Helping Teens Navigate Their Sexual Identity

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Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

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

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Sherrae Phelps and Dr. Finlayson-Fife recorded a timely and thoughtful conversation about navigating your sexual identity as a teen and what role parents can play in that process. Listen to hear more about... - Normal development in the highly vulnerable and impressionable time of teenage years - How parents can help their children be thoughtful and honest as they sort out their sexual identity - How to navigate your relationship with the church when you have an LGBTQ child - How to demonstrate to your child that you can handle difficult conversations and that you are a good resource for them - How love expands our understanding of truth 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. Finl and Fife's assistant, and we are so glad that you're here.
0:21.5	In this podcast, Shirea Phelps interviews Dr Finlays and Fife about how parents can support their children as their children navigate their sexual identity.
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0:45.3	great week. I was reading Maya Angelou in her memoir. I know why the Cage Bird sings.
0:52.2	She kind of shares her personal experience when she was 16.
0:55.0	And she had read a book and after, and I don't remember the title of the book, but after reading the book she thought well I want she was
1:03.8	wondering if she was a lesbian and partly some of the reasons in her own words
1:08.6	why she was curious about that was more her physical structure of her body.
1:13.2	She talks about being like flat chest and having big hands and big feet.
1:17.8	And her voice was a little bit lower.
1:19.2	And so first of all, just her going off her physical features made her question and wonder whether or not she was a lesbian.
1:28.0	So she went to her mom and talked to her mom and asked her, basically said, mom and my a lesbian, her mom told her no, you're not.
1:36.0	And for her time that was enough until later on she talks about an experience where she was with a friend of hers and they were
1:44.6	changing and she saw her friend's breast and she wasn't really able to I mean she
1:50.0	got older she identified that she was probably feeling a little envious and just saw it as
1:56.2	something beautiful. But when she was 16 and saw her friend's breast and was having these
2:02.0	emotions, she was confused and then that further made
2:05.8	her think, you know, well maybe I am a lesbian. And so her plan with that was to figure out whether or not if she was or wasn't was to have a boy, go find a boyfriend and have sex with them and somehow through having sex she would know.
2:21.0	And so I really appreciate her story because I think it illustrates that.
2:27.0	Yeah, the complexity. Yes. And so I wonder if you would talk about a little bit of for an adolescent why that can be so complex because I think
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