Preparing Your Daughter for Every Woman's Battle Creative Conversations About Sexual and Emotional Integrity

Where Will Your Daughter Turn for Answers About Sex? Long before we may realize it, our daughters are bombarded with messages about sexfrom friends, advertisers, media icons, and more. All of this inputalong with the whirlwind of emotions that accompany pubertycan leave them confused, filled with unasked questions about boys, dating, sex, and their own value. While you may believe that your preteen or early adolescent is too young for "the talk," now is the perfect time for creative conversations about sexuality. By introducing key principles and truths during these teachable years, you can lay a foundation that will help your daughter withstand the inevitable pressures young women face. And you'll create a lasting bond, establishing yourself as a trustworthy authority who is willing to help her address the sensitive issues in her life. Recognizing how awkward it can be to confront the topic of sex, author Shannon Ethridge guides you and your daughter through enjoyable yet memorable discussions about sexuality, purity, and datingleading to a deeper understanding of and appreciation for God's standards.Preparing Your Daughter for Every Woman's Battleprovides creative tools that will give you the courage and confidence to talk openly and honestly with your daughterand instill values that will lead her to a lifetime of sexual and emotional integrity. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Shannon is a writer, speaker, lay counselor, and advocate for sexual integrity with a master’s degree in counseling/human relations from Liberty University. She has spoken to youth, college students, and adults since 1989 and her passions include:

* Challenging the body of Christ to embrace a life of sexual integrity
* Encouraging married couples in their pursuit of sexual and emotional fulfillment
* Ministering to women who have looked for love in all the wrong places
* Instilling sexual values in children at an early age
* Inspiring others to make Jesus Christ the primary Love of their life

Her passion for sexual purity didn’t begin inside church walls, however, but in mortuary college. Her first career choice, becoming a mortician, led Ethridge to work on dead bodies. Many she embalmed were young people who had died from AIDS or committed suicide as a result an HIV positive diagnosis. Because of her own promiscuous teenage years, she knew that it was only by the grace of God that she was standing over the embalming table rather than laying on top of it.

God used these experiences to usher her into youth ministry, and later into Teen Mania Ministries where she has taught and counseled college age women since 1999. She is the author of 8 books, including Every Woman’s Battle and Every Young Woman’s Battle, both of which have remained on the best-seller list since their release and have been reprinted in six different languages, offering hope to women all around the world. Her next book, Preparing Your Daughter for Every Woman’s Battle, releases in June and is featured on the cover of the July/August issue of Today’s Christian Woman magazine.

Shannon has been interviewed on national radio & television shows such as Focus on the Family, The 700 Club, Life Today with James & Betty Robison, FamilyLife Today with Dennis Rainey, New Life Live! with Stephen Arterburn.

Although grateful for the opportunities God has given her to influence this generation as a writer and speaker, Shannon remains most passionate about her primary callings -- as a wife and best friend to her husband of 15 years, Greg, and a mother and cheerleader to their two children, Erin (13) and Matthew (10). She and her family reside in a log cabin among the piney woods of east Texas.