When Paths Diverge | Parenting Through Faith Shifts

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

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

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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**Join us for the Strengthening Your Relationship Retreat!** One of our most challenging tasks as parents is to keep track of what our responsibilities are as our children grow. Stepping back as they mature and allowing them the space to sort out their own lives and path can be incredibly difficult, especially if you are concerned that their choices will have a negative impact on their well-being. In our fear and worry for them, it can be easy to mistake manipulation with love. In this episode, Dr. Finlayson-Fife joins Tina Gosney of the "Coaching Your Family Relationships" podcast to discuss some of the challenges that parents face when their child steps away from family faith traditions and how parents can best support and love their children, even when their worldviews diverge.

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0:00.0	Love is the environment in which the best reveals itself anyway, right?
0:06.0	When we feel loved and accepted and known, we're more able to be true to the best in ourselves.
0:13.0	And when we're being judged and manipulated, then we will resent and rebel or comply resentfully, but it doesn't yield the best in ourselves.
0:27.0	Welcome to conversations with Dr. Jennifer, a collection of interviews on the topics of
0:36.4	relationships, sexuality, spirituality, and more,
0:40.2	all featuring Dr. Finlayson Fife.
0:48.5	I'm really happy to invite Dr. Jennifer Finlayson Fife back on the podcast.
0:53.8	The episodes that we did a couple of years
0:56.1	ago were some of my most downloaded episodes. I got a lot of feedback that they were very helpful.
1:02.0	So we're going to have a topic today that's going to be, I know also very helpful. So welcome to the
1:07.8	podcast. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Before we hit record, I was just telling Jennifer about my husband and I have been taking
1:15.0	her courses.
1:16.0	And now she's in both of our heads all the time.
1:19.6	And it's just made a huge difference in the way that we deal with each other, the way that
1:26.0	we deal with ourselves.
1:29.7	And just I think it's carried over into probably every relationship that we have in our lives, not just with each other,
1:37.2	but our children, our siblings, our parents, even out into work, into the workforce. I know he's
1:43.1	talked a lot about how it's helped him just in dealing with his job
1:49.0	and the things that he has to do with out there.
1:51.0	So haven't looked into Jennifer's courses.
1:53.5	I highly recommend them.
1:54.9	In fact, I've been sending them to lots of people.
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