From Shame to Sacred: Reclaiming God’s Design for Intimacy—with special guest Ellen Holloway | Episode 85

Let’s be honest: most of us didn’t grow up with clear, honest, or healthy conversations about intimacy. The result? Shame, confusion, and wounds that often follow us into dating, engagement, and marriage.

That’s why we’re so grateful for our guest, Ellen Holloway. Ellen is a Catholic marriage and intimacy educator who helps women deepen connection in their marriages while staying grounded in Church teaching. She’s the creator of courses like The Orgasm Course for Catholic Women and The Catholic Sex Positions Guide, which provide practical, respectful, and fully Catholic support for growing in love and desire. Through her company, Vines in Full Bloom, Ellen equips Catholic women to embrace God’s design for love, intimacy, and pleasure in marriage. She’s also the host of the Charting Toward Intimacy podcast.

In this conversation, Ellen helps us peel back the myths, look at God’s design for intimacy, and discover how it’s meant to be sacred, healing, and good. You’ll leave with practical tools, a lighter heart, and maybe even a sense of relief: you’re not broken, and you’re not alone.

✨Explore Ellen's Resources 

For the single gals: In His Image - A Catholic Young Woman's Guide to the Body and Sex is a transformative course designed exclusively for young Catholic women seeking a profound understanding of their bodies and relationships in alignment with their faith.

For the soon-to-be-married gals: 

• Free foreplay foundations course
• Catholic Sex Positions Guide
• Healing painful sex
• Orgasm course

Explore Ellen's podcast: Charting Towards Intimacy

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