Temple Keepers
Temple Keepers is a faith and fitness podcast for Christian men and women who want to honor God with their whole lives.
Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, and caring for it is not vanity. It is stewardship.
Hosted by Matthew and Leah Headden, this podcast is for you if you are trying to lose weight, break unhealthy patterns, build strength, lead your family well, or simply stop feeling stuck, Temple Keepers will help you get back to what matters most. Just honest conversations, biblical truth, real science, and practical steps to help you walk in greater health, freedom, and obedience.
This is for the person who knows their health journey is about more than appearance. It is about worship. It is about discipline. It is about becoming the man or woman God has called you to be.
Welcome to Temple Keepers.
Episodes
83 episodes
Why You Still Hurt | Knee, Hip, Back & Joint Pain with Noah
Why does your knee, hip, back, shoulder, wrist, or foot keep hurting even after stretching, massage, physical therapy, or trying to treat the painful area?The source of the problem may not be where you actually feel the pain.Mat...
Why Nothing Works for Weight Loss in Perimenopause
Why Nothing Works for Weight Loss in Perimenopause | A Christian FixIf you're eating the same way you always have and this menopause belly showed up anyway, it is not a willpower problem. Your body is processing food differently. Here's ...
How Chronic Stress Affects Your Body: Pain, Hormones, Cravings & Weight
How does chronic stress affect your body?Fear and long-term stress can influence how you experience pain, hunger, cravings, fight-or-flight, and physical symptoms—and can make a real health obstacle feel impossible to overcome.I...
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The Holiest Place on Earth Is Your Body - Becoming a Temple Keeper
What is the holiest place on earth?Matthew and Leah argue that it is much closer than most Christians realize: your body the place God chose to dwell.In this foundational Temple Keepers episode, they explain why caring for your ...
How to Stop People Pleasing as a Christian | Why You Keep Putting Yourself Last
Are you serving everyone around you while quietly running yourself into the ground?Matthew and Leah talk about Christian people pleasing, boundaries, self-neglect, and why constantly putting yourself last is not the same thing as faithf...
Why Your Labs Look Normal But You Still Feel Terrible
Your bloodwork is “normal.”So why are you still exhausted, hungry, gaining belly fat, bloated, foggy, or struggling with your hormones?Matthew sits down with Temple Keepers coach Sarah Fox, a nurse with more than 20 years of exp...
How Much Protein Do You Need to Lose Fat? A Simple Formula
How much protein do you actually need to lose fat?Most people think they eat plenty—until they look at breakfast, lunch, and dinner separately.Matthew gives you a simple formula for setting your daily protein target based on you...
Why You Keep Self-Sabotaging | The Hidden Question Controlling Your Decisions
Why do you keep doing the opposite of what you genuinely intended to do?You set the alarm, plan the meals, schedule the workout, and promise yourself this time will be different—then real life happens and the plan disappears.Mat...
Why You Keep Eating When You’re Not Hungry | Christian Emotional Eating
Why do you keep eating when you are not physically hungry—even when you already know exactly what to do?For many people, emotional eating is not really a food problem. Food has become comfort, protection, reward, relief, or an answer to...
10 More Weight Loss Mistakes Sabotaging Your Fat Loss
Eating healthy but still not losing weight?You may not need another diet. You may be repeating a habit, belief, or blind spot that is quietly sabotaging your fat loss.Matthew breaks down 10 more common weight-loss mistakes, incl...
Why You Can’t Sleep, Lose Weight, or Stop Craving Sugar | Chronic Stress
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 mo...
10 Weight Loss Mistakes Sabotaging Your Fat Loss (And How to Fix Them)
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 wo...
Is Your Obedience To God Conditional?
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 consiste...
WHY YOUR DIET FAILS
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, Ma...
Stop Calling Bondage “Grace” | What Titus 2 Actually Teaches
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 rely...
It Shouldn’t Be This Hard | Why You’re Still Stuck With Your Health
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’...
YOU'RE NOT FAT:STOP ATTACHING LIES TO GOD'S NAME
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 nam...
Meals Made Simple
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, a...
How to Help Picky Kids Eat Healthier | Autism, ADHD & Family Routines
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, visu...
Walking Isn’t Enough | Build Muscle to Burn More and Control Blood Sugar
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 protect...
STOP PRAYING ABOUT IT
If you keep praying for clarity while avoiding the step you already know God told you to take, this episode will hit hard. I share why prayer can become disobedience dressed in spiritual language, why comfort has become a counterfeit Christ for...
I Was Failing as a Christian Man | Chris’s Transformation Story
If you know you should be leading your family, but your habits are telling them a different story, Chris’s testimony will hit hard. He shares how he went from depressed, exhausted, and 260 pounds to losing 50–60 pounds, gaining muscle, renewing...
Mastering Menopause as a Temple Keeper
Menopause can make us feel like our body turned against us overnight. In this masterclass, we'll explain what is changing and how nutrition, strength, sleep, and peace can help us rebuild the foundation instead of fighting our body.&nbs...
"I Couldn't Minister Like This"
If you are a husband, father, or pastor who knows you need to change but still feels stuck, you need to hear this!Brian was foggy, exhausted, overweight, a poor witness and unable to show up for the people he was called to serve. He los...
Forgive Like Jesus | How Unforgiveness Affects the Body and Soul
Unforgiveness and trauma does not just affect the heart. It makes us sick too.In this episode, Matthew breaks down self-forgiveness, bitterness, resentment, and how forgiveness can become a real path to healing.WORK WITH US:...
