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Sex, Story, and the Hope of Healing with Sam Jolman
Season 2 · Episode 17

Sex, Story, and the Hope of Healing with Sam Jolman

The "Surviving Saturday" Podcast

May 19, 202548m 44s

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Show Notes

Y’all… we’re blushing just a little over this one. Because today, we’re going there — with therapist and author Sam Jolman, who joins us for a gracious, grounded, and yes, occasionally awkward conversation about sex, story, and the deep hope of healing.

Sam’s new book The Sex Talk You Never Got is the kind of resource we wish we’d had at 13, 22, and honestly, last week. We talk about what we learned (and didn’t) growing up in the church, how shame got tangled up with desire, and what it means to honor our bodies — and each other’s — with curiosity, reverence, and kindness. Together we explore consent, deep wounds caused by “purity culture,” emotional regulation, co-regulation, and the quiet ache for connection that often lives beneath our behaviors.

Whether you’re parenting kids through the thick of it, untangling your own story, or simply trying to feel a little less weird about the fact that this topic still makes you squirm, we hope you’ll feel seen, safe, and invited. Because this part of us — our longing, our tenderness, our capacity for joy — was never meant to be shut down. It was meant to be restored.

Check out Sam's book at samjolman.com.
Connect with Wendy on Instagram: @nurturecounselingnc

Topics

christian sexualitypurity culturesexual shametrauma and intimacyfaith and healingemotional regulationmarriageco-regulationsam jolmanthe sex talk you never gotstory worktherapistbody and desiresexual trauma healingwendy osbornchris osbornwendy and chrissurviving saturdayfaithvulnerability and intimacyhealthy sexualityhealing your storyhope