Charting Toward Intimacy

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

I'm joined by Joe Nufable for this episode where we talk about prayer within your marriage (and making it a part of your foreplay). We touch on desirability, redefining the word foreplay, and suggestions for engaged couples and those who are single. ___________________________________ 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

Today we chat with Dn. Tim Roberto from the Diocese of Oakland on discovering God's love through spousal intimacy. Hint: talk about it!If you're not married, don't worry there's some awesome nuggets for you too!We touch a a tiny bit on the Theology of the Body (TOB) in this episode. For more info, resources, and courses on TOB, check out https://tobinstitute.org/Charting Toward Intimacy is sponsored by the Diocese of Oakland. ___________________________________ 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 two guests who share their personal stories with NFP. Rose shares how NFP helped her through her struggle with infertility and helped her have her daughter. Jorge shares about his reversion to the Catholic Church and how his discovery of the Theology of the Body lead to learning about NFP and how he fell in love with the practice as he brought it to his marriage. ___________________________________ 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 many things we wish we knew about NFP before we started! Yolanda joins us in this episode to talk about some of the different methods of NFP and how it would have been so helpful to know that they all existed. We also touch on how some women change to different methods throughout their NFP journey. If you feel like your method isn't working well for you, check out some other methods. The list below is not exhaustive, these are just the methods we spoke the most about in this episode. Symptothermal:https://www.symptopro.org/https://ccli.org/Marquette:https://www.marquette.edu/nursing/natural-family-planning-model.phpBillings Ovulation Method:https://billings.life/en/Creighton Model:https://www.creightonmodel.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