Favorite Books

Below are some recommended books to support your learning about healthy relationships and sexuality. I work with clients from a wide range of backgrounds and values, so I invite you to consider which resources resonate with your beliefs and which may not be a good fit. I encourage thoughtful reflection and discernment in choosing what best supports your personal growth.

I also welcome your favorite recommendations—feel free to share any titles or insights you'd like me to consider, along with any questions or discussion they inspire.

Sex for Latter-Day Saints

    • That We Might Have Joy: Desire, Divinity & Intimate Love by Jennifer Finlayson-Fife offers a clear, theologically grounded vision of sexuality and spirituality as complementary rather than competing forces. Drawing on Christian—especially Latter-day Saint—contexts, Finlayson-Fife challenges cultural messages that frame desire as suspect and shows how rigid gender roles, duty-based sexual scripts, and shame often erode intimacy. She reframes eros as a vital pathway to communion, one that thrives through agency, differentiation, and mutual desire rather than obligation.

    • Blending clinical insight with accessible teaching, the book addresses common struggles in religious marriages—women’s disconnection from desire through deference and men’s burden of shame around arousal—while inviting readers toward mature, values-driven sexuality. Finlayson-Fife presents growth as a developmental movement from rule-based inhibition to embodied choice and responsibility. For LDS and Christian readers in particular, this is a compassionate and practical resource for disentangling doctrine from unhelpful cultural messaging and reclaiming sexuality as sacred, integrative, and life-giving.

    • For a more thurough overview check out my Book Notes

    • Replenish: Creating Sexual Fulfillment in Marriage by Tammy S. Hill is a thoughtful, faith based guidebook for couples seeking to deepen both their emotional and sexual intimacy within the context of marriage. Grounded in Christian - specifically Latter-day-Saint - theology and informed by Hill’s experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified sex therapist, the book blends practical research, spiritually based insights, and real-world exercises to help partners communicate about sex, understand each other’s needs, and cultivate a fulfilling sexual connection.

    • This book is written with warmth and candor, providing specific tools for everything from desire differences to communication patterns and physical intimacy practices, making it accessible for newlyweds and long-term couples. In comparison to other Christian or LDS based books on sexuality, I feel that Tammy’s book contributes insights based upon her professional training as well as diversity as she speaks a broader spiritual culture an faith based traditions.

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