161 Exploring Your Sexual Story With Curiosity and Kindness
The Place We Find Ourselves
Adam Young
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Sexuality is an emotionally charged topic. Period. But when you are talking about sexuality for people with a history of trauma, you are stepping into terrain where angels fear to tread. However, if God intends for you to experience overflowing sexual pleasure and lavish sexual freedom, then exploring your sexual story is more than worth it. Human beings are aroused by particular things in the present because of our experiences of being aroused in the past. Your past story can help you understand why you are turned on by the things that turn you on. Your sexual preferences and sexual fantasies are not random. There is a connection between your painful experiences growing up and your present sexual struggles. Sexual harm in the past becomes reenacted in the present. This is because you have neurons... and that's how neurons operate.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and this is the first episode of season nine. |
| 0:09.1 | Thank you so much for listening. I want to begin season 9 by talking about the very fraught topic of sexuality. |
| 0:18.8 | Sexuality in general I think is an emotionally charged topic, but when you are talking about |
| 0:26.0 | sexuality for people with a history of trauma, you are stepping into terrain that is filled with a lot of tension. |
| 0:35.0 | But that's what we're going to do today. |
| 0:37.0 | And I want to start with a piece of my own story regarding sexuality. |
| 0:41.0 | When I was 35 years old, mid 30s, |
| 0:44.2 | if you had asked me were you sexually abused Adam? |
| 0:48.9 | I would have responded with a resounding, |
| 0:51.4 | no, of course not, of course course not that would have been my immediate answer |
| 0:55.6 | I wouldn't have thought twice about it however my life was very painful in other |
| 1:02.3 | words I had symptoms, fear, anxiety, dread, depression. My nervous system was frequently |
| 1:10.0 | dysregulated which made relationships difficult. |
| 1:14.0 | When you experience symptoms like these, |
| 1:18.0 | whatever your symptoms are, |
| 1:20.0 | and you don't think that you have a story that can account for the symptoms, |
| 1:26.1 | you will sometimes feel crazy and I certainly did. |
| 1:30.7 | I felt like there was something drastically wrong with me. Why? Why? Because I had all these |
| 1:37.7 | emotional problems and there was no explanation for them. There was no way to account for them. |
| 1:44.6 | And around that age, mid 30s, someone gave me a copy |
| 1:48.0 | of the book The Wounded Heart by Dan Allender. |
| 1:51.5 | Now I don't know why I started reading the book |
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