Sexual Sanity for Women: Healing from Sexual and Relational Brokenness
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Overview
Sexual Sanity for Women: Healing from Sexual and Relational Brokenness by Ellen Dykas of Harvest USA guides participants through the process of understanding why they struggle with destructive relational and sexual patterns and how the gospel brings change and a new way of living.
Twenty lessons guide participants to understand God’s good design for sexuality, the underlying reasons they struggle with sexual brokenness, and how the grace and truth of Jesus Christ can be applied to their struggles as Christian women. Change begins as deeper issues are uncovered, and women learn that they are well-loved daughters of God who will find healing and wholeness as they live out God’s Word in their relationships.
The Sexual Sanity for Women workbook is ideal for a one-on-one mentoring/ Christian discipleship, college age student groups, and women’s small group study. The easy-to-use Sexual Sanity for Women Leader’s Guide is available in a handy eBook format, offering leader’s notes, answers to questions, and suggestions on how to guide participants in understanding God’s good design for sexuality.
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- Teaches how the gospel brings change and a new way of living
- Guides participants to understand God’s good design for sexuality
- Walks participants through the process of understanding why they struggle with destructive relational and sexual patterns
- Getting Started
- Out of the Heart: The Tree Model
- Applying the Tree to Me
- The Fruit: Godly Sexuality
- The Fruit: Understanding Female Sexual Sin
- The Fruit: Understanding Female Homosexuality
- Understanding Our Soil
- The Soil: Family Dynamics—Roles, Rules, and Relational Patterns
- The Soil: Traumatic Pain
- The Broader Soil: Culture and Peers
- Looking for Your Emotional Home in All the Wrong Places
- Redeeming Our Soil: Knowing God as Father, Home, and Comforter
- The Roots: Our Desire
- The Shoots: Our Interpretations and Beliefs about Life
- The Shoots: What We Believe about Gender
- Understanding the Nature of Habitual Sin Patterns
- Temptation, Faithfulness, and Change
- A Renewed Mind: Overcoming Fantasy and Ungodly Thinking
- Healthy Friendships
- The Journey Ahead: Fixed on Jesus as You Run Your Race
Here’s real hope for the woman who has experienced so much relational pain and sexual brokenness. The editor, Ellen Dykas, has experienced freedom through Christ herself, and is a woman of wisdom and compassion. Because Sexual Sanity for Women gently but firmly gets to the root of the pain, the woman who opens her heart to this truth will truly be set free.
—Dee Brestin, Author of The Friendships of Women and Idol Lies (Facing the Truth about Our Deepest Desires)
Helping women understand God’s original design for sexuality is a critical need in our culture. So many of the conversations and resources focus only on the sin; Sexual Sanity for Women provides a way to experience healing and transformation through the study of God’s Word. It is not just another book; it is a discipleship tool to help bring true freedom that comes from living life the way God meant it to be. This is a resource I’m excited to share with others in our ministry
—Donna Noonan, Director of Women’s Staff Development, Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Harvest USA is a time-tested ministry that changes lives with the gospel. They know how to speak the truth into your life with gentleness and love. Their skills and expertise have never been more needed by the church. Support it and become involved.
—Timothy Keller, Senior Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York, NY and author of The Reason for God
- Title: Sexual Sanity for Women
- Author: Ellen Mary Dykas
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Pages: 209
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781938267000, 1938267001
- Resource ID: LLS:SXLSNTYWMN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-11T20:46:19Z
Ellen Dykas, MA, is the Women's Ministry Coordinator at Harvest USA and oversees the gospel-centered teaching and discipleship of women struggling with relational, sexual, and victimization issues. She is a graduate of Covenant Seminary and has a graduate certificate in Biblical Counseling. In addition, she has over twenty years of experience in teaching and mentoring others through the Bible.
Harvest USA is a non-profit that has been ministering to individuals and families affected by sexual struggles since 1983. With over 100 years of combined direct ministry experience, Harvest USA staff also seek to equip the Church with their writing and teaching on biblical sexuality and how to help those who struggle sexually.