Sexual Healing (Part 7) with Christopher West... continued
Restore The Glory Podcast
Jake Khym
4.8 • 880 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Jake and Bob continue their conversation with Christopher West. If you haven’t heard part one, click here to listen because it’s essential for understanding the content of today's episode.
Join Jake, Bob and Christopher as they take a deep ‘excavating’ look at the transformation and healing of identity through the power of an honest and loving spouse. Sexual healing is more than just the healing of sexual things, it’s a deeper healing of our identity as men and women made in the image of God. Overtime, within the safety of a loving marriage, each man has discovered areas of their hearts that are in need of redemption. Humility before God and our spouses, and a willingness to invite the Lord into our wounds leads to powerful healing and wholeness.
Guiding Quote:
“It is not in our power to not feel or to forget an offense; but the heart that offers itself to the Holy Spirit turns injury into compassion and purifies the memory in transforming hurt into intercession.” (CCC 2843)
Key points:
- Sexual healing is more than a healing of sexual things, it’s a healing of our masculinity and femininity
- How the excavation/ archaeological process is a rich analogy for the cooperative healing that can happen between God and ourselves
- The importance of where we find our identity
- The power of an honest spouse in sexual healing
- If we’re not living out our commitment of marriage in love for our spouse, then we’re also not honouring God
- God is the ultimate healer, because there are things that are beyond our human capacity to transform
- The enemy distorts and sets up idols that prevent us from seeing the God’s goodness in world as he intended it
- Breaking open an analogy of self-condemnation: coming ‘face to face with the hunchback in the woods’
Practical Application:
- Where do I find my identity: in what others think or in how God sees me?
- What in my life have I turned into an idol, and how might that get in the way of loving my spouse well?
- How would my perspective shift if I saw the idols in my life as icons providing a window to God?
- Where have I made agreements with the opinions of others that has led to self-condemnation? Go to the Lord in prayer and ask him to love you back to wholeness in those places.
References:
- Theology of the Body Institute from Christopher West
- The Good News about Sex and Marriage, Christopher West (book)
- Christopher West on Pints with Aquinas (podcast)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Restore the Glory Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Jake Kim. |
| 0:11.0 | And I'm Bob Schutz. We're two Catholic therapists sharing what we've learned personally and professionally to help you on the journey of restoration. |
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| 0:29.3 | you access to exclusive content like monthly reflections and special live stream teachings. |
| 0:35.0 | Go to Patreon.com slash restore the glory and join the mission of experiencing the restoration of our God-given glory. |
| 0:44.3 | Welcome back to the podcast. Bob's good to be with you again and we have a very |
| 0:50.2 | special treat for our listeners. We are doing part two with our good friend |
| 0:56.0 | Christopher West. So listeners if you are just listening to this episode I have |
| 1:01.9 | to say possibly more than any episode we've ever done before. |
| 1:04.8 | If this episode is going to make sense, you really need to go and listen to the previous episode |
| 1:08.8 | because in that, Christopher broke down a lot and just shared very |
| 1:12.7 | vulnerability about his life story and things that have happened to him |
| 1:16.9 | and how sexual healing has occurred and just the dynamics in his heart. |
| 1:21.6 | And what we're going to do in this episode is we're going to unpack that together with the three of us. |
| 1:26.2 | So we're going to count on you listeners going back checking all that out getting context |
| 1:31.0 | otherwise this is not going to make a lot of sense. |
| 1:33.0 | But guys, I want us to dive in here. |
| 1:36.5 | So Christopher, thanks for coming back. |
| 1:38.0 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:38.9 | It was so good, the story that you shared. |
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