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Female by Design

249. From Duty to Delight: Denise's Story of Sexual Healing & Redemption in Marriage

Female by Design

Francie Winslow

Sexuality, Christianity, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

4.9686 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

What if it's not too late for your marriage to experience joy, pleasure, and renewed connection?

In this powerful testimony, Francie sits down with Denise, a Circle member who vulnerably shares how God met her in the middle of decades of disconnection. After 38 years of marriage and a lifetime of silence, shame, and pain surrounding sex, Denise encountered a fresh vision of God's design, and everything began to change.

From the lies she believed as a young wife, to the pain and despair that came with menopause, to the slow and holy rediscovery of pleasure and playfulness with her husband, this is a story of healing that will encourage every woman who longs for more.

Together, Francie and Denise talk about:

  • The damaging cultural and religious messages that distort sex

  • How menopause brought everything to the surface

  • The power of God's truth to renew both body and heart

  • Practical tools that helped rebuild intimacy, one step at a time

  • Why it's never too late to experience sexual wholeness in marriage

Tune in to this powerful message today and be encouraged wherever you are in your journey.

 

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If Denise's story stirred something in you, The Circle is a place to keep growing in freedom, understanding, and embodied joy. The Circle is Francie's group mentorship community where women gather monthly for live teaching, honest conversation, and support as they learn God's good design for intimacy, desire, and pleasure… not as performance, but as part of faithful discipleship. Inside the Circle you'll find safe connection with other women, access to Francie through discussion and messaging, and a gentle space to rethink what you've been taught about sex, your body, and your feminine design.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Female by Design podcast, an honest space for female flourishing.

0:07.8

I'm Francie Winslow.

0:09.9

Together, we'll explore sexuality and spirituality by God's design,

0:15.8

healing our relationship with pleasure, our bodies, and our identity as beloved image bearers. So let's take a deep

0:24.3

breath and step into God's invitation to live fully alive as women, mind, body, and spirit.

0:33.8

I'm so glad you're here. Hey guys, it's Francie.

0:38.1

I wanted to hop on here before we begin officially today's podcast to give you a little

0:43.4

bit of context and a heads up for what you're about to hear.

0:46.3

This is a conversation with my new friend, Denise.

0:49.0

We've known each other through the circle, the group mentorship that I lead.

0:53.4

It is a group of women right now. There's

0:55.8

about 45 or so women that are in the group. And it is an intentional community where we gather

1:02.2

once a month to talk on Zoom and I share an in-depth conversation that's something that I don't

1:07.6

share on the podcast or something I'm learning. It's really fresh, raw,

1:11.3

pretty intimate conversation in that I don't feel great sharing on the World Wide Web,

1:17.2

but is perfect for this sort of intentional community. And then we have half an hour to do Q&A,

1:23.2

to do talking amongst ourselves on Zoom. It's women really from all over the world who have gathered

1:29.1

for this intentional type of growth. And Denise was a part of this group. She is a part of this

1:34.2

group. She shared her story recently with our group and I was in tears listening and I said,

1:39.8

Denise, you have to share more of your story on the broader platform of my podcast,

1:45.8

Would You Be Willing? And she said she was. So this is a really intimate conversation with Denise.

1:51.6

She is an amazing woman of God. She's been married 38 years. And as I listened to her,

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