The media hosts an ongoing parade of beautiful people. They even offer commentary on the most beautiful eyes, lips and buttocks, helping us to embrace both a false sense of normal and a false sense of ideal.

There is no ideal. And there certainly is no ideal for everybody — 5’10” cannot be ideal for a woman who is 5’4″. I know this!

Still studies show that the vast majority of women are uncomfortable with their looks, particularly their bodies. And women are more apt to be trapped in their innate desire to please men (the creation story in Genesis nails this). Measuring up to the ideal they think men want weighs on them, the way being strong and powerful weighs on many men. But women are giving men a taste of how it feels to be gawked at, reveled in and critiqued.

Logically, the average man is less than 5 feet 10 inches tall. Do you really think he prefers a 5-foot 10-inch woman to make him feel big and strong? There is no ideal match, either.

But there is practical value in being attractive. Attractive people are generally perceived as more poised, interesting, sociable, independent, exciting, sexual, intelligent, well-adjusted and successful (as well as more vain and materialistic)!… More

This truth reminds us that being in a hurry is birthed by fear. And we accomplish everything in love.… More

As we face what lies within, we realize that it is the only thing we can trust. We have manipulated the outside too much for it to be authentic. Now, we can begin to free what we once hid and manifest our true greatness. We can update the body and the mind, to reconcile them with our untainted spirit.… More