What We Do
Java with Juli is our weekly podcast where Juli sits in the coffee shop with new friends each week. We talk about sexuality, relationships, and intimacy with God.
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At Authentic Intimacy, we boldly proclaim God’s Word into areas of life that the church has often ignored. Why? Because we believe that God’s truth must be proclaimed in every dark place. We are praying and working for revival.
How We Got Here
Authentic Intimacy was founded in 2012 by Dr. Juli Slattery and Linda Dillow. The ministry is the result of an intense period of spiritual seeking and growth. As we draw near to the Lord, He often shares a unique piece of His work with us.
How to Cultivate Authentic Intimacy in Online Dating: Relationship Coach Jordan Gray
How do you bring real authenticity and vulnerability and aliveness and eros to virtual dating. Stay tuned to the Deeper Dating podcast. As I interview Jordan Gray and he teaches us powerful methods for doing that both in our virtual dating life and our real-time dating life.
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Finally, if you like what you’re learning here, it would be a fabulous thank you if you subscribe on iTunes or elsewhere and left me a review, so thanks so much for that. Now, let’s jump in. I want to introduce my guest who actually I think I did my first podcast interview ever with Jordan. It still really stands out as a very special experience.
How to Bring Romance and Authentic Intimacy in Virtual Dating
Ken: What can you do to create virtual dating situations that feel organic, that allow connection, that build connection and that really work to further a relationship when you can’t be together in person? I know you wrote a blog post recently on having wonderful sex on Zoom or a virtual date.
Honest Communication Promotes Authentic Intimacy
Jordan: I think that the falseness, because there is a sense of falseness or the diet soda version of human connection, online versus in person.
Powerful Qualities That Attract Authentic Intimacy
Ken: We can all ask ourselves the question, “What am I most timid to reveal in my romantic life?” and those are qualities, core gifts, that are nuclear. They’re incredibly powerful. When we hide them, we flatten our beings. When we reveal them, yeah, we’re exposed and we’re vulnerable, but there is an aliveness.
A Deeply Held Belief in Society
Jordan: It’s the healthiest for your body, your heart, your sex life, your love life to say, “You know what? All of these are available to me. None of these are wrong, or shameful or incorrect. All of these tools are lovable and I’m allowed to deploy all of them in different areas of my life when I use my judgment to do so.”
Baby Steps Towards Authentic Intimacy
Ken: If what he said feels like an aspiration, but you’re not quite there yet, notch it down as little as you can, but as much as you need to to make it work for you. If it’s progress and a step in that direction for you, three cheers because you will notice a difference.
