by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 3, 2022 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
As we begin 2022, I feel that there has been a shift in the air. I ended 2021 with a personal post saying that I was very, very tired. And I really was! I took the last two weeks almost completely off (we did record the audio versions of the upcoming The Good...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 22, 2021 | Bare Marriage
My husband told me yesterday that I was in the middle of the “long dark night of the soul.” We went down to a winery to celebrate our anniversary and we were just talking about the last year, and where we’re at now emotionally and where we think...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 21, 2021 | Bare Marriage
Thirty years ago I made the best decision of my life–but I really didn’t understand that at the time. I don’t know how a 21-year-old can truly realize how important the choice of mate is. It’s so easy to think that love is all you...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 20, 2021 | Faith
Hi, everybody! This month we’ve been talking about embodiment and mindfulness–how to understand the mind/body connection. I thought that theme fit in well with Christmas, because in Christmas our God actually took on bodily form. The incarnation shows us...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 17, 2021 | Pornography
I’ve had a very strange week of defending myself from attacks I didn’t know were coming. I shared a little bit about this in yesterday’s podcast at the end (my little devotional, or whatever you want to call it), but this was a very emotionally...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 16, 2021 | Podcasts
It’s the last Bare Marriage podcast of 2021! And thank you for joining us this year! Today on the podcast we hear Rachel Perry’s story of vaginismus, and then I get cozy in my yellow chair where I work and just tell you how I see the Christmas story...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 15, 2021 | For Women
Vaginismus was a big part of the early story of my marriage. We were greeted on our wedding night by an inability to have intercourse because it hurt too much. I was expecting sex to hurt a little bit, but not like that. It caused so many hurt feelings on both sides....
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 14, 2021 | Research
Do women feel safer at church or at work? Over the last few weeks the “lust” debate, for lack of a better word, has been heating up on Facebook and Instagram. I’ve been sharing that presenting the idea that lust is every man’s battle is...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 13, 2021 | Podcasts
Ever noticed that most marriage books center the majority of their advice on women? And most instructions for how to get marriages to change focus on what women can do differently. Today on the Bare Marriage podcast, we’re focusing on WHY the advice is often...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 9, 2021 | Faith
Josh Duggar has just been found guilty of possessing and receiving child sexual abuse materials. On a personal level, I am glad that the guilty verdict came down. But I’d like to talk about some wider issues in the evangelical church that this case revealed. For...
