Belonging and Boundaries

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

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

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Dr. Finlayson-Fife was interviewed on the Faith Matters podcast to discuss the tension between boundaries and belonging when it comes to returning to in-person church following the pandemic. Listen to learn more about... - How integrity allows us to hold the tension between belonging and boundaries - Differentiation theory - Wise choices and boundaries around participation in the church - How to create genuine connection within our ward families by bringing a deeper sense of honesty - How self-development allows for deeper compassion and wisdom You can listen to more Faith Matters podcasts and learn more about them on their website. 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. www.Finlayson-Fife.com You can also listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, and Stitcher. The advice offered through Dr. Finlayson-Fife’s Podcast Archive 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. Finlayson Fife's assistant, and we are so glad that you're here.
0:19.1	Today's podcast episode was originally produced and published by the Faith Matters
0:24.4	podcast and is titled The belonging and Boundaries a conversation with
0:30.0	Jennifer Finlays and Fife. If you want to hear more from Dr Finlay and
0:36.1	spirituality, you can also follow the link in the show notes below to a recent
0:41.0	YouTube video titled Navigating Faith Concerns. Enjoy the episode.
0:47.0	Dr Finlison Fife, we are so excited to get to talk to you finally, so thank you so much for joining us. My pleasure and welcome. We felt like
0:56.9	your perspective was really important in this conversation we've been
0:59.8	thinking about and talking about gathering again.
1:03.0	And a couple of weeks ago, we asked listeners
1:04.8	to submit questions and comments about how they're feeling
1:08.2	about going back to church.
1:09.3	And most of the comments, especially the ones that seemed full of a little bit of anxiety,
1:15.8	were about setting boundaries and about relationships. And so we just kept thinking about you and that this is kind of your
1:22.4	will house and we would love to just get to pick your brain and use your expertise to talk about how to sort of reorient with this new schedule.
1:31.0	And it made me think of something that I've heard you say before, that all humans have two
1:36.6	desires to belong to ourselves and to belong to others. And I just kind of wondered if maybe this is the conflict that we're seeing that maybe for the people who feel especially anxious about going back to church
1:47.0	Maybe this year off was sort of an it alleviated a lot of that conflict. And I think that what they were expressing
1:53.8	in lots of different ways was just this trepidation
1:57.3	that maybe re-engaging will mean
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