S3E06: Partnership Building: How Purity Culture Teaches You to Turn Away from Yourself, with Luke and Lauren from Flourish Therapy

We are continuing our summer series called Partnership Building, where we discuss how sexual health is relational health, and relational health is sexual health. We’re talking about seven principles of healthy relationships, according to relationship experts John and Julie Gottman. In the first four episodes of this series, we’ve discussed two foundations of healthy relationships: curiosity and admiration/appreciation. In the next two episodes, we’ll talk about the third principle of healthy relationships (according to the Gottman’s): turning toward each other. And we have amazing guests, Luke and Lauren Smallcomb from the brilliant podcast Filled to Flourish. Luke and Lauren are the founders of Flourish Therapy. They live in Chiang Mai, Thailand with their kids and 3 cuddly dogs. Luke and Lauren talk with us about: An Unquestioned System (6:00) The Unforgivable Sin (14:00) Eroticism (20:00) Lack of Freedom (25:00) Falling Back on Gender Roles (34:00) Good and Bad (49:00) Luke and Lauren will talk more with us next week about how to turn toward each other when your systems of origin begin to turn away from you. You won’t want to miss it!