Episodes
May 26, 2023
Christian Music to Improve Your Body Image 2023
Today's show is dedicated to giving you a new playlist for when you have a bad body image day. If you're struggling with how you look or feel down about your weight or appearance, pull up these songs and listen on your way to...
May 23, 2023
What Are You Feeding On: Body Image Issues and Media Habits
day we're talking about all things music, television, movies, and social media. If you want to be free from body image issues, chances are you're going to have to re-examine how you relate to these forms of media. It's imposs...
May 19, 2023
Help! I Hate How I Look in Pictures (2023)
I've had many women reach out to me over the years with this sentiment, "Help! I hate pictures of myself!" Today's episode of the podcast is dedicated to you. Let's talk through why we hate to see ourselves in pictures, what'...
May 15, 2023
What is an Exercise Non-Responder? Does Exercise Work the Same Way for Everyone?
Have what we've been told about exercise and the way it changes the look of your body been skewed? Today Heather looks at some relatively new data that shows how not every person responds to exercise in the exact same way. Wh...
May 12, 2023
Do Christians Have to Be Fit? Will I Ever Feel Fit Enough?
Today we talk about all things fitness. What does it mean to be fit? Is physical fitness something that all Christians need? Why should we pursue fitness and is there ever a danger to pursuing physical fitness? Today Heather ...
May 9, 2023
Should I Exercise? Exercise, the Bible, and Body Image Issues
Do you love exercise? Do you hate exercise? Today we're talking about what a healthy relationship with exercise looks like and what a healthy theology of exercise is. What does the Bible say about exercise explicitly, and wha...
May 5, 2023
Is It Even Possible to Be Naked and Unashamed? Genesis 2
In Genesis 2:25, we read how Adam and Eve were in the garden and "naked and unashamed." But most women with body image issues aren't experiencing this kind of freedom in their intimate lives. Just thinking about being "naked ...
May 2, 2023
What the Gospel Speaks to Our Body Image Issues
In today's About 7 Minutes of Scripture episode, Heather explores how the message of the Gospel can specifically encourage us around our specific body and food issues. We have so many messages coming at us, and every day we c...
April 28, 2023
Stomach, GI Tract Issues That Connect to Dieting & Disordered Eating
Today Heather continues her conversation with Tracy Brown, RD about the strange or unusual physical symptoms that can connect to dieting, food restriction, eating disorders, and disordered eating. Though some doctors fail to ...
April 25, 2023
Did Dieting Secretly Hurt Your Body & Your Health?
Today Heather interviews Tracy Brown, registered dietitian and trauma-informed eating disorder recovery coach about all the physical issues that can accompany or follow seasons of dieting, disordered eating, or an eating diso...
April 21, 2023
Terrorized by Size: Unpacking Our Complicated Relationship with Clothing and Size
Do you hate to buy bigger clothes? Is it a mental battle when you try on the size you thought you wore only to find that you need another size or two (or more) larger? Have you been frustrated with your body because it has ch...
April 18, 2023
Agreeing with the Lord about How He Made Us: Ashley Smith Part 2
Heather continues her conversations with Ashley Smith of the HA society about hormonal issues, infertility, and body image issues common among women she works with. Part two of this conversation goes far beyond the medical an...
April 14, 2023
Hormones, HA, Infertility, Early Menopause, and Body Image Featuring Ashley Smith
omen who are struggling with hormone issues surrounding fertility, loss of cycle, early menopause diagnoses, and body image issues. Ashley shares her story and how her own experience has led her to a ministry and coaching bus...
April 11, 2023
Rivalries, Sisters, and Comparison: A Biblical Look at Rivalries
Do you have a rival? Hannah in the Bible did. As did Rachel and Leah. Today we look at rivalries, competitions, and comparisons that happen between women. Whether you've always been compared to a rival sister or cousin, or wh...
April 7, 2023
Money, Body Image, Stewardship, Hoarding, and Other Connections
The concept of stewardship is often used with our bodies and money, but are there more connections between money and body image than we may know? Today's episode explores these connections, how eating disorders show up in the...
April 4, 2023
What to Do When Depressed or Grieving Over Body Size Body Image
Do you ever just feel sad about your body size or shape? Part of finding body image freedom is recognizing the truth that sometimes you will just feel sad or discouraged about your body. Grieving the lost dream of a "better" ...
March 31, 2023
Why Give Up the Diet Mentality: Intuitive Eating Coaching Call
Today Heather talks with one of her Intuitive Eating Coaches, Erin Todd, about step one of Intuitive Eating, which is giving up the Diet Mentality. Erin and Heather hash through how conditioned we are to believe that diets an...
March 28, 2023
What Can I Do to Feel More Significant? Featuring Rachael Adams
Let's face it. We all want to be special. We all want to know that our lives are significant. We each desire to know that we matter. But, sometimes our lives can feel anything but significant. We may know that God says we are...
March 24, 2023
Morality and Food Choices? How Diet Culture & Purity Culture Connect
In today's interview with Amy Carlson, MS, RD, LD, Amy and Heather talk about the ways that "Purity Culture" a movement in the church through the 1990s, has paved the way for Diet Culture in the church. The duo explores the l...
March 21, 2023
How to Really Feel Better in Your Body Featuring Amy Carlson, RD
"But I feel better on a plan!" This is a sentiment Heather's heard many times and even said herself. But, today, she talks with a dietitian and eating disorder expert, Amy Carlson about what's underneath that feeling of needi...
March 17, 2023
Dear Gwyneth: Your Wellness Plan is Not Food or Body Freedom
Today's episode is a compassionate letter to Gwyneth Paltrow who, on Instagram this week, talked about her "wellness plan" which included her sharing what she eats in a day. If you didn't get to see the interview, you can lea...
March 14, 2023
What Happens in the Brain When You Binge Feat: Dr. Kari Anderson 2
Today Heather continues her conversation with Dr. Kari Anderson about binge eating. They discuss what's going on in the brain when we binge, how the brain sends signals that lead to a binge, how binges can connect with attach...
March 10, 2023
Binge Eating, Stress Eating, Food Issues & Our Brains
Today Heather interviews Dr. Kari Anderson, a licensed professional counselor, eating disorder coach, author, and a recognized authority in treating binge eating and Binge Eating Disorder (BED). Today, Dr. Anderson shares her...
March 7, 2023
6 Things to Do When You Feel Fat: Tips for Christian Women
What do you do when you feel fat? Of course, most know by now that "fat" isn't really a feeling. Yet, how many of us say it? It's what we say when we don't know any other words to express displeasure with how our bodies look ...