You are a human being, not a human body.
We’re not protecting our daughters if we forbid makeup, eschew fashionable hairstyles, or wear dowdy clothes. The feminine form is beautiful. Sure, we don’t want to hide behind makeup or wear immodest clothes to draw attention to ourselves. But t...
Perhaps a past of bingeing, restricting, or purging comes back to haunt you from time to time. Maybe you have to fight hard battles against vanity, gluttony, and shame. But with God’s saving power, every new day is a gift, an opportunity to detach ...
You are a beloved child of God. But please remember this, too: You are human. You cannot expect to eat perfectly, look perfect, or be perfect. When you stumble, pick yourself up, even if you have to do it again and again.
If I invite God into my life, I am and always will be good enough.
I used to think, that when my old inner demons started creeping back into my life, that it was a sign of failure or moral weakness. But the saints have shown me that part of the human condition is to struggle with the same sins and suffering over and...
The good news is that there is one kind of food you can never have too much of. The best way to fully recover from a food addiction or body-image problem is to fill up on the Lord.
We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way.
We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food.
We have it in our head that if we fill our stomachs, we’ll fill our hearts.
We are what we are, and life is what it is, but God is bigger than any cross we bear
We must see people not as object but as beings, with souls and with bodies through which they express their souls.
