177. Help, I’m Too Exhausted for Sex!
Heaven In Your Home
Francie Winslow
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we address a common struggle faced by so many of us - the overwhelming exhaustion that often leaves us feeling too drained for intimacy. It’s real! Life's demands can leave you physically and emotionally depleted, and at the end of the day, sex might feel like just another exhausting task.
But what if we could change this narrative? What if we could reframe sex as a source of nourishment, a pathway to renewal, and a means to receive rather than just give? In this conversation we’ll explore the powerful links between sex and sleep, and learn how to shift your mindset to see intimacy not as a chore but as a vital source of rest and connection.
Let’s reframe exhaustion, not ignore it, as you walk fully alive into all the places of connection God has created for you.
Related Episodes:
Motherhood and Sex: Feeling Alive in Both, Ep 172
To the Mom Who Is Too Tired for Sex, Ep 6
How to Switch Gears from Tired Mom to Ready Wife, Ep 55
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's Francie. Thanks for coming back to the Heaven in Your Home podcast. |
| 0:07.6 | Today I'm going to read to you two emails that I've gotten recently, but they represent so many |
| 0:12.7 | more of you who reach out to me. By the way, it really ministers to me and blesses me to hear |
| 0:18.3 | from you, to hear your questions, to hear what God's |
| 0:21.0 | doing in your heart, your testimonies of being touched by God's tender care, especially in this |
| 0:26.3 | area of your journey towards wholeness in marriage, in your identity, in your development as a |
| 0:32.6 | wife, a mother. It's just beautiful to hear how God is shifting your vision to align with his |
| 0:38.5 | beautiful designs for your body and your sexuality. But today I'm hearing, sharing with you |
| 0:42.8 | two women that I heard from who emailed me, especially on the topic of being exhausted, |
| 0:49.6 | too tired for sex, wondering how to overcome that obstacle. This friend says, please help. You mentioned that |
| 0:55.3 | sex should be nourishing for us as women and as mothers. But sex feels like a chore and something |
| 1:01.5 | that I just do for my husband. Sex rarely brings me pleasure and I rarely initiate. I typically only |
| 1:09.2 | want to have sex two or three days a month around ovulation, |
| 1:13.1 | and as I'm currently pregnant, not at all. I love my husband and I feel like I'm depriving him, |
| 1:19.2 | but I'm constantly exhausted both from being pregnant and from our toddlers. How do I do better? |
| 1:26.3 | I want to get to that point that I not only see sex |
| 1:29.6 | as a chore or something for my husband, but that I want sex and that it feels nourishing for me. |
| 1:34.4 | Do you have any recommendations to address this? That is a friend number one. Second friend says, |
| 1:40.0 | I'm struggling. I'm exhausted. I'm a mom who never has sex. But it's not a lack of desire, |
| 1:44.6 | not a lack of feeling pretty or desirable. It's simply that I literally have nothing left to give. |
| 1:51.9 | Physically, I can barely move at the end of the day. I'm constantly telling my husband later or |
| 1:56.0 | tomorrow, but tomorrow is the same as today. I'm out of loss and just simply exhausted on all levels. |
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