Exploring Masculinity

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

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

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In this NEW podcast episode, Dr. Finlayson-Fife joins Jared and Ethan Thomas of the A Brothers' Creed podcast to talk about how society's view of masculinity has shifted over time, what masculine strength actually is, and how men can step up and embody that strength to bless the lives of their families and communities. Listen to the full episode to learn more about: * What strong masculinity looks like * Honesty and the fundamental role it plays in desirability * Immature masculinity ("bullies" and "nice guys") * Men's mental health and the importance of finding a sense of purpose * Inherited Cultural Meanings of Masculinity and 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. Finlson Fife's assistant, and we are so glad that you're here.
0:21.0	Welcome, Dr. Jennifer Finlayson Fife. Thank you so much for joining us today.
0:24.0	Thanks for having me. We appreciate you joining the podcast and talking to us a little bit about
0:28.9	masculinity today. We've already done your kind of introduction and your credentials in the intro, and we're
0:35.2	excited to hear from you in regards to just how masculinity is in this world that we live.
0:41.8	And I've been taking one of your courses and you talk a lot about that in there and so I thought it would be very interesting to get your sense of masculinity and then also in the context of what is attractive and how that fits into sexuality in these in this modern day.
0:58.3	So one of the things maybe we can start with is, you know, as LD members of the Church of Jesus Christ
1:06.0	of Latter-day Saints or just Christians broadly, I think that there's growing up Christian,
1:11.2	there's that growing up in that environment really shapes your mentality around masculinity.
1:17.0	I personally think both positively and in some cases negatively.
1:20.0	And I think you might see that a lot in your practice.
1:23.6	Can you talk a little bit about what some of those positives and negatives might be?
1:27.0	Sure. First, I think one of the positives is that in our Christian ideal or kind of modeling ourselves after Christ
1:38.0	It offers a broader notion of masculinity than I think is in the larger culture and allows for aspects of manhood that are in more kind of rigid traditional cultures are more identified with femininity so that is to say nurturance, warmth, compassion, and so I think that there is that aspect you see men in the LDS church don't have such a rigid notion of masculinity as being about dominance.
2:11.0	It's more about service or what I wrote about in my district. about and devotion to kind of the well-being of society.
2:25.6	And so there's a lot of value
2:28.7	in that understanding of what it is to be a good man.
2:37.4	I think it's, you know, in terms of the negative, I'm trying to think what I would focus on, but I think that one of them is we have a lot of
2:41.8	ambivalence about sexuality which maybe we'll talk about but I think men are given an idea that they are naturally sexual and that our
2:55.0	our sexuality is about accommodating a husband.
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