Find Your Beautiful: Life Through the Eyes of a Christian Disabled Woman

All porn is addictive, including inspiration porn. Mandi helps you understand what inspiration porn is and why it's a thing to avoid.  Find Me Online: Website Facebook Instagram Transcript Mandi : Mandi Frantz here welcoming you to my podcast - Find Your Beautiful: Life Through the Eyes of a Christian Disabled Woman.   [Upbeat Background Music] Mandi :  In 2014, the world lost a great comedian, journalist, and disability activist when Stella Young died. Stella was born with a disability called Osteogenesis Imperfecta, commonly known in the mainstream world as Brittle Bone Disease. As a result of her disability, Stella used a wheelchair most of her life. After graduating from college, she worked for some time as a high school teacher. In 2012, Stella wrote an editorial for Ramp Up, in which she coined the term "Inspiration Porn." A few months before her unexpected death, she delved into this concept in her TedxSydney talk entitled, "I'm Not Yo...

Mandi shares an important biblical fact that blows the traditional christian perspective of disability out of the water.   Find Me Online: Website Facebook Instagram Transcript Mandi : Mandi Frantz here welcoming you to my podcast - Find Your Beautiful: Life Through the Eyes of a Christian Disabled Woman.   [Upbeat Background Music] Mandi :  Hey Beauties! Last Spring I had the unique privilege of participating in a program at MIT. Quick shout-out to my Link20 friends for making that happen. During my time there, we focused on different disability related issue. One of the issues had to do with the physical differences some disabilities cause in a person's body, more specifically how these differences affect people's physical and sexual attraction to people with disabilities.  Let's face it, when we talk about body positivity, it is rarely inclusive of disability. I went on Instagram and looked up the hashtag #bodypositive and scrolled t...

Mandi tells you why people with disabilities need to be healed, but not cured, in this controversial view of biblical disability.   Find Me Online: Website Facebook Instagram Transcript Mandi : Mandi Frantz here welcoming you to my podcast - Find Your Beautiful: Life Through the Eyes of a Christian Disabled Woman.   [Upbeat Background Music] Mandi :  Hey Beauties! Today's episode will again speak to my faith community, but I know it can also help non-believers too. Many non-believers arrived where they are because of negative experiences with with the church or individual believers. Many disabled people have turned away from God for similar reasons. Listen to this experience I had. When I was a little girl, probably 8 or 9 years old, I remember going to a church. I won't bother saying the denomination because it's pretty irrelevant as it isn't the last time I had this experience, even at churches of other denominations. Honestly, I don't remem...

Does God have 2020 vision about disability? In her first episode of the new decade, Mandi shares a controversial faith perspective on the origin of disability. Find Me Online: Website Facebook Instagram Transcript Mandi : Mandi Frantz here welcoming you to my podcast - Find Your Beautiful: Life Through the Eyes of a Christian Disabled Woman.   [Upbeat Background Music] Mandi :  Hey Beauties! Happy New Year!! I had a wonderful New Year's Eve, celebrating with my church family, worshiping the Lord for all His grace and mercy. Believe it or not, New Year's is my favorite holiday. I've loved it since I was a little girl. I love the spirit of hope it brings worldwide. Don't get me wrong, I really love Christmas, but the truth is, not everyone celebrates Christmas. It doesn't bring the same joy to everyone as it does to me. New Year's though, well that brings so many people hope for good in the future.  As 2020 rolled in, I read so many Facebook m...