How The Odyssey Maps the Journey of Your Own Growth
Many Enneagram teachers have used the Odyssey as a way to talk through the nine types, since there are nine temptations, nine believable reasons to never make it home. Yet each island of trials offers...
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When Sex Feels Like One More Thing to Do
Here Christa turns to a different weight so many couples carry: what happens when the body is simply depleted, exhausted, touched-out, and running on empty, and sex stops feeling like connection and s...
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The Art of (Married) Seduction w/Dr. Anna Elton, PhD
Seduction inside a long marriage sounds like a contradiction, and Dr. Anna Elton is here to tell us it is anything but. In this rich conversation, Christa welcomes Dr. Elton to unpack her framework fo...
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Beloved and Imperfect: Meredith Hite Estevez, Loving One Another As Works of God's Art
As a special invitation in the middle of our summer exploring desire and intimacy in marriage, Christa pauses to learn from and to share an experience with a soulful friend, welcoming Meredith Hite E...
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Play as a Path Back to Desire: How Fun Reignites Your Sexual Intimacy
Today, Christa reveals the surprising other half of the connection coin when it comes to sexual intimacy: desire does not only need safety, it needs aliveness. Christa names the play deficit that cree...
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Seen, Known, and Wanted: The Three Keys to Real Sexual Intimacy
Why do so many couples feel stuck in the bedroom even after decades of marriage? Christa goes straight at the real reason in this episode, the armor we put on to avoid being truly seen. Being physical...
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Afterglow: The 48 Hours That Change Your Marriage
We tend to think of physical intimacy as a moment, here and then gone. But the research reveals it is actually a window, a lingering afterglow that lasts up to forty-eight hours, and what happens insi...
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Initiation: Who Reaches, Who Pulls Back, and Why
Almost every couple navigates it, and almost nobody talks about it openly: the vulnerable dance of initiation. Who reaches for whom, who tends to pull back, and the quiet hurt that builds around it ov...
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