The Ripple Effect of Healthy Sexual Connection :: Francie Winslow [Ep 138]

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🗓️ 17 October 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Three years ago she directed us to soul healing. Two years ago she reminded us of the power of sex in marriage.

Francie Winslow is back. This time to share what she’s learned about the exponential impact marital intimacy has on the world around us.

In the past two years Francie has been doing extensive research on theology of the body. Exploring how God stamped His image on us. How we express our roles as image bearers through sex in marriage.

God is an invisible God who wants to make himself visible to us. When man and woman come together as one it’s his invitation for humanity to become one with God. Intimately connected with Him.

Francie shares their own family stress and her personal struggle with anxiety. Things that can disrupt marital connection. She vulnerably shares how she and her husband have purposefully chosen sex over isolation.

God’s training us to fight for connection and for each other instead of against each other.

Love Francie’s practical tips for keeping technology in check. So often screens and devices creep in between couples, increasing the distance and decreasing the intimacy.

Don’t miss the list of great resources below to help train your children in forming a healthy perspective of the body and sex.

What we chat about:

Francie’s journey to learn sex isn’t dirty or a duty but a delight.
Her recent study of theology of the body.
How anxiety and adoption stress led Francie and her husband to choose to have more sex (you read that right).
How technology impacts our marital connection and practical solutions
Help and healing for women who struggle with their view of sex.
A reminder to daily do the things that keep you alive as a person.
The Ripple Effect of sex in marriage.
A word of encouragement for the single mom.
Training our kiddos in a healthy sexual worldview (check out Francie’s resource list below).

Links Mentioned:

Francie’s Resource List:

Theology of the Body Books for Kids by Monica Ashour

Get these books (as many as you can!) and read them over and over and over. They are great for a range of ages – not just toddlers. Not only will it help form a great spiritual foundation for your kids as they enter a sexually intense world as kids (sadly it happens young these days), it will help you as a grown up re-learn how to think about bodies, sexuality and identity. It will also help give you simple, common language to use on an everyday basis in your home. They have all been such a big part of us growing in this new way of seeing the gift of sex as a family.

For older kids:

The Talk: 7 Lessons to Introduce Your Child to Biblical Sexuality** by Luke Gilkerson (there are several others to go with this series too). Loving this one right now with my 8 year old.)
Before I Was Born (God’s Design for Sex)** by Carolyn Nostrum
Good Pictures, Bad Pictures : Porn-Proofing Today’s Young Kids ** by Kristen Jensen

Theology of His Body/Theology of Her Body** by Jason Evert

This was written with college kids in mind, but I found it super helpful and use it woven into conversations with my kids.

For those who want more depth…Theology of the Body for Beginners** by Christopher West

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Sex is a multiplying factor in our lives, not just with producing kids, but producing a massive amount of connection.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to episode 138 of the God Center Mom Podcast with me, Heather McFaggin
0:10.5	and today I'm chatting with your favorite A&Mine, Francie Winslow.
0:15.4	What happens after sex is that the power of unity when two become one so propels them
0:22.1	that God gave them the first commission commandment to go and take dominion on the earth together.
0:29.0	Go and bear fruit on the earth.
0:31.0	Yes, children, but in John 158, we hear Jesus say, my father is glorified when you bear
0:37.4	much fruit, right?
0:40.3	That fruitfulness is what we were made for.
0:43.0	Not just children, but we were made for fruitfulness in our marriage.
0:46.5	And that's one of the powerful, wonderful things about having a biblical, sexual worldview
0:50.4	is that sex is a fruit multiplier, not just for children, but for impact.
0:56.5	And it ripples out and literally our connection in our marriage, our sense of unity and
1:01.1	oneness that can be a big part of our sex life produces oneness.
1:05.7	When we have oneness in our marriage, it impacts out, ripples out to impact, all sorts
1:11.6	of other areas of our lives.
1:13.4	Oh, I love Francie's heart for this topic.
1:16.3	And if I forgot to give you the warning before, here's your warning now, this may be an
1:20.5	episode you want to put the ear buds in, especially if you have super young children and you
1:26.1	don't want them to hear the word sex over and over and over.
1:30.1	Because Francie's coming back on, she's talked to us about soul freedom.
1:33.5	You remember I did the encore episode of that this summer?
1:36.1	In episode 61, she talked about the power of sex in marriage.
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