Charting Toward Intimacy

Welcome to week 2 of our advent 2020 series. This week's theme is Peace. We are joined by Keiru and Aaron who share their NFP journey and how peace fits into the equation of using Natural Family Planning in your marriage. This is an episode you don't want to miss. ___________________________________ Did we mention a book on this week's episode? Click here for our recommended books! Reach out at instagram.com/chartingtowardintimacy/ or email us at ellen@vinesinfullbloom.comReady to improve your sex life and take it to the next level? Check out our courses: vinesinfullbloom.com/courses

This is the first episode in our Advent Series: NFP Brings HOPE. Anne Marie and Alex join us to share their personal NFP journey and how NFP and Fertility awareness helped them through temporary infertility and ultimately to have their daughter. Anne Marie and Alex share how NFP truly brought hope to their marriage and their journey toward becoming parents. If you are struggling with a similar situation, please know you are not alone. Please reach out to us and we would love to connect you with others who have been through infertility or temporary infertility. ___________________________________ Did we mention a book on this week's episode? Click here for our recommended books! Reach out at instagram.com/chartingtowardintimacy/ or email us at ellen@vinesinfullbloom.comReady to improve your sex life and take it to the next level? Check out our courses: vinesinfullbloom.com/courses

Molly Daley joins us to discuss the finer points of how Natural Family Planning is connected to the Pro Life Movement (hint contraception and pro-life don't go together). If you want to learn more about Molly, head to bodylanguagelife.com___________________________________ Did we mention a book on this week's episode? Click here for our recommended books! Reach out at instagram.com/chartingtowardintimacy/ or email us at ellen@vinesinfullbloom.comReady to improve your sex life and take it to the next level? Check out our courses: vinesinfullbloom.com/courses

I'm joined by Emily Frase to dive into why NFP is not just Catholic birth control and really how you can't even compare the two. Follow Emily Frase at totalwhine.com or on Instagram @totalwhine_Follow Emily and Mary Bruno's new org FAbM BASE on Instagram @fabmbaseHumanae Vitae___________________________________ Did we mention a book on this week's episode? Click here for our recommended books! Reach out at instagram.com/chartingtowardintimacy/ or email us at ellen@vinesinfullbloom.comReady to improve your sex life and take it to the next level? Check out our courses: vinesinfullbloom.com/courses

Bridget Busacker of Managing Your Fertility (https://www.managingyourfertility.com/) joins the podcast to talk about the issues of NFP Accessibility including cost and information dissemination. We bring up more questions than answers and come to the conclusions that if NFP is going to be more accessible then it needs to start with all of us expanding the NFP conversation and stepping up to help in our local communities and parishes. ___________________________________ Did we mention a book on this week's episode? Click here for our recommended books! Reach out at instagram.com/chartingtowardintimacy/ or email us at ellen@vinesinfullbloom.comReady to improve your sex life and take it to the next level? Check out our courses: vinesinfullbloom.com/courses

There are a lot of terms and acronyms that float around the NFP and FA world (like those two acronyms). There's also a lot of different ways people define those terms. In this super short bonus episode, Ellen is here to define some of those terms in the way that we will be using them here on this podcast. This is not to say these are the only possible definitions of these terms, it's just to help you and other listeners understand when we use these terms and acronyms. Did we mention a book on this week's episode? Click here for our recommended books!Have a question you want to hear answered on a future podcast episode? Click Here to submit questions!___________________________________Looking for support around sexuality, NFP, sexual ethics, or something we talked about in this episode?Click here to schedule a free 15 minute coaching call. Reach out at instagram.com/chartingtowardintimacy/ or email us at ellen@vinesinfullbloom.comThe Charting Toward Intimacy Patreon Community is now closed, if you would like to support the podcast, please consider purchasing one of our courses. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.___________________________________ Did we mention a book on this week's episode? Click here for our recommended books! Reach out at instagram.com/chartingtowardintimacy/ or email us at ellen@vinesinfullbloom.comReady to improve your sex life and take it to the next level? Check out our courses: vinesinfullbloom.com/courses

In this episode we are joined by Martha. Martha shares with us her experiences talking with siblings and parents about NFP and Fertility Awareness. Join us to discuss how we can best approach these conversations within our own families. ___________________________________ Did we mention a book on this week's episode? Click here for our recommended books! Reach out at instagram.com/chartingtowardintimacy/ or email us at ellen@vinesinfullbloom.comReady to improve your sex life and take it to the next level? Check out our courses: vinesinfullbloom.com/courses

In this week's episode, Yolanda joins us again to discuss one of our most asked for topics, talking to your doctor about NFP. We share our hilarious bad examples of what we've done when talking to our doctors and share some tips for the next time you are asked the "So what do you want to do for birth control?" question. We also discuss a great resource for doctors and medical professionals: https://www.factsaboutfertility.org/___________________________________ Did we mention a book on this week's episode? Click here for our recommended books! Reach out at instagram.com/chartingtowardintimacy/ or email us at ellen@vinesinfullbloom.comReady to improve your sex life and take it to the next level? Check out our courses: vinesinfullbloom.com/courses

We are joined by Peggy Murray in today's episode who is a wife, mother, Symptothermal Method instructor, and an overall amazing woman! Peggy gives us some great ideas and tips for keeping the conversation open, honest, and comfortable with children of all ages about Natural Family Planning and Theology of the Body. We talk about a few resources in the episode, so check them out if you are interested!Theology of the Body books for all ages from TOBET: https://tobet.org/product-category/bookstore/Teenstar program: http://www.teenstar.org/ Endow Youth Studies: https://endow-groups.myshopify.com/collections/youth-studiesTheology of the Body online parent/student study program from Ascension Press: https://ascensionpress.com/products/you-life-love-and-the-theology-of-the-body-student-pack___________________________________ Did we mention a book on this week's episode? Click here for our recommended books! Reach out at instagram.com/chartingtowardintimacy/ or email us at ellen@vinesinfullbloom.comReady to improve your sex life and take it to the next level? Check out our courses: vinesinfullbloom.com/courses

We are joined by Janessa Nufable to discuss talking to your friends about NFP. ___________________________________ Did we mention a book on this week's episode? Click here for our recommended books! Reach out at instagram.com/chartingtowardintimacy/ or email us at ellen@vinesinfullbloom.comReady to improve your sex life and take it to the next level? Check out our courses: vinesinfullbloom.com/courses