It’s time for a resource list of books to help you grow more emotionally mature! We’re in the middle of our emotional maturity series, and yesterday I was talking about 6 ways to help you grow more emotionally mature and more responsible. I promised that...
Instructional sex advice is wonderful in Christian books. But sometimes explicit crosses the line. In last week’s podcast, we read The Act of Marriage so you didn’t have to! And in this week’s podcast, we want to look at a broader theme about why...
The Act of Marriage is the book I once drowned in a bathtub. When I wrote The Good Girl’s Guide to Great Sex, I told the story of reading a sex book before I was married that turned me into a nervous wreck. It gave such explicit directions about what you were...
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...
This week we’ve been talking about how books like Love & Respect go so far off base. I started with showing how the view of sex in Love & Respect is very wrong. And then yesterday I showed how the concept of a wife giving a husband unconditional respect...
What happens when a bestselling Christian marriage book, like Love and Respect, treats sex as if it’s just for the husband?Sometimes I get overwhelmed by the emails and comments on this blog from desperate people. I’ve been trying to address these things...
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.