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Paul Duane Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife is a sexuality and relationship coach as well as a licensed clinical professional counselor with a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Boston College. She did her doctoral dissertation on LDS women and sexuality. And on today's episode, we discuss everything from high-waisted mom jeans, to God's wife, to the power of lipstick, and everything in between.  I grew up Mormon, and I consider myself a retired Mormon, but it's still a really important part of my heritage and who I am. So I referred to it a lot.  Jennifer Finlayson-Fife Excellent. One second, I'm...

On this Thanksgiving weekend, I want to remind you that gratitude is a virtue that is essential to our happiness. It requires nothing from us to have good things in our lives but it does require something from us to acknowledge and appreciate the good things in our lives.  It takes a willingness to see life as it actually is to take in and savor the good things we enjoy. To live is to suffer. It is true. In life, there will always be pain and loss. We cannot live without experiencing the often disappointing incongruence between our hopes and the realities we live in. However to be alive at all...

Makenzie: Welcome to Conversations with Dr. Jennifer, a collection of interviews on the topics of relationships, sexuality, spirituality, and more, all featuring Dr. Finlayson-Fife. The following episode is the recording of Dr. Finlayson-Fife's recent presentation during a gospel study session hosted by Dialogue, a Journal of Mormon thought. Dialogue hosts gospel study sessions through Zoom on the second and fourth Sunday of each month. You can learn more about Dialogue and these study sessions by clicking the link in the show notes below. Enjoy the episode.  Ester Hi'ilani Candari: Welcome ev...

This is a transcript of the "Faith, Integrity, and Spiritual Development" podcast episode. In the episode, Dr. Finlayson-Fife joined Matana of the Hope to Recharge podcast for a powerful discussion on faith, integrity, and spiritual development.

We're going to talk a little bit about boundaries today, and I am going to be drawing on some questions that people wrote. First, I'm going to just give you some ideas about boundaries, and then I will look at specific questions that people have written in and just kind of think through some of these pieces. One thing I want to say about boundaries, to start out with, is that boundaries have to do with how you're in relationship to other people.

This is a topic that sometimes comes up when groups of moms are together. We joke about our sex life and bemoan the fact that having little children has killed all flickers of desire in us. In fact, one of the listeners who heard that I was going to be addressing this topic on the podcast sent me this meme, and I will admit I laughed out loud when I read it: "You can thank your dad that you were born because chances are pretty good your mom was not in the mood." But all laughing and stereotypes aside, this is a really tender, sensitive topic for many women.