Episodes
April 18, 2025
Hormones and Body Image Issues in Perimenopause and Beyond
Dr. Mikala Albertson joins Heather again today to continue an interesting discussion of how hormones play with our minds and can affect how we feel about our bodies. Today the conversation extends to perimenopause and beyond....
April 15, 2025
How Hormones Affect Your Body Image All Through Life
Is your body image really about how your body looks or are your hormones playing tricks on you? Today, Heather interviews Dr. Mikala Albertson about how our hormones affect the ways we feel and think about our bodies. In this...
April 11, 2025
So Worth Loving: Eryn Eddy Adkins on Perfectionism, Aging, and Redemption
In this episode of the "Compared to Who?" podcast, Eryn Eddy Adkins, an entrepreneur and co-host of the "God Hears Her" podcast, joins the show to discuss aging, self-worth, and the challenges of understanding God's will for ...
April 8, 2025
What's it Really Like to Be 50 Years Old? Midlife Mastermind Group Chat
Today Heather chats with two of her 50 (or near 50) year old friends about what it's really like to experience aging at midlife. They talk about perimenopause, menopause, symptoms of both, the impacts of aging on our brains, ...
April 4, 2025
Do You Feel Overlooked? Encouragement from the Most Overlooked Women of the Bible
Heather is joined by Mary DeMuth, speaker, podcast host, and author of more than thirty books including her latest, "The Most Overlooked Women of the Bible." (Amazon affiliate link.) Heather and Mary talk about how feeling ov...
April 1, 2025
4 Ways for Women to Age Well
What does it take to age well? According to Instagram, it seems aging is all about what you eat and how you exercise. But, what if there's more to aging well than that? Today, author and Christian body image coach, Heather Cr...
March 28, 2025
How Do I Know if My Child Has Eating Disorder or Body Image Issues?
Host Heather Creekmore sits down with pastor's wife, author, and counselor Kristen Hatton to discuss what to do if your child has (or you suspect they have) an eating disorder or body image issues. Kristen shares the story of...
March 25, 2025
Do Body Image Issues Affect Our Parenting?
Heather chats with licensed counselor, pastor's wife, and author Kristen Hatton about the ways that our body image issues can affect how we parent our children. From passing on perfectionism, to trying to control, to expectin...
March 21, 2025
What's Your Mom Story: Naming to Tame the Way Mom Impacted Body Image Issues
Heather welcomes back Emily and Ryan Baker from Story Matters Initiative to finish their discussion of the Mother Wound and the ways that our moms may have impacted how we feel about ourselves and our bodies. Today the trio t...
March 18, 2025
The Mother Wound: Naming the Ways Mom Played a Role in Body Image Issues
Today Heather welcomes Emily and Ryan Baker from the Story Matters Initiative to discuss the Mother Wound and the ways that our attachment to mom, attunement to mom, and our "mom stories" impact the ways we view ourselves and...
March 14, 2025
How Do I Surrender Control and Be a Good Steward: Lessons from Erin's Pregnancy Journey
Host Heather Creekmore is joined by Erin Todd from Intuitive Eating for Christian Women and Ashley Smith from the HA Society to explore the nuance between surrendering control and exercising stewardship. The discussion kicks ...
March 11, 2025
How Erin Got Pregnant at 40 after Eating Disorder and Food Issues
Today, Heather chats with Erin Todd from the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women podcast and Ashley Smith of the HA Society about how Ashley helped Erin get pregnant after 40. Even if you aren't looking to get pregnant, the ...
March 7, 2025
Body Image Issues During and After Pregnancy: Group Chat Part 2
Today Heather and her team continue their group chat discussion about all things pregnancy and body image. They share how they handled weight changes during pregnancy, the pressure they felt to "bounce back," and how they han...
March 4, 2025
Weight Gain and Pregnancy Body Image Frustrations: Group Chat Part 1
How was your body image when you were pregnant? For some, it's freedom. For others, it's terrifying. Today, the Compared to Who? team: Heather, Tara, Presli, Jackie, and Rachel have a group chat about how they felt during pre...
Feb. 28, 2025
Finding Delight, Honor, and Growth in Marriage Featuring Dr. Dan Allender
In part 2 of this interview with Dr. Dan Allender, Heather and Dan delve into what it truly means to experience a deeper, more fulfilling marriage. Dr. Allender shared profound insights into how our past plays a crucial role ...
Feb. 25, 2025
What Parts of Your Past Affect Your Marriage? Featuring Dr. Dan Allender
Today Heather Creekmore interviews an author, therapist, and pioneer in the trauma and abuse world, Dr. Dan Allender. As we wrap up our month-long series on marriage, today Heather and Dr. Allender explore how our past trauma...
Feb. 21, 2025
My Christian Husband Looks at Porn: How Do We Heal?
Today Heather continues her conversation with Rosie Makinney from Fight for Love Ministries ( https://www.fightforloveministries.org ) about lust and pornography issues and how they affect marriages and a woman's body image i...
Feb. 18, 2025
His Lust Problem is Not About You or Your Body
Rosie Makinney of Fight For Love Ministries joins Heather today for a candid conversation about lust and pornography issues and how they affect marriages and a woman's body image issues. If you've ever believed that your husb...
Feb. 14, 2025
What to Do When You're Struggling to Feel Loved
Have you ever struggled to feel like you're truly loved? Maybe you have a head knowledge that God or your husband or parents love you, but somehow you still feel lonely or unseen? If that's you, then today's episode will enco...
Feb. 11, 2025
One Way to Get Your Husband's Attention, No Body Improvement Required
Have you believed the lie that if you looked better, your marriage would be better? Have you fallen prey to the marketers who tell you that you'll capture your husband's attention if you just lose some weight or get some surg...
Feb. 7, 2025
Body Image, Sex, and Your Marriage: Answering Your Toughest Questions
Does your body image affect your marriage and relationships? Yes. A lot. Today, Heather revisits an interview with Dr. Juli Slattery--clinical psychologist, author, podcast host, and all-around expert on this topic. Heather e...
Feb. 4, 2025
Helping Your Husband Understand Your Body Image Issues
If you're married or in a relationship, this episode is going to be key to helping your husband understand why you feel insecure, have body image issues, or don't see your body the way he does. Christian body image coach, Hea...
Jan. 31, 2025
Jesus Didn't Look Like an Influencer: Dying to Live with Margaret Jen Burke
Consider today's episode a heart check-up for your spiritual health. Today Heather chats with author Margaret Jen Burke about her book titled, "Dying to Live: Letting Go of Earthly Treasures to Find Eternal Joy." In the book,...
Jan. 28, 2025
If I Could Just Get Back to The Body I Used to Have: When You Long for Your Pre-Baby, Pre-Menopause, Younger, Smaller Body
Have you ever said, "If only I could just be the size I used to be... then I'd be happy." Or, maybe you've thought, "If I could just weigh what I did before the baby, or menopause, or when I had the eating disorder...then I ...