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208. Summer Lovin’ Series: Week Ten, How Often Should I Be Having Sex
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Welcome to the Summer Lovin’ Series, where we are taking some of the most beloved episodes and bringing you a mix of equipping you with a mix of mindset, mentoring and practicals to help you see the goodness of God in your bedroom and your body. This is a loaded question. Stop “should-ing” on yourself, especially when it comes to your marriage. “Sh…
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207. Summer Lovin’ Series: Week Nine, Sex Toys and Vibrators
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Welcome to the Summer Lovin’ Series, where we are taking some of the most beloved episodes and bringing you a mix of equipping you with a mix of mindset, mentoring and practicals to help you see the goodness of God in your bedroom and your body. What’s okay for Christian marriage in the bedroom? Maybe that’s the wrong question. Married sex can be a…
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206. Summer Lovin’ Series: Week Eight, Pleasure and Orgasm with Bonny Burns
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Welcome to the Summer Lovin’ Series, where we are taking some of the most beloved episodes and bringing you a mix of equipping you with a mix of mindset, mentoring and practicals to help you see the goodness of God in your bedroom and your body. Are you tuned into your female body? Often, even bringing up the topic of the clitoris or vagina can cau…
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205. Summer Lovin’ Series: Week Seven, Your Wonderful Female Body - Orgasm Part 1
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Welcome to the Summer Lovin’ Series, where we are taking some of the most beloved episodes and bringing you a mix of equipping you with a mix of mindset, mentoring and practicals to help you see the goodness of God in your bedroom and your body. Orgasms are a gift created, formed and given straight from the heart of God. This sweet gift will bless …
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204. Summer Lovin’ Series: Week Six, The Science of Sex
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Welcome to the Summer Lovin’ Series, where we are taking some of the most beloved episodes and bringing you a mix of equipping you with a mix of mindset, mentoring and practicals to help you see the goodness of God in your bedroom and your body. In this episode, Francie talks about... The science behind God’s good gift of intimacy. The GOODNESS of …
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203. Summer Lovin’ Series: Week Five, High and Low Libidos
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Welcome to the Summer Lovin’ Series, where we are taking some of the most beloved episodes and bringing you a mix of equipping you with a mix of mindset, mentoring and practicals to help you see the goodness of God in your bedroom and your body. What do I do if I have a higher drive than my husband? What should I do if my sex drive seems non-existe…
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202. Summer Lovin’ Series: Week Four, Foreplay Husband Chat
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Welcome to the Summer Lovin’ Series, where we are taking some of the most beloved episodes and bringing you a mix of equipping you with a mix of mindset, mentoring and practicals to help you see the goodness of God in your bedroom and your body. Let’s continue the conversation on foreplay with a chat to encourage and equip husbands. (Wives will be …
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201. Summer Lovin’ Series: Week Three, Foreplay
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Welcome to the Summer Lovin’ Series, where we are taking some of the most beloved episodes and bringing you a mix of equipping you with a mix of mindset, mentoring and practicals to help you see the goodness of God in your bedroom and your body. What is foreplay and what purpose does it serve? In this discussion you’ll learn about the role of forep…
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200. Summer Lovin’ Series: Week Two, Love and Sex with Nancy Houston
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Welcome to the Summer Lovin’ Series, where we are taking some of the most beloved episodes and bringing you equipping with a mix of mindset, mentoring and practicals to help you see the goodness of God in your bedroom and your body. In today's episode, we have rich conversations with a licensed counselor and sex therapist Nancy Houston. Nancy offer…
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199. Summer Lovin’ Series: Week One, Stewarding Your Sexuality
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Welcome to the Summer Lovin’ Series, where we are taking some of the most beloved episodes and bringing you equipping with a mix of mindset, mentoring and practicals to help you see the goodness of God in your bedroom and your body. His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you o…
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198. Bigger Than a “Sex Talk” - Tools to Help You Teach Your Kids about Sex
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There are simple ways to have big conversations. You can purposefully plant seeds of God’s Word into the hearts of your children. Realizing it’s not about a “sex talk," you can be equipped to disciple your children with frequent touch points, vulnerability and humility. Let’s lean into the goodness of God and choose to walk in His peace, His joy an…
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197. Helping Your Kids Navigate Healthy Sexual Development with Kristen Miele
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Let’s continue the conversation about helping your kids navigate healthy sexual development. This discussion was held inside The Circle group mentorship with invited guest teacher Kristen Miele, who’s a dedicated educator with Biblically based frameworks. This discussion touches on self-soothing, pornography and many other questions that you may fa…
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196. Navigating Healthy Sexual Development & Self-Discovery with Your Kids
