Everything You Need to Tell Your Kids About Sex, Puberty and Growing Up

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 21, 2024 | Parenting Teens, Parenting Young Kids

Talking about sex to your child can be scary. It’s awkward. Are you going to say something wrong? And you don’t like to feel that they’re growing up! Everyday I get questions like this recent one, from a reader: Hi! Your books and podcast have helped...

Can We Honor Our Bodies’ Rhythms? And Why that May Mean Saying No to Sex Sometimes

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 15, 2022 | Libido, Sexual Intimacy

God created life with natural rhythms. But I feel like much of the effort of modern life is to obliterate those rhythms. Two things got me thinking about this lately, and I’d like to tell you about them and then explore this further. Exhibit A: I had COVID....

Echoes of Menstruation: Spoken Word Poetry

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 25, 2022 | For Women

Let’s talk about the echoes of menstruation. Yesterday on the podcast, we were discussing how Focus on the Family’s PluggedIn movie review of Turning Red put references to preteen girls’ periods under “sexual content”, and warned that the...

PODCAST: Echoes of Menstruation? Really, Focus on the Family?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 24, 2022 | Podcasts

So apparently preteen girls’ cramps and pads are sexual, according to Focus on the Family. We have a little bit of a detour today because something blew up last week that I just had to address! Rebecca noticed that in Focus on the Family’s PluggedIn movie...

Unique Period Care Products that Can Revolutionize Your Life

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...