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Today I had the honor to help parents and caregivers have some ideas, guidelines, and input as they navigate through teaching their child about Sex. It's such a critical and fundamental topic to help our children understand, gain awareness about, and eventually grow up to be mature adults that bring healthy sexuality and sexual behaviors forward into their lives. Parents have been given such an honor to help cultivate secure attachments with their children. Building trust and bringing safety, love, and grace is all about helping our kids to thrive. Having those sex talks with our child can be awkward and down right fear-inducing and this is why we must be aware of our own values, feelings, thoughts, and attitudes about sex before we try to 'pull off' the task of teaching our child. There is no shame in the subject and the more we work through our own struggles with it the better we are able to help our child develop a healthy perspective and have those sex talks that they need. God bless you on your journey through this. Here are some of the resources I mentioned: Therapeutic Counseling and Wellness Services of San Antonio www.rhondadevlin.com www.levelupwellnesssa.com Rhonda Devlin -----210-218-6647 (call/text) www.yourbrainonporn.com God's Design for Sex Series, 4 Books by Stan and Brenna Jones The Focus on the Family.. Guide to Talking with Your Kids about Sex: Honest Answers For Every Age The Gift of Sex by Clifford and Joyce Penner

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Today I had the chance to talk to the lovely ladies out there about Sex. Taking time to invest in women's lives and offering them information, grace, and resources to help them in their journey of handling their sexuality and sex was what today’s program was all about. Getting to the wounds of a broken heart and understanding that our poor behaviors and choices are communicating about our unmet needs is crucial. Leveling Up in our sexual territory is a huge part of enjoying energy, vitality, and improving our struggles of stress, non-optimal living, and many other issues we face. Being responsible with sex and owning our own healing recovery from whatever trauma or wound we have experienced is SO necessary! As promised I'm leaving resources in the description box for the podcast. PLEASE call and reach out. You are NOT alone! Rhonda Devlin @ 210-218-6647 (text/call) rhondadevlin.com levelupwellnesssa.com Cliff Taylor @ 210-378-0480 James Keedy @ 210-826-8686 Julie Dozier @ julieingscounseling.com yourbrainonporn.com Celebrate Recovery SA Anonymous (Sexaholics anonymous) S Anon

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Today it was my honor to talk with men about Sex. It was a message that brought all kinds of information, grace, and resources to help them in their journey of handling their sexuality and sex. There was additionally an intentional focus on a very needed thing, which was an apology from us Ladies on how we have hurt men or let them down. I promised I'd leave resources as well in the description box for the podcast. They include: Rhonda Devlin @ 210-218-6647 (text/call) rhondadevlin.com levelupwellnesssa.com Cliff Taylor @ 210-378-0480 James Keedy @ 210-826-8686 Julie Dozier @ julieingscounseling.com yourbrainonporn.com Be Broken Ministry Celebrate Recovery SA Anonymous (Sexaholics anonymous) Conquer Series @ various churches...or find on YouTube various support groups and Christ-centered men’s groups

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Today I invite you to join me in a conversation about SEX. We just aren't having enough healthy, mature conversations and we have problematic sexual issues that are causing us epidemic wide destruction...especially in our Churches! Our sexuality and sex is truly a GIFT FROM GOD....and we need to be responsible with these things. I'm asking us to check in and get real about our beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and ultimately our hearts. The effects of having a healthy sexuality and sex life is mind-blowing! Our body, emotions, heart, and spirit all get the beautiful by-products that God blesses us with when we follow His parameters while navigating through sex. May this particular series be a catalyst to enable you to begin and actively maintain your Leveling Up experience!

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Today we had the great joy to listen in as Steven De La Mora shared his personal story with all of us through the platform of radio/podcast. His courage to be vulnerable and testify to God's goodness hopefully will be a catalyst for others to do the same. Steven found himself at the end of his rope and pushed God away from his heart and life. He felt ashamed, unlovable, and broken because he was caught up in making bad choices. What we see as his story unravels is that God NEVER left him, but gave him the grace he needed to find himself back to Papa's loving arms. Steven's story illustrates the truth that God is so faithful to us even when we are not always faithful to him....not giving us an excuse or permission to be unfaithful but thankfully giving us mercy, grace, and a way back to Him through Jesus. Our love for God can only increase as we experience the many ways that He calls to us, provides for us, and saves us from ourselves and the enemy's clutches!

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Today we heard Lisa Michelle's amazing story about growing up in a broken home and being sexually exploited by a neighbor. Although she learned to mask her pain with a life of partying, men, and poor choices that led her to require drug rehab she was able to turn to Christ and find the love of her Heavenly Father. After working to detox, making better choices to let Christ redeem her life, and find a safe haven with her husband she unexpectedly began to experience flashbacks of hidden sexual exploitation and trauma experienced as a young girl. She was given a diagnosis and medicated but desired to be medication free. Twenty years ago she chose to face life without prescriptive meds and has successfully experienced healing and a life devoted to ministry in order to help other women and children exploited by sexual predators. Her ministry "No Strings Attached Outreach" helps to serve those women in strip clubs, massage parlors, pornography venues, and any other sexually exploited realms where women and children are victimized.

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Today we had the honor to listen to James Duerr as he shared his remarkable life and all that God has been doing in it. We learned that James was raised in a church home, attended Boy Scouts, and had a Godly foundation established at an early age. God's grace and power is seen interwoven throughout James' story was we discover about his successes and struggles. James stresses the need for parents to raise their children well and impact their lives with the truths of God. We also are inspired to not quite or get soured when opportunities or things we hope for don't always work out. By God's grace we are able to authentically live out 2 Corinthians 4:8-10: We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

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Today we had the honor to hear Valerie Salas’ remarkable testimony of how she was wounded due to early life experiences and how God helped save her. Having come from a home that was broken Valerie suffered greatly and then turned to unhealthy solutions trying to meet her needs and cope with her pain. Unfortunately, it caused her more suffering but ultimately brought her to rock bottom where she was ready to receive the help of God. Through individuals that God sent to her she was able to experience authentic, genuine love, and care that she never knew existed. Thankfully she was not successful in taking her life and was able to receive the salvation and truth that set her free through Christ. She now devotes her time, resources, energy, and love towards telling others of God's grace and helping them to see and experience a better way. She is a mother or three teen boys and she lights up this world by being the beautiful vessel God always created her to be. God's work in her and through her continues to show us how much He cares and is deserving of all glory!

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Today, on our last Saturday of the year 2019, we talked about getting into position for God's favor in the New Year 2020. Vision casting, dreaming, and resolutions are all great things to do as a new year approaches...and yet we need to be ready, "clean house", position ourselves, and start with a beginning of praising and testifying about God's goodness. He has been so faithful and abundant in His love for us. Let's offer Him our 'first-fruits' during the month of January as we testify about what all He has done and is doing on our behalf. When we aren't positioned well we are not ready to receive what He desires to give. Join me for the month of January as we dedicate these airwaves to offering a 'shout out' to God so we may be encouraged, inspired, and a blessing to believers and non-believers alike!

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