by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 24, 2020 | Sexual Intimacy
How does trauma impact our physical bodies–and our sexual lives? I’ve been wanting to read The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk for several months now. It’s been highly recommended by so many who study and work in the field of sexual...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 18, 2020 | Sexual Intimacy
It was the first time I’d heard of the term, “heavy petting,” among other things. Some friends had let my sisters borrow a book. It was a Christian book about sex, and honestly, though I devoured it from cover to cover, I don’t remember much,...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 14, 2020 | Sexual Intimacy
What is real intimacy? Is it friendship? Sex? Or more? I met my husband while I was in university. We became best friends quite quickly and were soon spending all our time together, telling each other everything. It was wonderful. About a year and a half into that...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 6, 2019 | Libido, Sexual Intimacy
I’ve talked a lot about masturbation in marriage on this blog before. I’ve tended to come down pretty hard on masturbation (I really hope there’s not some ugly double entendre there that I’m not seeing) in the past when it’s done for...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 13, 2019 | Sexual Intimacy, Theology of Marriage and Sex
Does having sex with somebody mean that you have a soul tie with them–a spiritual bond that is hard to break? This month at To Love, Honor and Vacuum we’re doing our Wednesday series on soul ties and emotional bonds, because it’s a topic that seems...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 6, 2019 | Sexual Intimacy, Theology of Marriage and Sex
I often get asked if soul ties exist, and, if so, how do you break soul ties? It’s a common enough query that brings people to the blog that I thought it would be worth exploring some of what we mean by “soul tie” for our November series, and talk...
Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 25 years and happily married for 20! 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 8 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.
