#354: How To Keep Rhythm & Romance in Your New COVID Normal
Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex
Authentic Intimacy®
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
You learned to navigate close quarters, perfected family game night, and homeschooled your kids. As your community reopens, how do you disconnect from tech and re-engage with life in person? How do you get the romance back in your marriage? (Or reconnect with friends in COVID-friendly ways?) Grab your Java and join us for a conversation about keeping a happy rhythm in the constantly shifting world of daily (COVID) life.
Guest: Arlene Pellicane
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hi there. This is Julie Slahery and welcome to Java with Julie. I am so glad that you've |
| 0:07.2 | joined me. And this podcast is an outreach of the ministry, Authentic intimacy, which is dedicated |
| 0:12.7 | to reclaiming God's design for intimacy and sexuality. COVID has changed life for all of us. |
| 0:19.7 | Whether you're single or married, whether you have kids at home or not, we've had to make a lot of adjustments. |
| 0:24.6 | And on today's episode of Job with Julie, I'm going to be talking with Arlene Pelican about some of those changes, some of the stresses that you might be experiencing as a mom or a dad, or the loneliness that you've experienced in your |
| 0:39.4 | singleness through being locked up in quarantine without being able to have contact with |
| 0:44.5 | people. And then also some of those stresses of marriage. How do you stay in love when you see |
| 0:51.0 | each other every minute of every day. And how do you navigate things like |
| 0:55.3 | who does the chores and who's helping the kids with online schooling as the pandemic has put so |
| 1:00.8 | much additional pressure on families? Well, Arlene is a wife and a mom who has a passion to use |
| 1:06.9 | her gifts of writing and speaking to help families grow closer to each other and to God. |
| 1:12.2 | She spends a lot of time helping families curb their screen time too and just stay connected. |
| 1:16.8 | So we'll touch on that a little bit today. |
| 1:19.3 | Arlene hosts the Happy Home Podcast and we'll link to that and her website and our show notes. |
| 1:25.1 | But before you get started, I want to remind you, or if you haven't |
| 1:28.6 | heard, let you know that you can join us for week three in our webinar series, three |
| 1:34.0 | conversations to help you heal from sexual trauma. Now, this is our last week, but don't let |
| 1:39.3 | that stop you from registering. Everyone who registers will receive links to all three webinar episodes. So whatever |
| 1:45.4 | you missed, you can go back and watch on your own time. We're going to be talking through some |
| 1:50.0 | key issues around sexual abuse recovery, like learning how to tell your story, defining what |
| 1:55.8 | sexual trauma is and how it impacts you and your relationships. And this week, Thursday, March 18th, I'll be |
| 2:02.3 | talking to Matt and Victoria Gutbroad about how husbands and wives can move together through the |
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