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Heather Creekmore

Core Strength: The Gospel and Body Image

Have a c-section or back surgery and you'll find out-- really fast-- how important your abdominal muscles are. That's why you hear, over and over again in the fitness world, that you must strengthen your core. "You have to focus on strengthening those abs . . .your...

What You Need Instead of Self-Esteem

There's nothing worse than being duped. Conned. Swindled. Misled. Deceived. Yet that's what has happened to so many of us on the issue of our body image. We've been told that if we had more self-esteem, then . . . then . . .we would feel like a bunch of hotties--like...

Compared to Who Book Trailer And Behind the Scenes

This may make you cry. I'm just warning you. I asked these friends (and friends of friends --yes, some women showed up at my house to do this that I didn't even know!) to come and to write down what lie they hear most often when they look in the mirror. Wow! That's...

My Night With a Con Man

Part of me didn't really believe there were liars like him in this world. I'd seen them on TV and such, but the bad guy was so easy to spot in those stories. People who fell into the sticky web of  news-making con-artists exuded obvious naivety. I'd never do that. I...

Three Ways to Find an Answer to: Am I Enough?

Fear, imposter’s syndrome, inadequacy, performance anxiety, or identity issues. Whatever you want to call it, it’s that aching fear in my heart that I am just not enough. This heart ache colors so much of my life: my relationships, work, sense of well-being, ministry,...