by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 8, 2020 | Resolving Conflict
Anger is often a secondary emotion. So we need to ask: What’s going on below the surface? We’re wrapping up our emotional maturity series with a look at anger. Yesterday I was talking about how anger is like an iceberg; anger is the emotion that...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 7, 2020 | Resolving Conflict
Many marriages are plagued by anger, and yelling matches or big angry outbursts. People will often say, “I have a temper problem” or “he has an anger problem.” As we finish up our series on emotional maturity, I promised to spend a little bit...
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 | Feb 4, 2019 | Pornography
Porn and anger go together, because porn doesn’t just affect someone’s sex drive. Porn affects personality, too.Last weekend I was speaking in Edmonton at the Breakforth conference on a cold, dark, freezing rain Sunday morning. The topic was “how...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 1, 2017 | Family
One of the reasons I love being a blogger is that I love telling people what to do. My downfall is that at times others do not seem to recognize the brilliance of my insight, but I console myself in the fact that one day they might! Hence, I know that one of the sins...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 13, 2017 | Abuse, Resolving Conflict
I spent the summer when I was 18 as a camp counsellor. I had a group of four of us–two guys, and two girls–who hung out in the evenings when the kids were in bed (others were supervising!) and who did a lot of the games and music together. We were good...
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.
