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Our Super Awesome Slow Cooker Freezer Meal Cooking Day Before the Baby Came!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 14, 2019 | Homemaking

It’s Thanksgiving Monday here in Canada (a holiday), and we are all feeling thankful yet a little anxious. I’m writing this on Saturday morning, and as of yet there is no baby (and Rebecca is past her due date). But last week on social media I was posting...

11 Ways to Get Healthy Even if Your Personal Trainer Would Think You’re Cheating

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 25, 2019 | Healthy Living

We need to find a way to talk about health that isn’t all-or-nothing. But so often when we hear advice on how to get healthy it requires a complete overhaul of everything in our lives overnight. I think most of us would agree that yes, in an ideal world we would...

What to Do When Your Spouse Won’t Get Healthy

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 7, 2019 | Healthy Living, Marriage

What do you do when your spouse needs to lose weight–but they just won’t? On Mondays I like to take a reader question and take a stab at answering it, and today’s is unique because it wasn’t a question exactly but a comment that a reader left...

What Happened to Our Sex Life When We Overcame our Food Addiction

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 4, 2019 | Healthy Living, Libido

Can getting healthy actually help your marriage? As you may know, this month I am going to be talking about overcoming mental addictions. And with unhealthy eating habits being so common, I think it is so important that we have real conversations about the impact of...

10 Must-Dos to Give You More Energy (for Romance!) at the End of the Day

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 25, 2018 | Healthy Living, Libido

Do you find yourself exhausted at the end of the day–not just physically, but mentally, too? Two weeks ago when I was giving my Girl Talk in western Ontario, I had an anonymous Q&A session when women could ask questions about sex. And each time I do the...

10 Ways to Handle the Food Wars with Your Husband

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 7, 2018 | Resolving Conflict

Sometimes we talk gender differences, or intimacy, or resolving conflict. Today I want to talk about something much more basic and everyday. What do you do when you don’t like the same kind of food? When my husband and I were married this was potentially a huge...