You know, there's a large percentage of women at one point or another in the life that

experience pain with intercourse.

And it's tragic to me when I have a couple come in and they have been taught by somebody

along the way that that's just the way that sex is, that it's going to hurt, that sex is

really for the man and not for the women. And so you just kind of grin and bear it. And it's gotten

to the place where their bodies just shut down and said, no, we're not going to do this anymore.

Well, hey, friend, welcome to Job with Julie. I am your host, Julie Slattery, and this podcast is an

outreach of authentic intimacy, which is a ministry dedicated to helping you make sense of God and

sexuality. Well, have you ever thought yourself, I guess sex is just supposed to be this way?

Or maybe you've thought, I guess it's normal for my desire just to fade

after a few years, right? Or perhaps you don't know how to recover from a past sexual trauma.

Well, if you've ever felt embarrassed or stuck or maybe even hopeless in your sex life,

you are not alone and you don't have to just live with that. In today's episode,

we're going to talk about Christian sex therapy, what that is, what happens in those kinds of

sessions, and how it helps couples who feel like their sex lives are broken, build kind of a

new connection or framework that is pleasurable, intimate, and safe for both

of them moving forward. My guest to flesh out this conversation is Josh Burlock. Josh has a lot

of letters behind his name, but for this conversation, you need to know that he's a certified

sex therapist, and he's the founder of my counselor dot online.

Josh is going to help answer some of the questions that you may be too embarrassed to ask.

Questions like, should I just push through the pain of sex?

Why can't I climax?

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