One clear September morning my son packed up his car and headed off to college.   Oh, I knew in my head that he was ready for the next stage of his journey.   Such a clear demonstration of maturity and wisdom is evident in almost any eighteen year old – what could possibly go wrong?!   I [...] Read More >

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I’m going to start with something really basic. Men want to be wanted. They don’t want to be placated.  So when it comes to intimacy, we women need to step up to the plate a little bit more. You may think you’re meeting his needs because you’re making love a few times a week, but [...] Read More >

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Whether our sexuality was stolen from us or we gave it away, we experience a loss. But unfortunately many of us don’t allow ourselves to grieve those losses. Psychologists tell us that there are five stages of grieving; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Writing out our life map begins to move us beyond denial to [...] Read More >

Tags: challenges & conflicts, healing, hope, intimacy, rape, romance, Romance & Sex, sex, sex and love, sex resources, sexual abuse, sexual healing, sexual intimacy, sexual past, sexual problems, trauma
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When we’ve been used or abused with sex, it damages our view of sex, ourselves, others and God. Part of the healing process will be seeing ourselves and sex from God’s perspective. God made sex. And He made it good, pure and pleasurable. But when sex has been a source of pain and wounding, it’s [...] Read More >

Tags: challenges & conflicts, healing, intimacy, rape, romance, Romance & Sex, sex, sex and love, sex resources, sexual abuse, sexual healing, sexual intimacy, sexual past, sexual problems, trauma
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When we let God show us how our past has hurt us, He’s able to heal our brokenness. But the first step and often the hardest is acknowledging what’s happened to us. One way to help see your own story is to write your life map.  Divide your life into four segments based on years: [...] Read More >

Tags: challenges & conflicts, healing, hope, intimacy, rape, romance, Romance & Sex, sex, sex and love, sex resources, sexual abuse, sexual healing, sexual intimacy, sexual past, sexual problems, trauma, Women
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The bonding of sex is not only physical, but also spiritual, emotional and mental which includes the chemical and hormonal bonding that happens. Although we’d like to believe that breaking up and moving on severs that bond, in truth, only God can sever the ‘one flesh’ bond He’s created through sex. 1.  Ask God to bring [...] Read More >

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Because many of us feel responsible for the loss, we often don’t feel we deserve to grieve. But the truth is, we do deserve to grieve, even more, we need to grieve. In fact God grieves right along with us.  For many years I believed that God was the one who was heaping shame on me. I [...] Read More >

Tags: challenges & conflicts, healing, hope, intimacy, rape, romance, Romance & Sex, sex, sex and love, sex resources, sexual abuse, sexual healing, sexual intimacy, sexual past, sexual problems, trauma, Women
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I’ve heard every possible story. In addition to hearing the stories of the women who come into our bible study for sexual healing, people email me from all over the world. Just when I think I couldn’t possibly hear anything worse, someone shares the unimaginable with me. The evil that people do to one another [...] Read More >

Tags: challenges & conflicts, intimacy, Life Issues, marriage, rape, romance, Romance & Sex, sex, sex and love, sex resources, sexual abuse, sexual healing, sexual intimacy, sexual past, sexual problems, trauma
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When my children were first born, I did something radical. I didn’t really decorate their room. Part of it was a money issue; we had so little cash, and we were trying to save for a down payment for a house. I thought putting our money into an apartment sized washing machine would be a far [...] Read More >

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Apparently it took God until the 21st Century to release an updated version of the seventh commandment.  According to one pastor, “Thou shalt not commit adultery” should now read, “Thou shalt not Facebook.”  After counseling roughly 20 couples with Facebook-related marriage issues, Reverend Cedric Miller has had enough.  Rev. Miller issued an ultimatum to the [...] Read More >

Tags: challenges & conflict, commitment, communication, Facebook, family issues, healthy marriage, improving your marriage, internet, marriage, online affairs, priorities, protecting your marriage, relationships, resolving conflict, sex and love, values
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