210. Three Essential Elements to Pleasure in Marriage
Heaven In Your Home
Francie Winslow
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this transformative episode of the Heaven in Your Home podcast, Francie Winslow invites listeners on a deeply personal and spiritual journey to rediscover God's design for sexual intimacy in marriage. Drawing from her own experiences of struggle, healing, and growth, Francie explores how valuing sexuality, creating margin for connection, and developing practical skills can breathe life into intimacy, strengthen marital bonds, and deepen spiritual connection.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
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Valuing Sexuality: Why honoring and embracing our God-given sexual design is essential for healing and intimacy.
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Making Margin: How intentionality in creating time for connection fosters deeper love, joy, and healing.
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Growing Skills: The importance of learning practical tools to enhance intimacy and break free from shame.
Francie also addresses common misconceptions and cultural narratives about sexuality, offering a gospel-centered perspective that celebrates pleasure as a gift from God. With her trademark vulnerability, she shares how this journey of transformation is not only deeply personal but also profoundly spiritual.
Highlights:
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Personal testimony of overcoming shame and discovering freedom in God’s design for sexuality.
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Encouragement to prioritize intimacy amidst the busyness of life.
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Practical insights for integrating spiritual and physical intimacy in marriage.
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An invitation to a live masterclass for deeper exploration of these topics.
Key Takeaway
Sexual intimacy is not just a physical act but a holy space where healing, joy, and connection with God and your spouse converge. By valuing, prioritizing, and growing in this area, you can unlock a ripple effect of beauty and restoration in every aspect of your life.
Resources and Invitation to Go Deeper:
Pre-Order Today: Permission for Pleasure: Orgasm 101 - From Pre-Orgasmic to Orgasm
Inside this 90 minute masterclass Francie will get practical. Explore the God-given design of your body and the gift of intimacy in Francie Winslow's 90-minute masterclass. Learn to practically embrace the beauty of your sexuality, and experience deeper connection with your spouse. From understanding arousal to practical techniques for pleasure, this session invites you to step into a vision of intimacy that is naked, unashamed, and full of joy. Register Here.
Start Here: 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.
Get Connected: Keep learning and get direct access to 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 talk practicals and get support to grow. Learn more here: The Circle
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, before we get started in today's episode, I want to make sure that you have heard the word, |
| 0:10.5 | that there is a new masterclass coming out very soon, hosted by Yours Truly on All Things Pleasure. |
| 0:18.3 | I love this podcast platform, but one of the limiting factors |
| 0:22.3 | is that it is broad and wide reaching and I want to go deep and practical. And the best way I know |
| 0:29.8 | to do that is to do it in more of a closed setting where there can be more specifics, more |
| 0:35.2 | practicality, and more vision cast for growing your pleasure and what it |
| 0:39.7 | looks like for marriage to be a place of celebration and growth around orgasm, around understanding |
| 0:46.5 | your body, how it works, how to give pleasure, how to receive pleasure, how to navigate |
| 0:51.6 | the hang-ups around the idea even of pleasure and your relationship |
| 0:56.6 | to pleasure. It's going to be so fun. You can think of it as orgasm 101 and permission to pleasure |
| 1:02.9 | all combined in one 90-minute class that you can watch at your own pace in the privacy of your |
| 1:10.0 | home home. |
| 1:14.4 | And it can be us connecting kind of similar to this, |
| 1:19.8 | but in a much more practically based, real-time-oriented space where you can really take the stuff we're talking about |
| 1:22.1 | and apply it to your marriage today. |
| 1:25.1 | So if you want to know more, check out the show notes. There's a link to my |
| 1:28.8 | website where you can register in advance and join the fun in February for the upcoming pleasure |
| 1:35.7 | masterclass. I hope to see you there. Hello everybody. Welcome to the Heaven in Your Home |
| 1:42.3 | podcast. This is Francie. It is an honor to be with you. We are kicking off a new season of podcasting for me. It's just such a joy, honestly, after having a long break from podcasting to continue interacting with many of you offline, some in real life, some in the circle, |
| 2:03.5 | mentorship group that I lead, some in social media, but hearing from you and knowing that |
| 2:09.8 | God is working in you, in your marriage, in your real life, in the spaces of suffering, |
| 2:15.6 | vulnerability, of growth, of leaning in to the hard and the good |
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