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Conversations with Dr. Jennifer
Hosted by Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife · EN
Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife is a sex and relationship expert who has been interviewed for hundreds of podcasts–and now you can access all the amazing content covering issues of faith, sexuality, integrity, belonging, and more right here on the interview archive!
Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife is an LDS relationship and sexuality coach with a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology. Her teaching and coaching focus on helping LDS individuals and couples create greater connection and passion in their emotional and sexual relationships.
In addition to her private practice, Dr. Finlayson-Fife has created five empowering and highly-reviewed online courses. Each course was designed to give LDS individuals and couples the tools requisite to creating healthier lives and stronger intimate relationships. Dr. Finlayson-Fife also offers many workshops and retreats where she teaches these life-changing principles in person.
The advice offered through any and all podcasts in which she is featured is educational and informational in nature and is provided only as general information. It is not meant to establish a therapist-patient relationship or offer therapeutic advice, opinion, diagnosis treatment or to establish a standard of care. The information contained in these communications is not comprehensive and does not include all the potential information regarding the subject matter, but is merely intended to serve as one resource for general and educational purposes.
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La Soledad en el Matrimonio [Loneliness in Marriage Q&A]
4d ago01:06:29Tap to summarizeWe've received many requests over the years to offer Dr. Finlayson-Fife's resources in other languages. Miriam Parkin has generously offered her time and talent to translate episodes for us and we will add them to the feed as they come in (in addition to our regular podcast production schedule). You can listen to the original "Loneliness in Marriage Q&A" podcast HERE. _______ Cuando nos casamos, la mayoría de nosotros imaginamos una vida plena de conexión y compañía. Sin embargo, cuando uno se siente ignorado, no elegido o decepcionado por la manera en que su cónyuge se presenta —tanto emocional como sexualmente—, el matrimonio puede comenzar a sentirse solitario y aislante. En esta sesión de preguntas y respuestas de una hora de duración, la Dra. Finlayson-Fife responde a las inquietudes de aquellas personas que se sienten no elegidas, aisladas y desconectadas en su relación más importante.
Transcribe →What Parents Need to Know About Sexual Integrity
1w ago00:36:25Tap to summarizeParenting a teenager is hard enough before sexuality enters the picture. And when it does, most parents grapple with finding the balance between protection and permission, values and flexibility, structure and trust. The role you play in your child's sexual development doesn't stay fixed. It shifts as they grow, and knowing when to hold a limit and when to let go is rarely as clear as we'd like it to be. In this episode, Dr. Finlayson-Fife joins Marielle Melling of the Raising Healthy, Happy Teens Virtual Summit to discuss what sexual integrity is, why it matters for your teen's long-term wellbeing, and how parents can nurture it through every imperfect, evolving stage of the process. For a deeper dive on teaching kids about sexuality, enroll in Dr. Finlayson-Fife's How to Talk to Kids About Sex course! SAVE 20% on Cozy Earth products with code JFF20
Transcribe →Men and Intimacy [ONE DAY SALE!]
2w ago00:56:10Tap to summarizeALL COURSES 30% OFF TODAY ONLY! code DAD30 We tend to assume men are naturally sexual, comfortable with desire, and quick to want sex. But comfort and ease are not the same thing. Many men carry a private discomfort with their own sexual nature, especially men raised in traditions where sexuality is treated as suspect. And so they look to their wife's desire to make their own sexuality feel acceptable, a dependency that hides behind the appearance of confidence. In this episode, Dr. Finlayson-Fife joins Rhonda Farr to talk about men's difficulty with their own sexuality, why higher desire can mask a deeper insecurity, and how men can move from proving themselves through sex to actually blessing their marriage through it.
