Barbara Wilson
Barbara Wilson is the founder of Freedom Bound Communications, a ministry that brings healing and hope to those with a sexual past and directs the Sexual Health Education for faith-based Alternatives Pregnancy Center in Sacramento, California. She speaks internationally to youth and adults with her message of sexual bonding and healing. Released from a past of her own, Barbara shares her journey to healing in her book, The Invisible Bond: How to Break Free From Your Sexual Past published by Multnomah Waterbrook Press, a division of Random House Publications. Her second book, Kiss Me Again; Restoring Lost Intimacy In Marriage,(by the same publisher) will help couples heal from their sexual pasts so they can re-bond sexually and emotionally in their marriage. She is an active member of the multi-campus, Bayside Covenant Church in Granite Bay, California where she offers a bible study that leads women to God’s forgiving, healing power for past sexual sin and trauma. Barbara and her husband Eric have been married for 29 years and have four great kids, two wonderful daughter-in-laws, and 3 beautiful grandchildren.
Childhood Sexual Abuse: How the past affects the present
Rough estimates put one in three girls and one in six boys in the US at risk for being sexually abused. But exact figures are hard to assess because most children delay reporting their abuse until later in adulthood or never report it at all. Many of the women I’ve led through healing were not […] Read More >
Healing From Your Sexual Past
I’ve heard every possible story. In addition to hearing the stories of the women who come into our bible study for sexual healing, people email me from all over the world. Just when I think I couldn’t possibly hear anything worse, someone shares the unimaginable with me. The evil that people do to one another […] Read More >
Help! I Love my Husband but I Don’t like Sex
Has love betrayed you? There is hope. “Why was it so hard to resist sex before marriage, but now in marriage, resisting is all I do?” “Why do I love my husband, but don’t want to make love?” “Why was sex so good before marriage when I shouldn’t have been having it, but now that […] Read More >
How Do I Know if I Need Healing?
Sometimes we can feel a certain way for so long that it starts to feel normal, comfortable even. It becomes so familiar that we stuff down that nagging thought that we should do something about our struggles. The process of healing can seem scarier than what we’re experiencing now. I met a woman at a […] Read More >
How Do I Know if I’ve Been Sexually Abused?
Sexual abuse has a broader definition than we may assume. There are four types of sexual abuse: verbal, visual, physical and psychological. Verbal sexual abuse includes sexual threats, sexual comments about your body, lewd or suggestive comments and inappropriate sexual conversations with children. Visual sexual abuse includes exposure to pornographic, sexually explicit material or scenes, […] Read More >
I Can’t Forgive Their Sexual Past
I recently heard from a man struggling with the sexual past of a new love in his life. As a widower, his only sexual partner had been his wife. But his new friend had many, including a couple husbands and several boyfriends. According to him everything about her was perfect except this one thing. He […] Read More >
Kiss Me Again
I meet many married women who love their husbands but don’t love sex. Their question is always the same: they want to know why. Is it the stress of marriage, children, work? Or could it be more than sheer exhaustion or waning libido? Could it have something to do with the sex they had […] Read More >
Parameters for Sex in a Christian Marriage
In today’s “anything goes” culture what are the parameters for good sex between a Christian husband and wife? Are there some things that are off limits? What about sex toys? Do they have a place in a Christian marriage? How do you know if a sexual act is wrong between a husband and wife? These […] Read More >
Past Abuse: Why do I feel this way?
Perhaps you’ve been struggling for years with feelings that you can’t understand or explain. Here are some of the ways sexual abuse affects a child, which can follow into adulthood. Maybe you’ll see some of yourself in the list below: Self-blame: When children experience trauma, their inherent egocentrism leads them to believe that they are […] Read More >
Sexual Healing – Breaking sexual bonds exercise
The bonding of sex is not only physical, but also spiritual, emotional and mental which includes the chemical and hormonal bonding that happens. Although we’d like to believe that breaking up and moving on severs that bond, in truth, only God can sever the ‘one flesh’ bond He’s created through sex. 1. Ask God to bring […] Read More >
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