Faith, Body, and the Permission to Say It Out Loud
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Many women were raised to carry difficulty quietly and to treat endurance as faithfulness. That inheritance is real, and it has kept women out of exam rooms.
Faith and clinical care are not competing claims. Prayer and a lab slip can sit on the same table. Tending the body is not a lack of trust.
Naming what is happening — to God, to a friend, to a clinician — is where care usually begins.