Finding Healing in Love & Sex with Nancy Houston (#156)
Heaven In Your Home
Francie Winslow
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we have rich conversations with a licensed counselor and sex therapist Nancy Houston. Nancy offers wonderful insight and compassion into the profound connections between love, sex, and healing. We discuss:
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The spiritual mystery and depth to our sexuality
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Emotional and soul connection in marriage
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How to keep sex on the “front burner”
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Power and beauty of the feminine body
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Identifying what’s informed your view of sex and understanding how you may be modeling your sex life accordingly
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Working through sexual trauma through sharing your story (or receiving the story of another)
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Normalizing, rather than demonizing, our sexuality
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Styles of attachment (healthy and unhealthy)
About Nancy Houston:
Nancy Houston is an author, speaker, Executive Leadership Coach, Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Sex Therapist. She loves to help people grow into their full potential, empowering them to be truly alive. Nancy has been married to the love of her life for almost 50 years. Together they have four wonderful married sons and six adorable grandchildren.
Nancy is the author of Love and Sex and Then God Made A Woman: Unwrapping Female Sexuality.
Resources Mentioned:
A Celebration of Sex: A Guide to Enjoying God's Gift of Sexual Intimacy by Dr. Douglas E. Rosenau, Jeff Durham, et al.
Then God Made A Woman: Unwrapping Female Sexuality by Nancy Houston
Enjoy!: The Gift of Sexual Pleasure for Women by Joyce and Clifford Penner
Related Episodes:
Your Wonderful Female Body Series, start here
Great Sex Grows Series, start here
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back. Today we have the unique privilege of having Nancy Houston. |
| 0:10.4 | She is an author speaker, executive leadership coach, licensed professional counselor, and certified sex therapist. |
| 0:17.0 | Nancy's been married to the love of her life for almost 50 years. They have four married |
| 0:22.4 | sons with wonderful wives and eight grandchildren. Nancy's just amazing. I could go on with her bio, |
| 0:28.3 | but I just have to say she has become one of my heroes in a very short amount of time. I |
| 0:33.5 | adored her. I spent two sessions interviewing her and I immediately felt like I was just sitting |
| 0:39.0 | with someone who I could learn from for a really long time. |
| 0:42.3 | She has written two different books that have both really impacted me. |
| 0:45.5 | One is called Love and Sex, a Christian Guide to Healthy Intimacy. |
| 0:48.7 | The next one is called Then God Made a Woman, Unwrapping Female Sexuality. |
| 0:52.9 | Today we're talking specifically about love and sex, |
| 0:56.6 | a Christian guide to healthy intimacy. It was released a couple years ago, I think, but it is still so |
| 1:03.1 | relevant and powerful, and I wanted to talk about it because it is such a unique take on a sex book. |
| 1:09.9 | I can't recommend it enough. |
| 1:11.1 | It is based mostly in a narrative form telling the stories of people who were living life |
| 1:16.7 | in relationships, small groups, college kids, therapy sessions, and it follows them almost |
| 1:23.0 | like a drama, but it's them understanding and unwrapping their sexual stories. |
| 1:29.4 | And it is so healing. |
| 1:34.2 | It's not the step one, step two, and then you're fixed. It is the reality that we are storied people and that we need to unwrap our story and we need to find healthy intimacy in relating |
| 1:39.6 | to each other with our stories. It is so good. I am just scratching the surface. I hope you enjoy today's |
| 1:45.8 | chat. We talked about healing. We talked about God's garden dream. We giggled and we chatted about pleasure. |
| 1:52.1 | So much good stuff in this conversation and another one coming in the future. But I can't wait to |
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