Hi, my name is Ruby, and I'm Dr. Jennifer Finlason-5's assistant, and you're listening to the Dr Finlason-5 podcast Archive.

The podcast you'll be listening to today is entitled Developing Emotional Maturity, and was originally produced and published by Preston Pugmire of the next Love a Life Podcast.

Welcome and we hope you enjoy this episode.

On the podcast today we have Dr. Jennifer Finlason Fife. She is a licensed psychotherapist and she specializes in relationship and sexuality counseling.

She primarily works with LDS couples. I first came to know about her through listening to her on other podcasts and then I've actually

Me and my wife have bought her courses and love, love her work.

So Jennifer, thank you for coming on the podcast today.

Thanks for having me.

My pleasure.

So tell the people just real quick,

just kind of introduce yourself a little bit even though I already did but

tell us about your heart and your hopes and your fears and your dreams just get into it

Well that's a lot okay

I'm Jennifer I live in the Chicago area I grew up in Burlington, Vermont in a large

Mormon family and I'm married and have three kids and I'm as Preston said I am a private practice therapist and I do a lot of

couples work and I love the work it's it's really challenging but absolutely I love it

my hopes fears and, let's see. It's a lot. My hopes and fears

are kind of go together, which is a stable functioning society, will continue.

That is definitely my hopes and fears.

My hopes are around, very much around my family, my children and kind of who they're growing up to be and who they're becoming.

And you know, my biggest hope is to just live life well and fully and in a way that I can respect

and be grateful for at the end. It's precious and it's not as

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