What if managing your image was about more than just your body? Have you ever felt yourself trying to manage your personality? Have you ever tried to portray an "image" of yourself that was more like your ideal than perhaps like you were actually wired? Today, Heather...
Podcast Episodes
Should I Be Sugar-Free? Intuitive Eating Coaching Call
Today Heather talks to her Intuitive Eating Coaches -- Erin Todd and Char-Lee Haze from the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast -- about whether or not you can be "sugar-free" while practicing intuitive eating. Char-Lee lays out a framework for making...
Praying for Body Image: Tune in to Him Finale
I pray that this month-long series to help you pray for your body image and "Tune in" to God while you tune out the voices of marketers and Diet Culture has made a powerful impact in your life. Today we finish the series with a look at what's next. What should you do...
Praying for Holiness: Striving for Holy in a World that Wants Hot
Today we pray that God would make us more holy. It sounds like a strange thing to pray for. But, throughout the New Testament we are encouraged to be striving for holiness. There are many things we strive for on this earth--beauty, power, money, success, love of...
Praying to Be More Loving Towards Body and Others
Today we pray to be more loving. There are many ways being more loving can help us overcome body image issues and insecurity, but today we talk about how believing and receiving God's love can help us feel more of that love so that it overflows into the way we love...
Praying for Grace for Body Image Struggles
God gives us so much grace. When we're struggling with issues like body image or insecurity or comparison, his grace is our only cure. As Heather writes in the Burden of Better - she thought that she had a comparison problem, but what she really had was a shallow...
Praying for Peace With Boundaries of Your Body
Today we're talking about praying for peace with the boundaries of our bodies. One of the hardest aspects of our body image struggles may be accepting the way God made and "sized" our bodies. For some, there's frustration over height or size. For others its...
Praying for Radiance from Psalm 34:5
Who doesn't want to be radiant? We all long to shine with a beauty that draws others to us and that those around us would describe as "radiant." While marketers promise that radiance comes from using the right skin care products, cosmetics, and beauty rituals, the...
Praying for a New View of Beauty
Today we take time during our month-long series where we're praying for your body image issues to pray for a new view of beauty. Why do we feel compelled to try to look a certain way or be a certain "type" of beautiful? It's often because we have defined beauty the...
Praying for a New View of Food to Help Body Image
Today we're praying for God to give us a new view of food. Some of us have feared food. Some have treated it like a savior. But the best way to interact with food is to see it as a good gift from God. God designed us to eat. He designed our bodies to run on food. And,...