438 - Women's Voices: Surrendered Sexuality w/ Juli Slattery

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

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Juli Slattery, who has spent 15 years helping Christians navigate the complex terrain of sexuality in light of faith. We explore why so many struggle to surrender their sexuality to God and why the traditional church approach often falls short in addressing the real-life challenges people face today. Juli dives into how unresolved sexual issues can create barriers in our relationship with God and explains why identity—rather than behavior—is the key starting point for true transformation. She uncovers four common identity traps—self-discovery, shame, performance, and relationship—that can derail spiritual and sexual growth. Juli also challenges us to rethink the purpose of sexuality, offering practical insight on why simply stopping sexual sin is not enough and how surrendering sexual brokenness leads to lasting freedom.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello there, good listener. I am your host, Nick Stumbo, and you are listening to The Pure Desire podcast.
0:11.0	You're biblically based and clinically informed approach to healing from betrayal trauma and breaking free from all compulsive sexual behaviors.
0:20.0	We hope that whether this is your first day in recovery or your 1,000,
0:23.9	that this is a safe place for you to hear about conversations that you've maybe never got to have before.
0:30.1	Today you're listening to episode 438,
0:33.0	and here joining me as my co-host throughout this series is the one and only Ashley Jamison.
0:39.0	Ashley, welcome back. Good to see you.
0:41.9	I am glad to be here, glad to be highlighting Julie Slattery in women's voices, so it'll be a good
0:48.3	episode. Yeah. How has life been for you? In the the magic world of recording for our listeners this will
0:54.9	seem like just one week ago that you and I talked uh but in the real world we've uh this episode
1:00.5	got recorded quite a bit after the other women's episodes so uh any updates on your life
1:06.9	i know you went and saw your twins kids family how's everybody How's everybody doing? Yes, I got to see my boys. I was very excited, volunteering at my church, talking with parents,
1:18.6	loving the weather. So yeah, I think things have been good and just tried to live each day,
1:25.6	the way that God is calling me to live, but sometimes I get in the
1:29.8	way of myself. But here I am, showing up, still doing it. I think that's a lesson we're all learning
1:35.3	right now. Show up, be who God's called us to be. And both Ashley's family and my family are
1:40.3	in the midst of our, you know, getting settled in a new state and routines and all that.
1:45.7	And it's, there's parts of it that are fun and exciting and parts that are really challenging.
1:50.0	And I don't know if this will encourage you or not, Ashley.
1:52.9	Someone told me that when you move to a new place, it takes about three years for it to feel like you're adjusted.
2:00.5	I'm like, oh, well, right now that feels about right.
2:03.3	It's going to take a while. I heard that. Although, I will give this plug. So I have heard that.
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