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What You Think About Matters: Your Thought Life and Body Image
How's your thought life? Does your thought life matter to your body image issues? Do you secretly think well of others or do you sometimes find yourself thinking critical or unkind thoughts? Does it even matter? (I mean, it's not like anyone KNOWS what thoughts are...
What to Do When You Love Food: Carly’s Story
Flashback to 2011 (28 years old) My husband Elijah slept as I slipped out of bed. Softly I closed the bedroom door and stepped into our kitchen. My heart pounded in anticipation. My forbidden lover and I would soon be reunited. . .food awaited me. In public, I ate...
Podcast: What to Do When You Feel Like You Don’t Fit In
Ever feel like you don't fit in? Ever struggle to be part of the crowd? Do you ever feel like you're in that old Sesame Street game, "Which of these is not like the other?" If so, know you're not alone. Most of us feel that way at some point in our lives. Making new...
Podcast: Is Self Love Biblical?
Everywhere in our culture we hear that self love is the answer! If you're struggling with body image or comparison, just love yourself more and you'll be okay. But does that line up with scripture? Is self love biblical? What does the Bible say about self love? While...
How Do I Help My Daughter With Her Body Image? The First 4 Steps
I don't know at what exact moment it all changed. But I remember in third grade when I stood in front of the gold-trimmed, full-length mirror in the corner of my room and made an assessment that I would carry with me for decades: My thighs were large. This thought...
Stop Telling Her She’s Pretty: Help Your Daughter Feel Confident
As we continue our Helping Your Daughter with her Body Image Series, today, I want to ask you to do something unexpected to help your daughter feel confident. I want you to stop telling her she's pretty. Allow me to explain how this can help your daughter feel...
Podcast: Back to Routine? Succeed with New Habits and Rhythms
Do Fall and "Back to School Season" drive you to make new goals or plans to 'be better' this year? If you find yourself chasing your ideals or goals and falling short, season after season, here's some encouragement as to how to set goals you can stick with (and...
Grace That is Greater Than Botox: When Beauty Doesn’t Do What We Hoped it Would
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age. . . Titus 2:11-12 For years I fought a daily battle with my body....
20 Ways to Feel Lighter This Summer: Quick Body Image Boosters
Body image isn't really about your body. It's not about your size, your weight, or dimensions. No, it's about your brain and your heart. Although many popular psychologists would only acknowledge poor thinking as the problem, poor patterns of belief are just as much...
Work For It: Grace Versus Works
The music blares as we reach one of the most intense parts of the workout. Resistance is high and to encourage my spin class to make it up the fictitious hill we are climbing, I yell it out. Come on. . . WORK FOR IT! Sure, I throw in some "You can do its" and an...