The Sinner Guide to Natural Family Planning edition by Simcha Fisher Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
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So, you’ve decided to use Natural Family Planning.
Has it blessed your marriage? Deepened your respect for your body? Has it made your sex life fantastic?
Do you and your spouse hold hands at sunset, and do pink flowers grow around your marital bed?
If so, this book is not for you.
But if you’ve tried Natural Family Planning and have discovered that your life is now awful – or if you feel judged or judgey, or if you trust NFP but your doctor doesn’t, or if just you’re trying to figure out how the heck to have a sex life that is holy but still human – you’ll find comfort, encouragement, honesty, wit, and, most importantly, practical advice in The Sinner’s Guide to NFP.
In a series of funny, frank, and profound essays, popular Catholic blogger and mother of nine Simcha Fisher shows what it’s really like to practice NFP, and how to achieve those fabled “marriage building” benefits.
The Sinner’s Guide to NFP helps you with
NFP and Your Spiritual Life
NFP and the Rest of the World
NFP in the Trenches
An easy and lively read, thoroughly grounded in orthodox Catholic theology, this book is packed with refreshingly frank insights about sex, love, and marriage. The next time you ask yourself, “If NFP is wonderful, why am I so miserable?” – don’t panic. The Sinner’s Guide to NFP is here to help.
The Sinner Guide to Natural Family Planning edition by Simcha Fisher Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
Hilarious yet full of great information. A must-read, especially for people like me who teach NFP. The only thing I wish she would have included is a more clear recommendation for couples who seem to have to abstain for long periods of time to consult with an accredited teacher in their method (and ask for a referral to another teacher if your current one is not being helpful). Going through charts with a teacher during times of hormonal changes (like post-partum, peri-menopause, or illness/stress) can often help reduce unnecessary abstinence. The author has great tips for managing times of abstinence, but it's best to make sure that that abstaining is really necessary.The other thing I would have liked to see too is recommendations for teachers as to how to encourage often reluctant couples to choose NFP over contraception without making NFP sound like all sunshine and roses. Often in marriage prep courses our audience is very mixed - everything from very devout Catholic couples to people who are only there because a family member wants them to have a church wedding. Also, there are many couples where only one is Catholic and the other is really not interested in NFP.
But these are just minor points,and maybe outside the scope of the book. Everything that she did include is really great information and I really strongly recommend this book!
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The Sinner Guide to Natural Family Planning edition by Simcha Fisher Health Fitness Dieting eBooks Reviews
My husband and I have managed to come to terms with the cross that we have to bear when we are abstaining during NFP, but I still found the honest and candid advice and support in this book to be very beneficial.
From what I understand, I live in one of, if not the most, secular state in the United States. However, I am fortunate enough to have a really great support network for NFP here, mostly through a phenomenal teaching couple who are down to earth and kind. I am also a member of the Couple to Couple League, so I receive their magazine, which is full of support and advice. I've found through my contact with other Catholic couples who live in far more Catholic areas than I do that this support network isn't available to everyone. For this very reason, I suggest that every Catholic couple planning to use NFP get this book. The first chapter is, essentially, something very similar to what I read in my CCLI magazines regarding in what circumstances the Church allows NFP to be used. The discussion of the individual circumstances of each couple's situation in this first chapter is really vital for every couple to read so that they know for certain that their sacrifice with abstinence isn't out of line with orthodoxy. This confidence is really vital to having peace of mind when practicing NFP. I can tell you that, when my husband and I were first struggling to figure out our marriage while using NFP, we were told we were using it with a contraceptive mindset by a random internet "theologian" because our circumstances and reasons for postponing pregnancy weren't life or death. At the time, we were abstaining for approximately three weeks at a time and it was painful. I cried to my husband that it would be so much easier to just throw caution to the wind and get pregnant despite our reasons to postpone pregnancy, and I sobbed over not understanding why on earth we would be making the sacrifice that we were making if it was putting us in mortal sin. When I turned to our wonderful teaching couple regarding my sadness, she sent me a copy of the magazine we get that had precisely the same type of content as the first chapter of Simcha's book in it, and it helped us tremendously. I suggest getting this book even if it is only to have a reminder that your sacrifice is not in vain and that there are people out there who support you.
