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...