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Compared to Who? Body Image for Christian Women

The Go-to Podcast for Christian women who want to improve their body image and stop comparing themselves to others! Are you a Christian woman who is tired of the same old answers to your body image and comparison struggles? Have you “tried everything,” yet still feel like your body isn’t enough or should be better? Do you know that “God looks at the heart” or “You’re fearfully and wonderfully made” yet STILL feel like maybe God should have made your body better? Bonus: Have you ever prayed for God to zap you skinny? ;) (Your secret is safe here.) If you answered yes to any of the above, then Compared to Who? A Biblical Approach to Body Image Issues is the show for you! Twice a week, we tackle tough topics like feeling out of control with food, body shame, disordered eating, weight loss, aging, dieting, body dysmorphia, body hatred, and more from a practical, grace-filled, biblical, and gospel-centered perspective. I’m Heather Creekmore, author of several books (including a forthcoming body image workbook), speaker, and Christian body image coach. Our approach to body image issues is relatable, authentic, and truth-driven. We hope every episode is filled with grace and hope for your personal struggle. I spent decades battling the scale and the mirror. But, now I help women get free from body image issues so they can stop comparing and start living. Listen to laugh about all the common ways we struggle and find encouragement for our journey. Find out more about Heather Creekmore and the ministry of Compared to Who? or to get Christian body image coaching, visit: https://www.comparedtowho.me Want to join our podcast community on Facebook? Visit the group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/764271297116024

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Can Philippians 4:13 Be My Weight Loss or Fitness Inspiration Verse? 31:50 September 29, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

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 fitness goal motivation verse? If you have, no shame or blame here. But, today Heather tackles what Philippians 4:13 is really trying to teach us. It's a message in contentment. It's a passage that reveals our struggle with covetousness, and it's a verse that encourage …
Have we Christianized Disordered Eating? Featuring Amy Carlson, RD 28:11 September 26, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

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 helps women who are struggling with certain foods to have a "with God" experience with their food in order to find freedom from shame. One of Amy's main points for today is that food is not the real enemy. In fact, we have a real enemy and he always tempts us to choose …
A "With God" Approach to Food and Eating Featuring Amy Carlson 37:39 September 22, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

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 around from Christian content creators. Today, the duo gets real and analyzes some of these messages. With an MS in Nutrition and more than twenty-five years of experience working with women with eating disorders and disordered eating, Amy challenges us to think about God as …
Reclaiming Your Stolen Identity: Spiritual Warfare Part 3 30:28 September 19, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

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 that way, he steals our identity. If you've ever felt caught up in being recognized for your looks or size, you may have experienced it! Grounded in biblical truths, today's episode explores the dangers of attaching our identity to external factors, and the culture's push …
Spiritual Warfare & Body Image Issues Part 2 30:37 September 15, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

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 God and relying on His divine protection and using our authority in the name of Jesus to tell the enemy to flee. Throughout the episode, Heather addresses the concept of spiritual warfare, highlighting that as Christians, we cannot be demon-possessed if we believe in Jesus …
Exposing the Enemy's Scheme: Unraveling the Spiritual Warfare Behind Body Image Issues 30:13 September 12, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

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 how we think about and treat our bodies. Host Heather Creekmore shares her own experience of believing a lie in elementary school that her legs were too big. Heather explains that she has received numerous messages from others who have also believed the same lie about …
Cheerleaders, Esther, and Beauty Featuring Tasha Calvert 40:54 September 8, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

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 rejections. Heather and Tasha discuss how neither of them made the cheerleading team, and what they associated with that as teenagers. They also have an enlightening and encouraging conversation around the book of Esther. We've too often painted Esther as the Bible's …
I Just Want to Feel Okay in My Body: Finding True Confidence 29:18 September 5, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

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 bodies. They don't want to look like supermodels, they just want to feel okay to be in the skin they're in. But what is this desire of having a body that you can feel good in or good about? Could the core of this issue be something you'd never expect? Heather digs into an …
Are You Looking for an "After"? How to Find True Body Image Freedom 46:59 September 1, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

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 "freedom" their plan offers after you use their products and change your body. But, the truth is, the only "after" story that lasts goes much deeper than changing our bodies. The only after story that stands the test of time is one that happens in our hearts. And, only Jesus can …
Redefining Beauty Featuring Melissa Johnson 39:02 August 29, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

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, which prompted her to question societal beauty standards and discover true beauty. Through her own experiences and encounters with God, Melissa began to see the broken nature of cultural beauty and how it disintegrates individuals. Melissa highlights the mind-blowing beauty …
How's Your Relationship With Wine? Featuring Christy Osborne 35:48 August 25, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

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 politics and in the church. She opens up about her decision to remove alcohol from her own home and the impact it had on her relationship with her husband. Christy also explores the reasons why people turn to alcohol, the difficulties of moderation, and the societal …
Body Image, Sex, & Marriage Featuring Francie Winslow (Part 2) 37:03 August 22, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

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 and Francie cover a lot of ground today, talking about what to do if body image issues are impacting your sex life. Here are 3 key takeaways from this episode: 1. Sex is connected to our entire life story: It's not just a disconnected act, but rather an opportunity for …
Body Image, Sex, and Your Marriage with Francie Winslow 23:55 August 18, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

Body Image, Sex, and Your Marriage with Francie Winslow

Francie Winslow of the Heaven in Your Home podcast joins Heather for a vulnerable, authentic, and helpful conversation about sex and body image issues. Francie opens up about her own struggles with feeling average and not measuring up to society's standards of beauty. Throughout the conversation, we explore the idea that true beauty lies in the confidence that comes from God alone, not from having the body of your dreams. Francie shares her own journey of discovering the importance of being …
Finding Hope in Suffering & Pain Featuring Dr. Michelle Bengtson 40:27 August 15, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

Finding Hope in Suffering & Pain Featuring Dr. Michelle Bengtson

Heather talks to Dr. Michelle Bengtson, author and neuropsychologist, about suffering, grief, and pain. Their conversation takes a Gospel-soaked and hope- filled look at these tough topics and Dr. Michelle shares some of her experience and hard things she's walked through. Heather and Michelle talk about why it's so hard for us to believe that pain is a normal part of life, not something that we should shame ourselves about trying to fix (or not being able to fix). Jesus talks about suffering …