Hormone Happy Hour with Dr. Heather Rhodes
May 4, 2026 · 37 min · 16 segments
This episode is a little more faith-centered, I’m recording while traveling and preparing for a women’s conference around Psalm 139, and this message has been on my heart. We hear “fearfully and…
So going back to this verse, "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
I know that full well." There have been a lot of times in my life where I've heard that verse really in the context of, "You don't need to change anything about yourself.
Like, even if there's things wrong with you or your body or you're different than other people, like, that's okay because the Lord made you this way." And it felt very surface level, maybe because of the number of times I've heard it, maybe just because I actually was resisting allowing myself to, like, truly receive the depth of what this verse is saying.
And I think that's important because when we look at where this verse falls in the Book of Psalms, so this is a psalm that David wrote, and when we look at where this verse falls inside of Psalms, the verse itself is in this very rich psalm that's really focused and highlighting and just repeating over and over again this level of intimacy with the Father of, like, "You know me.
Like, you created me in this way that, like, you know my thoughts before I think them.
You send protection around me, both for my past and for my future." And then the next psalm goes into protection, and it's all about, like, protect me because all these things are happening.
And so there was this moment where I was reading this all together as one package and being like, wait a second.
David finds safety in this idea of how closely he is intertwined with the Father, of how closely God knows him, of how in- like, intimate and intense that relationship is.
And from that place, David calls upon safety from the Lord when everything that's happening in the flesh, everything that's happening in the natural looks unsafe, is unsafe, feels unsafe.
He's literally running, like, hiding f- for, from, like, for his life, like, fighting for his life.
He's like, "My enemies are literally here to kill me." And I think that's something we miss.
So going back to this verse, "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
I know that full well." There have been a lot of times in my life where I've heard that verse really in the context of, "You don't need to change anything about yourself.
Like, even if there's things wrong with you or your body or you're different than other people, like, that's okay because the Lord made you this way." And it felt very surface level, maybe because of the number of times I've heard it, maybe just because I actually was resisting allowing myself to, like, truly receive the depth of what this verse is saying.
And I think that's important because when we look at where this verse falls in the Book of Psalms, so this is a psalm that David wrote, and when we look at where this verse falls inside of Psalms, the verse itself is in this very rich psalm that's really focused and highlighting and just repeating over and over again this level of intimacy with the Father of, like, "You know me.
Like, you created me in this way that, like, you know my thoughts before I think them.
You send protection around me, both for my past and for my future." And then the next psalm goes into protection, and it's all about, like, protect me because all these things are happening.
And so there was this moment where I was reading this all together as one package and being like, wait a second.
David finds safety in this idea of how closely he is intertwined with the Father, of how closely God knows him, of how in- like, intimate and intense that relationship is.
And from that place, David calls upon safety from the Lord when everything that's happening in the flesh, everything that's happening in the natural looks unsafe, is unsafe, feels unsafe.
He's literally running, like, hiding f- for, from, like, for his life, like, fighting for his life.
He's like, "My enemies are literally here to kill me." And I think that's something we miss.
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