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Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Bridging the LGBTQ Gap in the LDS Church

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

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

4.4978 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

"It’s hard to self-correct, but it is the pathway into honest unity within a group. You don’t get unity by suppressing the part of the group you don’t like." - Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife It is important that we never prioritize our ideology over love. Making efforts to know and understand those who experience the world differently than we do expands our view and allows us to create stronger families and communities. In this podcast episode, Dr. Finlayson-Fife joins Tina Gosney for a timely conversation about the importance of bringing honesty and courage to our faith community, especially when it comes to complex and divisive social issues. Being both loving and honest, even with varying perspectives, fosters greater understanding and compassion, and helps us all become wiser. Listen to the full episode to learn more about: * Honesty and the important role it plays in creating meaningful unity * Becoming more Christlike by offering mercy and compassion for others * How to build bridges of understanding with those who believe differently than you do Parenting Through the Detour Podcast 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 Finlays and Fife interview archive. We are so glad that you're here.

0:08.0

Today on the podcast I'm so fortunate to have Dr Finllason Fife and if you're not familiar with her she is an active

0:16.8

member of the LDS church. She has a lot of online courses. She's a licensed clinical

0:22.4

professional counselor in Illinois and she

0:25.1

contributes to a lot of podcast blogs and magazines on relationships and sexuality and

0:31.4

spiritual matters.

0:33.0

So Jennifer, welcome to this podcast

0:35.0

and I'm so happy to have you here.

0:37.0

I know the conversation that we're going to have is going to be

0:40.0

just a really great one, but if there are some people that aren't familiar with you what

0:44.8

else would you like to tell them about yourself?

0:46.8

Let's see I'm married and I have grew up in a young adult to a teenager in their age ranges.

0:57.2

And let's see, I'm trying to think I grew up in Vermont, went to Virginia University for my undergrad and then came back to New England for my PhD.

1:10.0

Yeah.

1:11.0

Okay, great. And you are, I know such a big contributor to different media sources and very vocal in the things that you talk about and that's so appreciated because you have a lot of great things to say.

1:27.0

So we have a couple different topics we're going to talk about today.

1:31.0

And let's just get the big one out of the way first. Let's talk about

1:36.0

elder Holland's talk and we're not really going to talk about the talk as much as we're going to talk about what happened after the talk.

1:46.0

Yeah. There are a lot of LDS parents that have LGBTQ kids that are struggling to find a place where they belong at church.

1:56.2

I happen to be one of them so I relate to how they're feeling.

2:01.1

Yes. Many of them are active, faithful, lifelong churchgoers.

2:07.0

And even like me who, like my ancestors are mentioned in the doctrine of covenants, I mean we go back that far you know and to

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