What Parents Need to Know About Sexual Integrity

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

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

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Parenting a teenager is hard enough before sexuality enters the picture. And when it does, most parents grapple with finding the balance between protection and permission, values and flexibility, structure and trust. The role you play in your child's sexual development doesn't stay fixed. It shifts as they grow, and knowing when to hold a limit and when to let go is rarely as clear as we'd like it to be. In this episode, Dr. Finlayson-Fife joins Marielle Melling of the Raising Healthy, Happy Teens Virtual Summit to discuss what sexual integrity is, why it matters for your teen's long-term wellbeing, and how parents can nurture it through every imperfect, evolving stage of the process. For a deeper dive on teaching kids about sexuality, enroll in Dr. Finlayson-Fife's How to Talk to Kids About Sex course! SAVE 20% on Cozy Earth products with code JFF20

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0:00.0	The more you can be at peace in your body, the more that you are comfortable with the fact of sexuality as a part of the human experience, your kids will map that.
0:10.8	And they feel it whether or not you're saying anything because they're watching you.
0:16.3	And kids are wired to map their parents' minds.
0:19.1	The more you're settled down about sexuality yourself, you really help your kids.
0:32.9	Welcome to conversations with Dr. Jennifer, a collection of interviews on the topics of relationships, sexuality, spirituality, and more.
0:42.0	All featuring Dr. Finlayson Fife.
0:57.4	All right.
1:02.3	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the session of the Raising Healthy, Happy Teen's Virtual Summit.
1:06.2	We are so excited to be here with Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Five.
1:08.2	Thank you so much for joining us.
1:09.4	Thanks for having me.
1:10.1	Yeah.
1:13.1	So for those who don't know, Dr. Finlayson Fifea, she is an LDS relationship and sexuality coach with a PhD in counseling psychology.
1:19.9	So this is going to be a really wonderful, important conversation about how we can help our kids
1:25.3	develop and foster really a healthy sense of sexuality right now
1:29.7	and into their futures, right, laying the foundation for that for them. So thank you for being here.
1:35.1	For those who don't know you, who aren't familiar with you, what else would you add by way of
1:38.7	background? Just that I love this work and I love helping people, you know, it's not easy to be a parent,
1:46.5	and it's not easy to be a parent of an adolescent, never mind the sexuality.
1:51.0	We're putting that, sexuality means aside, it's challenging. But adolescence and sexuality gives
1:57.2	parents a special kind of challenge that really can be hard because you're in this
2:03.9	struggle between how much autonomy and how much, you know, how much autonomy and how much
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