Did you know that healing your body image may require you to escape from something you’ve likely been trapped in for a long time? Diet Culture-the ways we think having a better or “healthier” or thinner body will save us-has trapped many of us in its...
Today Heather digs into the concept of addiction–but not in a way you might expect. Heather isn’t talking about drugs or alcohol or other things that you expect people to be addicted to. Instead, she talks about being addicted to body change–of...
When I recognized that my body image had become my idol–it changed my life. This recognition was really the first step in my journey to freedom. All the dieting, all the over-exercising, all the striving –it all connected to this idol in ways I...
am i pretty enough? I thought I wasn’t like the other girls around me in high school. I knew I was a good person on the inside, I just wasn’t sure if I was pretty enough on the outside for boys. At least I was beautiful on the inside though, that’s what they always...
Watching the Olympics this Winter? Here’s what a trip to the games taught me about comparison! There’s a well-dressed woman who always slips into the sixth row at church. Obviously, she has it all together. Though she rushes in, she’s somehow,...
It’s what’s on the inside that counts. -Everyone I distinctly remember how I felt when someone told me, “It’s on the inside that counts.” Frustration! All through my teens and twenties, I wanted to care less about my weight or my skin or...
