It's a new year and everywhere you look you'll find advice for getting a "new you in 2022!" In today's show we take a different, unconventional approach to looking at the most effective ways to meet our goals this year. I'll share with you the three secrets to meeting...
Body Image
Practical & Tactical Ways to Keep Body Image Peace Part 2
Today my guest is Kasey Shuler from the Joyful Health Collective. Kasey is a personal trainer who loves helping people integrate the concept of joyful movement into their lives. In this episode, she helps us discover practical and tactical ways we can keep our body...
How Cleaning Your House Like Crazy Connects to Your Body Image
I caught this slightly crazy but totally funny video on For Every Mom. (You'll get the gist after the first fifteen seconds. Why is it so funny? Because it's true . . .at least for me it was. Years ago we planted a church in our house. Yes. Our church met inside our...
4 Startling Thoughts About Body Image Idolatry
When I recognized that my body image had become my idol--it changed my life. This recognition was really the first step in my journey to freedom. All the dieting, all the over-exercising, all the striving --it all connected to this idol in ways I couldn't see or...
Body Image, Trauma, & Healing ED: Featuring Dietician Tracy Brown
Do you know so much about diets, calories, macros and food that the thought of talking to a dietician seems a little unnecessary? What more could you possibly learn about food and how to eat? But, today I start a podcast series talking to a specific group of Christian...
How to Balance Pursuing Health and Body Image Issues
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...
5 Ways Compared to Who is Different Than Other Christian Books About Body Image
I've read lots of books on body image, insecurity, self-esteem--with lovely Christian authors who attack these issues and encourage women who desperately crave healing in this area. Most of them helped me a little. Some, helped a lot. Others, didn't help at all. But,...
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...
Should a Christian Woman Wear a Bikini?
Should a Christian woman wear a bikini? This complex and confusing issue is one that a lot of people have an opinion about. Here's the answer I gave one of my readers when she asked this question (and she gave me permission to share it! No matter where you stand on...
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...