Raising Godly Girls

This week, the Raising Godly Girls Podcast has been strolling down Season 3's hall of fame, taking another listen to your favorite episodes.   

In a culture saturated with comparison and impossible beauty standards, many girls are quietly asking a deeper question beneath body image struggles: Do I matter? This weekend edition of the Raising Godly Girls Podcast speaks directly into that ache—with truth, tenderness, and Gospel hope.  

Host Melissa Bearden welcomes best-selling author and Bible teacher Lisa Whittle for a powerful conversation about body image, identity, and what Lisa calls a whole-body theology. Together, they explore how Scripture reveals the body not as a problem to be fixed, but as a gift to steward—created with intention, dignity, and purpose by a loving God. Drawing from Lisa's new Bible study Body & Soul, this episode invites families to see the physical and spiritual as beautifully connected, not competing.  

If you've watched your daughter compare herself to others online, struggle with confidence, or internalize harmful messages about her worth—or if you've quietly wrestled with those same thoughts yourself—this conversation offers a compassionate starting point for healing. You'll hear practical encouragement for replacing cultural lies with Biblical truth, cultivating gratitude at home, and helping girls anchor their confidence in Christ rather than appearance.  

As Scripture reminds us, our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19). When girls learn to see themselves through God's eyes, everything changes. This episode will equip and encourage you to foster a home where truth speaks louder than comparison, where body and soul are nurtured together, and where girls grow up knowing they are not mistakes—but masterpieces, made on purpose for God's glory.  

 

Scriptures Referenced in this Episode:  

1 Corinthians 6:19  


Genesis 1:27  


   

To learn more about Lisa Whittle, her work, and her books, visit www.lisawhittle.com/   

To learn more about Lisa Whittle's book Body & Soul, visit https://www.lisawhittle.com/body   

Visit raisinggodlygirls.com for more encouragement and faith-based parenting tools.     

Learn how to find or start an American Heritage Girls Troop in your community at americanheritagegirls.org.

What if the freedom our culture promises isn't freedom at all? 

Today's girls are growing up in a world that constantly tells them to define themselves, reinvent themselves, and create their own truth. They're encouraged to build identity through achievement, appearance, influence, and endless self-expression. Yet despite these promises of empowerment, many young women find themselves struggling with anxiety, insecurity, loneliness, and a deep sense of exhaustion. 

In this special BONUS episode recorded at the 2026 Women's Leadership Summit in San Antonio, AHG Founder and Executive Director Patti Garibay sits down with Alex Clark, host of the internationally recognized Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark podcast, to examine the cultural narratives shaping today's generation of girls. Together, they explore why messages centered on self-creation and self-sufficiency have become so appealing, how these ideas often leave young women searching for more, and what Scripture offers as a better foundation for identity and purpose. 

Alex shares her personal journey into challenging cultural assumptions, discusses the pressures facing young women today, and offers practical insight into why so many popular definitions of success and freedom ultimately fail to satisfy. Most importantly, this conversation points listeners back to the lasting hope found in Biblical truth and the freedom that comes from receiving our identity from Christ rather than constructing it for ourselves. 

Whether you're raising a daughter, mentoring young women, or wrestling with these questions in your own life, this episode offers thoughtful encouragement to examine the messages shaping your heart and hold them up against the unchanging truth of God's Word. 

 

Scriptures Referenced: 

Genesis 1:27 


Psalm 139:13–14 


John 8:31–32 


Galatians 5:1 


Ephesians 2:10 


Colossians 2:8 


Romans 12:2 


2 Corinthians 5:17 


 


To learn more about Alex Clark or listen to her latest podcast episode, visit realalexclark.com  

Visit raisinggodlygirls.com for more encouragement and faith-based parenting tools.      

Learn how to find or start an American Heritage Girls Troop in your community at americanheritagegirls.org.

Summer is rolling along, and the Raising Godly Girls Podcast continues a fun week of fan-fave replays!  

On this Thursday episode originally aired in May 2026, hosts Rachael Culpepper and Natalie Ambrose continue digging deeper on body image and practical ways to instill a healthy approach for our girls today.  

In a time when cultural messages and marketing language are thrown around 24 hours a day, seven days a week, girls are bombarded by plenty of ways to think about their bodies, but none of it aligns with Scripture. So how can we help our daughters take hold of the messages, strip the lies of their power and urgency, and help girls rest in the Lord content with how He designed their bodies?   

