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Fearfully and Wonderfully Discontent? When You Wish God Had Made Your Body a Little More Awesome
You are fearfully and wonderfully made! You've heard it. You've read it. You have it inscribed on a wall plaque. But, you still struggle with your body image. You don't tell anyone it's not helping. Especially not God! What if he gets upset that his word hasn't...
The Burden of Better is for: Chronic Comparers
This brand new Christian book on comparison is designed for chronic comparers! I confess. I’ve spent most of my life on the ladder of comparison. Sliding up and down its rungs each day. Some days, I’d feel like I was making progress. Maybe I got the promotion, my hair...
Ten Habits of Women With Healthy Body Image
"How She Lost the Weight: Her Secret Revealed!" That headline sucked me in. Every. Single. Time. Unlike the best practices of a celebrity diet plan, if you battle your body image, there are practical things you can do to help. These aren't tasks to be accomplished one...
The Real Cure for Comparison
I'm so weary of hearing pithy quotes about comparison without being offered tangible solutions. "Don't compare your behind the scenes to someone else's highlights reel." Or, the way overused, "Comparison is the thief of joy." They're fine statements, but you already...
Rachel And Leah: Three Lessons Leah Can Teach Us About Beauty and Body Image
I used to believe that Genesis 29:17 was the meanest verse in the whole Bible. Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance. (ESV) How could God tell us that Rachel beamed with physical beauty while Leah lacked great eyes? Isn't that a bit...
Three Good Reasons to Tilt Your Mirror: Key to Better Body Image
That dress is sooo cute. I bring the hanger to my chin to check the length. Good. Dressing room, here I come! I slip it on and look at the long reflective glass. Wow. This dress is amazing. Have I lost weight? And, then I see it. The mirror. It's tilted. Tilted down,...
How Cleaning Your House Like Crazy Connects to Your Body Image
I caught this slightly crazy but totally funny video on For Every Mom. (You'll get the gist after the first fifteen seconds. Why is it so funny? Because it's true . . .at least for me it was. Years ago we planted a church in our house. Yes. Our church met inside our...
The Secret to Losing Weight: It’s Not in Your Fridge, It’s in Your Heart.
There's a big secret to losing weight that doesn't have anything to do with carb to protein ratios, Crossfit workouts, or eating like a caveman. It has to do with love. For the first time, ever, I stepped on the scale on New Year's Day and saw a number I should have...
5 Ways Compared to Who is Different Than Other Christian Books About Body Image
I've read lots of books on body image, insecurity, self-esteem--with lovely Christian authors who attack these issues and encourage women who desperately crave healing in this area. Most of them helped me a little. Some, helped a lot. Others, didn't help at all. But,...
Podcast: Heather’s Appearance on The Intertwined Life
Don't be confused by the music, friends! Today I'm sharing my interview on Jenny Zentz's podcast called "The Intertwined Life." You get to hear me asking the questions each week-but on this episode - you'll hear me share my heart about why comparison and chasing a...
Podcast: Watching the Olympics, Body Image, & True Beauty
Watching or planning to watch the Olympics this summer? Ever notice that the bodies of the elite athletes may not look like the bodies on the magazine covers? What does watching the Olympics teach us about our body image struggles? We say we desire health...but these...
Should a Christian Woman Wear a Bikini?
Should a Christian woman wear a bikini? This complex and confusing issue is one that a lot of people have an opinion about. Here's the answer I gave one of my readers when she asked this question (and she gave me permission to share it! No matter where you stand on...
Summer Replay: Dana White on Clutter and Body Image
Last year I did an awesome show with Dana White from "A Slob Comes Clean" about the similarities between body image and house clutter! The show has been a huge hit on YouTube where it's had thousands of views and hundreds of comments... but the audio version didn't...
4 Ways to Tell if You Are Obsessed with Body Image
Body image struggles can manifest in various forms and in the smallest of ways for us. I know it personally did not take me a long time to realize I had a poor body image. But beyond negative thoughts and ideas about what I wish I could change about my appearance, I...
Will My Date Think I’m Pretty? Dating & Body Image
Let’s talk about dating I’ll be fully honest with you, I haven’t been on a date in 5 years! I know this is going to sound crazy and unusual for women my age nowadays, but it’s the truth. I dated a boy in high school for over a year, and when it ended horribly, I swore...
Bad Boyfriends & Body Image Struggles
LOVE BLINDERS My body changes couldn’t have come at a worse time in my mind. I was in the midst of an unhealthy relationship (disclaimer: I did not know it was toxic at the time) with a boy that was crumbling. We’ll call him Brad (not actually his real name). To make...
Podcast: Body Image–Separating Facts from Fiction of Culture
Do you battle body image? In today's show I talk about my own journey to figure out what the heart--the root of the problem was--behind my body image struggles. I share about the gas powered curling iron I used to carry with me everywhere (true story). Today I share...
Why Does Attention From Guys Make Me Feel So Insecure? Body Image & Identity
I love my body. Trust me, I haven’t always. But I have learned, or actually I’ve unlearned, all of the unhealthy thought patterns and actions, and have stop putting my body through so much grief. My body actually doesn’t much matter to me anymore. I love my body...
How Should We Then Eat? Intuitive Eating for the Christian Man
Man started with one rule in the Garden of Eden: And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”...
