled. And it goes back to the lie that we are hearing from a culture at large that you can find happiness and peace and empowerment inside yourself. And I think that we can all agree that

that is not biblical. It's this idea that you have to, like I said, shed these layers, but also empty yourself in order to find peace. Well, that's not a biblical idea at all. The idea that you have to empty your mind to find peace. The Bible actually says that we need to fill our minds with good things in order to have peace in order to have joy. Romans 1513 says, may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace and believing so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. Emptying your mind is not actually possible. All you're doing when you're emptying your mind is making yourself vulnerable to Satan's deceit. Philippians 4 says whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,

whatever is commendable. If there's any excellence, if anything is worthy of praise, think about these things and the God of peace will be with you. So we are not called to empty ourselves. We are called to fill ourselves with good things. We are called to be filled with the Holy Spirit. So that idea is incongruent with biblical Christianity. We don't need to commit to any of these kind of practices. And we're also not called to find ourselves. We're also not called to shed these layers to find who we really are on the inside. When we are in Christ, we become a new creation. So we're not looking for new and better versions of ourselves. We're not looking for our best self.

We are a new self to follow in the likeness of Christ, to become more like Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. We are not called to find ourselves, to empower ourselves, to shed off these layers, to find our best self. And who you really are in the inside isn't this unvarnished goddess? That's another thing that celebrities like to talk about. like goddess circles. You're not this unvarnished goddess on the inside. Who you are, apart from Christ is dead in your sin. You are totally depraved in need of a savior. So if you go inside

yourself looking for some kind of hope, for some kind of satisfaction, for some kind of source of love, you are going to be sorely disappointed. The Bible says, Jeremiah 179, that our hearts are desperately wicked. We don't have good hearts. We don't need to follow our hearts. But that's what this whole culture of what I call trendy narcissism is about. It is Eastern mysticism. It is new age. It is journey to the self. And there has been this wedding I've talked about before of like Western capitalism and individualism with Eastern mysticism. And it is melt. I guess melted, but it is met in the world of self-help. And so you see it in places like girl wash your face that you wouldn't say, oh, that's not Eastern mysticism. No. But it is.

taking on this idea that we have to shed all of these external expectations in order to find our true unvarnished self. And when we finally do, then we'll reach our dreams, then we'll be fulfilled. That's just not biblical. It's just not biblical. And like I've said many times, God shows us a better way. His way is so much more satisfying. His way and his way alone is abundant life. God gives us two options. So you've got the thief who comes to steal, kill, and destroy and you've got God who gives life and life to the full. So if you are not following God who gives abundant life, then on the other side of that, you are following the thief who kills, steals, and destroys. And just a note, I mean, this is very sad. I'm certainly not rejoicing

over this, but Julian Hoff, who we're talking about, she talks a lot about self-love. I actually talk about this particular quote in my book, but she quoted this. She said, I think every girl needs to love herself regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first. You can't do anything, she says, until you love yourself first. So self-love, she is saying it's a solution to all of your problems, which of course is a very on-trend thing to believe and to say. She's talked a lot about putting yourself first, putting your priorities, or putting yourself at the top of your priority list. And her husband or ex-husband

the same thing. Unfortunately, there was news of them at separating. She also recently came out and said that she is not straight, which seems to be another road on her path to self-discovery. And then you have Miley Cyrus who told Elle magazine, uh, just, I think just before she and Liam got to force that if you love yourself, it means that you come first. I think that this, as well as the lives of many other people who perpetuate the, this myth that you have to love yourself before you can love other people, they should serve as an example for us, that self-love breaks apart relationships and ultimately it will make you miserable. This self-obsession, this trendy narcissism, it doesn't work out, which is why,

as we say, so many times God's way is so much better. Okay, I think that's all we're going to have time for today. I wanted to talk about this crazy tweet about being a traditional wife and how they talked about us like we're Neanderthals but I think I'll talk about that on Wednesday I think covered enough for today and my poll that I sent out said that you guys said that you like this podcast to be between 30 and 40 minutes and I'm already past that so that is wrapping up for today let me let me know what you guys think about this format and I will be back here on Wednesday Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political.

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