Girls of Grace

Constance Rhodes is the Founder and CEO of FINDINGbalance, a Christian nonprofit with an emphasis on eating and body image issues, and the director of The True Campaign, a Christ-centered effort to “end the crisis of distorted self-image among women.” (www.findingbalance.com; www.truecampaign.org)

She is the author of Life Inside the Thin Cage: A Personal Look into the Hidden World of the Chronic Dieter (Waterbrook/Random House) and the creator of Finding Balance with Food, an interactive 12-week curriculum kit for use by churches, colleges and counseling centers.

She is also the compiler and editor of The Art of Being: Reflections on the Beauty and the Risk of Embracing Who We Are (Waterbrook/Random House), which features essays from fifteen top Christian artists on themes of value, identity and purpose. Showcasing her own musical side, Constance released her first CD in 2009, titled Underneath it All.

A former marketing director for Sparrow Records (EMI), Constance was selected in 2006 as one of the
“Top 50 Activists, Artists, and Innovators” (The Relevant Nation), recognizing her as a key leader and
innovator in providing consumer-directed resources for women seeking balance with food, body image,
and identity issues.

Her recent “Month Without Makeup” challenge was featured in Christianity Today and closely followed at
the True Campaign website as well as on Facebook, garnering her a new wave of fans and support from women everywhere who identify with cultural pressures to be perfect.

Constance is a popular keynote speaker for a variety of audiences, appearing alongside respected communicators including Kay Arthur, Liz Curtis Higgs, Elisa Morgan, Walt Larimore, and Priscilla Shirer. She is also host of the annual “Hungry for Hope” conference at Glen Eyrie in Colorado Springs.

While the heartbeat of her ministry involves impacting women, Constance’s conversational teaching style combined with original music provides a unique and heartfelt experience for mixed audiences as well.

She is frequent guest on radio and TV, appearing on PBS, Focus on the Family, Good Morning Texas, The Harvest Show, At Home Live, Dawson McAllister Live, American Family Radio, and to churches via several programs broadcast by the Church Communication Network (CCN). As host of the True
Conversations podcast she has interviewed notable guests from Bethany Dillon to George Barna to Food
for the Hungry President Ben Homan.

A dynamic communicator who has experienced many great opportunities (and many disappointments), Constance knows firsthand the ways that pride and fear can derail even the most gifted of leaders.

As a result, she is driven by a gut-level passion to embrace and model authenticity, transparency and
vulnerability in her daily life, whether in business or personal settings. This effort is not one to be accomplished overnight, but as they say in recovery work, it’s about progress, not perfection.

Constance received her Practical Theology diploma in 1990 from Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, TX. She and her husband AJ have been married for fifteen years, and reside in Franklin, Tennessee with
their three children, Christian (2001), Asher (2004) and Sophia (2007).