Walk and Talk Therapy: Should You Try It?
What is Walk and Talk Therapy and who can benefit from it?
How the Female Menstrual Cycle Reflects The Image of God and the Gospel Story
The female menstrual cycle is not usually talked about concerning God, and many women feel like they shouldn’t talk about it at all. This has an immense impact on the self-esteem and body image of the female population when their body goes through a process every month that they are expected to hide, pretend is not happening, or feel shameful about. I believe that God has a deeper purpose for the female menstrual cycle that we are missing…
How to Heal from Harmful Teachings about Your Body
Regardless of where it came from, or how it happened, harmful teachings about our body negatively impact how we view and treat ourselves, which in turn negatively impacts all of our relationships. To heal from harmful teachings about the body, we need to learn how to build a healthy relationship with our body again, or for the first time…
Understanding Purity Culture Part 4: The Three Most Harmful Teachings of Purity Culture
There are three teachings of purity culture that have had the most detrimental impact on women. These messages may or may not have been what the authors, preachers or youth leaders wanted to come across, but these are the messages that have stayed with Evangelical women into adulthood…
Understanding Purity Culture Part 3- How Jesus Changed the Rules for Purity
In Leviticus, we see that it was the finite bodies of humankind that made them impure, different from God, and unable to approach God’s temple without rituals and cleansing. Jesus removed the need for rituals by existing as the infinite presence of God in the finite body of a human, as, “…in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Colossians 2:9). After not being allowed to enter God's presence during their monthly cycles for so long, a woman's body was the chosen vessel for Immanuel to come into the world and for salvation to come to us all. Immanuel, God with us, was birthed as an unclean human into an unclean environment, and from the moment he was born, he began making the unclean holy…