Navigating Religious Challenges with Integrity

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Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

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

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🗓️ 1 January 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Dr. Finlayson-Fife joined Sherrae Phelps to discuss how to navigate religious challenges with integrity, from the best within us. Listen to learn more about... - How to truly sustain church leaders - Relational and moral development - Acting out of the best in you in regards to religion - Using your faith to live well and love others 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. In Michael Wilcox's book, What Seek ye, he wrote, I have discovered after 70 years of life that we all get hard sayings from time to time.
0:32.0	Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured and he said
0:35.2	unto them that this offend you. Often when our own heart's sayings come we are
0:39.8	offended and we answer that question affirmatively.
0:43.4	Yes Lord in truth I am offended.
0:46.0	There is nothing wrong in answering that question honestly.
0:49.0	Above all God wants our honesty from us.
0:52.0	It's okay to be offended at times.
0:54.6	It's what we do when we feel that way that matters.
0:59.8	This is Shirey Phelps,
1:01.0	and in this interview,
1:01.8	Dr. Jennifer Finley- Fife discusses how we can approach
1:04.8	our religious challenges out of our strength and with integrity. You've talked about how challenging dynamics arise between a couple when they enter their marriage under a validation dependency framework and how they'll
1:24.3	step back from the marriage and say you know they'll reach a breaking point and say you know
1:29.2	something's wrong with the marriage when really the marriage is exposing their
1:32.2	dependency on validation.
1:35.0	And I think in a similar way we can enter our relationship to our religion under a validation framework and we might, know come to a point where we feel that
1:47.1	something's wrong with the religion when when in reality what might be happening is
1:51.4	that the religion might be exposing our dependency on
1:56.9	validation. Yes. Meaning I don't think there's any other way to do it.
2:03.0	So from a moral developmental frame, you enter into faith from that validation dependency,
2:11.0	just as you enter into relationships from a from that
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