Hi I'm Alan Arnold and I'd like to welcome you to the Ransomed Heart Podcast.

We are in the final week of a three-part series on Free to Be Me, the new book by Stacey Eldridge.

And if you're listening to this as a man, I just want to at

the very beginning of the podcast offer a special invitation to you because this is your

chance to better understand the daughters of Eve.

That could be your wife, it could be your newborn daughter who you think will never be a teenager.

It could be your older daughter

who's already graduated and left the house

that you can understand better.

But especially if you have a teenage daughter,

this is the gold. This is what you need to hear to understand

your daughter's heart. And today we're going to be talking about beauty secrets.

So Stacy, tell us more.

What are the beauty secrets that teen girls need to know?

Well, I'm going to read a portion from that chapter, Alan, but the reason I've chosen

this section for today's podcast is because beauty is essential to the core of femininity.

Every young girl, every teenager, every woman no matter what her age or what she says desires

to be beautiful. And we're living in a world that says that only a certain

thing and style and form and shape is beautiful.

And particularly for teenage girls,

that is a tough pill to swallow.

Our bodies at that age are changing dramatically,

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