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How to Defeat Female Body Image Issues for Women of Faith
Defeating female body image issues meant getting real about the root of those issues. First, separate the facts about female body image issues from the lies. Lie #1 – My life will be better when I fix my body. I would be happier if I were thin. People would like me better if I was skinnier. Having a better body will improve my marriage. I’ll have more self-esteem if I look thin and toned. If my body looked better, I wouldn’t have any issues, right? I was so wrong. Nothing I did to improve my appearance solved any other problems I had in my life. I still had to learn…
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What Changed my Heart and made me Pro Life?
A Christian blogger being pro life is not very surprising, but what might surprise you is that I was pro choice much of my life. It’s still really hard to admit. About 15 years ago, God began to get ahold of my heart in a way that changed everything I thought I knew. My pro-choice argument went something like this: Life begins at conception, but it is my religious belief in the Bible that informs my position. I do not believe abortion is a good choice and would never encourage a friend to have an abortion, but I don’t have the right to force my religious beliefs onto others. I…
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3 Ways to be a Happier Mom
Do you want to be a happier mom? Be a Mom without complaining. Did you just laugh? Because momming is soul sucking. You have an MBA but just spent ten minutes arguing with a two-year-old that the strawberry jam in the squeeze bottle is exactly the same as the jar. Cleaning house is pointless. You want a healthy, clean house for a tiny person who leaves messes in his wake like Godzilla in Tokyo. Life is a never-ending cycle of feeding people, cleaning up after people and doing chores over and over and over. And sometimes there is poop – okay, lots of times, there is poop. So how do…
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Love Goggles – my daughter is the most beautiful girl in the world
Do you have Love Goggles? I bet you do. I have whispered a shocking secret to my daughter many times since she was born. “You are the most beautiful girl in the world,” I would say, gently kissing her cheek or forehead. Then add, “to me,” lest she wake up one day completely surprised that she isn’t. That day came sooner than I could have ever imagined. My daughter had a wonderful playdate with a friend that turned emotional quickly. Hangry is a real thing. It was such a dramatic meltdown, from perfect harmony to disaster in less than a minute, that it was almost comical. Our emotional center of…
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Sorry, Not Sorry
She came in from playing outside, her cheeks flushed from the southern sunshine. “Please go pick up your room before dinner,” I asked. My four-year-old turned, made an angry face, with fists at her sides, “I don’t want to!” Giving her the ‘mom’ look, I started towards her. She quickly ran to her room, continuing to shout and whine. I followed her, trying to maintain my patience while I explained that she will not speak to me like this and that picking up her toys is her responsibility. She yelled, “SORRY! But I . . .” And I listened to her little rant, gently corrected her attitude, and modeled an…
