What would your life look like if you actually awakened desire?

Not just desire for sex, but allowed yourself to feel desire, to feel excitement, to feel pleasure, and not feel like

you were somehow cheating on God if you let yourself get excited about something.

That's what we're going to be talking about today on the Bear Marriage podcast.

I'm Sheila Regregoer from Bearmarriage.com where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based

biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage.

And I'm joined

at the beginning by my daughter Rebecca Lyndon Buck. And we are sort of the face behind bare marriage,

but we are going to be joined by one of our favorite people. Jay Stringer is here to talk about

his new book on Desire. And you've seen Jay recently on the Love and Respect docu series. He was a great voice, really added a lot to

that. And he's going to share about his new book. We just loved his first book, Unwanted. It's one of

our go-to recommended resources. And I know that this one will be as well. One of the things Jay talked

about on the Love and Respect series that people really resonated with was this idea that

often we talk about sex as something that is separate from the rest of our life. Right? So this is

the idea that you have lust issues. Well, do you? But you also have eroticized rage. And you've also

like sexualized feelings of control. And those are actually problems more than the quote unquote

lust issue because that's the underpinning

current that's causing the problematic behaviors for the less issue. And so I know people really

liked what he was saying about that. And again, I'm going to plug it for the next 17 years.

If you haven't watched it yet, all three parts are live. But I think you guys are going to really love what Jay has to

say. And we have always appreciated that Jay is one of the people who is writing in the space who's

also very dedicated to doing research and not having it just be one dude's opinion. And so how

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