Relationship Prescriptions with Dr. Carol Dr. Carol Peters-Tanksley

The need to belong is deep in our human souls. We are almost always asking, "Am I on the inside? Or on the outside?" Loneliness has strong negative impacts on our physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.

Dr. Carol's conversation with writer, speaker, and podcaster Sarah E. Westfall will help you navigate your need to belong, and how that comes more from who you are than something you achieve. And they offer insight into how to move closer to both God and others.

More resources:
- Connect with Sarah Westfall on her website, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. 
- Get Sarah's book The Way of Belonging: Reimagining Who We Are and How We Relate

My article How to Find Your People When You Need Help
My book and related resources: Sexpectations: Reframing Your Good and Not-So-Good Stories Around God, Love, and Relationships

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More religious stuff to do. So much performance leads to anxiety and exhaustion. When our attachment to God is insecure, or is based on our own activity and behavior, there's no life.

Anglican priest and spiritual director Summer Joy Gross has walked the journey to become securely attached to God. She talks with Dr. Carol on this episode about how you can do the same. While offering practices that will help you, your biggest takeaway from this conversation is likely to be a deeper desire to be with Jesus.  

More resources:
- Connect with Summer Joy Gross and the Presence Project on her website, or on Facebook or Instagram.
- Get Summer's book The Emmanuel Promise: Discovering the Security of a Life Held by God
Check out my article Practical Ways to Pursue Intimacy with God
My book and related resources: Sexpectations: Reframing Your Good and Not-So-Good Stories Around God, Love, and Relationships

Dr. Carol enjoys hearing from you. You can leave a confidential message here.

Marriage is hard. And it can be really hard when you face betrayal, neurodiversity, old baggage, emotional deprivation, and more.

Shawna Meek has faced all this, and has chosen to stay married. She talks with Dr. Carol about what helped her stay - and stay sane - in the middle of all the mess. You may or may not make the same choice Shawna has. But regardless, this conversation will help you feel validated and encouraged, and help you persevere regardless of what happens - or doesn't - with your marriage. 

More resources:
- APSATS - Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists
- Find Shawna Meek at Living Stones Coaching, Facebook, or Instagram
- Get Shawna's book Determined for More: A Story of Perseverance Through Divorce, Betrayal Trauma, Emotional Deprivation and Autism

My book and related resources: Sexpectations: Reframing Your Good and Not-So-Good Stories Around God, Love, and Relationships

Dr. Carol enjoys hearing from you. You can leave a confidential message here. 
 

Your journey to wholeness - sexually and otherwise - will be opposed. That opposition comes from both inside you and from outside you. That opposition includes pressure from the kingdom of darkness. Not everything is spiritual warfare, but understanding this aspect of what you will face helps you be prepared and successful in facing the opposition.
 
Dr. Carol provides three specific strategies or things to do in facing spiritual opposition that will help you recognize when you're under spiritual attack, experience true freedom, and build a lifestyle that will maintain your freedom. 

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More resources:
- article The Most Powerful Prayer I Ever Prayed
- book and related resources: Sexpectations: Reframing Your Good and Not-So-Good Stories Around God, Love, and Relationships

Dr. Carol enjoys hearing from you. You can leave a confidential message here. 

We often don’t get what we want and that is often a good thing. Desire—including sexual desire—can often be in disorder.  Today’s follower of Jesus exist at a moment in history when our desires, longings, and wants are being weaponized against us by cultural, spiritual, and relational forces. “Follow your heart” and “You do you” has become our moment’s mantras. The result, for too many, is feeling torn asunder by the raging desires within. What do we do with our desire? What about our unwanted desires? And how do we cultivate desires which bring life and freedom and lead to Christ?
Author and educator, AJ Swoboda joins the podcast to discuss this and more on this thought provoking segment.
Connect with AJ Swodoba on his personal website, or on Facebook, or Instagram.
Find AJ’s book  The Gift of Thorns: Jesus, the Flesh, and the War of Wants
Check out Dr. Carol's new book Sexpectations: Reframing Your Good and Not-So-Good Stories About God, Love, and Relationships. And find supplementary resources at YourSexpectations.com.
Dr. Carol loves to hear from you. You can leave a confidential message here.

It’s never really about sex. Matters of the heart and a desire for intimacy are imbedded in humans since creation. But what does that mean if you are married? Or single?
God gave us desire; he gave us this longing … the Greeks called it eros, passion, It’s the deepest desire of our heart. However, our world has hijacked eros, it just sees it as erotic. It has been taken over by a corrupt culture that only sees passion as something that is dirty, sullied, and sinful.
Author and educator, Bill Donaghy, co-author of Rise and lecturer at Theology of the Body Institute joins the podcast to discuss the theology of Eros and more on this thought-provoking episode.
Check out the Theology of the Body Institute
Check out Rise: A 30-day Challenge for Men
Check out Dr. Carol's new book Sexpectations: Reframing Your Good and Not-So-Good Stories About God, Love, and Relationships. And find supplementary resources at YourSexpectations.com.
Dr. Carol loves to hear from you. You can leave a confidential message here.