Hey, friends, welcome back to the love and relationships podcast. I'm your host, Deborah Felita,

and I'm so glad you're tuning into these candid conversations about love, sex, dating, singleness,

and marriage. For those of you who don't know me or are tuning in for the first time, I'm a licensed

professional counselor and author specializing in relationship issues.

I also run the Relationship Advice blog True Love Dates.com, reaching millions of people with the message

that healthy people make healthy relationships.

If you've tuned into the podcast before, you know it's a hotline style show, meaning people

call in or write in with their

relationship questions, and I answer them on this show in short, practical, bite-sized

answers. If you have a question that you want me to answer on the show, send it via email

or voice memo to Deborah at true lovedates.com or check out my podcast page, true lovedates.com slash love and

relationships. And I'll do my best to get it answered on one of the episodes. So let's get

started. Today's question comes from Maggie from Pennsylvania. Maggie asks, hey Deborah, in a culture

where women are praised for flaunting their bodies, as women, how do we balance caring about our

appearance, but not catering to a culture that focuses so much on physical appearance and sex appeal.

Friends, today I'm excited to introduce you to Kristen Clark from Girl Defined

Ministry to help me tag team this important question.

Hey, Kristen, it's good to have you on the show.

Hey, it's so good to be here. Thanks for inviting me into this conversation. I think it's going to be a really good one. I think so too. And I'm pretty sure I watched a YouTube video of yours talking a little bit about this subject. So when this question came in, I was like, all right, this girl's going to be a great fit for this conversation.

So before we dive in, tell me a little bit about yourself and for people who don't know who you are or have never heard of your ministry.

Tell us a little bit about what you've got going on. Yeah, well, I am a born and raised Texas girl. First of all, you know, that's important information.

Yeah, Texans always feel like that's

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