by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 24, 2020 | Abuse
In church, we simply don’t have a good working understanding of the importance of consent in sex. I think it’s because we tend to operate with the idea that women aren’t allowed to say no to sex, and that sex is an entitlement upon marriage. As we...
by Connor Lindenbach | Apr 21, 2020 | Pornography
How is porn related to sex trafficking? We’ve been talking in the month of April in our Monday series on porn and how to recover from it. We started by talking about the effects of porn; we looked at 4 things you had to do if you spouse used porn, and then...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 24, 2020 | Sexual Intimacy
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...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 14, 2019 | Abuse, Podcasts
I’m afraid that most of us don’t know the signs of grooming behavior when it comes to sexual abuse. I know I didn’t! But sexual abuse, especially in churches, has been in the news a lot lately, and I thought it was worth doing a post on...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 30, 2019 | Abuse, Faith
So Andy Savage, a former megachurch pastor from Memphis, is now starting a new church, despite being disqualified from ministry. I have had a tremendously busy week. Our grandson was born exactly a week ago, and we just got back from being with Rebecca and Connor (and...
by Emily Murchison | Oct 21, 2019 | Abuse, Libido, Theology of Marriage and Sex
If your husband wakes you up for sex, or starts sex with you when you’re asleep, is that okay? A reader sent me a link to a post that The Transformed Wife did recently where she was telling a woman that being woken up for sex when she didn’t want to be is...
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.
