Episodes
Sept. 22, 2021
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 con…
Sept. 21, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 21 - Purpose
Do you know what gifts God has given you? Do you know how he made you tick, what he wired you for? Finding our "purpose" doesn't have to be some giant, elusive, mission...but taking steps towards doing things that match how …
Sept. 20, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 20 - Freedom
Today we're going to pray that you can feel and embrace the freedom that God intends for you to have with your body, with food, and with exercise. We were not intended to be slaves to any earthly thing--including the scale, …
Sept. 19, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 19 - Comparison
Today we talk about Comparison -something that, if you've been around this show any amount of time, you'll know is a hot topic! Comparison is no joke, it's bigger than the memes, and it's hurting us more than we know. I talk…
Sept. 18, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 18 - Pride
I'll admit -- I like to be right. I like to have people acknowledge it when I do well. I like to be seen as good, the best, or admirable. And, friends--it's all my pride. Today we talk about how pride impacts our body image …
Sept. 17, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 17 - Covetousness
What does it mean to covet? Is coveting actually a problem in our body image struggles? Could our constant coveting be keeping us from body image freedom? Worse yet--what are we really doing when we covet another woman's bod…
Sept. 16, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 16 - Envy
Today's topic is a tough one-- envy! Sigh. Could envy be a stronghold in our body image issues? Yes, it can and often is. We get so stuck in envying how she looks or how she lost the weight or how she bounced back after preg…
Sept. 15, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 15 - Body Image Idol Part 2
Today we talk about body image idolatry one more time - looking at how body image idolatry can impact our daily lives and what it looks like to be lured into serving the body image idol on day to day basis. If you've never n…
Sept. 14, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 14 - Body Image Idol
Body image idolatry - What is that? If you're new to this show or my ministry, this episode will tell you about the number one reason why I believe Christian women get stuck in body image issues. It's so easy for us to make …
Sept. 13, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 13 - Idol of Self
What is the idol of self and what does our "ideal body" have to do with it? That's what we'll talk about in today's episode. Plus: We'll pray for the power and strength to release our ideals and to turn away from the idol of…
Sept. 12, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 12 - Others' Opinions
Do other's opinions of your body impact your body image? Of course they do...for most of us at least. So how do we free ourselves from the opinions (and perhaps approval) of other people? How do we keep their body image issu…
Sept. 11, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 11 - Fear
Can you believe that the root of most of our body image issues is fear? That may seem hard to believe. You may believe the root is that your weight is wrong or your body shape is not what you prefer--but under it all is a se…
Sept. 10, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 10 - Guilt
Today we're talking about guilt and how all of our rules about our bodies, our diets, our exercise can add extra guilt we were never meant to carry. Guilt leads to shame and condemnation (and if you check out our verse of th…
Sept. 9, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 9 - Body Shame
Struggling with shame related to your body or body image? Oh friend, we've all been there. That's why today we're going to pray specifically against shame. We'll pray that you'll feel and know what it means to live free from…
Sept. 8, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 8 - Feelings
What do you do if you wake up in the morning and don't FEEL like your body is worthy? What if your feelings are bouncing up and down and dictating how you feel about yourself each day? If feelings are where you get stuck--to…
Sept. 7, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 7 - Discernment
We all need discernment, don't we? It's hard to know what's real, what's not real... what voices do we listen to, what do we ignore? Today we talk about the gift of discernment as a blessing to your body image battle. If you…
Sept. 6, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 6 - Thanksgiving
Scripture reminds us to use prayer and petition to calm our anxieties and ask God for what we need. I don't know about you friend - but needing freedom from body hatred, body stress, body image woe--this is a real need that …
Sept. 5, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 5 - Surrender
Surrender seems like a negative word in most contexts -- like giving up ...or admitting defeat. But, when it comes to surrender in the biblical sense -- surrender is freedom! It's the sweet release of all that weighs us down…
Sept. 4, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 4 - Truth
In today's show we pray for God to open our eyes to see the truth beyond the scale and beyond the mirror. We'll pray that God will help us understand that he knit us together in our mother's womb and knew/knows EXACTLY how h…
Sept. 3, 2021
30 Days to Pray for Body Image: Day 3- Peace
Today we pray for peace with your body. You've heard of body positivity, body neutrality, and you've probably even experienced body negativity - but what about body peace? What would it be like to look in the mirror or get o…
Sept. 2, 2021
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 …
Sept. 1, 2021
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. …
Aug. 27, 2021
Control, Thyroid, Image, Introversion, & the Middle: 5 Lessons
Today I'll share 5 lessons I learned this summer about a wide range of topics from swimming with sharks to introversion...how everything is hardest when you're in the middle to what happened to my Thyroid and Hashimoto's dis…
Aug. 20, 2021
How to Stop Treating Your Body (and Life) as a Project
This episode was originally called "How to Stop Troubleshooting Your Life" but it seems not many of you listened to it...so I've included it in the Summer RePlay series so you can catch it now if you missed it back in Season…