Becoming a Better Spouse

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this NEW podcast, Dr. Finlayson-Fife joins the Bless the Refreshments podcast to discuss how to become a better spouse, and the fundamental roles that honesty and self-acceptance play in the process. Listen to the full episode to learn more about: * Practical steps for those struggling with needing validation, but craving a more open-hearted relationship with their spouse * Cultural "false traditions" that inhibit intimate relationships, and a more expansive way to interpret our theology * Balancing our need to belong to ourselves with our need to belong to others * Teaching our children to have a healthy and balanced relationship with their sexuality To learn more about Dr. Finlayson-Fife’s work, visit our Website, check out our Course Page, and take a look at our upcoming Events. You can also follow Dr. Finlayson-Fife on Instagram or join her FREE Facebook Group for greater access to her insights. The advice offered through Dr. Finlayson-Fife’s Podcasts 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. Although Dr. Finlayson-Fife is a trained psychotherapist, she is not functioning in the role of a licensed therapist during these sessions, but rather using her training to inform these sessions. Thus, the content is not intended to replace independent professional judgment. The content is not intended to solicit clients or patients, and should not be relied upon as medical or psychological advice of any kind or nature whatsoever. The information provided through the Content should not be used for diagnosing or treating a mental health problem or disease. 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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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dr. Jennifer Finlayson Fife Podcast Archive, where you have access to all the amazing
0:06.5	insights Dr. Finlayson Fife has shared through hundreds of interviews.
0:11.1	I'm Mackenzie, Dr. Finlison Fife's assistant, and we are so glad that you're here. We are very, very excited for this episode because we have a huge name and her name is Dr. Jennifer
0:29.0	Finlason Fife.
0:30.0	Dr. Finlason Fife, why don't you give us a little bit of a background as to who you are and the work that you do and where we can find you?
0:38.8	Sure, so I live here in Chicago and I'm a therapist and coach and instructor and I work
0:46.5	primarily with LDS individuals and couples around the goals of creating more intimate marriages and that is both emotionally
0:56.3	intimate and sexually intimate.
0:58.8	I wrote my dissertation on LDS women and sexual agency.
1:02.7	So that's how I kind of, you know,
1:04.4	I was always interested in helping people in their marriages.
1:06.9	That was always the kind of an early interest,
1:08.8	but this issue of sexuality and sexual intimacy
1:12.8	and how to create really joyful partnerships
1:16.0	is the work I care about in both how our theology supports that,
1:20.5	how some of our cultural traditions impede that you know I've been quite
1:24.3	devoted to helping Latter-day Saints on this front because it it matters to me to kind of
1:30.1	live up to the best in our theology. So that's awesome we're bringing you one of the best in our theology. Oh, that's awesome.
1:34.0	We're bringing you onto the show today to talk a little bit about how to suck less at being a spouse.
1:38.0	Husbands and wives, I'm sure there isn't a huge delineation as you know
1:42.9	LDS men do this, LDS women do this,
1:44.6	though there probably are you know some correlations
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