Female Authors are Speaking Up, Strengthening Spirits

The book features personal stories as well as insights from experts, including an obstetrician-gynecologist as well as a perinatal mental health psychologist, in an effort to help women improve their sex lives after having children. Sensual Faith: The Art of Coming Home to Your Body (Convergent, Mar. 2023) by Lyvonne Briggs, a body and sex-positive womanist preacher based in New Orleans, introduces a practice of spiritual wellness that centers on celebrating one’s body. Porscha Burke, director of strategic partnerships and senior editor for Random House, says Briggs will help readers create healing bonds as they learn to see “our bodies as temples of The One who made us and said we are good,” she says, quoting from the book, adding that it also explores “ways we can honor God through connecting lovingly, sensually with others.” There have been countless faith-based books written for men about pornography addiction, but Love in Recovery: One Woman’s Story of Breaking Free from Shame and Healing from Pornography Addiction by Rachael Killackey (Ave Maria, Apr. 2023) is one of two forthcoming titles on the topic specifically geared toward women.