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My Delight with Sarah BartelNFP with a Contraceptive Mentality? It's Not a Thing.Can you use NFP with a contraceptive mentality? Is this something to beware of? No.Sarah debunks the false worry that NFP users need to watch out for using NFP with a contraceptive mentality.She looks at the origin of the phrase in magisterial Catholic documents in its context to discover what the "contraceptive mentality" actually refers to, and points to additional references.References for This Episode:Magisterial Catholic Church Documents:Humanae vitaeFamiliaris consortio (1981, St. John Paul II)Gaudium et spes (Vatican I...2025-07-2514 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelMarital Debt is Not Church TeachingWhat is this idea of marital debt? Where is it in the Catechism, or in other official magisterial Church documents? (Hint: It's not actually there!) What does a belief in marital debt do to a married Catholic or Christian woman?In this episode, Sarah tackles marital debt head-on, debunking the idea that obligation sex for wives is the teaching of the Church. She shares quotes from official church teachings and looks to a common quote from the Supplement to the Summa (not actually written by St. Thomas Aquinas, but by one of his students) that is used...2025-07-2439 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelHow to Say No (Nicely!)How do you lovingly decline your husband's initiation of sex in a way that is still connecting and that doesn't feel like such a harsh personal rejection to him? In this episode, you'll learn how to put your "no" inside a Positivity Sandwich that affirms him and your desire to be connected in your relationship. *I address women declining husbands' initiations in this episode, but this technique is also very good for husbands to use when declining their wife's initiation, also! MORE RESOURCES Free Enhancing Ma...2025-07-1709 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelDon't Put Your Marriage on the Back Burner! 3 Reasons to Keep GrowingThe Abundant Catholic marriage course is on sale for 50% off (coupon code: JOY) until Thurs, June 10th in honor of the upcoming feast of Sts. Louis and Zelie Martin!🌹 Learn more at canafeast.com/abundantYes, life is busy... but that doesn't mean you can let your marriage stagnate on the back burner. Here are three reasons why you NEED to keep growing in your marriage and relationship skills, as well as some ideas for how to work on your marriage. 1. Continuing education is important (and often required!) for professionals so they stay up to...2025-07-0925 minMy Delight with Sarah Bartel3 Keys to Emotional Intimacy from Sts. Louis and Zelie MartinIn this episode, I’m joined by my husband Nathan as we share three keys to building emotional intimacy in marriage, inspired by Saints Louis and Zélie Martin.You will hear about how this saintly couple put faith at the center of their relationship, and how they stayed connected and united to each other while honoring each other’s differences. We also share practical examples from our own marriage and offer a lot of encouragement along the way! If you want to join my husband and I for a deeper look at the spi...2025-07-0322 min
The Unplanned Joyful Life - Catholic Church, Ignite your Faith, Navigate Adversity, Live Purposefully, Support Life#91 Looking to Improve Intimacy within your marriage? Meet Catholic Sex and marriage Coach,, PhD Sarah Bartel, Part 2Inside today's episode of The Unplanned Joyful Life Podcast, Cathy Jo continues her conversation with Moral Theologian and Catholic sex and marriage coach, Sarah Bartel, PhD.
Sarah shares: How she came to specialize in marriage intimacy, common challenges that women face, and programs and that are available to improve intimacy in Catholic or Christian marriages.
You can find both Free and paid workshops and/or Downloads at:
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www.littlewayofmarriage.com
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If this episode resonated or blessed you in any way, please take 3...2025-07-0124 min
The STEMINISTS PodcastBuilding “No Regret” Skills for your AI-Powered WorkplaceWelcome back to Part 2 of our conversation with Accenture’s Sarah Bartel on thriving in the age of AI. While last week’s episode explored how leaders must evolve their teams to meet AI’s challenges, this episode focuses on YOU, the individual. How can you secure your value and stay ahead as AI rapidly transforms the workplace? Sarah joins our hosts Phoebe Goh and Mekka Williams and introduces "No Regret” skills — transferable abilities that hold their worth even as technology evolves.
From foundational digital skills to uniquely human traits like empathy, ethics, and relationship building, Sarah details wha...2025-07-0114 minThe Unplanned Joyful Life - Catholic Church, Ignite your Faith, Navigate Adversity, Live Purposefully, Support Life#90 Looking to Improve Intimacy within your marriage? Meet Catholic Sex and marriage Coach, Sarah Bartel, PhD Part 1Inside today's episode of The Unplanned Joyful Life Podcast, Cathy Jo talks with Moral Theologian and Catholic sex and marriage coach, Sarah Bartel, PhD.
