Modesty From the Inside Out

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

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

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Our bodies and our ability to experience love and joy through them are loving gifts from a loving God. Sometimes we teach important principles like modesty and chastity in ways that promote an entirely different idea–in ways that imply that our bodies and sexuality are burdens to be overcome and obstacles to our spirituality. It can also be tempting to overcorrect for this body-shaming stance and see modesty as simply an effort to suppress sexuality and dignity (of women, in particular). Both of these extremes are simple-minded and unhelpful. A truer understanding of modesty takes into account the value of moderation, self-respect, and how these are related to our choices. In this NEW podcast episode, I join Aubrey and Tim Chaves from the Faith Matters podcast to talk about modesty and how we can relate to and cherish our bodies so as to experience deeply embodied joy through them. Listen to the full episode to learn more about: Problematic understandings of modesty Why modesty is such a culturally charged topic Sexual self-mastery Healthy ways to talk to youth about modesty and sexuality Stages of moral development The gift of sexual conservatism

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0:00.0	Welcome to Conversations with Dr. Jennifer, a collection of interviews on the topics of relationships, sexuality, and more, all featuring Dr Finlason Fife.
0:27.8	Hey everyone, I just want to take a second to invite you to join me this year at Restore of Faith Matters Gathering happening October 13th and 14th. It's going to be at the Mountain America
0:35.0	Expo Center in Sandy and it promises to be an exceptional conference. I attended
0:40.5	last fall and found it to be a remarkably inspiring, hopeful two days of listening
0:49.0	to really well-prepared, thoughtful talks as well as inspiring music and really feeling a
0:58.6	deep connection with my other Latter-day Saint brothers and sisters around me in our shared desire to speak
1:06.1	to the best in our faith and to speak to one another and find a sense of connection.
1:11.6	I'm also going to be one of the people speaking. I'll be speaking a bit about
1:15.5	aerocenergy and its connection to spirituality and to the light of Christ.
1:22.8	And so I hope to see you all there.
1:26.1	All right, well Jennifer, we're so excited
1:28.0	to have you in the studio.
1:28.9	It's been a long time and we have wanted to talk about this topic
1:31.4	for years with you. So thank you so much for coming back and doing an
1:35.4	episode with us.
1:36.4	My pleasure.
1:37.4	So I think I would love to start by hearing you define modesty because I think in our church we have a special
1:45.2	preoccupation with with sexual modesty in the context of how we dress and I know
1:50.3	that for you that this topic is so much more broad.
1:52.9	And so maybe to frame the entire conversation,
1:54.7	it would be helpful for you to just define that for us.
1:57.4	Sure.
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