Want vs Desire

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

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

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

**Click HERE to learn more about Dr. Finlayson-Fife's Enhancing Sexual Intimacy course** Many of us have been taught the misguided idea that to be virtuous we must be desireless. Not all desires are created equal, and there is an important distinction to be made between our lower and higher desires. Lower desires are driven by our ego—they are self-serving, driven by our need to feel good, and are antithetical to spiritual development. Higher desires, on the other hand, encourage our growth and expansion, these are the desires that promote our development and increase our ability to love those around us. The pursuit of our higher desires is not only worthwhile, it’s imperative to our psychological, emotional, and spiritual development. In this episode, I joined Ryan and Jordan, hosts of The Stoic Dad podcast, to discuss the difference between higher and lower desires, the important distinction between wants and desires, productive and unproductive suffering, as well as what defines mature masculinity and the dynamics of attraction.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Conversations with Dr. Jennifer, a collection of interviews on the topics of relationships, sexuality, and more, all featuring Dr. Finlayson Fife.
0:20.0	Hi everyone, Dr. Jennifer here. If you've been feeling frustrated in your
0:27.4	sexual relationship, you don't feel there's the passion or aliveness that you've
0:31.7	been seeking, that there's not enough romance or connection.
0:35.9	Consider enrolling in my enhancing sexual intimacy course.
0:39.9	I designed this course to help couples better understand the meanings that are operating between
0:45.8	them that are killing the source of energy and passion in their marriage and what they can do to change that pattern, how they can
0:56.0	create a sexual relationship that feels more authentic, more passionate, and more alive.
1:01.8	Click on the link in my show notes to get more information about the course.
1:07.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Stoic Dad podcast.
1:12.0	A lot of great reception out there online a lot of people a lot of followers so we're excited for how this is gone
1:18.6	Today we have a very special guest actually this is our very first female guest.
1:22.8	We've kind of been sticking with only male guests.
1:27.8	And a very special guest as well to Dr. Jennifer Finlason Fife.
1:32.3	I said that right, right?
1:33.6	Yeah, you did, you nailed it.
1:35.0	I've listened to some of your podcasts, I'm like,
1:36.6	I want to make sure I say this.
1:38.2	We've done our homework.
1:40.5	And I love all the podcasts, too.
1:42.1	My wife and I are really big in a podcast.
1:45.1	And so just as we're doing the dishes and as we're you know about our day we listen to
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