Sex & Christianity Ep. 1: How to Strengthen Your Intimacy When You Don't Like or Want Sex with Dr. Juli Slattery
Living Easy with Lindsey
Lindsey Maestas
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
I could not have asked for a better guest for our first episode of Sex and Christianity Series.
Dr. Juli Slattery is a clinical psychologist, author and co-founder of Authentic Intimacy - a ministry dedicated to reclaiming God's design for sexuality.
Today we are talking all about the topic of not liking sex, not wanting sex, not finding pleasure in sex and how to overcome the obstacles that have created that stigma against sex in your own life.
We talk about overcoming lies and which lies women believe, we discuss body image and insecurity, control, lack of emotional safety, not being able to orgasm, painful sex and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the first episode of my Sex and Marriage mini series. I am so excited you guys because I wanted to do this since I started the podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | Jesse and I received so many questions about sexuality within marriage since we've had the conversations beforehand about Song of Solomon and all of those, but I could not have asked for a better guest for the first episode. |
| 0:24.6 | So today's guest is Dr. Julie Slattery. |
| 0:27.1 | She is a clinical psychologist, author, and co-founder |
| 0:31.0 | of authentic intimacy. So authentic intimacy is a ministry dedicated to reclaiming |
| 0:36.0 | God's design for sexuality and today we are talking all about the topic of not liking |
| 0:42.2 | sex, not wanting sex, not enjoying sex, and how to overcome |
| 0:47.3 | the obstacles that create that stigma against sex so that you can better strengthen and grow your marriage. |
| 0:55.0 | I am a huge advocate for having conversations about sexuality within your marriage, |
| 1:01.0 | doing research, setting, listening to resources. |
| 1:04.6 | And so I trust and believe that this episode is really going to help you. |
| 1:08.4 | We talk about overcoming lies and what lies that women believe. |
| 1:12.1 | We discuss body image and insecurity, control, lack of emotional |
| 1:16.3 | safety, not having an orgasm or not being able to orgasm at all, painful sex and all of the things, so don't miss out if you enjoy this episode don't |
| 1:26.2 | forget to share it with friends and family wives who may need some |
| 1:29.6 | encouragement in this area I feel like it is a common issue among people and it's just not |
| 1:35.6 | discussed and so that's what living easy is all about. We challenge the status quo |
| 1:40.1 | and we dig into things with a biblical perspective that are a little bit uncomfortable |
| 1:45.2 | to talk about but can bring great healing to marriages. |
| 1:49.1 | And I challenge you as you listen to this episode I always do, that nothing changes if nothing changes. |
| 1:55.3 | So listen to what Dr. Julie has to say and then step away and implement it into your own marriage. |
| 2:01.8 | What a great way to start 2021 is to enjoy sex and have it often with your spouse. |
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