Everywhere in our culture we hear that self love is the answer! If you're struggling with body image or comparison, just love yourself more and you'll be okay. But does that line up with scripture? Is self love biblical? What does the Bible say about self love? While...
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Do You Have to ‘Love’ Your Body? A Christian Perspective on Body Positivity
Stunned, I sat in front of my television. I could not believe what I just witnessed. The Today show featured a fashion consultant named Gok Wan who said he had discovered the answer for women with body image issues. Are you ready for this? He invites women to his...
Confidence With Great Reward: Quick Thoughts on Self-Confidence
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. -Hebrews 10:35-36 Confidence. We toss the word around as if it's actually a personality...
What You Need Instead of Self-Esteem
There's nothing worse than being duped. Conned. Swindled. Misled. Deceived. Yet that's what has happened to so many of us on the issue of our body image. We've been told that if we had more self-esteem, then . . . then . . .we would feel like a bunch of hotties--like...
Three Ways to Find an Answer to: Am I Enough?
Fear, imposter’s syndrome, inadequacy, performance anxiety, or identity issues. Whatever you want to call it, it’s that aching fear in my heart that I am just not enough. This heart ache colors so much of my life: my relationships, work, sense of well-being, ministry,...
Why I’m Not Building My Children’s Self-Esteem
There are over forty-six million entries on Google on how to build your child's self-esteem. Forty-six million!!! We've been told for decades that this is the job of parents to make sure their children have healthy self-esteem so they can go off into the world and...
4 Reasons You Don’t Need More Self-Esteem
This is the first post in a mini series on self-esteem. If you are a follower of Jesus, I hope you'll read and prayerfully consider removing "self-esteem" from your vocabulary. I'm so dead serious about this my friends. We've been deceived that self-esteem is the...
Skinny: I Am Not Skinny
I am not skinny. I say that only because my therapist told me I can no longer say, “I am fat.” She gave me the reasoning why (which I don’t really remember) but in an instant I knew that being fat had become my identity, and her denying me from saying those words...
How Do I Talk To Teens About Body Image?
Another great question in the "Questions about Body Image and Comparison" series. Dear Heather: I'm a high school teacher and I see so many of the girls (and even boys) in my class struggling with body image. I can't speak overtly about Jesus in class, so I try to...
When Self-Esteem, Self-Help, Dieting and Exercise Lie to You:: Guest Post
Today's post is by my new reader friend Gina Funderburg. Gina reached out to me with her story and I asked her to share it with you all. I think you'll be encouraged by reading about her journey: When Self-Esteem, Self-Help, Dieting and Exercise Lie to You. My battle...