

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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Aug 12, 2021 • 55min
Episode 108: Direct Communication 101
Send us Fan MailThis week's episode is ALL about communicating! Both with our spouses, and with our kids!Links to things mentioned:Brett Ullman's website where he collates amazing parenting stuff, plus his book Parenting: Navigating EverythingThe Great Sex RescueOur Direct Communication Series: Why it's hard; what direct communication looks like; why it's not mean; why women struggle with it; why men struggle with it. How to Eliminate Nagging for Good (from our Emotional Labor and Mental Load series)Subscribe to our emails To Support Us: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our work For 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 BetterThe Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great SexAnd 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.

Aug 5, 2021 • 1h 14min
Episode 107: Sex and the Sixth Reformation (Or Fourth. Or Second?)
Send us Fan MailAaaaand we're back! Thank you for all being gracious while we took a much needed one-month break in July. Links to things mentioned:Subscribe to the email list!The Great Sex Rescue--and the package you can download to show to your churchOur definitive podcast on lust & modesty (because I didn't want to rehash everything when we talked about Modest is Hottest)The Mars Hill podcast episode--The Things We Do to WomenLaura Robinson's Twitter ThreadThe Jezebel Article about The Great Sex RescueOur article on Elisabeth Elliot and unhealthy dating relationships and the problem with Friendationships when you can't define the relationshipCan Christians use sex toys?Our Churchianity vs. Christianity 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!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books:The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves BetterThe Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great SexAnd 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.

Jun 24, 2021 • 42min
The Slippery Slope of Putting Men in Charge of Women - Start Your Engines Ep. 18
Send us Fan MailKeith summarizes yesterday’s post on the slippery slope of believing in men’s hierarchy over women, and we address mental load and more.Links to things mentioned: Keith's post on the slippery slope of male-only leadershipThe Emotional Labor and Mental Load Series, with a podcast describing the issueThe Let's Go to the Beach Revisited postThe Great Sex RescuePastors: Preach what you practice! About how pastors often say that husbands should make the final decision, though that's not what they actually do.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 BetterThe Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great SexAnd 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.

Jun 17, 2021 • 55min
Episode 105: The Pelvic Floor Episode! (Plus, can you say 'vulva'?)
Send us Fan MailWhat fun episode this week! With our wonderful guest Dr Bethany Peterson joining us, we talk all things pelvic floor and how we as women can improve our lives dramatically with more information on this topic!Links to things mentioned:Bethany Peterson and Well-Core Physiotherapy. You can also find Bethany on Instagram. Bethany's post on why we need to explore our pelvic floorsThe FemFusion Guided Meditation for Pelvic Floor Relaxation videoThe Great Sex Rescue--and our FREE Video Group Study that goes along with itThe 4 Main Causes of VaginismusTo 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 BetterThe Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great SexAnd 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.

Jun 10, 2021 • 57min
Episode 104: Jesus and John Wayne -- the bits about sex!
Send us Fan MailJesus and John Wayne--order it this week!. And follow Kristin on Twitter like I do. She's awesome.Links to things mentioned:The Great Sex Rescue: A great companion to Jesus and John WayneKatie's awesome video and our awesome romance novels we made up, plus Katie's Instagram where you can see all the covers on her story highlightsOur podcast on feeling spiritually homelessTo 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 BetterThe Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great SexAnd 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.

Jun 3, 2021 • 53min
Episode 103: Great Sexpectations and Birthing Babies
Send us Fan MailLet’s talk expectations for childbirth, sex, orgasm, and more!As you’ll hear from the two interviews we did, we were enjoying ourselves immensely talking about how to make different aspects of our lives awesome.Links to things mentioned: Jenn Riedy'Intimately Us' app! 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 BetterThe Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great SexAnd 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.

May 27, 2021 • 57min
Do You Know What the #1 Marriage Speaker in the US Military teaches about Sex?
Send us Fan MailMark Gungor claims to be the #1 marriage teacher in the U.S. military, and I think it’s important to know what he is teaching.Links to things mentioned: The Great Sex Rescue, our new book that has upset everyoneThe audio between Mark and Lexi. You can also read a transcript of the audio by Shannon Ashley, or a transcript with abuse tactics analysis by Sarah McDugal. My article about the audio, and how I feltThe video we analyzed: The Sex/Love portion of A Tale of Two Brains and The Difference Between Men's Brains and Women's Brains. In this clip Mark Gungor also refers to women as "chicks." (around the 10 minute mark and then again afterwards). (This clip was actually sent to me two years ago, before I even really looked into him, because someone was concerned about the derogatory way he referred to women). Our emotional labor/mental load seriesThe podcast where we looked at the problems with Shaunti Feldhahn's research that Emerson Eggerichs used to claim that men need respect while women need love. The survey question where Shaunti Feldhahn claimed that 82% of boys feel little ability or little responsibility to stop in a makeout situationTo 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 BetterThe Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great SexAnd 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.

May 20, 2021 • 53min
Episode 101: How Do Our Beliefs Affect Human Sex Trafficking?
Send us Fan MailWe have a fantastic guest joining us today! With real experience on the mission field, Meghan Tschanz is in a great position to share her thoughts and add her voice to this conversation. Thank you for joining us and listening in today, and thank you again to Meghan for being on our podcast!Things Mentioned in This Podcast:Meghan Tschanz's book Woman Rising: Learning to Listen, Reclaiming Our VoiceThe study about Calvinist/complementarian beliefs and their correlation with domestic violence mythsThe Twitter thread by Branden Henry talking about books and researchThe article Meghan mentioned by Lyn Yonack about power and sexual abuseThe Wipe Every Tear charityThe 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!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books:The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves BetterThe Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great SexAnd 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.

May 14, 2021 • 1h 5min
Episode 100: Is Premarital Sex Dehumanizing?
Send us Fan MailWe made it to 100 episodes! Thank you to all our listeners for sticking with us, whether from day one or last week, we SO appreciate you being here! And thank you to all those who sent in messages for us to listen to in this episode! Links to things mentioned: Great Sex Rescue!Michael John Cusick's Site, his book Surfing for God, and his Restoring the Soul podcastTim Keller's Twitter ThreadFocus on the Family article about consent The Honeymoon CourseTo 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 BetterThe Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great SexAnd 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.

May 6, 2021 • 1h 8min
Episode 99: Don't Let Your Voice be Small Just Because You're a Woman
Send us Fan MailThank you to our WONDERFUL guests this week! We have 3 different people joining in on the discussions today!Links to things mentioned:Timothy Thomas' articles, Part 1 and Part 2Bruce C.E. Fleming's Eden podcast and Book of Eden book. The podcast walks through many of the Genesis verses regarding gender and shows us a beautiful picture of wholeness and freedomShannon Ashley's article about our interaction with Mark GungorThe 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!Support the showJoin Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!Check out her books:The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves BetterThe Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great SexAnd 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.


