by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 9, 2021 | Bare Marriage
We had some WILD conversations about lust on Facebook this week! But first–the podcast is delayed by a day. I know today is podcast day, and it’s all recorded, but Katie, who does my editing and uploading, was without internet all day yesterday due to an...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 8, 2021 | For Women
I know this is way too much TMI, but reusable menstrual products changed my life. Seriously. I’m three years past menopause now, but I’ve become a huge advocate for reusable menstrual products, because for the last 15 years of my period I used them. I...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 7, 2021 | Bare Marriage
People have been asking me to get merch for the longest time, and I’ve just never had the bandwidth to sit down and figure it out. But inspired by the webinars we’re doing this week (Tea and Tent Pegs was AMAZING last night with Kristin Kobes Du Mez and...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 6, 2021 | Sexual Intimacy
Sex would be so much easier if our bodies would just do what we want them to do, wouldn’t it? Or if our minds would just get “in the game” when it was time? Welcome to our Embodiment Series, where we’re talking about the mind-body connection....
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 3, 2021 | Sex
This was a week where postpartum hand jobs were debated on Facebook a TON–and it was super interesting. On Friday I’m starting to do a round-up of the best of my social media platforms this week, for those of you who may have missed it. Often the best...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 2, 2021 | Podcasts
Let’s jump in with our embodiment series on the blog–and the podcast! This month we’re going to be talking about embodiment, leading up to Christmas. Our bodies are important. Jesus took on human form to live among us. He resurrected bodily, as will...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 1, 2021 | Libido
I’d like to begin a longer, ongoing conversation today about arousal non-concordance. To begin, a quick story. As a teen I always won the game Balderdash. Remember that game? You get a bizarre weird word, and everyone has to make up a definition for it, and then...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 30, 2021 | Bare Marriage
The “Obligation Sex Message” is toxic. The idea that a woman is obligated to have sex with her husband when he wants it was the most toxic belief that we measured in our survey of 20,000 women for The Great Sex Rescue–and our survey of men. On...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 29, 2021 | Bare Marriage
As we’re wrapping up the sexual confidence series today, I’ve been thinking about what the main message is that I want people to take away. For the last two months we’ve been talking about sexual confidence–what it is; what it’s not; how...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 25, 2021 | Bare Marriage, Men's Corner, Podcasts
Rebecca’s postpartum! So we thought it was the perfect time to look at the postpartum advice given in evangelical circles to women. We found in our survey that sex lives can start to go off course with the way that sex is handled postpartum. Many people...