Skarka, Joy: - Dr. Joy Skarka is the Authentic Intimacy Program Manager where she leads online small groups for women with unwanted sexual behavior. She coaches and teaches how to help women find freedom from sexual shame and pornography. Joy has a published chapter in Sanctified Sexuality: Valuing Sex in an Oversexed World, edited by Sandra Glahn and C. Gary Barnes, has appeared on many podcasts, led workshops, and spoken at many events.
Joy attended college at the University of South Florida and graduated in 2014 with a BA in relational communications. In 2017, Joy graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS) with a Master of Christian Education degree. In 2021, she graduated with her Doctorate degree in Educational Ministry from DTS, focusing on helping women find freedom from sexual shame. Her dissertation Sexual Shame in Women and How to Experience Freedom was published by Wipf and Stock in 2022. Joy and her husband, Zack, live in Florida and are the parents of Trinity and Luke.