In this episode I chat with Sex Coach & Relationship Coach Meg Cowan on healing from purity culture, growing within partnerships as well as evolving both community and family dynamics. More often than now, transitioning paradigms can result in relational tension. We talk about how to navigate both family units and romantic relationship structures during religious deconstruction. Megan shares her personal story of her journey to becoming a sex coach as well as resources for healing, and how it’s manifested in marriage.
Show Notes:
- One year since the podcast
- Would you rather?
- Growing up on a YWAM base
- Meg’s relationship with faith, spirituality and religion while growing up
- Meg’s journey to religious deconstruction
- Grief while stepping away from a religious community
- Discovering agency, autonomy and finding yourself
- Navigating rock bottoms in marriage
- Unravelling teachings around purity culture as a couple and as an individual
- Working through purity culture as it manifests within a marriage
- Women’s sex life’s improved by 25% just by talking about sex
- Reclaiming your sexual autonomy
- The length of time it takes to adjust to a new paradigm
- Working through shame
- Somatic and embodiment therapy
- Leaving a faith community and navigating a broken community
- Relational dysfunction and relational severing
- Tips for navigating telling your family/partner about your deconstruction
- Re-meeting our partners
- When to have conflicting conversations
- The Shame-free sex course
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