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We’re talking about sex and our kids. How do we talk to our kids about sex? About their bodies? What’s normal? And, what do we do about hot topics like touching themselves? This episode is actually a peek inside The Circle, the group mentorship that meets for monthly live teaching. This is a more in depth conversation about navigating healthy sexua…
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195. Sexual Celebration with Alexa PenaVega (Most-Loved Episode Replay)
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Way better than anything Hollywood could ever portray, today’s guest Alexa PenaVega shares her vulnerable testimony of finding more in her marriage. How do you go from a wife who really doesn’t feel very excited about physical intimacy to finding celebration and joy? In this episode, Alexa and Francie chat about the fruitfulness that has flowed fro…
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194. Introducing: Strong Foundations for Married Sex
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You have permission to break free from silence and shame and show up in a different way. Perhaps you’ve experienced silence or unhelpful messages about your body and your sexuality. You’ve heard about sex being a man’s need or a wife’s duty. You’ve been told your body is a stumbling block and that sexual desire is dirty. The “don’t do it, don’t do …
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193 From Purity Culture to the Goodness of Playful Intimacy
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You have a story…and, perhaps the purity culture movement has been a part of shaping your views about your body and your design. Let’s unpack some of the shame and fear that may be holding you back as we walk toward more integration and celebration of the gift of married intimacy. Playfulness and novelty in your marriage is good and of God. In this…
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192. Prioritizing Growth while Parenting Little Ones
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Overwhelm, endless to-do lists, and exhaustion is real, especially in the season of life when you’re pouring your heart and soul into a growing family. Raising little children and having little babies can feel like a sprinting marathon. Let’s talk about the challenges faced by many mommas to nurture sexual intimacy while raising young children. And…
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191. Reframe: Sexual Activity vs. Sexual Intimacy
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Friend, this chat is critical. As we attempt to reframe our view of sex, we are missing the mark if we continue to focus on a narrow and limiting view of “sexual activity” vs. the oneness and meaning that comes through “sexual intimacy.” Let’s unpack the differences, think about how we got here and how we find a way forward. And, let’s embrace a li…
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Let’s pause and get on the same page. Language plays a crucial role in shaping culture and creating a sense of familiarity and understanding. And, a word used quite often in our conversations here is integration. What does it mean and why does it matter? In 1 Thessalonians 5: 23 we see, “May God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole,…
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Ever feel stressed out?!? In this episode, Francie discusses ways to find regulation in the body when feeling stressed out, because we are actually living with chronic stress. Friend, your body is so good to you and even protects you in times of stress. Let's befriend our bodies and understand our nervous system. You’ll get TEN practices to help yo…
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Walking through seasons of suffering can feel lonely, isolating and can even create a debilitating spiral of despair. Regardless of what your hard looks like, in this episode you’ll be equipped and encouraged as Francie shares her personal journey of embracing the challenges in her life and how it has reshaped her perspective on suffering. Key take…
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187. Grieving Sexual Sin in the Church; Questions to Process
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In this vulnerable episode, Francie reflects on the pain and struggle caused by sexual sin in the church. Let’s have some honest reflections, informed and stirred up by a culmination of years of sexual sin being exposed publicly in some church leaders. This is not about finger pointing towards anybody, all while we acknowledge the incredible pain t…
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186. Called to Pleasure: Rest, Arousal, Sensuality and Female Design
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Your female body is an extravagant gift from God. He gave you a beautiful body and He’s called you to steward it well. Stewardship starts with knowing your body. And knowing that your female body was created for pleasure. When you look at the way you were designed, you can marvel at the Creator who made you with such a huge capacity for pleasure. I…
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185. Living with Tension in Mothering: Sacrifice or Rest
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Let’s have a practical chat, rooted in spiritual truth as we answer a recent listener question. Francie, my physical well being often suffers at the expense of serving my children. How do I take time for myself at the expense of my children when the Bible is so clear about placing the needs of others above my own? Many of us have fallen prey to the…
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184. Trading Fear for Freedom - Sex is God’s Creation
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The topic of sex so often shuts us down. The thought of learning or growing isn’t even an option when it’s a no-go territory. Yet, we learn about creation in two ways: through God’s words (the Bible) and through God’s works (His creation, which includes you and me). The body is His design. When we look at the beauty of our body and how it works, we…
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