Who Are You Imitating? Ephesians 5 and Examining Who Really Influences Us

Ready for a quick, 7 Minutes of Scripture episode? Today, host Heather Creekmore delves into Ephesians 5  She begins by reading Ephesians 5:1-8 from the English Standard Version and focuses on the theme of imitation and influence. Heather emphasizes the idea from scripture that we are called to be …

The Bible's Solution to Stop Comparing and Start Living

Is comparison dragging you down? Do you feel defeated or deflated because you're always thinking about the "you" that you want to be or how you could "be better if" or "be better when?" If so, comparison is what's really dragging you down. Today, host and author, Heather Creekmore will give you the…

Strategies to Stop Comparing Yourself to Other People (Group Chat Part 2)

Today Heather Creekmore and her incredible team at Compared to Who? dive deep into the world of comparison, uncovering personal stories, strategies, and biblical insights to illuminate the path to freedom from comparing. Rachel shares her experience as a worship leader facing comparison in front o…

How Do You Stop Comparing? Group Chat on Comparison and Christian Women

Today Heather invited her team to a group chat to discuss comparison and how it has affected them. The team gets real, talking about their challenges with comparison, how they compared themselves to others, and what they believed about themselves in the process! We dive into an enlightening discus…

Understanding Food Fears (Including All That Candy!)

This is the second part of an interview between host Heather Creekmore and guest Amy Carlson, a dietitian and eating disorder expert. Today's conversation centers around fostering a healthy and balanced relationship with food. Amy critiques the current educational approach to nutrition, advocating …

How to Have Agency With Food Choices Featuring Amy Carlson

Host Heather Creekmore interviews dietitian and eating disorder specialist, Amy Carlson, MS, RD, about the complex relationships individuals have with food, their own health, and agency. Heather and Amy delve into the assumptions that connect food, health, and lab results, and Amy stresses that ano…

Can God Heal My Unhealthy Relationship With Food and My Body?

Heather continues her interview with Angie Baughman about body image issues, focusing on community and comparison challenges, particularly for those with eating disorders. They discuss different dopamine responses to food—through restriction or free eating—and critique diet culture's praise of rest…

I Didn't Know I Had Body Image Issues

Angie Baughman, Bible teacher, author, and host of the Steady On podcast shares her personal journey of overcoming body image issues tied to childhood trauma and disordered eating. Together, Heather and Angie explore the detrimental effects of diet culture, highlighting how its pervasive "if-then" …

How to Stop People Pleasing, Subjugating, and Saying Yes When You Mean No

In this episode of the "Compared to Who?" podcast, host Heather Creekmore dives into the challenging topic of people pleasing and subjugation with special guest Joyce Campbell. Together, they unpack how incessantly saying "yes" while wanting to say "no" can lead to losing one's identity and sense o…

What's the Root of People Pleasing? Why Do I Say Yes When I Mean No?

Why do we find ourselves saying "yes" when we mean "no"? Is our people-pleasing tendency just a mild habit, or is it something more serious? In this eye-opening episode of Compared to Who? host Heather Creekmore dives deep into what Joyce Campbell--a licensed counselor and therapist--terms subjugat…