Today the "Questions About Your Body Image and Comparison" series continues with this question about how to balance pursuing health and body image: Dear Heather: I'm a fairly healthy mother and wife who has struggled with my body image for at least twenty years. I...
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30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 22 – Health
Health: It's good to be healthy. It's good to desire health. It's good to be a responsible steward of your body... But, health can become an idol. For many clients I work with and women I meet, health presents an area of confusion. They have a hard time finding the...
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 2- Wisdom
Today we continue praying for our body image by talking about praying and seeking God for wisdom to reveal to you why and where you are stuck in a body image battle. Most of us have searched far and wide for "wisdom" on how to take care of our body. I know I've...
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 1 – Faith
Today starts a 30 day series of praying for your body image. Today we talk about having the FAITH that you can actually change the way you feel about your body. Many of us have been let down by faith placed in other things. We had faith the diet would work, we had...
Hey Jealousy: Three Ways to Tame Envy & Covetousness
One Sunday morning, a sermon revolutionized the way I thought about my body image. In truth, I have no idea what the pastor actually preached about that day. (Don't worry, this was before my husband was also my pastor). But, as we read through the section of Exodus...
Dark Night of the Soul: Hair Care Advice for Balding Men
“Can I braid your hair?” The question came from one of the girls in my church youth group back when we were in high school. “Oh,” I said with a coy giggle as I pushed back the thick curly locks pouring over my shoulders like a hirsute waterfall, “I guess so.” My hair...
Podcast: Watching the Olympics, Body Image, & True Beauty
I'm a huge fan of the Olympics. But, a few years ago I discovered something really fascinating about my body image struggles while I was watching Olympic swimming. The bodies of the elite athletes did not look like the bodies on the magazine covers. Now, some of that...
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...
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...