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Episode 92: Pleasure Series Pt. 1: Reclaiming Your Orgasmic Potential Mar 07, 2022

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Whether you've been married for six weeks or sixteen years, God made your body to experience great sexual pleasure. Yes, friend you are a beautiful, sensual woman made to experience orgasm.

Yet, maybe you feel like you're missing a few pieces of the puzzle when it comes to experiencing sexual pleasure and orgasm. While you were made for great pleasure, there seems to be great resistance for many women when it comes to experiencing it. Listen to today's conversation and learn about the beauty of recieving pleasure, uproot the lies and falsehoods of what sexual pleasure is and can be and even walk into the freedom of really letting go in your married intimacy as you pursue orgasm.

Friend, sexual pleasure and orgasm is meant to be celebrated. That's the way God designed you with great joy.

God Loves Sex: An Honest Conversation about Sexual Desire and Holiness by Dan Allender Click here

And, Francie is partnered with MyCounselor.Online as a resource for Biblically based counseling, including sex therapy. You'll receive a 25% discount on your first session. Click here

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Episode 91: Replay of Episode 15- What Sex Tells Us about God Feb 28, 2022

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As we continue to seek beautiful, pleasure-filled, fully alive sexuality in marriage, let's look at more of the goodness of God in this quick episode. Your sexuality was created by the Father with great purpose. Sex is an inviation from the Father to have unity and oneness that leads to abundant fruitfulness.

You'll be encouraged and equipped to lean in and walk as a fully alive woman, living in a fruitful relationship that goes well beyond the most secret places in your marriage. You were made for love and to be loved.

In This Episode Francie talks about:

Sex points to our calling to fruitfulness
John 17
We are made for abundant fruitfulness and leading in the world with love.
Psalm 133
Results of oneness and the impact on your home and your community
Sex is a beautiful love song

And, if you want to avoid the drift and lean into your marriage connection, Join the Jumpstart Your Marriage Connection course. This 5 part study will provide teaching, practicals and declarations to help you grow your marriage connection. Join the Jumpstart Your Marriage Connection, click here

And, Francie is partnered with MyCounselor.Online as a resource for Biblically based counseling. You'll receive a 25% discount on your first session. Click here

And, Francie's favorite place to find resources to bring a little something to the marriage bed is Married Dance. Use discount code MerryMarriage for 10% off site wide. Click here

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Episode 90: What Our Period Reveals Feb 21, 2022

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Your body matters. Yes! And, part of your feminine body includes the monthly arrival of your period. Is it possible to reframe the way we view our period? Rather than thinking of our period as something we dread or try to cover up, how can we reframe our thinking to bless the way God has made us as women? How does our period reveal unique image bearing qualities and why does it matter? This is a unique conversation, but it's really important to you and to our daughters.

There is a more beautiful narrative than you might even imagine.

In this episode Francie mentions:

Theology of the Womb by Christy Angelle Bauman (click here)

And, Francie is partnered with MyCounselor.Online as a resource for Biblically based counseling. You'll receive a 25% discount on your first session. Click here

And, Francie's favorite place to find resources to bring a little something to the marriage bed is Married Dance. Use discount code MerryMarriage for 10% off site wide. Click here

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Episode 89: Sex as Stress Reliever Feb 14, 2022

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How do we lean into sex during exhausting, hard, or stressful seasons? Even during seasons when sex is far from your mind and you just want to fall into your bed with exhaustion at night?

In this episode, you'll hear about the ways sex can actually be a "get to" that allows your body to be flooded with feel good hormones to benefit a season of hardship, exhaustion or stress. God has created your body so wonderfully that sex can allow for tremendous stress relief, especially during seasons when you need comfort.

Listen in and hear encouragement to help you think about "the more, the more" in your marriage and how frequency in sex can provide incredible health benefits in addition to strengthening your emotional connection.

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And, Francie's favorite place to find resources to bring a little something to the marriage bed is Married Dance. Use discount code MerryMarriage for 10% off site wide. Click here

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Episode 88: Sex Mentors - Why We Need Them and How to Find Them Feb 07, 2022

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Have you considered the value of having a mentor to help you grow your womanhood, femininity and your sex life? We tend to live pretty independently, but that's not how God created us to live. We are created for community. It is easy to embrace the idea of mentorship when it comes to spiritual disciplines like prayer, Bible study, child-rearing…but what it would look like to have a mentor that can help you live more fully alive as a woman, in your sexuality. This is all God's territory!

Listen in for some good ideas for inviting another woman into your life to explore the theology of the body, the beauty of the way God created women and how to celebrate sexuality and sexual pleasure. It can be as simple as deciding to read a book or listening to this podcast together.

A few resources Francie mentions:

Authentic Intimacy with Juli Slattery, click here

Rethinking Sexuality by Juli Slattery, click here

Dr. Jennifer Degler, click here

The Discipleship Circle by Francie Winslow (join the waitlist for Spring enrollment), click here

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And, Francie is partnered with MyCounselor.Online as a resource for Biblically based counseling. You'll receive a 25% discount on your first session. Click here

And, Francie's favorite place to find resources to bring a little something to the marriage bed is Married Dance. Use discount code MerryMarriage for 10% off site wide. Click here

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Episode 87: Battle for Your Beauty: Purity Culture, Body Blessing and Loving without Shame Jan 31, 2022

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In today's episode, Francie discusses her thoughts about the "Purity Culture". She gives some practicals to overcome these thoughts. She unpacks some of the lies taught back in that day such as

Your beauty is too much. Cover it up
Sexuality is too scary. Shut it down

Francie mentions:

The Theology of Her Body

The Theology of the Womb

Song of Solomon 7:1

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Episode 86: Fantasy in Marriage- Is It Ok, and if so, How? Jan 24, 2022

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In today's episode, Francie answers the question from a listener, "Can fantasy in marriage be ok?" The answer is YES! Sex is God-given. God gave you your imagination. Is your fantasy allowing you to better honor your spouse?

Francie mentions:

James 1:14

Philippians 4:8

Proverbs 5:15

God Loves Sex by Dan Allender

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Episode 85: Re-framing Novelty- How Monogamy Doesn't Equal Monotony Jan 17, 2022

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In today's episode, Francie discusses how our culture thinks monogamous relationships are boring. How can we grow excitement through our monogamous commitment? How can we grow our sex life and celebrate novelty? Thanks for joining Francie on this episode of Heaven in Your Home. We hope you'll be inspired by this episode, and feel led to share it with someone you know would be ministered by Francie's message.

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Francie mentions:

Marrieddance.com

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Episode 84: Invitation to Jumpstart Your Marriage Jan 10, 2022

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In today's episode, Francie gives a challenge to join her jumpstart your marriage challenge. It's a chance for us to lean in to our spouse and be intentional, purposeful and mindful.

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