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

Marriage always takes work. But what happens when mental health struggles get added to the mix? How can both partners experience intimacy and goodness when things get messy?

In this eyeopening episode Dr. Carol talks with founder and president of The Veritas Creative, Jon Seidl and his wife, Brett, a business owner and interior designer. Jon lives with significant mental health diagnoses. However, in this conversation the couple discus how their marriage has not only survived but thrived, and how those in the body of Christ can help those challenged with mental illness.

Connect with Jon Seidl at The Veritas Creative, his website, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram
Connect with Brett Seidl on her interior design website
Find Jon's books Finding Rest: A Survivor's Guide to Navigating the Valleys of Anxiety, Faith, and Life and Finding Rest Guiding Workbook: An Invitation to Go Deeper 

For personal help with mental health or marriage challenges, check out these courses from Dr. Carol Ministries:
- Defeat Your Fear and Anxiety
- Fully Alive Marriage
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Loss is always possible when you love. But when emotional bankruptcy and loss happen repeatedly, regaining intimacy and love has even more challenges.

In today's episode Dr. Carol talks with Rachel Faulkner Brown who describes herself as emotionally bankrupt during her first two marriages which both ended in death and grief. Hear how she found freedom, healing, true intimacy, and love again, and how she is now leveraging her story in helping thousands of hurting women.

Connect with Rachel Faulkner Brown at Be Still Ministries and Never Alone Widows, or Facebook or Instagram.
Get her Father's House Study, and enter promo code DrCarol25 for 25% off!!

If you're walking through grief, you'll appreciate this 30-day email series The Christian's Journey Through Grief

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Behaviors matter. Sexual behaviors matter. But at least as if not more important are the underlying matters of the heart, such as broken needs for intimacy, isolation, and believing lies about the world, self, and God.

Maria Nistri, Dr. Carol's guest on the podcast today, serves as executive director of Exchange Ministries. Here she shares her story of what she describes as "struggle and victory over same-sex attractions" and the role that an intimate daily relationship with Jesus has played in her journey. 

Find out more about Exchange Ministries on their website.

Check out our 5-Part Prescription for Sexual Healing – God's Way
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Many in the Christian church see singleness as a condition of deficit, focused on what a single person doesn't have. The culture and ministries of many churches give the subliminal message that marriage and children are a higher spiritual state than singleness. That's not a Biblical - or a historically Christian perspective.

Listen as Dr. Carol talks with Dr. Dani Treweek, author, adjunct professor, and ordained Anglican deacon, about the meaning of singleness. This conversation "goes there" - about a theology of singleness, struggles have with intimacy, loneliness, and sex, and what singleness can and should mean for the body of Christ.

Connect with Dr. Dani Treweek on her website, Facebook, or Twitter. 
Find her book The Meaning of Singleness: Retrieving an Eschatological Vision for the Contemporary Church

Check out Dr. Carol's article Feeling on the Outside as a Single Christian
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Why does it matter that God created humans as sexual beings? What does that tell us about ourselves, and more importantly about God? How do we make sense of all the harm sex/sexuality has brought to many people in light of what God originally intended to be good?

In this deep and encouraging conversation Dr. Carol talks with John Stonestreet, President of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, about bringing what God reveals in Scripture about these topics into this cultural moment even when it brings controversy.

Find more about the Colson Center for Christian Worldview
Check out the article Sex as Sacred: What a Twitter Maelstrom Reveals About Us
Find John Stonestreet on Facebook or Twitter

My podcast episode with Joshua Butler: How God's Vision for Sex Challenge's Today's Culture
Check out this 5-Part Prescription for Sexual Healing – God's Way
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We hear from many of you asking questions about difficult situations involving sexuality, relationships, and intimacy. In this episode Dr. Carol addresses a number of your questions around these challenging issues. Issues she addresses include sexual betrayal in marriage, shame around masturbation, struggles to break free from pornography, and long-standing disconnect around sexual intimacy between husband and wife. 

Check these resources Dr. Carol mentioned: 
Ways to Pray About Your Troubled Marriage Free download 5-part Prescription for Sexual Healing–God's Way Online course Fully Alive Marriage Dr. Carol loves to hear from you. Leave a question or confidential message here.