by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 17, 2022 | Parenting Teens, Parenting Young Kids
We know that parenting is the biggest responsibility we will ever have. But we’ve been told such different things about the nature of that responsibility. If you grew up in an evangelical church, chances are you were told that a parent’s job is to teach...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 16, 2022 | Abuse, Podcasts
Let’s face the fact that fundamentalist Christianity in North America is basically a sex cult. That’s Alyssa Wakefield’s conclusion in Part 2 of her story on the Bare Marriage podcast! Listen to last week’s episode, where she explains how she...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 15, 2022 | Marriage, Podcasts
A lot of my time every week is spent giving interviews for other people’s podcasts! Yes, I record the Bare Marriage podcast (and don’t miss Part 2 of Alyssa Wakefield’s story about being groomed for an abusive marriage, which drops tomorrow!). But I...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 14, 2022 | Abuse
On Friday on his podcast, John Piper told a woman married to a harsh husband to just be gentle with him. Pray more. Remember it might be his personality. Win him with kindness. Show appreciation and call out the good in him. And don’t talk to other people about...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 13, 2022 | Libido
Sex is supposed to be a great gift from God–and most of us would love to experience it as that great gift! But often we never seem to want it. We want to want it–but our bodies don’t seem to cooperate. Our minds don’t seem to cooperate. We wish...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 10, 2022 | Abuse, Faith
Many of us grew up with toxic faith. I just hope you know you can heal and grow! Did you all see the Humans of New York posts yesterday? Everyone was sending them to me! It was a 15-post story about a woman who “wasn’t the first preacher’s wife to...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 9, 2022 | Abuse, Podcasts
What if you grow up in what you now call a sex cult, and you marry because your dad told you to? Did you really consent to that marriage? And how does it even happen in North America today that girls are being pushed into arranged marriages? Today’s podcast...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 8, 2022 | Libido
Let’s talk about what influences your felt libido–what triggers you to want sex, and what triggers you to not want sex. We’re starting our “What’s Killing Women’s Libido”? series, and on Monday we launched it looking at 15...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 7, 2022 | Abuse, Making Sex Feel Good, Research, Theology of Marriage and Sex
I’ve got an awesome example of how stats can be misused today! And why it’s important when we hear someone who isn’t trained in statistics using studies to “prove” their point, when the point sounds like a stretch, to actually check their...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 6, 2022 | Libido, Series
Welcome to the “what’s killing women’s libido?” series! In the month of June I want to look at some of the reasons that women’s libido is often so low, and look at what we can do about that. Now, I know that many of you reading this blog...
