Ask Christopher West Theology of the Body Institute

Questions answered this episode:



I’m in my 30’s and I’ve been married for a few years. My past was full of addiction to porn. I’ve been able to heal and overcome those past but I find myself wanting to go back. I also find myself thinking life would’ve been easier if I had married someone else. Do you have any advice?
What advice do you have for someone whose 1 year relationship just ended with her partner expressing doubts about life, work, relationships and feeling jealous of my faith?
Do you have any recommendations for resources for parents to teach their children about puberty and sex from a Catholic point of view?


Ask Christopher West is a weekly podcast in which Theology of the Body Institute President Christopher West and his beloved wife Wendy share their humor and wisdom, answering questions about marriage, relationships, life, and the Catholic faith, all in light of John Paul II’s beautiful teachings on the Theology of the Body.




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Resources mentioned this week:


johnpaulwest@gmail.com
Beyond the Birds and the Bees
THE TRUTH AND MEANING OF HUMAN SEXUALITY
Ruah Woods Institute
TOBET Body Matters




🎥Check out our YouTube Channel


📚 View our COURSE SCHEDULE to register for a course, ONLINE or IN-PERSON!


📘 GOOD NEWS ABOUT SEX & MARRIAGE by Christopher West. Use discount code MARRIAGE during checkout for 20% off one or multiple copies.


🏔️ Join Bill Donaghy on a pilgrimage to the UK to walk in the footsteps of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton. July 16-25, 2024
Get details here


🌟 For professional Catholic Life Coaching, including Porn Recovery: https://www.stevemotylcoaching.com/




If you are in financial need and honestly cannot afford a book or resource recommended on this podcast, contact: michele@tobinstitute.org




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Christopher and Wendy hope their advice is helpful to you, but they are not licensed counseling professionals. If you are dealing with serious issues, please consult our list of trusted professionals.


Featuring music by Mike Mangione.

Questions answered this episode:



Soon after my husband and I got married I had cancer and needed to get a hysterectomy. My husband and I adopted our son a year ago. I notice that my husband didn’t bond with me like first time parents typically do. I have trouble sitting with the desire to want to be ministered to as a pregnant woman. Do you have any advice?
I have been steeped in pornography for most of my life but I’ve been free for over a year now. My tendency towards lust is still present and strong. At this point I don’t know what good eros towards a woman would feel like. What does good eros feels like practically?


Ask Christopher West is a weekly podcast in which Theology of the Body Institute President Christopher West and his beloved wife Wendy share their humor and wisdom, answering questions about marriage, relationships, life, and the Catholic faith, all in light of John Paul II’s beautiful teachings on the Theology of the Body.




🔥 Get 3 FREE sessions of our flagship course on Theology of the Body


📕 Get a copy of Christopher's [Eating the Sunrise: Meditations on the Liturgy & Our Hunger for Beauty](www.eatingthesunrise.com)


⚡️ Want to support the Theology of the Body Institute and have a better chance of us answering your question? Join our Patron Community!




Submit your question at AskChristopherWest.com.




Resources mentioned this week:


Want to join us on one of our pilgrimages? Click here
Christopher’s Eating the Sunrise




🎥Check out our YouTube Channel


📚 View our COURSE SCHEDULE to register for a course, ONLINE or IN-PERSON!


📘 GOOD NEWS ABOUT SEX & MARRIAGE by Christopher West. Use discount code MARRIAGE during checkout for 20% off one or multiple copies.


🏔️ Join Bill Donaghy on a pilgrimage to the UK to walk in the footsteps of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton. July 16-25, 2024
Get details here


🌟 For professional Catholic Life Coaching, including Porn Recovery: https://www.stevemotylcoaching.com/




If you are in financial need and honestly cannot afford a book or resource recommended on this podcast, contact: michele@tobinstitute.org




Find Christopher West on Facebook and Instagram.
Discover the Theology of the Body Institute.




If you enjoy the podcast, help us out by writing a review. Thanks for listening!




Christopher and Wendy hope their advice is helpful to you, but they are not licensed counseling professionals. If you are dealing with serious issues, please consult our list of trusted professionals.


Featuring music by Mike Mangione.

