Overcoming Sexual Abuse, with Jenn Schmidt

Sex Chat for Christian Wives

Chris Taylor

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Marriage, Sexuality, Sex, Wives, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Jenn Schmidt from Intimate Covenant joins us to overcoming sexual abuse and building a healthy, intimate sex life with your husband.

NOTE: J totally got the episode number wrong! Not the first time she's been wrong. ~wink~

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From the Bible

Praise the Lord, my soul,
    and forget not all his benefits—
who forgives all your sins
    and heals all your diseases,
who redeems your life from the pit
    and crowns you with love and compassion,
who satisfies your desires with good things
    so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
The Lord works righteousness
    and justice for all the oppressed.
Psalm 103:2-6

Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
John 5:2-9a

For your Maker is your husband— the Lord Almighty is his name— the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth.
Isaiah 54:5

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:3-5

Resources

Thanks for joining us at the virtual kitchen table for another great chat! If you could, we’d appreciate you leaving a rating and/or review so that others can find the show.

Please be sure to check out our website and webinars at forchristianwives.com. And visit our individual ministry pages for more resources as well:

Strong Wives - Bonny Burns
Honeycomb & Spice - Chris Taylor
Hot, Holy & Humorous - J. Parker

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sex Chat for Christian Wives, where three marriage bloggers discuss the naked truth.
0:06.0	What does God really want for the sexual intimacy in our marriages?
0:09.7	I'm Bonnie Burns of Strong Wives.
0:12.6	I'm Chris Taylor of Honeycomb and Spice.
0:14.9	And I'm Jay Parker, of Hot, Holy and Humorous.
0:17.8	Pull up a chair to our virtual kitchen table and let's chat. Welcome to the 214th episode of
0:26.3	sex chat for Christian wives. Today we welcome a fresh guest that I'm so happy to have with us.
0:31.8	Jen Schmidt and her husband host the Intimate Covenant podcast and an annual marriage retreat, and she's pulled up a chair at our
0:38.7	virtual kitchen table to discuss overcoming sexual abuse. Thanks for being here, Jen. Oh, it is an
0:45.1	honor. I am thrilled to sit at your kitchen table. I have long time been a fan of your kitchen
0:50.9	table, so it's a lot of fun to be here. Oh, we're glad you're here. Yeah. Okay. Well, we're just going to dive right in.
0:57.7	We appreciate your willingness to talk with us about such a difficult topic. But that
1:02.0	willingness comes somewhat out of your own story. So could you share a bit of your story with us?
1:08.5	Yeah, sure. I think the short version is that I was sexually abused throughout my childhood by an extended
1:16.2	family member.
1:17.3	My abuse happened repeatedly.
1:20.3	Again, throughout childhood, throughout early adolescence, it was very much a part of my growing
1:25.9	up.
1:26.6	Obviously, huge, huge impact, one that I did not even
1:30.3	fully recognize at all, left home fresh out of high school and headed to college where I met my
1:37.3	husband. We met the fall of my first year and we were married within the year. So that is a quick one.
1:44.2	But I think that was God designed because it was really my husband who helped me begin to understand the impact of what I had lived through.
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