This is Coming this summer on June 28th, Jenny is teaming up with Proverbs 31 and doing an online

Bible study with Get Out of Your Head. To sign up go to Proverbs 31.org click study in the menu up at the

at the the emails and be a part of that community for six weeks. And now here's Jenny. The message that we have to measure up is coming at us from all different sides.

When I wrote the intro to this book, I actually talked about a few places that that came for me.

One of them was being a pastor's wife for more than a decade and the pressures that that brought into my life were significant and

isolating. But I actually want to go back a little further and talk a little deeper about one of the things that I struggled

with in the book publicly but also in the beginning, you know, in my 20s I would say I went to college and I

wrestled with an eating disorder. It was anorexia. I was a cheerleader at the University of Arkansas, go hogs.

And I walk through that season where you are in college, you're comparing yourself anyway to other beautiful girls everywhere,

and then you also are walking through, you know, for me I was weighing in every, I don't know if they hope they still don't do this, but I was weighing in every I don't know if they hope they still don't do this but I was

weighing in I think every week or so and if you gained more than three to five

pounds you would get benched and so there was a lot of pressure for me not to gain

weight and this is freshman year when you know you're And so there was a lot of pressure for me not to gain weight.

And this is freshman year when, you know,

you're kind of learning to eat on your own

and it's just, it's a hard time to not gain any weight.

Just naturally, it kind of fluctuates freshman year. And then also I came into

college with a deep desire to please other people and to please specifically my dad. And my dad and

I sense have worked through this and it's unbelievable how great our

relationship is but I definitely felt like I couldn't measure up in high school and

throughout college and so that we will mess with a girl, you know, you want to find a home and you really want your dad to be proud of you. That's part of I think the way we are made as humans but as

specifically as females we we want our dad's approval of us and so I

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