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How Do You Feel about Giving “Sexual Favors” While Postpartum/on Your Period?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 15, 2021 | Parenting Small Children, Sexual Intimacy

We’ve talked before about how telling pregnant/postpartum women they should give “hand jobs” to their husbands is just icky and wrong. It was something we felt really strongly about, and we wanted to include in The Great Sex Rescue, but it...

How Our Son’s Death Affected Our Daughter

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 3, 2021 | Grief, Parenting Small Children

Tomorrow will be the 25th anniversary of my son Christopher’s death. Every year I like to write something about grief and honor him in some way, even if just to mention him or remember. I honestly am okay, I just get sad around this time of year. My oldest...

The Problem with How Children’s Bibles Mess Up the Story of Adam and Eve

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 1, 2021 | Parenting Small Children, Theology of Marriage and Sex

Joanna, who is the mom of two littles, has had a pet peeve for years about how baby Bibles and kids’ Bibles mess up the story of Adam and Eve. I asked on Facebook last week for some pictures of how your baby/children’s Bible handled the story, and...

Can Churches Make Room for Stay at Home Dads?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 13, 2021 | Parenting Small Children

I was blown away by the many great comments on yesterday’s post on stay at home dads. Across my platforms I had a lot of feedback, and i was going to write something else today, but several themes kept emerging from the comments, so I thought we could talk...

Why We Need a More Nuanced Conversation about Post-Partum Sex

by Camden Morgante | Jun 11, 2021 | Parenting Small Children

When we first wrote The Great Sex Rescue, and started talking about some of the terrible things that we found in evangelical sex books, we didn’t know which themes were going to catch on. I actually thought it was going to be Every Man’s Battle calling...

Preparation, Rest, and Community: 3 Keys to Childbirth Recovery

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 8, 2021 | Parenting Small Children

We women need to give ourselves time–and allow ourselves to ask for help–when we’re recovering from childbirth Recovering from childbirth isn’t something that happens overnight, and it isn’t something you can achieve through will power or...

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About Sheila

Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 29 years and happily married for 24! She loves traveling around North America with her hubby in their RV, giving her signature "Girl Talk" about sex and marriage. And she's written 7 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.