Female by Design

Overwhelm. Pressure. Tension in your body and to-do lists in your head. Not the recipe for receptivity, mutual pleasure, and oneness.
So many women are living in a constant state of doing—managing families, navigating stress, and holding everything together. But when there's no space for play, our nervous systems stay locked in survival mode. And when our bodies are braced and burdened, intimacy feels more like a demand than a delight.
In this episode, Francie explores the surprising power of play as a key to unlocking feminine integration. Playfulness is one way to reclaim our God-given design for creativity, movement, laughter, and lightness.
You'll hear how play resets the nervous system, reawakens your sensuality, and gently loosens the grip of stress, making space for joy, beauty, and deeper connection.
"We weren't made to be efficient machines. We were made to dance, to laugh, to move with grace—and that freedom is part of God's design for intimacy." – Francie Winslow
In This Episode:
Why play isn't frivolous—it's foundational for emotional and sexual connection

How stress and shutdown impact your body's capacity for arousal and openness

Scientific studies on how dance increases female desire, satisfaction, and confidence—even post-menopause

Practical ways Francie and Wyatt build play into their connection as husband and wife

Gentle, creative ways to reawaken your feminine body and spirit through nonlinear movement

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The Circle is a place to keep growing in freedom, understanding, and embodied joy. The Circle is Francie's group mentorship community where women gather monthly for live teaching, honest conversation, and support as they learn God's good design for intimacy, desire, and pleasure… not as performance, but as part of faithful discipleship. Inside the Circle you'll find safe connection with other women, access to Francie through discussion and messaging, and a gentle space to rethink what you've been taught about sex, your body, and your feminine design.
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It's too common that women feel disconnected from their bodies, unsure how to enjoy pleasure and physical intimacy without shame, anxiety, or confusion. 
This episode is an honest invitation to begin healing that disconnection.
Francie shares the first of three powerful keys to unlocking the female heart, mind, and body—wisdom formed through years of mentoring women inside her Circle community. These insights are about stepping into wholeness as a woman created for joy, connection, and delight in God's design.
"Your body isn't the obstacle. It's the place where God's presence wants to dwell and delight." – Francie Winslow
In This Episode:
Why so many women feel "shut down" and how trauma, theology, and nervous system patterns contribute

The subtle ways shame shows up in the bedroom—even after years of marriage

Daily practices Francie uses to move out of her head and into her body with peace

A vision for sensuality that is holy, safe, and spiritually grounded

An invitation to rediscover your body as a place of worship and wonder

 
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The Circle is a place to keep growing in freedom, understanding, and embodied joy. The Circle is Francie's group mentorship community where women gather monthly for live teaching, honest conversation, and support as they learn God's good design for intimacy, desire, and pleasure… not as performance, but as part of faithful discipleship. Inside the Circle you'll find safe connection with other women, access to Francie through discussion and messaging, and a gentle space to rethink what you've been taught about sex, your body, and your feminine design.
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Whether we realize it or not, every one of us has a "sex view," a lens through which we understand and experience our sexuality. It's shaped by what we were told (or not told), by pain, silence, shame, weariness, and the culture around us. But what if that view isn't the full story? What if God has something better?
In Part 2 of this series, Francie gently but powerfully unpacks five common sex views that shape our beliefs and behaviors, and how to trade them in for a vision rooted in truth, beauty, and God's original design.
You'll hear:
The 5 most common lenses women carry into marriage
How wounds, weariness, and whispers from the past still affect your present
What it means to see your body and sexuality through the works of God
Why knowing your design is part of your healing
A fresh invitation to live integrated, connected, and whole
This episode is for every woman who has ever felt confused, shut down, or disqualified when it comes to sex, and longs to see with new eyes.
 
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The Circle is a place to keep growing in freedom, understanding, and embodied joy. The Circle is Francie's group mentorship community where women gather monthly for live teaching, honest conversation, and support as they learn God's good design for intimacy, desire, and pleasure… not as performance, but as part of faithful discipleship. Inside the Circle you'll find safe connection with other women, access to Francie through discussion and messaging, and a gentle space to rethink what you've been taught about sex, your body, and your feminine design.
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Most of us never had a sex talk that honored our design, reflected God's heart, or made space for our questions. In this powerful first episode of a mini-series, Francie begins to unpack three foundational truths every woman needs to know, but likely never heard.
This is not a conversation about shame, fear, or performance. It's about reclaiming God's original dream for our bodies, our pleasure, and our wholeness as women made in His image.
In Part 1, Francie walks us through:
Why knowing your body is a spiritual practice
How shame blocks our ability to understand and enjoy our design
What the Bible reveals about God's intention for sex (and why it's so good)
How women's bodies were made for pleasure, not just reproduction or duty
The radical truth that sex is for you, too
Whether you're married or single, just beginning your journey or decades in, this episode will help you take one step closer to wholeness… body, mind, and spirit.
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The Circle is a place to keep growing in freedom, understanding, and embodied joy. The Circle is Francie's group mentorship community where women gather monthly for live teaching, honest conversation, and support as they learn God's good design for intimacy, desire, and pleasure… not as performance, but as part of faithful discipleship. Inside the Circle you'll find safe connection with other women, access to Francie through discussion and messaging, and a gentle space to rethink what you've been taught about sex, your body, and your feminine design.
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What if it's not too late for your marriage to experience joy, pleasure, and renewed connection?
In this powerful testimony, Francie sits down with Denise, a Circle member who vulnerably shares how God met her in the middle of decades of disconnection. After 38 years of marriage and a lifetime of silence, shame, and pain surrounding sex, Denise encountered a fresh vision of God's design, and everything began to change.
From the lies she believed as a young wife, to the pain and despair that came with menopause, to the slow and holy rediscovery of pleasure and playfulness with her husband, this is a story of healing that will encourage every woman who longs for more.
Together, Francie and Denise talk about:
The damaging cultural and religious messages that distort sex

How menopause brought everything to the surface

The power of God's truth to renew both body and heart

Practical tools that helped rebuild intimacy, one step at a time

Why it's never too late to experience sexual wholeness in marriage

Tune in to this powerful message today and be encouraged wherever you are in your journey.
 
Go Deeper in The Circle
If Denise's story stirred something in you, The Circle is a place to keep growing in freedom, understanding, and embodied joy. The Circle is Francie's group mentorship community where women gather monthly for live teaching, honest conversation, and support as they learn God's good design for intimacy, desire, and pleasure… not as performance, but as part of faithful discipleship. Inside the Circle you'll find safe connection with other women, access to Francie through discussion and messaging, and a gentle space to rethink what you've been taught about sex, your body, and your feminine design.
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