As little girls we spend time planning our fairy tale lives: our lavish weddings, our extravagant dream homes, the perfect husband (who will always be romantic) and the number of children we will have. What we don’t spend time planning is dealing with the stress of...
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Pregnancy and Body Image: When Pregnancy Ain’t No Picnic
Today the Pregnancy and Body Image Series continues with Esther's story of the roller coaster ride her pregnancies, weight gain, and eventual PPD took her on. During pregnancy I experienced the most self-loathing I’ve ever felt in my entire life. Before pregnancy, I...
Worried About Daughter’s Weight? How to Stop Freaking Out!
As my daughter stood next to me in the bathroom and put on the tiny bit of mascara and lip gloss she announces that she thinks the crocheted head warmer she's wearing is "too much" for her outfit. I look at my wonderfully made, beautiful daughter in the mirror-- the...
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...
How To Look Great in a Swimsuit: Believe the Gospel?
I watched an episode of the Doctor Oz show a few years ago that was dedicated to helping women look good in a swimsuit. Every woman in the audience looked beach-ready, wearing only her bathing suit (no cover ups allowed). The good doctor talked about all things...
Are You a Fixer Upper, too? What Body Image and Home Improvement Have in Common
I love home improvement shows. I'm so inspired watching the amazing transformations. These brilliant designers take a hideously ugly, old and dilapidated home and turn it into a modern day dream house. It's really quite impressive. I'm also a little obsessed with...
Eating Disorder Resources
If you are battling disordered eating: anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia, exercise bulimia, binge-eating disorder or you just STRUGGLE with food and you don't know what to call it, I want to encourage you to GET help! Consulting a Christian non-diet dietician or a...
I’m Pregnant but I Don’t Want to Gain Weight
I need to admit something. It’s embarrassing, it causes me shame, but I’m putting it out there. I didn’t want to be pregnant because I didn’t want to get fat. Here I am, just out of my first trimester with our #bonusbaby, and all my body image issues--which I thought...
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...
Can Focusing on How We Are Alike Cure Comparison?
"Mom, I"m just like Iron Man." My four-year-old paces beside my desk as I work. He explains to me that he and Iron Man have a lot of similarities. They are both boys, for starters. They both like to wear red. They both like Legos. (Of course Iron Man plays Legos....