

Bare Marriage
Sheila Gregoire
Tired of Christian pat answers about marriage? The podcast that goes in-depth into marriage, parenting, and even sex--to see how we can live the passionate life we were meant for. Paired with Bare Marriage--the blog!
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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!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide 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, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

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!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide 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, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

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!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide 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, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

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!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide 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, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

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Mar 31, 2022 • 51min
Episode 139: How Many Men Are Sexually Safe?
Send us a textWe talked about the findings from our survey, as described in this post last week on how many Christian guys are sexually safe. Links to things mentioned:Keith's post The Good Guy's Guide to Great SexThe Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex 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!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide 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, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

Mar 24, 2022 • 1h 1min
Episode 138: Echoes of Menstruation (...really, Focus on the Family?!)
Send us a textRebecca noticed that in Focus on the Family’s PluggedIn movie review for Turning Red, they had put references to menstruation under “sexual content”, including cramps and pads. And they warned that some people may hear an “echo of menstruation” in the title of the film.Links to things mentioned:Side by side screenshot of original review and edited reviewCurrent review of Turning RedThe Whole Story Puberty CourseOur Period SeriesKyle Howard on TwitterTo 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!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide 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, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

Mar 17, 2022 • 57min
Episode 137: New Research Blows Away the Evangelical Idea About Lust
Send us a textWe saved some of our most important findings from our men’s survey for this special podcast!Andrew Bauman, a licensed counselor and author of the new book How Not to Be an *ss, and Carl Thomas, who runs xxxchurch.com, come on to talk about our new stats. And then Keith and I tackled two reader questions about libido issues!Links to things mentioned:The Good Guy's Guide to Great SexOur patreon! Support us for as little as $5 a month and get access to our exclusive Facebook GroupAndrew BaumanCarl ThomasTo 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!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide 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, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

Mar 10, 2022 • 1h 2min
Episode 136: The Uncomfortable Truth About Waiting for Marriage for Sex
Send us a textDoes waiting for marriage really guarantee a great sex life? Sheila, Rebecca, and Keith weigh in on this week's podcast!Links to things mentioned:Our patreon! Suport us for as little as $5 a month and get access to our exclusive Facebook GroupThe Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex and the all new Good Girl's Guide to Great SexThe podcast on the Sexual Response CycleThis week's post on vaginismus and wedding night sexHere 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!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide 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, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

Mar 3, 2022 • 57min
Episode 135: How Much Sex Have We Rescued? Plus, Elizabeth Fisher Good!
Send us a textIt’s the one year anniversary since The Great Sex Rescue was published!Rebecca and I want to talk about what we’ve rescued and how it’s been rescued–plus Elizabeth Fisher Good joins us to talk about fighting sex trafficking.Links to things mentioned:Please use these affiliate links if you're interested in trying Knix!Knix.com Elizabeth Fisher GoodThe Great Sex RescueArticles this week about men and how the teachings affected them:How Can Men Fix Their Sex Lives if They've Gone Downhill Who Believed the Toxic Sex Teachings More: Husband or Wife?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!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide 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, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.

Feb 24, 2022 • 1h 4min
Episode 134: What Guys Can Do If They've Messed Up
Send us a textBecause our church culture teaches guys that they need sex the way newborn babies need to be fed in the middle of the night or the way an invalid needs water brought to them, men often don’t realize that they are being the selfish ones. They’re taught this is an absolute need they have, a life and death need, and so if she doesn’t want sex, that must mean she’s being selfish. Links to things mentioned:When Shame Gets Real by Carl ThomasXXX ChurchTo 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!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide 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, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.