Questions answered this episode:



As a young man in my mid twenties, I long for a godly woman. However, I’ve questioned my intentions about this yearning and wondered if my ambitions to get in shape, make a good living and develop a closer relationship with God could just be a cover for worshipping an idol of attracting a certain kind of woman. How can I learn to integrate these ambitions with becoming the kind of man God wants me to be.
I want to get married but I see many huge challenges in raising a family. I wonder if it would be safer to join a monastery despite my strong desire for marriage. Do you have any advice?
If a man and a woman were stranded alone in an island with no foreseeable way of ever leaving or having access to the Sacraments. Could they marry and raise a family?


Ask Christopher West is a weekly podcast in which Theology of the Body Institute President Christopher West and his beloved wife Wendy share their humor and wisdom, answering questions about marriage, relationships, life, and the Catholic faith, all in light of John Paul II’s beautiful teachings on the Theology of the Body.




🔥 Get 3 FREE sessions of our flagship course on Theology of the Body


📕 Get a copy of Christopher's [Eating the Sunrise: Meditations on the Liturgy & Our Hunger for Beauty](www.eatingthesunrise.com)


⚡️ Want to support the Theology of the Body Institute and have a better chance of us answering your question? Join our Patron Community!




Submit your question at AskChristopherWest.com.




Resources mentioned this week:


Donate for Reversals




🎥Check out our YouTube Channel


📚 View our COURSE SCHEDULE to register for a course, ONLINE or IN-PERSON!


📘 GOOD NEWS ABOUT SEX & MARRIAGE by Christopher West. Use discount code MARRIAGE during checkout for 20% off one or multiple copies.


🏔️ Join Bill Donaghy on a pilgrimage to the UK to walk in the footsteps of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton. July 16-25, 2024
Get details here


🌟 For professional Catholic Life Coaching, including Porn Recovery: https://www.stevemotylcoaching.com/




If you are in financial need and honestly cannot afford a book or resource recommended on this podcast, contact: michele@tobinstitute.org




Find Christopher West on Facebook and Instagram.
Discover the Theology of the Body Institute.




If you enjoy the podcast, help us out by writing a review. Thanks for listening!




Christopher and Wendy hope their advice is helpful to you, but they are not licensed counseling professionals. If you are dealing with serious issues, please consult our list of trusted professionals.


Featuring music by Mike Mangione.

Questions answered this episode:



I’m struggling with the line between desire and lust in the context of marriage. Can I watch my wife shower and not fall into lust?
What is it about marriage that makes desires and actions that, if otherwise took place outside of it would be sinful, not sinful?
Will heaven get better after the end times? Will heaven be lacking something when only our souls are there awaiting our reunion with out glorified bodies?


Ask Christopher West is a weekly podcast in which Theology of the Body Institute President Christopher West and his beloved wife Wendy share their humor and wisdom, answering questions about marriage, relationships, life, and the Catholic faith, all in light of John Paul II’s beautiful teachings on the Theology of the Body.




🔥 Get 3 FREE sessions of our flagship course on Theology of the Body


📕 Get a copy of Christopher's [Eating the Sunrise: Meditations on the Liturgy & Our Hunger for Beauty](www.eatingthesunrise.com)


⚡️ Want to support the Theology of the Body Institute and have a better chance of us answering your question? Join our Patron Community!




Submit your question at AskChristopherWest.com.




Resources mentioned this week:


GOOD NEWS ABOUT SEX & MARRIAGE by Christopher West. Use discount code MARRIAGE during checkout for 20% off one or multiple copies.
Want to join us on one of our pilgrimages? Click here




🎥Check out our YouTube Channel


📚 View our COURSE SCHEDULE to register for a course, ONLINE or IN-PERSON!


📘 GOOD NEWS ABOUT SEX & MARRIAGE by Christopher West. Use discount code MARRIAGE during checkout for 20% off one or multiple copies.


🏔️ Join Bill Donaghy on a pilgrimage to the UK to walk in the footsteps of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton. July 16-25, 2024
Get details here


🌟 For professional Catholic Life Coaching, including Porn Recovery: https://www.stevemotylcoaching.com/




If you are in financial need and honestly cannot afford a book or resource recommended on this podcast, contact: michele@tobinstitute.org




Find Christopher West on Facebook and Instagram.
Discover the Theology of the Body Institute.




If you enjoy the podcast, help us out by writing a review. Thanks for listening!




Christopher and Wendy hope their advice is helpful to you, but they are not licensed counseling professionals. If you are dealing with serious issues, please consult our list of trusted professionals.


Featuring music by Mike Mangione.

