200. Summer Lovin’ Series: Week Two, Love and Sex with Nancy Houston

Heaven In Your Home

Francie Winslow

God, Monogamy, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Christian, Marriage, Love, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Sex, Fidelity

4.9 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

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 offers wonderful insight and compassion into the profound connections between love, sex, and healing. We discuss:

The spiritual mystery and depth to our sexuality
Emotional and soul connection in marriage
How to keep sex on the “front burner”
Power and beauty of the feminine body
Identifying what’s informed your view of sex and understanding how you may be modeling your sex life accordingly
Working through sexual trauma through sharing your story (or receiving the story of another)
Normalizing, rather than demonizing, our sexuality
Styles of attachment (healthy and unhealthy)

About Nancy Houston:

Nancy Houston is an author, speaker, Executive Leadership Coach, Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Sex Therapist. She loves to help people grow into their full potential, empowering them to be truly alive. Nancy has been married to the love of her life for almost 50 years. Together they have four wonderful married sons and six adorable grandchildren. Nancy is the author of Love and Sex and Then God Made A Woman: Unwrapping Female Sexuality.

Resources Mentioned:

A Celebration of Sex: A Guide to Enjoying God's Gift of Sexual Intimacy by Dr. Douglas E. Rosenau, Jeff Durham, et al.

Then God Made A Woman: Unwrapping Female Sexuality by Nancy Houston

Enjoy!: The Gift of Sexual Pleasure for Women by Joyce and Clifford Penner

You’re Invited:

Keep learning with Francie! Join the Circle group mentorship. This is a SWEET community of women, connected with the purpose of seeking God’s heart for their reclaiming a redeemed view of sex and sexuality. Inside the circle, we will explore and discover the good news about God’s heart for sex. Learn more here: The Circle

101 Course: Strong Foundations to Starting Well

CLAIMING A HEALTHY VISION FOR MARRIED SEX

To build a love that lasts, you must begin with a strong foundation. Whether you’re newly engaged or in need of a new lens, this course is essential. You’ll be equipped to set a Biblically integrated and practically grounded vision for sex, marriage and the calling to steward the gift of pleasure and intimacy. This course is pivotal as you begin to unlearn unhelpful perspectives and sift through shame, lies and painful messages you’ve received over the years. Learn more here.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Summer Loven series, where we are taking some of the most beloved episodes
0:08.9	and equipping you with a mix of mindset, mentoring, and practicals to help you see the goodness
0:15.5	of God in your bedroom and your body.
0:18.5	Summer gives us longer, more unstructured days, and I hope that the time you spend
0:22.6	with this curated series will inspire you, equip you, and meet you right where you are in your journey
0:28.8	this summer and beyond. Let's dive in. Okay, friends, we are back with a part two with Nancy Houston.
0:36.6	We are so blessed and thankful to have you with us again, Nancy.
0:40.9	Last episode we talked all about sexual healing, really powerful because we got to talk about the hope that we have in God and his design, but also the pain.
0:51.4	And you led us into some pretty big insights on why it's hard and the path out
0:56.5	of the the brokenness into healing. So if you want to know that, listen to the previous episode,
1:01.4	but today we're going to unpack more of the mentor wisdom, get into the nitty gritty so that we
1:06.2	can lean in and say, well, what does this look like for an everyday woman who really wants to grow and
1:12.3	flourish and thrive in this? So let me stop and pray and invite the Lord in. God, we thank you that
1:18.2	you have all wisdom and that you tell us that if we long for wisdom, we can ask and that you
1:23.3	listen to that prayer and that you give the wisdom that we need. And so, Lord, we just pray for
1:28.5	practical wisdom and mentor insight from our friend Nancy that you would help us to grow in freedom,
1:34.3	enjoy and embracing our wonderful feminine design. And just pray for freedom to break out today
1:40.8	in our hearts, our minds, and our bodies as we celebrate the goodness that you
1:45.4	have in your heart for us living out our wonderful female bodies in Jesus' name. Amen.
1:52.3	Okay, so Nancy has another book. Last episode we focused on the book called Love and Sex,
1:57.2	a Christian Guide to Healthy Intimacy. We'll put a link to these in the show notes. Today,
2:01.0	we have a book, Then God Made a Woman, Unrapping Female Sexuality. Nancy, what inspired you to write
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