254 - Fear Of Sex During Recovery

Pure Desire Podcast

Pure Desire Ministries

Sexual Addiction Recovery, Religion & Spirituality, Celebrate Recovery, Sexuality, Porn Recovery, Porn Addiction Recovery, Health & Fitness, Aa, Education, Betrayal Trauma, Recovery, Biblical Recovery, Christian Recovery, Healing, Sa, Christianity, Self-improvement

4.6 • 682 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

When entering the recovery and healing process, there can be lots of fear. Fears like "will this work?" or "can I really restore my marriage?" But one of the biggest fears couples face is the fear of re-engaging in their sexual relationship. Today, we are joined by clinicians, Robert and Rebecca Vander Meer, to talk through this fear and ways to work through it during the recovery process.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Pure Desire Podcast.
0:04.0	You're a safe place to find hope, healing, and freedom from sexual addiction, betrayal, and relationship issues.
0:14.0	What is up? I'm your host, Trevor Windsor, and you're listening to Episode 254 of the Pure Desire Podcast.
0:18.0	You're joining me as always, my co-host Nick Stembo.
0:27.7	Officer Johnny! Oh gosh. All right, full disclosure, you have been saying that at least for the last two or three days every time you walk by our one of our newest employees, Mr. John Bagamond.
0:33.7	I still have no idea what that's wrong. You have not seen the movie Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds?
0:40.7	Yes, but I, okay.
0:42.6	It's actually really good.
0:43.6	It's made a much bigger impact on you than it has me.
0:46.0	Yeah, I really, I've seen a couple times with my boys.
0:48.4	And then like on a couple of our trips, like when I'm looking for a movie just to kind of zone out on, I've watched that.
0:53.5	So yeah.
0:59.2	Yes, it's Ryan Reynolds' character is saying that to the police officer, Johnny, and we just happen to have a John in our office. So it's convenient that way. I'm interested to see how you
1:03.5	connect this to today's episode. We had Robert and Rebecca Vandermere to our clinicians, and then
1:09.6	Robert's also on our speaking team. We had them on
1:12.8	to talk about fear of sex during recovery and healing. Yeah, it's actually one of my spiritual
1:18.4	gifts, Trevor, to connect illustrations to topics. I don't disagree. I don't disagree. You know,
1:24.3	in the movie Free Guy, there are the sunglasses people, and they're the heroes they get to do whatever they want and life works and they get all the money.
1:31.2	And then there's, you know, Ryan Reynolds character is actually a non-NPC, non-playable character who's just supposed to be in the background.
1:38.1	And I think about in this area, like when we're in recovery and maybe because of woundedness with our spouse,
1:44.7	there's not sex happening or when it's happening it's not good or we just feel like
1:49.2	there's something broken in our relationship. Is it ever going to get better? I think it
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