Episodes
July 8, 2025
What Should You Do When You Feel Fat?
Today's summer replay will encourage you if you're a Christian women who has ever just woken up and felt less-than in her body. Maybe you call it feeling "fat" or maybe you feel "bleh" or "bloated" -- whatever your choice of ...
July 1, 2025
Is God Happy When I Lose Weight?
Has the weigh-in woman at Weight Watchers shaped your concept of God? Today's episode was inspired when Heather heard a story of a woman whose body image issues and eating disorders could be traced back to the ever-present me...
June 24, 2025
How to Have a Great Vacation if You Have Body Image and Control Issues
Vacation is awesome...but sometimes, for those of us with body image or control issues, vacation can also be stressful. Today, Heather offers four practical tips to help you enjoy your vacation if you tend to be someone who d...
June 17, 2025
What if I Just Want a Body I'm Proud of?
In this summer replay, Heather digs into this common sentiment, "I just want to feel good" or "I just want to feel okay" about my body. What's wrong with wanting a body you can be "proud of?" She explores how this is a strugg...
June 10, 2025
Surrendering Certainty: How Do We Trust in God and Not Our Plans
Heather interviews author and speaker, Abby McDonald about her new book, "Surrendering Certainty: Hearing God Today By Letting Go of Tomorrow." Abby and Heather talk about how we can hear and receive direction from God even i...
June 3, 2025
How Do I Get Over What Others Think of Me Coaching Presli
Today's live coaching call with Presli will make you think and encourage your heart. Heather coaches Presli through what to do when she panics, freezes, and feels insecure around women who are thinner, prettier, or more put t...
May 30, 2025
What to Do if You Feel Like the Fattest Person in the Room?
Have you ever felt like you were the fattest or ugliest person in the room? Maybe you showed up at an event and feel self-conscious because everyone is smaller or better looking than you. It's happened to all of us, but there...
May 27, 2025
Should I Worry About My BMI?
Stressing over your BMI? Perhaps a recent doctor's visit has you spiraling over what you need to do to change your Body Mass Index. Today, Heather sits down with two authors who have researched the history, background, and sc...
May 23, 2025
Will Dance Give My Daughter Body Image Issues?
Have you ever wondered if participating in dance could lead to body image issues? Heather talks to clients with a dance background and have body image issues from what a dance instructor said or from participating in an envir...
May 20, 2025
Will Ozempic Weight Loss Drugs Fix My Body Image Issues?
In today's "Me vs. ChatGPT" episode, Heather tackles the topic of Ozempic and other GLP-1 agonist medications that are now being prescribed to people for weight loss. She uses ChatGPT to help answer the question, "Will Ozempi...
May 16, 2025
How to Try on a Swimsuit if You Don't Like How Your Body Looks
Today Heather tackles a topic relevant to many women in May: How to try on a swimsuit if you don't like how your body looks. If you're struggling with how your body looks but needing some swimwear for the season ahead, Heathe...
May 13, 2025
How to Feel Better About How You Look in Family Pictures
Have you been putting off the formal family photos until you lose weight or change your appearance? Today, Heather gives all her best strategies for tackling, surviving, and maybe even enjoying (just a little) the family phot...
May 9, 2025
What Do I Do if I Feel Jealous of Someone Skinnier Than Me? Me vs. ChatGPT
Today Heather and ChatGPT tackle the same question, "What do I do if I feel jealous of someone skinnier than me?" This is the question most of us have experienced, but few want to say out loud. While ChatGPT does a good job o...
May 6, 2025
How Does My Faith Help My Body Image Issues?
If you're a Christian woman with body image issues, today Heather will fire you up with encouragement around how your Christian faith and beliefs can speak directly to your body image issues. You have a BIG faith that helps y...
May 2, 2025
How Do I Feel Okay in Shorts? Me vs ChatGPT
Today Heather faces off with ChatGPT to see who can better answer the question, "How Do I Feel Okay Wearing Shorts?" Heather reads through ChatGPT's comprehensive answer (and body image coaching attempts) and then adds her ow...
April 29, 2025
When Kids Graduate and Bodies Change: Processing Grief and Finding Freedom
Today, Heather vulnerably shares the grief she's experiencing over facing her son's graduation this month and how similar this kind of grief is to the grieving that we experience on our body image freedom journeys. Heather ta...
April 25, 2025
The Mirror Fast: Biblical Strategy to Improve Your Body Image Before Summer
Today Heather announces a brand new Bible reading plan and 15-Day downloadable devotional called, "The Mirror Fast." The concept behind the mirror fast is to take a break from looking in the mirror and to re-orient your gaze ...
April 23, 2025
BONUS: Helping Aging Parents: How do I know if it's time to move my parents?
In today's BONUS episode, Heather continues her chat with Wendy Jones of Next Steps 4 Seniors. Wendy is a podcast host and business management professional who helps seniors get ready for their "next steps" as they age. Heath...
April 21, 2025
Helping Aging Parents: Encouragement for Women in the Sandwich Generation
Are you facing tough decisions about caring for aging parents or loved ones? In this episode, we dive deep into the challenges of recognizing when it’s time to step in, the emotional rollercoaster of moving someone to assiste...
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...