Modesty (Unscripted!)

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

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

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Last chance to join us for the Enhancing Sexual Intimacy Webinar - Click HERE for details! Many of us received messages about our bodies, modesty, and sexuality that were driven by fear and the idea that our sexual impulses are stronger than we are. For many of us, those fear-based messages made it difficult to feel at peace with our bodies and our sexual nature. If we want to teach about these important topics in a healthier way, it's imperative to focus on the good -- that our bodies and sexuality are God-given and an important part of who we are. In this episode, Dr. Finlayson-Fife joins the hosts of Saints Unscripted for an important discussion about modesty. They talk about the impact that cultural misunderstandings about modesty have had and how we can rethink what it means to be modest. They also discuss how we can teach our children about modesty in a way that is less about restrictions and guidelines and more about protecting and valuing the incredible gift of their sexuality. **Join us for the Strengthening Your Relationship Retreat!**

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0:00.0	When you teach women to cover up so that men can control themselves, you're teaching women that men are not able to handle themselves.
0:07.2	And so it teaches a distrust of men, which is one of many problematic meanings.
0:16.6	Welcome to conversations with Dr. Jennifer, a collection of interviews on the topics of relationships, sexuality, spirituality, and more.
0:28.0	All featuring Dr. Finlayson Fife.
0:35.1	Welcome back to Saints and Scripted.
0:37.4	Sabrina and I are very blessed to have a wonderful and very knowledgeable guest today, Dr. Finlayson-Fife, who is a relationship and intimacy coach, and she helps people develop emotionally and physically to create very intimate and healthy relationships.
0:50.6	How are you doing today?
0:51.8	Good.
0:52.4	Yeah.
0:52.7	We're so happy to have you here and so happy to talk about
0:55.5	modesty, which is a huge topic among people in the church, especially the age group that we speak to.
1:00.2	Well, I'm glad to be here.
1:01.1	Of course. This is a topic that I'm both passionate about and then also a little bit intimidated by because
1:06.3	I feel like I have these conversations like with my husband and we can never get just like solid
1:11.2	answers. Yeah. So I feel like I'm really excited to hear your perspective on things and just kind of
1:16.6	learn more together. Great. Great. Let's start with the very basics. What is modesty? Can you
1:22.8	define it for us? Well, I think the principle of modesty that we have as a culture really placed on clothing is to basically be humble, not brag about strength, assets, gifts, capacities you have.
1:37.8	So if you're modest about your income level, you're not going around bragging about the money you have.
1:42.7	And it's just a way of being humble with respect to
1:45.6	blessings you may have in your life. We tend to be very focused on modesty around our sexuality
1:52.5	and modesty, meaning then therefore translate into how you are dressing, how much you are
1:58.9	covering yourself up. And in general, I would say
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