Getting to Know the Real Sheila-Up Close and Personal

I love blogging and talking with you every day!

And right now I’m getting over jetlag from our amazing trip to Australia. So I’m not in a mental state of mind to say anything particularly brilliant (am I ever? I hope you think so! 🙂 ).

But it is, however, my birthday. So I thought I’d help you get to know me a bit better by sharing some posts where I told personal stories that you may not have seen. I really want to be authentic. I want you all to know me, so that you’ll see that the things I write come out of my own personal experience. I don’t want you to follow me because I’m perfect. I want to simply be someone who points you to God to follow. And today seems like as good a day as any to show you that.

If you want to know more about me, then, here are some funny stories, some sad stories, and some stories that may help you understand more where I’m coming from!

The Quirky Side of Sheila

47 Weird Things About Me on My Birthday (from 2017)

Did you see my birthday post last year? I’ve got all kinds of trivia in there about me that may make you laugh!

Why I Can’t Drive with My Husband (from 2016)

One thing Keith and I have never figured out how to do well is drive together. He gets nervous, I’m terrible with directions, and we’re both so defensive about it. So just to show you that we’re not the perfect couple….

The Day We Should Have Fought…But We Didn’t (from 2016)

IKEA. A narrow stairway. No food. No water. It was bad!

The Pitfalls of Being an ENTJ Blogger (from 2014)

Are you into personality types at all? Myers Briggs fans? My family loves it. And I’m a total ENTJ. So I wrote about the hard parts about being an ENTJ blogger. And then I followed up with some of the best parts of being an ENTJ!

The Contemplative Side of Sheila

My Heart for The Good Girl’s Guide to Great Sex (from 2015)

Why I wrote the book, and why I blog. Oh, and also why I drowned a book in the bathtub before I was married.

Remembering the week we lost my son (from 2009)

I share every summer, on the anniversary of my son’s birthday and death day, about the impact he had on us. Shortly after I started this blog, I had a particularly bad anniversary, and to cope with it I just sat down and typed out everything I remembered about the day we handed him over for surgery. Here’s that reflection.

Why I’m Okay Twenty Years After My Son Died (from 2016)

Seven years later, I wrote this reflection, which really shares my heart. Those of you who have gone through loss may be able to recognize yourself in this, too.

Letter to Me at 17 (from 2015)

What I would say to myself at 17, if I could go back in time. Have you ever thought about this?

All About My Marriage Journey

How God Uses Marriage to Heal Me (from 2015)

This is one of the most beautiful things about marriage that I’m so glad about! I didn’t have the perfect childhood, but God has used Keith to heal a lot of things in my heart.

Why I Decided to Stay Home with My Kids (from 2011)

It all started in a university classroom where I was bluffing my way through a presentation–and I got an A+. I decided in that moment that I couldn’t be in academia. And this led to the decision to be at home. Here’s my story, if you’ve ever wondered.

Why Keith and I Had a Rough Few Years (from 2015)

We spent a few years slowly growing apart. It wasn’t because there was anything wrong; it was just a time issue and a work issue. And we figured out that we had to do something about it!

I hope that helps you get to know me better! Any questions you’ve ever had about me? Leave them in the comments!

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Phil on June 9, 2018 at 7:21 am

This is follow up from your email blast June 8th. You say you may be jaded and you tend to go to “one of them must be using porn”. When there is something wrong in a marriage. Being the guy who used porn and the guy who has the mind of that guy I totally get it. I am with you there. I suppose you have witnessed this time and time again through out your expereinces in your life. I have always wondered how it is that you speak my language. This is the language of recovery from sex addiction/porn or just plain ole sexual dysfunction. I am sure sharing similar life situations and common life grounds is definitely part of it. I beleive that your experience with vagininmus and inner fears vrs my expereince with sex addiction and expression of outward fears gives us common ground. However, it still perplexes me how you know so much yet its not your story. When I speak or write about sex addiction/porn use it comes from first hand knowledge as a former user. It doesnt get any closer. Yet you know exactly how I think – better than Grace understands( at least in this area)- and she knows me better than anyone obviously. Becca indicated knowing a lot about porn use as well more so than say alcohol when she was moderating for you. I assume she has learned much from you. Anyway, I truly beleive that not only just the topic of sex and marriage drives men to your site but your ability to speak what they are thinking atracts them here even more. I can say that all those factors are definitly some of the reasons I stuck around at first. At one point I just decided that God speaks through people and that has been suffcient for me to let this question go. Cuz beleive me. You had me wanting to know real bad for a long while how you could speak my languge. How you knew the mind of a sex addict. . So since you opened this door to question/answer-back to my question. How do you know so much? How do you speak like a recovering sex addict? How do you do it?

Emily on May 25, 2018 at 10:39 am

Happy Birthday!
I hope you find time for knitting and cake (but maybe not at the same time). 🙂
- Lynn on May 25, 2018 at 3:22 pm
  
  You can totally knit a cake if you want to, though. Take a peek at Pinterest… if you dare 😉
  - Emily on May 25, 2018 at 5:25 pm
    
    You can knit pretty much anything. 🙂
    But cake crumbs in knitting are annoying!
  - Sheila Gregoire on May 28, 2018 at 9:45 am
    
    This is true! 🙂
Keith Schooley on May 25, 2018 at 12:45 pm

Happy Birthday, Sheila!
Cassie from True Agape on May 28, 2018 at 11:58 am

Happy, happy birthday. I hope you know how much impact you bring to your readers. Keep it up and wishing you all the best.
Phil on June 9, 2018 at 7:21 am

This is follow up from your email blast June 8th. You say you may be jaded and you tend to go to “one of them must be using porn”. When there is something wrong in a marriage. Being the guy who used porn and the guy who has the mind of that guy I totally get it. I am with you there. I suppose you have witnessed this time and time again through out your expereinces in your life. I have always wondered how it is that you speak my language. This is the language of recovery from sex addiction/porn or just plain ole sexual dysfunction. I am sure sharing similar life situations and common life grounds is definitely part of it. I beleive that your experience with vagininmus and inner fears vrs my expereince with sex addiction and expression of outward fears gives us common ground. However, it still perplexes me how you know so much yet its not your story. When I speak or write about sex addiction/porn use it comes from first hand knowledge as a former user. It doesnt get any closer. Yet you know exactly how I think – better than Grace understands( at least in this area)- and she knows me better than anyone obviously. Becca indicated knowing a lot about porn use as well more so than say alcohol when she was moderating for you. I assume she has learned much from you. Anyway, I truly beleive that not only just the topic of sex and marriage drives men to your site but your ability to speak what they are thinking atracts them here even more. I can say that all those factors are definitly some of the reasons I stuck around at first. At one point I just decided that God speaks through people and that has been suffcient for me to let this question go. Cuz beleive me. You had me wanting to know real bad for a long while how you could speak my languge. How you knew the mind of a sex addict. . So since you opened this door to question/answer-back to my question. How do you know so much? How do you speak like a recovering sex addict? How do you do it?