Episodes
Nov. 10, 2023
Gen Z, Body Image, and Identity Issues Featuring Jessie Cruickshank
Today Heather continues her conversation with Jessie Cruickshank about Generation Z, their anxieties, the differences in the way they want to relate and the ways the learn, and how to help them with body image issues. Here ar...
Nov. 7, 2023
Understanding Gen Z Featuring Jessie Cruickshank
Today's show is a must-listen if you have children, nieces, nephews, grandchildren or folks in your ministry who are a part of Gen Z categorized as those between the ages of 12 and 26. Heather's guest, Jessie Cruickshank, has...
Nov. 3, 2023
Ask Me Anything: Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Diet Talk, and What Good Can Come from Getting Fat?
Today Heather answers three listener questions related to body image and self-worth. These questions were taken from the Facebook group "Body Image for Christian Women" (Join anytime and look for opportunities to submit your ...
Oct. 31, 2023
Wise Investments: How Money Stewardship Connects to Body Stewardship
This thought-provoking episode of "Compared to Who?" explains the connections between being a good "steward" of our money and the stewardship of our bodies. Looking at Matthew 6, Heather answers a listener's question: How can...
Oct. 27, 2023
I Didn't Know I Had an Eating Disorder: Featuring Christie of Rock Recovery
"The behaviors and information were the problem, my body was trying to help!" Christie Dondero Bettwy Heather Creekmore is joined today by Christie Dondero Bettwy, the executive director of Rock Recovery, an organization dedi...
Oct. 24, 2023
Is Your Body Storing Trauma? The Biology of Trauma with Dr. Aimie Apiagan
Heather talks with Dr. Aimie Apiagan, MD, MS, MPH, a medical doctor who has committed her life's work to studying how trauma impacts our physical bodies. In today's show, Dr. Aimie shares her own experiences with trauma, rev...
Oct. 20, 2023
Could Your Body Image Issues Connect to ADHD? Featuring Dr. Tamara Rosier
Today Heather has a fascinating discussion with Tamara Rosier, PhD about the connections between ADHD and body image issues and eating disorders. Heather explores this topic as an extension of personal research she's been doi...
Oct. 17, 2023
The Role of Spiritual Maturity in Healing Our Body Image Issues Featuring Laura Acuna
Today Heather is back with speaker, author, and coach, Laura Acuna to talk about the role spiritual maturity plays in healing body image issues. Laura and Heather talk about how hard and necessary it is to separate the lies w...
Oct. 13, 2023
Freedom Has Nothing to Do With The Number on the Scale Featuring Laura Acuna
ather interviews Laura Acuna an author, speaker, and coach who helps women find freedom from body and food shame. Laura shares her story, how she gained one hundred pounds as a middle schooler, and how she battled weight and ...
Oct. 10, 2023
What is Health Podcast? The History of BMI, Ideal Weights, Bathroom Scales, and Food Trends
One of the biggest obstacles women who are battling body image face is the pressure from society to meet a standard of health that is evidenced by one's appearance. Today, Heather takes a deep dive into all things "health." T...
Oct. 6, 2023
Fantasies, Ideals, and Learning About Our Core Needs Feat. Travis Stewart, LLC
Today Heather chats with Travis Stewart. Travis revisits the "core desires of the heart" that we discussed in a previous episode before digging into today's topic: Fantasy. Travis explains how we put baggage with fantasy, but...
Oct. 3, 2023
Is It Okay to Track Food With Intuitive Eating? Intuitive Eating Coaching Call
Today Heather chats with the hosts of the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women Podcast, Erin Todd and Char Lee Haze, about food tracking, trying to track food for weight loss, and how this concept aligns with Intuitive Eating...
Sept. 29, 2023
Can Philippians 4:13 Be My Weight Loss or Fitness Inspiration Verse?
"I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength." Do you have Philippians 4:13 memorized or on a Christian t-shirt. Have you recited it before the big test or the big game? Have you used it to be your weight loss or...
Sept. 26, 2023
Have we Christianized Disordered Eating? Featuring Amy Carlson, RD
Today, Heather continues her conversation with eating disorder expert and registered dietitian Amy Carlson. Amy and Heather delicately address some "Christianized" messages around binge eating and dieting. Amy shares how she ...
Sept. 22, 2023
A "With God" Approach to Food and Eating Featuring Amy Carlson
Today Heather is joined by one of her favorite guests, eating disorder expert, dietitian, and biblical truth seeker, Amy Carlson. Amy and Heather dig into some of the messaging around food that they've observed floating aroun...
Sept. 19, 2023
Reclaiming Your Stolen Identity: Spiritual Warfare Part 3
Did you know that one of the key ways we experience spiritual warfare is in the fight for our identity in Christ? The enemy works very hard to distract us by convincing us to find identity in other places or things and, in th...
Sept. 15, 2023
Spiritual Warfare & Body Image Issues Part 2
In today's episode, we continue discussing the existence of evil and the spiritual battles we face daily including our battle with body image issues. As believers, Heather stresses the importance of surrendering control to Go...
Sept. 12, 2023
Exposing the Enemy's Scheme: Unraveling the Spiritual Warfare Behind Body Image Issues
Today we dive deep into the realm of spiritual warfare, exploring the dark forces that wreak havoc on our body image. It's time to blow the enemy's cover. It's time for him to be exposed in the arena of what is happening with...
Sept. 8, 2023
Cheerleaders, Esther, and Beauty Featuring Tasha Calvert
Today Heather talks to author, speaker, and Bible teacher, Tasha Calvert about the ways we all struggle with beauty and body, how those words we heard in middle school can hurt, and about the subtle trauma of those early reje...
Sept. 5, 2023
I Just Want to Feel Okay in My Body: Finding True Confidence
Today, Heather digs into this common sentiment, "I just want to feel good" or "I just want to feel okay" about my body. She explores how this is a struggle for so many women who are wrestling to feel confident about their bod...
Sept. 1, 2023
Are You Looking for an "After"? How to Find True Body Image Freedom
Today, Heather shares how to have an "after" story. Chances are, you've seen before and after pictures. Weight loss, fitness, and supplement marketers love to use before and after pictures to show you a picture of the "freedo...
Aug. 29, 2023
Redefining Beauty Featuring Melissa Johnson
Melissa Johnson joins Heather today to discuss the concept of beauty and how it can be redefined. Melissa shares her personal journey of simultaneously undergoing eating disorder treatment and spiritual formation classes, whi...
Aug. 25, 2023
How's Your Relationship With Wine? Featuring Christy Osborne
Today Heather interviews Christy Osborne who shares her personal journey with disordered eating and drinking. Christy discusses how she struggled with restrictive eating and alcohol dependency, especially during her time in p...
Aug. 22, 2023
Body Image, Sex, & Marriage Featuring Francie Winslow (Part 2)
This is part two of an interview with the amazing Francie Winslow, a bold woman of God who hosts a podcast about sex in marriage! Go listen to part one of this interview first before you dig into today's great show! Heather a...