Shannon is a million-copy best-selling author, international speaker, and certified life coach with a master’s degree in Counseling/Human Relations from Liberty University. She has spoken to youth, college students, and adults since 1989. Her passions include:
- Challenging adults to embrace a life of sexual integrity
- Encouraging married couples in their pursuit of sexual and emotional fulfillment
- Counseling women who have looked for love in all the wrong places or who have lost that feeling of love altogether
- Equipping parents to instill sexual values in children at an early age
Her passion for healthy sexuality actually began 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 of an HIV positive diagnosis. Because of her own promiscuous teenage years, she knew it was a miracle that she was standing over the embalming table rather than laying on top of it.
These experiences inspired her to begin speaking boldly and bluntly to teen, college-age, and adult audiences about the benefits of sexual integrity. She has taught and counseled thousands of young singles and married couples over three decades. She is the author of 22 books, including:
- the best-selling Every Woman’s Battle series about sexual and emotional integrity
- the 5-book Completely His series about spiritual intimacy with Christ
- her book for the mainstream market, The Sexually Confident Wife
- and her latest releases with Thomas Nelson, The Fantasy Fallacy: Exposing the Deeper Meaning Behind Sexual Thoughts and The Passion Principles: Celebrating Sexual Freedom in Marriage; Shannon’s two riveting fiction novels, To Know You and Veil of Secrets.
Shannon has been featured on The Today Show (MSNBC), appeared on the cover of Today’s Christian Woman Magazine, and is a frequent guest on international radio & television shows such as The 700 Club, Life Today with James & Betty Robison, FamilyLife Today with Dennis Rainey, and New Life Live! with Stephen Arterburn. She has also been published in numerous magazines such as Focus on the Family, Brio, and LifeWay and is the winner of a Gold Medallion Award for Excellence in Publishing.
For more information on Shannon’s story and some of her books, see the sample videos below.
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