Questions answered this episode:



I’m a single Catholic woman in my early 30’s. I’m normally drawn to things that are typically associated with men. A spiritual director from the past attempted to direct me to more traditionally feminine things. What does femininity and masculinity really mean? Can not having a feminine or masculine enough personality constitute an impediment to marriage or to religious life?
Do you have any advice for single Catholics that are feeling a lack of Jesus’s love?
I’m a single 34 year old Catholic woman. I long for marriage but I haven’t found a man this is looking for the same things as me. Could it be that my vocation is not marriage even though it is not what I long for? How can I continue to trust Jesus?


Ask Christopher West is a weekly podcast in which Theology of the Body Institute President Christopher West and his beloved wife Wendy share their humor and wisdom, answering questions about marriage, relationships, life, and the Catholic faith, all in light of John Paul II’s beautiful teachings on the Theology of the Body.




🔥 Get 3 FREE sessions of our flagship course on Theology of the Body


📕 Get a copy of Christopher's [Eating the Sunrise: Meditations on the Liturgy & Our Hunger for Beauty](www.eatingthesunrise.com)


⚡️ Want to support the Theology of the Body Institute and have a better chance of us answering your question? Join our Patron Community!




Submit your question at AskChristopherWest.com.




Resources mentioned this week:


Want to join us on one of our pilgrimages? Click here
COURSE SCHEDULE




🎥Check out our YouTube Channel


📚 View our COURSE SCHEDULE to register for a course, ONLINE or IN-PERSON!


📘 GOOD NEWS ABOUT SEX & MARRIAGE by Christopher West. Use discount code MARRIAGE during checkout for 20% off one or multiple copies.


🏔️ Join Bill Donaghy on a pilgrimage to the UK to walk in the footsteps of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton. July 16-25, 2024
Get details here


🌟 For professional Catholic Life Coaching, including Porn Recovery: https://www.stevemotylcoaching.com/




If you are in financial need and honestly cannot afford a book or resource recommended on this podcast, contact: michele@tobinstitute.org




Find Christopher West on Facebook and Instagram.
Discover the Theology of the Body Institute.




If you enjoy the podcast, help us out by writing a review. Thanks for listening!




Christopher and Wendy hope their advice is helpful to you, but they are not licensed counseling professionals. If you are dealing with serious issues, please consult our list of trusted professionals.


Featuring music by Mike Mangione.

Questions answered this episode:



Do you think we’ll still have our excretory functions in the eschaton?
I’m a new convert to the faith. My husband is still a non-catholic and had a vasectomy some time ago. I don’t think he will reverse it. Do you have any advice?
Was there sex before original sin? Was marriage meant to last for eternity?


Ask Christopher West is a weekly podcast in which Theology of the Body Institute President Christopher West and his beloved wife Wendy share their humor and wisdom, answering questions about marriage, relationships, life, and the Catholic faith, all in light of John Paul II’s beautiful teachings on the Theology of the Body.




🔥 Get 3 FREE sessions of our flagship course on Theology of the Body


📕 Get a copy of Christopher's [Eating the Sunrise: Meditations on the Liturgy & Our Hunger for Beauty](www.eatingthesunrise.com)


⚡️ Want to support the Theology of the Body Institute and have a better chance of us answering your question? Join our Patron Community!




Submit your question at AskChristopherWest.com.




Resources mentioned this week:


Donate for Reversals
Want to join us on one of our pilgrimages? Click here




🎥Check out our YouTube Channel


📚 View our COURSE SCHEDULE to register for a course, ONLINE or IN-PERSON!


📘 GOOD NEWS ABOUT SEX & MARRIAGE by Christopher West. Use discount code MARRIAGE during checkout for 20% off one or multiple copies.


🏔️ Join Bill Donaghy on a pilgrimage to the UK to walk in the footsteps of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton. July 16-25, 2024
Get details here


🌟 For professional Catholic Life Coaching, including Porn Recovery, click here

If you are in financial need and honestly cannot afford a book or resource recommended on this podcast, contact: michele@tobinstitute.org




Find Christopher West on Facebook and Instagram.
Discover the Theology of the Body Institute.




If you enjoy the podcast, help us out by writing a review. Thanks for listening!




Christopher and Wendy hope their advice is helpful to you, but they are not licensed counseling professionals. If you are dealing with serious issues, please consult our list of trusted professionals.


Featuring music by Mike Mangione.