HEADS UP: If you have children, grab some earbuds for this episode as it discusses some topics that you may not want your little ones to hear.
Kat Harris has a vision for all women to know their beauty, identity, and value. It was born out of the years she spent asking difficult questions as a single Christian woman who is saving sex for marriage, her wrestling with narratives she grew up with in the church and how they conflict with the world she lives in today. Writing a book, especially on the topic of sex, was the dream she never knew she had. It has revealed all her insecurities and yet grown her confidence in a God who gives us space to ask difficult questions and explore our dreams.
IF YOU HAVE EVER DOUBTED OR QUESTIONED GOD, THIS IS THE EPISODE FOR YOU.
Even if you are married, don’t skip over this interview! My conversation with Kat Harris is going to make you think deeply about our culture, sexuality, and the messages we as women absorb about our value, beauty, identity, and sexuality.
Kat has spent the last several years wrestling with these topics and even questioning whether she’s the woman for the job of writing about them. Her courage to run after a dream she didn’t know she had, when it opens her up to so much criticism and speculation, offers us an opportunity to examine our own strength and desire to run after something that might make us feel vulnerable too.
Give it a listen for some key takeaways, like:
The importance of dealing with our own wounds and disappointments first before thinking we can “save” other people,
What can happen when we aren’t regularly taking our thoughts captive as Scripture talks about,
And that it’s in the desert, in our questions and doubts, that God meets us and walks toward us.
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MORE ABOUT KAT:
Kat Harris is a Brooklyn-based educator, podcaster, and her first book Sexless in the City will be in print Spring of 2021. She loves God, a good Beyoncé dance party, and is a Ranch dressing connoisseur.
Her vision is to equip and empower women with practical tools to walk in their worth and navigate their lives grounded in freedom, vision, and wholeness. She is Co-Founder of the online publication The Refined Woman, and host of The Refined Collective Podcast. She has also been a full-time photographer for the last decade with her work featured in: Vanity Fair, GQ, Forbes, People, Who What Wear, US Weekly, Glamour UK, and more.
Kat believes in the power of story, that done is better than perfect, quality triumphs quantity, and that the journey truly is the destination.
The vehicles for her message are her podcast, online courses, Bible studies, live workshops and events, and speaking at conferences. It has become a bigger passion in her life then she ever could have imagined.
CONNECT WITH KAT:
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MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Grab a copy of Kat’s new book: Sexless in the City: A Sometimes Sassy, Sometimes Painful, Always Honest Look at Dating, Desire, and Sex available on April 20, 2021
Scripture:
As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
~ Isaiah 55:10-11 (NIV)
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.
~ Isaiah 43:19 (NIV)
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
~ 2 Corinthians 10:5 (NIV)
The Story of The Boy with an Evil Spirit
Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
~ Mark 9:24 (ESV)
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