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Podcast: Is Self Love Biblical?

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...

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,...

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...