Episode 317: Famished--How Purity Culture Taught Women to Shrink with Anna Rollins

Send us Fan Mail Anna Rollins grew up as the kind of girl who took her faith seriously — and that's exactly why it hurt her so much. In this conversation, Anna and I dig into her memoir Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl , where she traces how purity culture's messages about desire, self-denial, and the body quietly fueled decades of disordered eating, compulsive exercise, and sexual pain. What strikes me most is that Anna's parents were loving, her church wasn't overtly abusive — and yet the cumulative message she absorbed was shrink yourself . I think this conversation is going to resonate deeply with so many of you. THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR: To Heal or Harm: Scripture's Use as Poison or Medicine for Abuse Survivors by Dr. Steven Tracy. How to refute it when Bible verses are weaponized! TO SUPPORT US: Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our work And check out our Merch, or any of our courses ! Give to the Good Fruit Faith Initiative of the Bosko Foundation Join our email list! LINKS MENTIONED: Get Anna Rollins' book Famished Follow Anna on Substack Watch our Love & Respect Docuseries The Portuguese version of The Great Sex Rescue The Chinese version of The Great Sex Rescue The Spanish version of The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex Support the show Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com ! Check out her books: The Great Sex Rescue She Deserves Better The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex And 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.

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Episode 317: Famished--How Purity Culture Taught Women to Shrink with Anna Rollins is an episode from Bare Marriage by Sheila Gregoire.

This episode is 55:39 long.

This episode was published on Feb 26, 2026.

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