by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 12, 2020 | Abuse, Podcasts
A few weeks ago I deleted a podcast I did for Domestic Violence Awareness Month. In it, I told a story of something that happened to me when I was 18, and I was raged at in public. I tried to tell a story which was nuanced–I had done something wrong as well. I...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 11, 2020 | Parenting Small Children, Parenting Teenagers
My girls were both far more emotionally mature on their wedding day than I was on mine. And their husbands were both more emotionally mature than Keith was, too! Keith and I were just so young, in so many ways (though my daughters were both technically younger than I...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 4, 2020 | Doing Life Together
When did you officially feel grown up? I’m sure we all woke up this morning to a little bit of a fog that we weren’t necessarily expecting. I didn’t watch the election returns last night, and only tuned in at 7:15. I don’t want to get political...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 7, 2020 | Doing Life Together
We’re in election season. We’re in the middle of COVID. It’s easy to feel depressed about the state of the world. I’ve been trying to cocoon, not pay attention to the news, not think about much of anything at all. I made the terrible mistake of...
by Joanna Sawatsky | Sep 22, 2020 | Parenting Small Children
Our bodies were not meant to stay the same throughout our lives. Certainly we grow older. But childbirth also has a profound effect. I had three babies in 2.5 years – it was a lot. And with pregnancy comes big changes to your body, many of which don’t go...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 9, 2020 | Parenting Small Children
At To Love, Honor and Vacuum, we’ve had a bit of a baby boom in the last two years. Joanna (my co-author for the upcoming book The Great Sex Rescue; she did all of our stats on our survey of 20,000 women!) started the ball rolling with her daughter Mariana. In...