Sarah shares how she came to specialize in marriage intimacy, some common challenges that women face, and programs that are available to improve intimacy in Catholic or Christian marriages.
You can find both Free and To-Purchase workshops and/or Downloads at:
www.canafest.com
www.littlewayofmarriage.com
headsteward@canafest.com
If this episode resonated or blessed you in any way, please take 30 seconds and w...2025-06-2624 minThe STEMINISTS PodcastLeading AI-Driven Change Across Your BusinessAre you ready to lead a world transformed by AI? You’d better be...and we’ll tell you how! Hosts Phoebe Goh and Mekka Williams sit down with Sarah Bartel, Accenture’s global cloud talent and organizational change lead, for an inspiring discussion on preparing your teams for the future of work.
Sarah brings her wealth of experience to the table: She presents MIT's "Leading the AI Driven Organization" course and specializes in the human side of tech-enabled transformations. She works with leaders to reshape their organizations, cultures, and talent strategies to effectively adopt emerging technologies.
Thi...2025-06-2413 minMy Delight with Sarah Bartel3 Reasons Why You Don't Like Sex (Catholic wives)Are you not enjoying sex in your Catholic marriage? I bet I know why. It's likely at least one of these top 3 reasons that come up with women all the time in my coaching.1. Obligation sex. 2. Not enough foreplay3. Not enough emotional connectionWomen, your enjoyment of sex matters just as much as your husband's pleasure! You are created equal. Know your worth as a woman.Resources mentioned in this show:Ellen Holloway's Charting Towards Intimacy podcast! 😍Obligation Sex article series by Sheila Grego...2025-06-1625 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelTalking with Your Kids about Sex with Dr. Julia SuduskyWhat can parents do to help prevent sexual abuse of their kids AND raise them to have a balanced, shame-free attitude towards their bodies? What should you do if your child keeps touching themselves? Dr. Julia Sadusky, a licensed clinical psychologist, and author, shares how Catholic parents can talk to their children and teens about sex in a healthy, helpful way. Dr. Sadusky shares practical advice for addressing:early childhood curiositysetting boundaries and fostering open communication. So many adult women in marriage feel bad about their bodies and about their sexuality. Sarah has seen this with the ma...2025-06-0757 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelHow Often Should You Be Doing It in Your Catholic Marriage? 🤔How frequently should you be making love in your marriage?This episode is all about frequency! In it, I share about:-Quality vs. quanity-Desire differences between spouses-Spontaneous vs. responsive libido-What the Church teaches about frequency (you might be surprised!)-How to communicate about it as a couple-One Christian author's observation about frequency to consider MORE RESOURCES Free Enhancing Marital Intimacy Guide for Catholic Women: 9 Skills for Body, Mind, and Spirit (for married and engaged...2025-06-0121 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelPerimenopause, Hormones, and Libido with Christina ValenzuelaWhat is perimenopause? How long does it last? What are the signs that you are in it? How can it affect your fertility and libido? Sarah talks with Christina Valenzuela, creator of the Perimenopause Prep Course, about thriving in the years before and after menopause. Understanding perimenopause, learning how to support your body through it, and communicating with your husband about your love life through this major change can empower you as a woman to be more positive and proactive about your hormonal and sexual well-being as the fertile years wind down. Ch...2025-05-2255 min
Twelve Stripes DeepLet's Talk about Infertility & Sex, with Dr. Sarah BartelI got to chat with Dr. Sarah Bartel, Catholic moral theologian and sex and marriage coach, all about intimacy, infertility, sex, when to say no, marriage, and IVF. One of the biggest struggles infertile couples experience but is not often talked about, is what it does to their sexual intimacy. Why does this happen? How can we identify it? How can we get through it?Sarah talks about how keeping the unitive and procreative purposes together helps us to "grow in grace and glory." She then illustrated some very cool similarities between intimacy and the Mass! This...2025-05-0841 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelSex and the Single (or Dating) Catholic Woman with Maria Spears MumaughWhat challenges do single Catholic women face as they strive to live chastely while waiting to be married? How far is it okay to go when you are dating? How does a single woman develop of positive view of sex while not actually having sex? Maria Spears Mumaugh, a musician and mindset coach, is the co-founder of The Intentional Single, which helps single Catholic women thrive in the years of dating and single life as they prepare for marriage. She shares the struggles single women face regarding porn use, feeling "touch-starved" (and what to do about it), navigating appropriate...2025-05-0838 min
