“If I lived here, I would totally get thin. . .I mean healthy. I’d invite people over to my house and in 6 months you'd look at me and tell how much happier I was. . . All I’d have to do is walk up and down this amazing private road every day, and work in this amazing...
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Pregnancy and Body Image: When You Don’t Think Belly Shots are Cute
This is the first post in a brand new series on pregnancy and body image! A few of our contributors will be chiming in over the next few weeks--sharing how pregnancy impacted them. For me (Heather) pregnancy was a mixed bag. Somedays, I felt like a whale and didn't...
The Brand Name Blues: When You Want to Fit In
We moved to Dallas from the suburbs a year and a half ago. Energized by a new (to us) home, new part of town to get to know, new church, I struck out on my own to make terrific new friends. My expectations never higher, I signed up for everything--MOPS, an ecumenical...
Body Dysmorphic Disorder: How to Find Serenity In Your Relationship With Your Body
The reactions I got when I told my close friends and relatives about writing something for a Christian blog devoted to helping women who are struggling with body image surprised me. Instead of "Way to go!" and "I'm proud of you!" I almost unanimously received the same...
Who Are You Wearing? Part Three of a Series on Body Theology
In our last two posts on body theology, we talked about how our bodies are not containers, and also how the image of God means more to body image than we’ve ever grasped before. Both of these truths have had life changing effects on me, and what I’m sharing today...
Disoriented:: When God Changes Your View of Everything
I think I know what it might have been like to wake in ancient Judah, to go out of my house and not see the high places, the altars, the pillars to familiar gods that had been there the day before. There must have been a palpable buzzing of shock and anxiety, as well...
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...
Tagged:: How Do You Feel When You are Tagged?
I saw a video of myself online today. I was tagged. It was a perfect test of my body image progress. I failed. I believe all the words I say about body image. I believe God thinks my body is worth the cross because of his unfathomable love for all of me, which has...
Body Theology Part 2: Image Bearers
In today's post, Lead Contributor, Mindy Pickens writes about what it means to be Image Bearers. You. Have. Got. To. Read. This. Dear Friend, You’ve heard it before. You know, how it shouldn’t matter what you look like because God loves you and created you, and...
Being Open With My Body Image Struggle
I haven’t always been open with my body image struggle. I remember just over two years ago when I was debating sharing or not. My husband and I had just gotten involved with our new church and a new small group. We had completed a few “get to know you weeks” in our...