Pain.   The pain and scariness of rejection isn’t something that most people wear on their sleeves.  Yet the more I’ve talked to young women and young men in the past few months, the more I’ve seen that MANY of us, if not all of us, fear rejection.     It’s a part of life,...Read More »

Psalm 69:13-18, ‘But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of...Read More »

You need people around you.  You and I both need community.   I know that might be hard to remember if you’re a loner, or you think that people won’t understand.   But you do need other people.  Man needed a woman in the very beginning when God created Adam, the first man, and He...Read More »

Transformed?  Have you ever seen ‘transformation’ photos on Instagram?  I don’t really spend that much time looking at those, because I find that they can especially breed comparison for me as someone who used to compare my body/body shape all the time with other people.   But what does transformed mean in Scripture?  It’s MORE...Read More »

What if I didn’t have a mirror?  I ask myself that when I go by the mirror in our bathroom.   Would that be the worst thing in the world?  Have you ever asked yourself that question?  How we would look at the way God created people?  Would we stop seeing things through the mirror...Read More »

Life after recovery.   I have spent a great amount of time on the podcast talking about recovery, bad body image days, struggles with anxiety around food, hypothalamic amenorrhea, and yet I want to encourage you that there is life and HOPE after the initial really tough stages of recovery.   It doesn’t mean that...Read More »

This is such a heavy episode.  I almost didn’t want to do it, but something happened a couple weeks ago now that made it something that I couldn’t get off my mind.  But first, before we dive headlong into the heavy subjects of depression and struggling with suicidal thoughts and despair, I want to share...Read More »

“Productive?”  It’s a buzz word that many of us love, but it can also become an idol.  I TOO often have found myself thinking that I always have to be going, producing, working, and never still.   Yet the Lord WANTS His beloved children to sleep (Psalm 127); the Lord wants us to be still...Read More »

Sometimes recovery doesn’t just require less exercise. Occasionally it requires a complete, total break from it.  As I’ve met more and more girls and women that have struggled with eating disorder or disordered eating patterns, I’ve noticed that there is something really crucial about either taking a complete break from exercise or greatly reducing your...Read More »

Serving as a single; what does it look like?  Singleness isn’t exactly touted as the preferred state of life.  You know how people get really excited when you’re in a relationship or engaged or getting married?  It’s not easy to find opportunities especially when you’re 25, don’t have children, and you have a household where...Read More »