Thriving in the Space BetweenLet's Talk about Sex! What do Single and Dating Gals Need to Know?! With Special Guest Dr. Sarah Bartel Episode 51M&M are back again with an awesome guest, Dr. Sarah Bartel who is a writer, speaker, moral theologian and Catholic sex and marriage coach. Today, the topic is one that M&M believe needs to be talked about more openly and honestly within the context of a safe, sacred and TOB foundation space...removing the blanket of shame: that topic is SEX! What do single and dating women need to know about it?This was a beautiful conversation that we believe you will be so blessed by!You can check out more f...2025-05-021h 19My Delight with Sarah BartelThe Steps to Healing Past Sexual Trauma, with Catholic Therapist Dr. Mario Sacasa"It's a marvel how resilient we are." This episode cannot take the place of individual therapy, but it CAN educate and encourage you about the possibilities for healing from past sexual trauma in order to enjoy lovemaking in marriage in this conversation rooted in hope and resilience. Suppose a wife cringes when her husband touches her shoulder in a certain way and suggests they go to bed early that night. She wants to run away. She definitely does NOT want to head upstairs and engage in intimacy, even though she loves her husband. When she was younger, s...2025-05-0154 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelPope Francis' Teachings on Sex in MarriageAs we mourn the death of Pope Francis and reflect on his gifts to the church during his papacy, this is a great moment to recall his (surprisingly traditional!) teachings on sex in marriage from Amoris Laetitia, The Joy of Love. In this post-synodol apostolic exhortation from 2015 that capped the Synod on the Family, Pope Francis makes four main points about married sex:1. The church teaches that sex is meant to be a good! It is a gift from God enriching joy in marriage, not just a "necessary evil" to be tolerated because it is t...2025-04-2448 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelHealing from Past Sexual Wounds, Regrets, and Harmful MessagesOpening with "birthday cake" analogy, this episode focuses on different ways to heal from sexual wounds, abuse, regrets, and harmful messages that a woman may have suffered. These harms can bind her up and keep her from experiencing the fullness of freedom, connection, joy, and delight the the Lord intends for her in marital intimacy. During Holy Week is the perfect time to bring all these wounds to Jesus, to lay at the foot of his Cross. Therapies that can help heal emotional wounds from past sexual abuse:Internal Family Systems (this involves "p...2025-04-1817 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelPelvic Floor Issues in Married Life with Veronica StephensCatholic pelvic floor specialist Veronica Stephens returns to discuss how pelvic floor issues can show up in married life. So many challenges can be addressed through pelvic floor work, including painful intercourse, incontinence, constipation, and possibly even erectile dysfunction (ED). (Yes, men can get pelvic floor help as well!) A healthy functioning pelvic floor also prepares a mother for better birth, and postpartum recovery for issues like diastasis rectii can be helped with pelvic floor work. Sarah and Veronica discuss how tension throughout the whole body can affect the pelvic floor, as well as how our breathing i...2025-04-1615 minMy Delight with Sarah Bartel10 Resources for Getting the Porn Out, Healing Betrayal Trauma, and Rebuilding Authentic IntimacyBefore you can effectively to anything else to improve your love life in marriage, you have to get the porn out. Sarah shares 10 resources, programs, and tips to help husbands get free, to help wives heal from betrayal trauma, and to help married couples rebuild their intimate life.If you wanted to redecorate your living room, but there was a fire in it, you'd have to put out the fire before you start thinking about paint colors and rearranging the furniture. Afterwards, you'd also have to clean up the scorch marks and care for burns. I...2025-04-0222 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelPelvic Floor Health for Engaged Women and Newlyweds, with Veronica StephensWhat do newlywed and engaged women need to know about their pelvic floor as they enter into marital intimacy? Sarah is joined by Catholic pelvic floor specialist Veronica Stephens of RenewedResilience.net. They cover the basics of what a healthy, functioning pelvic floor should be able to do, as well as a few of the problems that can arise when the pelvic floor doesn't function properly--problems such as incontinence, pain during intercourse, and constipation. Veronica shares her unique path to her profession, from her beginnings as a theology major at Christendom College to finding her way to physical training...2025-03-2615 minMy Delight with Sarah Bartel7 First Time Tips for After the Wedding with Ellen HollowaySarah and her amazing friend Ellen Holloway of the Charting Towards Intimacy podcast share 7 tips for engaged women preparing for their first time after the wedding. They chat about setting expectations for yourself and with your husband-to-be, what essential items you are going to want to have on hand, butterflies in the stomach, the supreme importance of FOREPLAY, being