Beyond that, the book is really honest about what it takes to have a healthy marriage, whether you are using NFP or not. There is a lot of great advice on how to show love to one another without being physical. Simcha is nonjudgmental and understanding. She gives her advice with obviously nothing but the desire to help other couples with what she's learned. NFP is wonderful, it brings many graces to a marriage, but, the honest truth is, you have to work for it. This book is a great guide on how to do that work.
I also can attest to Simcha's advice to remember that couples who use contraception also have problems in their marriages and with their sex lives. Why, I can even attest to this with first-hand knowledge because I have used contraception. Simcha's descriptions of the piftalls contraceptive sex brings with it are accurate and a great reminder as to why NFP is superior.
I did find the book a little disjointed, but, in fairness, that isn't necessarily bad. It reads more like a conversation over coffee with your best friend about NFP than it does a theology textbook, which fits well with the content of the book. Simcha feels like your friend when you read it. I really did like that aspect of the book, so it was worth having it be a bit disjointed.
I have to warn women who have very supportive husbands that they might not want to read this while they are in their fertile phase. A lot of Simcha's advice for men is about doing nice things for their wives and making sure they feel courted outside of the bedroom. Since my husband does this, I kept reading Simcha's words and being reminded of all the nice things he does, and, well, I was very glad we weren't abstaining at the time I was reading it. (I just wanted to point that out in the spirit of helping and supporting each other in the struggles that NFP does bring up.)
All in all, I'm really glad this book exists. I do think there is a need to be honest with people regarding what practicing NFP is like. There should be more books that dive into this subject matter. I know that the rosy picture we generally paint about NFP tends to feed into the attitude that people use it in a contraceptive manner. I mean, if it's so easy to do, it must be easy to do it with a contraceptive mentality, right? The conversation about NFP needs to be honest and open without scaring people away. I think Simcha's book does a good job in starting this. I give the book 4/5 stars.
Originally posted on my blog [...]
I'd heard this title occasionally come up in conversation and wasn't super interested ... I assumed it was a short-cut for super fun couples who hate NFP(sinners, obviously!!🙂). This book is EXCELLENT and both men and women can take a lot from it. As the author notes early on, it is not to sell the concept of NFP or teach charting. It's dripping with humor, TRUTH, and encourages reflection. There are some very big concepts in here that go well beyond child-spacing and fertility. Buy it, read it ... re-visit it yearly.
Simcha Fisher's new "The Sinner's Guide to Natural Family Planning" is the most refreshing and honest work on NFP I've ever read. In easy prose that's at times laugh-out-loud funny, Fisher has the courage to face the true ups and down of using NFP as a Catholic couple -- both the joys that come from marital chastity and the fact that sometimes, when you want to have sex and need to abstain, it kinda sucks.
The book is divided into three sections. In the first, "NFP and the Spiritual Life," Fisher outlines important spiritual considerations of the Church's teachings on martial love. In the second, "NFP and the Rest of the World," she deals with the counter-cultural implications of NFP. But the final and longest section, "NFP in the Trenches," is the real meat of the book, where Fisher takes a brutally honest look at what it means to put the Church's teachings into practice. Fisher is not afraid to tackle difficult and rarely-discussed aspects of marital sexuality and should be commended for finding safe ground between frankness and explicitness.
As a husband I can also say that the book is "guy-friendly"; while much of the advice is clearly directed towards wives, it never turns flowery or overly emotional in a way that might turn of committed Catholic men, and I recommend that husbands and wives read the book together.
"The Sinner's Guide to Natural Family Planning" is an outstanding contribution to the Catholic conversation on marital sexuality and I heartily recommend it.
Hilarious yet full of great information. A must-read, especially for people like me who teach NFP. The only thing I wish she would have included is a more clear recommendation for couples who seem to have to abstain for long periods of time to consult with an accredited teacher in their method (and ask for a referral to another teacher if your current one is not being helpful). Going through charts with a teacher during times of hormonal changes (like post-partum, peri-menopause, or illness/stress) can often help reduce unnecessary abstinence. The author has great tips for managing times of abstinence, but it's best to make sure that that abstaining is really necessary.
The other thing I would have liked to see too is recommendations for teachers as to how to encourage often reluctant couples to choose NFP over contraception without making NFP sound like all sunshine and roses. Often in marriage prep courses our audience is very mixed - everything from very devout Catholic couples to people who are only there because a family member wants them to have a church wedding. Also, there are many couples where only one is Catholic and the other is really not interested in NFP.
But these are just minor points,and maybe outside the scope of the book. Everything that she did include is really great information and I really strongly recommend this book!
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