Transcribe →The Parent Trap | How Caretaking Kills Desire [Room for Two Preview]
2w ago00:51:41Tap to summarizeJohnny is done being controlled. His faith shift made him realize just how much every decision he ever made was shaped by others — and he's not interested in that anymore. In his newfound freedom, he's been experimenting with substances in a way that's unsettling for June. When she says something about his choices, he responds like a rebellious adolescent. Staying quiet feels easier, of course, but Johnny's choices are having a real impact on her, and she's not sure where her responsibility ends and his begins. In this preview episode of Room for Two, Dr. Finlayson-Fife works with Johnny and June around the parent/child dynamic that is stifling the intimacy in their relationship. This preview episode will resonate with listeners who: Are in a mixed-faith or post-faith-shift marriage Are navigating a partner's substance use Feel like their spouse's parent Crave more intimacy and connection To unlock the FULL episode and over a hundred more that are just as powerful, SUBSCRIBE TO ROOM FOR TWO Save 20% at Cozy Earth with code JFF20
Transcribe →Mid-Singles and Sexuality Q&A
3w ago01:12:33Tap to summarizeDating, sexuality, and romantic relationships are tricky enough when we're young — but life experience, past hurts, and complicated relationship histories add a whole new layer of complexity for those of us who are single in midlife. The simple answers and guidelines that once felt sufficient don't quite hold anymore. If it feels like the framework and guidance you were offered as a teen isn't working, it's because it was intended for someone at an entirely different stage in life. Midlife singlehood asks something more, because you've lived enough to know that life doesn't always go as planned, and the choices in front of you now carry a depth and consequence that call you toward the spirit of the law, not just the letter of it. During this Q&A discussion, Dr. Finlayson-Fife speaks directly to mid-singles — whether never married, divorced, or widowed — answering their real questions on topics including: What chastity actually means for adults with sexual history How to relate to desire and sexuality without fear running the show Dating wisely without repeating old patterns What to look for in a partner How to use this season as an opportunity for growth — regardless of what comes next ANNOUCEMENTS: Get your tickets for JFF's FIRST-EVER event for singles HERE Save 20% on Cozy Earth pajamas, sheets and more with code JFF20
Transcribe →Mixed-Faith Marriages | Q&A with Dr. Jennifer
4w ago00:51:30Tap to summarizeWhen a spouse's faith shifts, the anxiety that follows is real. Most of us want to find a way around it, so we seek reinforcement from friends, try to pressure them back into their old position, or just avoid the conversation altogether. But avoiding a difficult reality doesn't make the anxiety go away. In fact, it increases it. In this Q&A episode, Dr. Finlayson-Fife takes questions from those navigating mixed-faith marriages, including how to share where you are without demanding your spouse follow, how to stay collaborative when your worldviews have diverged, and how to raise children when you no longer share the same spiritual framework. Because it is in going toward the hard conversations, not around them, that we grow, and that our marriages can too. _________ Last call for our 2026 Sex Worth Wanting Retreat! SAVE 20% on Cozy Earth Products (including their buttery-soft sheets!) HERE with code JFF20
Transcribe →Desarrollo y Madurez Espiritual [Developing Spiritual Maturity]
May 2900:41:28Tap to summarizeWe've received many requests over the years to offer Dr. Finlayson-Fife's resources in other languages. Miriam Parkin has generously offered her time and talent to translate episodes for us and we will add them to the feed as they come in (in addition to our regular podcast production schedule). You can listen to the original "Developing Spiritual Maturity" podcast HERE. _________ Jody Moore, del podcast *Better Than Happy*, entrevista a la Dra. Finlayson-Fife sobre el tema de la madurez espiritual. En la conversación abordan:- La importancia de la madurez espiritual y cómo alcanzarla.- Cómo vivir la vida con mayor honestidad y en consonancia con la propia integridad.- El proceso de abordar la obediencia con sabiduría.- El verdadero significado del pudor y cómo enseñarlo con sensatez.- Por qué el perfeccionismo es una virtud falsa y cuál es la verdadera naturaleza de la bondad genuina.- Cuáles son los frutos de la madurez espiritual.
Transcribe →Rethinking Obedience
May 2600:48:47Tap to summarizeAll of us start out following the rules of our family or group because we want to stay safe, earn approval, or belong to something larger than ourselves. Safety and belonging are not small motivations, they're important and necessary steps on the pathway of our moral development. But obedience is the first law of heaven for a reason. It was never meant to be the final one. Obedience lays the foundation for us to grow towards something far greater: integrity. In this conversation with Larkin Swain of the Sanctuary Podcast, Dr. Finlayson-Fife walks through her three-stage framework for spiritual and psychological development and explains the role of obedience in each stage. We begin in fear. We grow into belonging. And in Stage 3, we use the moral compass we developed in Stages 1 and 2 to make our decisions not from fear or compliance, but from our own integrity. When we make that shift from living by the letter of the law to the spirit of it, it can feel like something has gone terribly wrong. But it hasn't. It's actually the whole point. SHOW NOTES: SAVE up to 30% at COZY EARTH through June 1st with code JFF30
Transcribe →Finding Joy
May 1900:52:02Tap to summarizeJoy is not something we stumble upon. And it's not freedom from suffering. Nor is it the same thing as happiness. Joy is the willingness to see the beauty and goodness around us, even in the midst of difficulty and loss. Joy is a disposition toward living, not a feeling that comes and goes. And developing the capacity for it takes courage. In this episode, Dr. Finlayson-Fife joins Monica Packer of the About Progress podcast to explore what joy actually requires of us, why eros love is at the heart of a marriage that stays alive, and what it means to stop trying to change your spouse and start asking who you want to be instead. SHOW NOTES: SAVE up to 30% at Cozy Earth with code JFF30 (through 6/1)—HERE are the pajamas JFF loves! Join us for the Sex Worth Wanting Retreat! Read That We Might Have Joy (currently $14.95 on Amazon)
Transcribe →Grace & Growth: Parenting Special Needs Children
May 1200:55:20Tap to summarizeMost of us enter parenthood knowing it will be both challenging and rewarding. We expect difficulty. We expect exhaustion. But what we don't expect — and what we can never be fully prepared for — is a life-altering diagnosis and the grief that follows when reality doesn't match what we had envisioned for our child and our family. In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife joins Brad Broyles and Nathan Palmer of The Polaris Connection Podcast to share more about her own experience as the mother of a son with autism. She discusses the difficulty and overwhelm she faced early on and the unglamorous process of learning to stop trying to solve her son and start truly choosing him. While this conversation centers on parenting a child with autism, it speaks to the universal challenge of loving our children as they are rather than as we imagined them to be. _________ Join us for a one-day couples workshop in Alpine! Tickets HERE
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