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Echoes of Menstruation: Spoken Word Poetry

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 25, 2022 | Parenting Teenagers

Let’s talk about the echoes of menstruation. Yesterday on the podcast, we were discussing how Focus on the Family’s PluggedIn movie review of Turning Red put references to preteen girls’ periods under “sexual content”, and warned that the...

PODCAST: Echoes of Menstruation? Really, Focus on the Family?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 24, 2022 | Parenting Teenagers, Podcasts

So apparently preteen girls’ cramps and pads are sexual, according to Focus on the Family. We have a little bit of a detour today because something blew up last week that I just had to address! Rebecca noticed that in Focus on the Family’s PluggedIn movie...

Unique Period Care Products that Can Revolutionize Your Life

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 8, 2021 | Sheila Snippets

I know this is way too much TMI, but reusable menstrual products changed my life. Seriously. I’m three years past menopause now, but I’ve become a huge advocate for reusable menstrual products, because for the last 15 years of my period I used them. I...

PODCAST: Can My Vagina Have a Brain? Let’s Talk Mind-Body Connection!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 2, 2021 | Bare Marriage, Podcasts

Let’s jump in with our embodiment series on the blog–and the podcast! This month we’re going to be talking about embodiment, leading up to Christmas. Our bodies are important. Jesus took on human form to live among us. He resurrected bodily, as will...

SEXUAL CONFIDENCE: How Can We Get Over Embarrassment About Being Female?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 20, 2021 | Parenting Teenagers

How can we feel sexually confident if we believe that our bodies are gross, objects of embarrassment, or something that makes us “less than”? For a woman to feel sexually confident, she has to feel that being a woman is a good thing, not a source of shame....

10 Things to Know about Old Testament Laws and Periods

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 26, 2020 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

As Christians, a lot of the cultural ideas that we get about our periods derive from Old Testament laws that called periods “unclean.” We’re finishing up our series on periods today! And I thought I’d end with something that came up repeatedly...