Pornography & Sexual Shame to Freedom with Joy Skarka
Heaven In Your Home
Francie Winslow
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
“God takes our brokenness and turns it into our passion.” Joy Skarka
With vulnerability and authenticity, Joy shares her story which includes sexual trauma that led to a struggle with pornography. As a girl struggling with porn, she felt isolation and carried tremendous shame. Yet, there is help and healing. And, we are never alone in our struggle.
This episode is a rich discussion across many topics including sexuality, discipleship, singleness and pornography, with encouraging theology and an unpacking of our need to be known, loved, and to give and receive love. We all experience some sort of sexual brokeness and are far from the naked and unashamed innocence God created in the garden. Let’s walk in more freedom, through vulnerability, and know that God cares about your sexuality.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Soul of Shame, Curt Thompson
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Body Talks with Kids. Clarity, Confidence and the Critical Need to Shift the Conversation, Episode 96
Body Talks with Kids. Connecting to the Meaning of YOUR Body, Episode 97
Body Talks with Kids. Big Picture Vision, Small Phrases to Create Impact, Episode 98
Body Talks with Kids. Celebrating the Body, Celebrating God, Episode 99
More about Joy Skarka:
Joy Skarka is passionate about creating spaces to free women from sexual shame. She serves as Director of Discipleship for Authentic Intimacy, where she leads online small groups for women with unwanted sexual behavior. She coaches and teaches Christian leaders how to help women find freedom from sexual shame and pornography. I have a published chapter in Sanctified Sexuality: Valuing Sex in an Oversexed World. She is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary with a MA in Christian Education and jumped right into her doctorate. In 2021, she graduated with her Doctorate degree in Educational Ministry from DTS, focusing on helping women find freedom from sexual shame.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back. Today we have the special privilege of hearing from Joy Sharca. I met Joy a few years ago at a conference for leaders who talk about the very topics that we talk about in heaven and your home about sexual freedom and God's design for our bodies. And Joy was a part of that conference. And I really was struck by her story. |
| 0:22.7 | She has a story of recovering from a pornography addiction. And way deeper than that is her |
| 0:28.4 | heart's journey to finding freedom in Christ. And that's what she has made her mission about. |
| 0:34.3 | Her bio says simply that she graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary with a |
| 0:39.9 | master's in Christian education and jumped right into her doctorate. In 2021, she graduated with |
| 0:45.1 | a doctorate degree in education ministry from Dallas Theological Seminary, focusing on helping |
| 0:50.7 | women find freedom from sexual shame. Wow. She's passionate about creating spaces to free |
| 0:57.9 | women from sexual shame. Since March of 2020, she has served as the Director of Discipleship |
| 1:04.1 | for Authentic Intimacy, where she leads online small groups for women with unwanted sexual behavior. |
| 1:09.8 | She coaches and teaches Christian leaders |
| 1:12.2 | how to develop, how to help women find freedom from sexual shame and pornography. And she has |
| 1:18.4 | published a book about her doctorate and she's working on another book in progress that is |
| 1:26.3 | going to be so helpful to so many women around the world. |
| 1:29.6 | She's written numerous online articles, appeared on many podcasts, led workshops, and currently |
| 1:34.5 | leads online recovery groups. She lives with her husband and little girl in Florida, and I had |
| 1:40.6 | the honor of really going deep in this episode. |
| 1:49.2 | I think you're going to be deeply blessed, challenged, inspired, moved. |
| 1:51.6 | We covered a lot of topics. |
| 1:57.9 | If pornography is something you struggle with or has been a part of your journey, you're not alone. And if it's not, there's also so many threads of sexual shame that many, |
| 2:03.3 | if not most of us, carry that we talk about. I got very vulnerable with some unwanted |
| 2:09.2 | struggles I had early on. She got very vulnerable. It was just a really powerful conversation. |
| 2:14.9 | And I'm so grateful for this space where we can just have very |
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