Enriching Your Sexual and Emotional Relationship

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

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

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

If you feel anxious about sexuality, you are definitely not alone. The trepidation that many of us feel makes a lot of sense, given that most of us got very little guidance about sexuality during our formative years. And the guidance we did get, often came from a place of fear and anxiety–ultimately doing more harm than it did good. While I am sure that these messages were well intended, they resulted in a lot of fear and confusion, both of which interfere with our ability to accept our bodies and sexuality for what they really are –incredible gifts from our Heavenly Parents. If we want an intimate connection with a spouse, we have to be at peace with our sexuality. Because If you don’t know your sexual self, you won’t be able to share an intimate connection with another–we can’t share what we don’t have. The good news is that this is an area in which we can and should grow. It’s not too late. And I assure you that every effort that you make to come to peace with your God-given sexuality will pay incredible dividends in your life and in your marriage. Recently, I joined Dr. Paul Jenkins of Live on Purpose Radio to discuss the role that peace with our OWN sexuality plays in our ability to create a soulful and sustaining connection with our spouse. In the episode, we discuss several roadblocks that couples face as they try to create sexual and emotional intimacy–these roadblocks are more common than you might think and the good news is that they can be overcome. You can listen to the full episode to learn more about: * What REAL intimacy is and how you can create more of it! * The keys to creating real sexual and emotional intimacy in marriage * The gift of coming to peace with your own sexuality

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0:00.0	Welcome to Conversations with Dr. Jennifer, a collection of interviews on the topics of relationships,
0:15.2	sexuality, and more, all featuring Dr. Finlason Fife.
0:21.5	Hey everyone, tickets are now available for our 2023 Art of Desire retreat in Spring City.
0:28.0	We normally do this retreat in Oregon but this year we've decided to do it in Utah
0:32.0	a little closer to a lot of people.
0:36.2	The retreat is an amazing opportunity to put your regular life aside for a few days and to focus
0:42.1	on your personal development. It can be difficult to find a time with the online
0:46.9	course to find the focus, to find the freedom from distraction. So the lonely thing about a retreat is that you have this dedicated space to
0:56.0	immerse yourself in these concepts to be able to ask me questions and to learn
1:01.6	through the comments and interactions I have with other women as well as the
1:06.5	interactions you have with them throughout your time at the retreat.
1:12.2	I get consistently letters and emails of people talking about how life
1:16.8	changing the retreat experience was for them that they really came to see
1:22.4	themselves their lives and their challenges
1:24.8	around intimacy, their relationship to themselves, their spouse, their faith in a
1:30.8	different light that opened them up to a more joyful way of being engaged with all of these things.
1:37.6	We're limiting this retreat to 60 to 65 participants. Normally our retreats are a little larger than that.
1:45.8	So this is a little bit smaller of a retreat experience.
1:50.8	We have exercise, we have healthy, wonderful food. We have
1:55.0	a healthy wonderful food. We have a movie night. We have discussions with me in the evenings.
1:58.0	So there's a lot of ways to interact with these concepts and with one another and so the retreat is just an amazing
2:06.4	experience. It's really my favorite thing to do. So I hope you'll take advantage of this
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