like a flower, lingerie, and having fun. Ellen Holloway's Free Foreplay Guide for Catholic WomenEllen Holloway's Charting Towards Intimacy podcastGinger and Peach Catholic-owned model-free lingerie boutiqueMentionables M...2025-03-2036 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelTaking it from Good to Great while Raising Eight Kids...with KristenSarah speaks with My Delight alum Kristen, mother of eight, who shares her story of her and her husband's conversion, as well as how she grew through the My Delight course. Kristen felt pretty good about their love life before, but experienced insights, growth, learning, and increased connection with her husband. She shares what new evening routine they've developed that's been a game-changer and why there's a bottle of whipped cream in the fridge that she and her husband won't let the kids have. She also shares what some of the highlights were for her among the guest experts...2025-03-1328 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelSelf-care and Body Image with Denise Jelinek of Weight Loss with the Holy SpiritSarah and Denise talk about self-care and body image. Denise a Catholic weight loss coach who helps women turn to God instead of food through her Weight Loss with the Holy Spirit program, 63 Surrendered program, and Restored Lent Challenge. Restored helps women surrender to God, not the scale.Denise shares about how authentic self-care is not about expense and luxury--it's a sacred activity given to us by the Lord. She also shares about how we can change our negative thoughts about our body.Fast from the scale and experience the freedom and p...2025-03-0633 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelWhat I Learned in the My Delight Course with NaPro Providor Jessica Whelan, NDWhat is it like to go through My Delight as a happily married newlywed with a good love life? Is there still more to learn? Sarah chats with Dr. Jessica Whelan, a naturopath specializing in hormone health who is also a certified Creighton model FertiliCare NFP instructor and NaPro providor. They discuss being the higher-desire spouse, enjoying lovemaking while struggling with infertility and trying to conceive, and communicating about intimacy with your husband. Dr. Jessica shares what it is like to be in the sisterhood of Catholic women who go through My Delight together. Find out more a...2025-02-2822 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelHow to Talk About Sex with Your Spouse with Monica OrtegaDo you ever feel embarrassed when it comes to talking with your husband about lovemaking? Do you know how to ask for what you need... or communicate if something feels "meh" ... or even worse, hurts? Monica Ortega, co-host with her husband Renzo of the Two Become Family podcast, chats with Sarah about the book she and Renzo wrote: Lovemaking: How to Talk About Sex with Your Spouse. As a faithful Catholic couple informed by church teaching and theology of the body, they noticed that when it comes to candid and practical advice--there's still a lot to figure out! Sarah...2025-02-2227 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelAdvice for Newlyweds: What Every Catholic Woman Should Know About Sex with Bridget Busacker, Part 2Intimacy Insights for Brides-to-Be and Newlyweds: Expert Advice from Bridget Busacker, part 2 of 2.In this episode, I continue my interview with my lovely friend Bridget Busacker, founder of Managing Your Fertility. We chat about what we would tell newlywed or engaged women about sex and marriage. Join us as we imagine taking a bride-to-be out for coffee and consider what we would tell her about intimacy in marriage. We share stories and practical tips to help build a joyful and connected intimate life. LINKS:Enhancing Intimacy Guide for Engaged and Married Ca...2025-02-1432 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelAdvice for Newlyweds: What Every Catholic Woman Should Know About Sex with Bridget Busacker, Part 1Intimacy Insights for Brides-to-Be and Newlyweds: Expert Advice from Bridget BusackerIn this episode, I interview my lovely friend Bridget Busacker, founder of Managing Your Fertility, to chat about what we would tell newlywed or engaged women about sex and marriage. Join us as we imagine taking a bride-to-be out for coffee and consider what we would tell her about the importance of communication, the essential role of foreplay, handling discomfort, and why it's so important a couple work together to make it a mutually enjoyable experience. We share stories and practical tips to help build a j...2025-02-0428 minMy Delight with Sarah BartelHow I Got Started Helping Catholic Wives with Sex, with Ellen HollowayEllen Holloway interviews host Sarah Bartel about how she got started helping Catholic married women improve their sex lives. She also interviews Sarah about her My Delight course for Catholic women. They talk about what happens inside the course and who the course is for. 👉 DOWNLOAD THE FREE GUIDE:Enhancing Marital Intimacy: 9 Skills for Mind, Body, and SpiritOr you can get your name on the My Delight waitlist to hear about when the next class of My Delight will be offered!My Delight WaitlistRegistration for Spring 2025 opens Feb 10-13...2025-01-2922 min