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A transcript of Dr. Finlayson-Fife's discussion about the Divine Feminine on the Latter-day Contemplation podcast.

Dr. Finlayson-Fife's thoughts on polygamy.

The transcript of Dr. Finlayson-Fife's recent Facebook Live conversation about faith challenges.

The transcript of Dr. Finlayson-Fife's discussion about partnership in marriage with Monica Packer of the About Progress podcast and Dr. Julie Hanks.

I think a lot about sex—-although maybe not in the way that some people do. In particular, I think a lot about why people like and don’t like to have sex, what ignites desire and what suffocates it. As a therapist, I meet with people almost daily who are trying to figure out why they don’t like to have sex, why their spouse doesn’t like to have sex, or why their spouse does like to have it. It is an elusive question sometimes as well as a painful one for many couples.   My dissertation research focused on the question of Mormon women’s sexual agency. That is, Mormon women’s capacity to be acto...

The transition from pre-marriage into marriage can be wonderful. Beginning a life with someone you love is exciting and hopeful, and captures much of what many of us hold dear—the possibility of finding love and creating a family unit of our own. With high expectations of what marriage will be, many of us do not anticipate how stressful and even disillusioning early marriage can be. When the wedding celebration and honeymoon end, and we are left to work out a life with another flawed human being, we are often unprepared for the disharmony experienced in those early days. When so many of us ant...