It's important for girls to understand that trends come and go—and it happens lightning fast these days! So if she's going to chase trends, she will likely always feel like she can never arrive—and she'll have no money! The Bible talks about the eternal beauty of a Godly girl's life that reflects Christ. This gives a more sustainable framework for girls to confidently navigate, trusting that God is working in their hearts no matter what the outward appearance looks like. Finally, the hosts offer a sobering look at how a mom's own baggage with body image can be inadvertently passed down to a daughter without a Scripture-empowered renewed mind.  

  

Three Things to Remember:  

When trends are your girl's measuring stick for beauty, she can be left feeling less-than.  


Helping your girl weigh the temporary against the eternal will guide her to order beauty in a mature way.  


Since your girl is watching how you handle your own sense of body image, it's important that we model this for her in Christian maturity.  


Scriptures Referenced in this Episode:  

1 Timothy 4:8  


1 Peter 3:4  


Romans 12:1-2  


Explore more resources to raise girls rooted in Christ at raisinggodlygirls.com.  

To find or start an AHG Troop in your area, visit americanheritagegirls.org.

As we march through summer 2026, the Raising Godly Girls Podcast is circling back to fan faves of Season 3's first half.  

 

In this episode from May 2026, hosts Rachael Culpepper and Natalie Ambrose use the analogy of parenting instincts to recognize oncoming illness in their kids as a framework to approach a girl's body image struggles. While parents are usually pretty good at connecting symptoms to oncoming illness in their kids, it's not always as clear when body image issues surface in our girls. So this week the podcast is focusing on body image, and how that is often reflective of a deeper spiritual thing happening in our girls. 

  

Many times, girls hear negative messages about their bodies—that the body needs to be altered in order to fit in with the current notion of beauty. This can leave girls hating their bodies and measuring beauty through a lens that God never intended. How can we parent our daughters to embrace her body as a gift from God? 

  

It's important to let a girl enjoy beauty rather than shame her for wanting to feel pretty. For a Christian girl, the key to a healthy Biblical Worldview on body image is tied to her contentment in the Lord rather than her appearance. 

 

 

Two Things to Remember: 

It's Okay for a Girl to Want Beauty, Yes—Even as a Christian 


Feeling Beautiful Isn't a Good Source for Contentment, so Address This Gently but Directly in Your Girl 


 

Scriptures Referenced in this Episode: 

Genesis 1:31a 


   


Explore more resources to raise girls rooted in Christ at raisinggodlygirls.com. To find or start an AHG Troop in your area, visit americanheritagegirls.org.

In this summer season, the Raising Godly Girls Podcast is circling back to listener favorites from the first part of season 3. Today's episode is a replay of "Helping Girls Root Their Identity in Christ in a Culture of Pressure with Eric & Eden Geiger," which originally aired on January 10, 2026." 

In this heartwarming Saturday episode, American Heritage Girls Executive Director and Raising Godly Girls Podcast host Rachael Culpepper interviews Erin and Eden Geiger. The conversation surrounds the many ways God forms a daughter's identity in Christ through a parent's ongoing journey of faith with the Lord. Rachael invites listeners to take in today's episode with their teen girls to spark at-home conversations.  

The father-daughter duo discuss Eden's book, 50 Days to Embracing Who God Says You Are, written during Eden's junior year of high school. Sharing her testimony of a "wilderness season" with the Holy Spirit, the two guests reflect on their growth together as a family when this awakening shifted their home.   

Eden recalls being the only Christian on her high school club volleyball team and how that threatened to encompass her identity and her future. With the anchor of her mother's resolve, Eden was called back to her foundation in the Lord. From self-comparison, idolatry, self-worth, social media, and anxiety, hear Eden walk through a relevant season that many of today's faith-filled girls struggle with.   

A distinct highlight of the conversation comes when Erin shares that a girl's identity in Christ is sealed through Scripture, releasing girls from the pressure to perform and easing her into a lifelong rhythm with the Lord. 

 

Scriptures Referenced in this Episode: 

Ephesians 2:10  


 

To learn more about Eric & Eden Geiger's ministry, visit ericgeiger.com 

Visit raisinggodlygirls.com for more encouragement and faith-based parenting tools.  

Learn how to find or start an American Heritage Girls Troop in your community at americanheritagegirls.org.