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Peace is not a situation you finally get under control.

If your sleep is broken, your digestion is struggling, your cravings are rising, and your body constantly feels like something is chasing you, chronic stress may be affecting far more than your mood.

Matthew explains how fight or flight affects the nervous system, gut-brain connection, sleep, hormones, energy, emotional eating, and weight. He also unpacks the seven primal questions—Am I safe? Am I loved? Am I wanted? Am I good enough?—and how those unanswered questions can train us to seek relief through food, control, scrolling, the scale, people-pleasing, and avoidance.

You’ll learn why relief is not peace, what your triggers reveal, and how to retrain your body, mind, and habits to receive and practice the peace Christ has already given you.

Peace gets trained before the storm.

And the storm reveals what has been trained in us.

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Trying to lose weight but the scale still isn’t moving? These 10 common weight loss mistakes may be sabotaging your fat loss without you even realizing it.

From hidden calories and low protein to weekend eating, poor sleep, weak workouts, stress, and scale obsession, Matthew breaks down the mistakes he has seen repeatedly over 19 years in the fitness industry—and gives you one simple fix for each one

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Le'ts talk about one of the biggest traps in Christian weight loss: allowing the scale to decide whether we keep obeying.

The scale can give you information.

It does not get authority over your emotions, your identity, your consistency, or your obedience to God. 

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If every hard day ends with you standing in the pantry, you probably don’t need another diet.

You already know what to eat. The deeper question is: why do you keep eating when you’re not physically hungry?

In this episode, Matthew breaks down the difference between hunger and hurting, why stress reveals where we run for comfort, and how food can quietly become a substitute for the peace, relief, and rest we were meant to receive from God.

You’ll learn how to identify what is actually happening before you reach for food, change the environment feeding the habit, and begin retraining your response through prayer, God Food, movement, routines, accountability, and community.

Because food makes a terrible savior.

You have a real one.

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Grace does not just forgive us—grace trains us. Matthew breaks down Titus 2, self-control, delayed obedience, the difference between condemnation and cheap grace, why our brains resist change, and why receiving accountability does not mean relying on God less. If you keep calling the same bondage “my struggle,” this episode asks a harder question: Do you actually want to get well?

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You’re eating clean. You’re trying to exercise. You’ve prayed about it. Maybe you’ve blamed your hormones, your schedule, your metabolism, your cravings, or the fact that life is just too busy.

And you keep thinking:

“It shouldn’t be this hard.”

But what if the struggle itself is telling you where to look?

In this episode, Matthew walks through some of the most common things Christians say when they feel stuck with their health:

“I can’t lose weight.”
 “I’m eating clean.”
 “I have no energy.”
 “It’s my hormones.”
 “I don’t have time.”
 “I can’t stop eating junk food.”
 “I can’t sleep.”
 “I can’t afford to eat healthy.”

Instead of stopping at the complaint, we look underneath it.

Because the complaint is often the fruit—not the root.

You may not need another diet, supplement, workout plan, or burst of motivation. You may need enough honesty and awareness to see what your body, habits, environment, schedule, and heart have actually been practicing.

This isn’t shame. It’s information.

And information gives us something we can steward.

Temple Keepers helps Christians identify what is actually keeping them stuck and rebuild sustainable habits across nutrition, movement, rest, and peace—one faithful step at a time. 

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If you keep saying “I am” and then letting shame, food, addiction, failure, or your past finish the sentence, this episode is for you. Matthew breaks down guilt versus shame, the identity loop, self-forgiveness, and how to stop answering to names God never gave you.

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If eating healthy feels confusing, expensive, and impossible to maintain, you probably do not need another diet. Matthew explains how to take the meals your family already loves and improve them with protein, produce, God-given carbohydrates, and fat on purpose—without tracking every bite or replacing everything you eat.

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If every meal becomes a fight, your child refuses healthier foods, and you are exhausted trying to change the whole house, this episode is for you.

Matthew talks with occupational therapist Dr. Katie about picky eating, autism, ADHD, visual schedules, sensory needs, gradual food exposure, and why healthy change begins with safety—not pressure.

You will learn how to meet your child where they are, involve them in the process, build predictable family routines, and lead by example without trying to overhaul everything overnight.

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If you walk every day but still feel weak, struggle with blood sugar, or cannot get your metabolism moving, walking may not be enough.

Muscle helps your body use glucose, improves insulin sensitivity, supports your metabolism, and protects your ability to live, lead, and serve as you age.

Matthew explains how to start strength training with your real schedule, set your floor and your full, and stop doing nothing because you cannot do everything. 

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00:00 Why Fit People Can Eat More
 00:39 Why Walking Is Not Enough
 01:06 Muscle, Glucose, and Insulin Sensitivity
 01:49 You Cannot Supplement Your Way Around Weakness
 02:00 Build a Plan Around Your Real Schedule
 02:23 Set Your Floor and Your Full
 03:17 Start Where You Are—But Keep Progressing
 04:49 Strength Training as Stewardship

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