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Jun 9, 2022 • 1h 1min

Episode 149: Groomed for an Abusive Arranged Marriage: Alyssa Wakefield's Story Part 1

Send us a textWhat if you grow up in what you now call a sex cult, and you marry because your dad told you to?Did you really consent to that marriage? And how does it even happen in North America today that girls are being pushed into arranged marriages?Today's podcast sounds more like one of those True Crime documentaries.Links to things mentioned:Our podcast on the Gothard movement with Emily Elizabeth AndersonOur podcast on positive parenting with Wendy SnyderRegister for our free webinar with Wendy!To Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!And her FACEBOOK PAGE has been HACKED--so please join the new official one!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Jun 2, 2022 • 58min

Episode 148: Is Sex a Yes Space For Men? And What Does That Do to a Woman's Libido?

Send us a textHave we made sex–and marriage–into a “Yes Space” for men?And if so, how does this affect libido?Links to things mentioned:The Orgasm CoursePodcast where we talked about postpartum sexReview of Married SexMental Load PodcastTo Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!And her FACEBOOK PAGE has been HACKED--so please join the new official one!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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May 26, 2022 • 1h 1min

Episode 147: The Porn Triage

Send us a textCan we have a nuanced discussion about porn and the likelihood of recovery?One of our goals for what we do is to help people have “informed consent”–in other words, before they make a decision, they need to know all the facts. We can’t be afraid of data and evidence.Links to things mentioned:Find Sarah!Trauma Mamas AppSarah's full Noticing vs. Lusting videoKnix in the U.S.Knix in CanadaThe Great Sex RescueTo Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!And her FACEBOOK PAGE has been HACKED--so please join the new official one!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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May 19, 2022 • 55min

Episode 146: Let's Talk Attachments Styles and Marriage with guests Milan & Kay Yerkovich

Send us a textHow do our attachment styles–or love styles–affect our marriage?So often we think that our marriage problems are about communication, or habits, or normal conflicts. But what if they’re rooted in how we learned to connect with people?Links to things mentioned: Yerkovich's WebsiteHow We LoveThe Orgasm CourseOur Post on the 5 Love Styles Knix in the U.S.Knix in CanadaThe Great Sex RescueTo Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!And her FACEBOOK PAGE has been HACKED--so please join the new official one!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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May 12, 2022 • 58min

Episode 145: Connection Not Punishment: A Better Way to Parent feat. Wendy Snyder

Send us a textWhat if discipline and spanking aren’t synonyms? What if there was a much more effective way of disciplining your kids where you connect with their heart and it actually BUILDS your relationship?Links to things mentioned:Fresh Start Family Podcast Episode 122 Episode 123Wendy's siteDiscipline ClassStrong Willed Kids helpLogical Discipline Planning GuideJesus the Gentle Parent Heartfelt Discipline The Mask You Live in DocumentaryThe Whole Story Puberty and Sex CourseAngry Me by Sandra FederKnix in the U.S.Knix in CanadaThe Great Sex RescueTo Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!And her FACEBOOK PAGE has been HACKED--so please join the new official one!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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May 5, 2022 • 55min

Episode 144: How To Misuse Statistics for Dummies - feat Wendy Snyder

Send us a textIn the last of our three podcasts with Joanna where we talk stats, we tackle a few more ways that research is often handled poorly, using the research around spanking as one example.And then we bring on Wendy Snyder from Fresh Start Families to talk about how to use discipline that connects with your child!Links to things mentioned:Find Wendy!Our articles on Spanking Babies and the research on spankingThe Gershoff Meta-Analyses of SpankingThe problems with the book Love & RespectThe problems with how Focus on the Family talks about divorce and kidsKnix in the U.S.Knix in CanadaThe Great Sex RescueTo Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!And her FACEBOOK PAGE has been HACKED--so please join the new official one!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Apr 28, 2022 • 59min

Episode 143: Do You Know Your Attachment Style? (Start Your Engines)

Send us a textAttachment research is the science of how we relate to others. We can all have different attachment styles, based on whether we’ve got insecure attachment or secure attachment with our primary caregivers or loved ones (or even God!)Links to things mentioned:Knix in the U.S.Knix in CanadaThe Great Sex RescueAttachment Theory in Religion, Current Opinions in Psychology (2021)To Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!And her FACEBOOK PAGE has been HACKED--so please join the new official one!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Apr 21, 2022 • 1h 11min

Episode 142: No, Christians Don't Always have Better Marriages and Sex Lives--a response to Josh Howerton

Send us a textLast month Josh Howerton, lead pastor at Lakepointe Church in Dallas, wrote a Twitter thread sharing research with 5 reasons Christians are doing better than the media gives us credit for. Matt Chandler, head of The Acts29 Network and lead pastor at The Village Church, retweeted it.The problem? The research he uses doesn’t say what he says it says. Links to things mentioned:Josh Howerton's articleThe Institute for Family Studies report that he referencesKnix in CanadaThe Great Sex RescueThe Gilad study that found that religious women had difficulties with domestic violenceThe Life Saving Divorce analyzing what the Institute for Family Studies found about religiosity and abuseThe Whole Story Sex and Puberty course for parents and preteensTo Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!And her FACEBOOK PAGE has been HACKED--so please join the new official one!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Apr 14, 2022 • 55min

Episode 141: The Most Misunderstood Women in the Bible - and Research! ft Mary DeMuth

Send us a textWe misunderstand women in the Bible–and we misunderstand gender aspects of research! Links to things mentioned:Mary DeMuthThe Most Misunderstood Women of the BibleOur podcast on the problems with the original Love & Respect question:The podcast with the problems with For Young Women Only’s question on 82% of boys going too far, and our post fixing that questionThe Podcast exploring the problems with misusing neuroscience researchThe Great Sex RescueHere is the link with Knix.com To Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!And her FACEBOOK PAGE has been HACKED--so please join the new official one!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Apr 7, 2022 • 59min

Episode 140: A Victim of Bill Gothard's Story: Escaping a Cult & Finding Freedom with Emily Elizabeth Anderson

Send us a textToday Emily Elizabeth Anderson from Thriving Forward joins us to tell her story, and to tell what she’s passionate about now. And especially how she found the actual Jesus after she left what she now sees as a cult.Links to things mentioned:Emily's blog Thriving ForwardEmily on FacebookStories about the lawsuit against Bill Gothard:New charges allege religious leader, who has ties to the Duggars, sexually abused womenWhere’s Justice For Bill Gothard and IBLP’s Victims?Knix.com and Knix.caTo Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our workFor tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko FoundationAnd check out our Merch, or any of our courses!Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!And her FACEBOOK PAGE has been HACKED--so please join the new official one!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!Check out all her courses, FREE resources, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

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