Beauty in the Battle: Redefining Confidence, Navigating Body Image Through Chronic Illness, and Keeping the Faith with Witney Capps
Season 3 Episode 6
This episode's guest is Whitney Capps, a national speaker, Bible teacher, and author passionate about helping women anchor their identities in Christ. Caroline and Whitney discuss the challenges women face in navigating body image and confidence while living with chronic illness. Whitney courageously shares her journey, detailing her experiences with Crohn's disease and an unexpected cancer diagnosis and the significant impact these health challenges have had on her appearance and self-perception. However, these challenges enable Whitney to connect with women through honest and relatable communication, showing how to root their identities in Christ fully. Caroline and Whitney's discussion will give you valuable perspective on redefining confidence in the unknown and uncontrollable and remind us of God's abounding grace.
You’ll Learn:
Whitney's personal health journey with Crohn's disease and cancer, the challenges of maintaining confidence, and how she rebuilt trust in a body that functions differently.
Practical ways to shift self-worth, extend empathy, and tools to view yourself through God's eyes and not your own personal limitations.
The role faith plays in shaping body image and self-worth and how to reshape your definition of confidence to be rooted in Christ and not in appearance.
Key Takeaways:
Resistance is what makes us stronger. The strain and the struggle are what build endurance and growth.
Confidence has to be rooted in something other than our appearance, and by facing our own mortality, we can understand that aging is a privilege.
Sometimes, growing in Christ is uncomfortable and sometimes difficult.