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Sexuality & shame

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Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

Negative messages about sex come from all corners of society: from the church, from the media, from our own families. As a result, countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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Release Shame With Vedic Sexuality

Human sexuality must be made less important than it is currently in spiritual circles. By denying it, hiding it, and suppressing it, we have made it far more important in a deviant sort of way.

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The Lutheran Pastor Calling for a Sexual Reformation

In her new book, “Shameless,” Nadia Bolz-Weber sets out to build a sexual ethic around human flourishing rather than around rules encoded by men centuries ago.

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Sex and the Single Girl

Sexuality is a hot topic these days, and opinions are all over the place. A resource offering simple “do’s and don’ts” won’t cut it. Sex and the Single Girl fills the gap by providing a broader, more comprehensive understanding of what it means to honor God with our sexuality.

Dr. Juli Slattery

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Sex in Recovery: A Meeting Between the Covers

If sobriety and the start of your recovery journey coincided with the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, you're experiencing "sober firsts" in a whole new world. This book offers a candid and compassionate invitation to the tender territory of sober sexuality.

Jennifer Matesa

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Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms

We all carry sexual shame. Whether we grew up in the repressive purity culture of American Evangelical Christianity or not, we've all been taught in subtle and not-so-subtle ways that sex (outside of very specific contexts) is immoral and taboo.

Matthias Roberts

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Healing the Shame that Binds You

Shame is the motivator behind our toxic behaviors: the compulsion, co-dependency, addiction and drive to superachieve that breaks down the family and destroys personal lives.

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Lesbian Passion: Loving Ourselves and Each Other

Drawing on her own and others' experiences, Loulan explores what it means to be lesbian: how we live our lives and how we want to live our lives - with passion - "passion is not only about sex, but about the life force that energizes it.

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How Telling Our Silenced Stories Can Change the World | Anne Hallward | TEDxDirigo

Shame is at the intersection of individual psychology healing and social change. Clinically, when we follow the path of our shame, we experience the greatest healing, and culturally, when we move past the power of shame we can act together to improve civil rights for all.

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Sneak Peek into a Forbidden Topic: Sex

Dr. Janet Brito, located in Hawaii, talks to us about the psychological notions that have been instilled in us from generations ago. We talk about sex taboos, promiscuity, consequences for avoiding the topic of sex, what is sex therapy and common reasons why people go into sex therapy.

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