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The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center Podcast features Dr. Dan Allender and his team engaging topics on healing and restoration through the unique intersection of theology and psychology. Through questions submitted by listeners, stories, interviews, and conversations, we engage the deep places of heartache and hope that are rarely addressed so candidly in our culture today. Join us to gain refreshing insight into understanding your story, handling relational struggles, recovering from trauma and abuse, and more.

The mission of The Allender Center is to help people tell their stories with awareness and integrity, and to train them to listen to the stories of others with care, artistry, and skill so that they may foster redemption and healing in their lives. The Allender Center is a pioneering organization committed to boldly engaging the impact of trauma and abuse, providing healing and teaching to individuals, couples, and communities, and training professionals to listen and enter into stories in a way that facilitates transformation and hope. For information on all our programs and live events, visit theallendercenter.org

Latest Episodes:

What Is Hospitality? A Conversation with Dr. Tremper Longman III Jul 17, 2021

Show notes

Hospitality over this past year for many meant logging onto a Zoom call, however, as we step into a 'new normal' there is greater opportunity to not only embody hospitality but to expand our understanding of what it means to truly 'welcome the stranger.'

Listen as Dan talks with friend and fellow professor, Dr. Tremper Longman III, this week on the podcast about Old Testament practices of hospitality, the inequality of hospitality, and much more.

Listener Resources:

Read a blog post by Dr. Dan Allender titled "Forgotten Hospitality" - https://theallendercenter.org/2021/07/forgotten-hospitality/

Listen to the first episode in podcast series "A Summer of Hospitality" - https://theallendercenter.org/2018/06/summer-hospitality-1/

Trauma-Informed Parenting with Abby Wong-Heffter Jul 09, 2021

Show notes

Dan is back this week with Abby Wong Heffter to talk about trauma in light of their upcoming training, Effective Trauma Care, in just a few weeks. Today's episode is invaluable for anyone navigating the lasting effects of trauma from this past year, but particularly so for parents. Abby shares her own experiences of parenting as a mom and step-mom in this season, ways to know if a child has been significantly affected by trauma, and how to tend to your own mental health.

Effective Trauma Care is coming up this July 22-23! Learn more about what Dan and Abby explore over this two-day event and register today.

Resources

Read a blog post, "Good Enough Parenting in a Time of Crisis"
Learn more about Effective Trauma Care

Listen to a podcast episode, "Parenting in the Midst of a Pandemic"

Trauma-Informed Care with Abby Wong-Heffter Jul 03, 2021

Show notes

This week on the podcast, Dan begins the first of two conversations with special guest Abby Wong-Heffter, a teaching staff member at the Allender Center and coordinator of the Concentration in Trauma & Abuse at The Seattle School. Together they dive into the topic of trauma and the parts of Abby's story that reveal how she found her way to becoming a trauma-informed therapist.

Food, Kindness, and Our Bodies Jun 26, 2021

Show notes

Picking up on the episode from last week, today you'll hear the second half of a conversation on food and our bodies featuring guests Matt Tiemeyer, LMHC, and Diane Summers, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD. They discuss a range of topics from the connection between desire, shame, and food, to how we can heal our relationship with food and our bodies. And, as you listen, remember that no matter where you are at in your journey with food or in this season of heightened stress, it is never too late to "turn back to kindness."

Listener Resources:

Matt Tiemeyer practices at Blue Harbor Counseling

Diane Summers practices at Hope Nutrition Therapy Center

Read an interview with Matt and Diane about Redeeming Food & Body

Engaging Food & Body Jun 19, 2021

Show notes

Food and how we feel about our bodies can be a place of great conflict, especially as we emerge from the pandemic. It's imperative we treat our bodies with kindness and be able to name the dangerous influence of diet culture. So today, we're bringing this episode out from the archives! You'll hear the first part of a conversation recorded in 2020 featuring guests Matt Tiemeyer, LMHC, and Diane Summers, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD about how we can step into greater kindness around food and our bodies.

Flourishing and Anticipation Jun 12, 2021

Show notes

This week on the podcast, Dan and Rachael continue their conversation about what flourishing looks like as we emerge into a different stage of the pandemic. Much is reopening, and yet we're also waiting in anticipation for what is to come in the next few months. How can we continue to be faithful in the small without giving in to the urge to jump into major changes? What imagination can we grow for what we are anticipating in this next season of life, particularly as we begin to allow our hearts, bodies, and relationships to flourish?

A Different Kind of Flourishing Jun 05, 2021

Show notes

As many communities are beginning to open back up and some semblance of "normal" returns, Dan and Rachael check in with each other and have an honest conversation about how they're doing and what it means to be moving towards wellness. In some ways it feels like we're engaging a new stage of a process versus a clear ending as the pandemic is very much ongoing in many parts of the world, and for some instead of gaining more energy we're beginning to process the impact of this past year. So, as Dan and Rachael discuss, how can we be honest with ourselves about expectations, what we're feeling in our bodies, and how can we move into reopening with intentionality?

Listener Resources:

Read a blog post "Honoring Our Bodies in the Midst of Embodied Trauma"

Listen to a podcast, "Parenting in the Midst of a Pandemic"

Listen to a podcast episode with guest Dr. Steve Call, "Connection in Marriage During a Pandemic"

Defining Spiritual Abuse May 29, 2021

Show notes

Today Dan and Rachael revisit one of the most listened-to topics on the podcast: spiritual abuse. However, before we dive into the conversation, we recognize that we cannot address the reality of spiritual abuse without taking into account that many, many people have encountered violations of various kinds within spiritual contexts. Over the course of their conversation today, the first of two on this topic, you'll hear more about how to define spiritual abuse in Christian contexts, tools used by spiritually abusive leaders to maintain power and control, and the insidious nature of spiritual abuse.

Listener Resources:

Register to attend Confronting Spiritual Abuse on June 5

Listen to a podcast episode, "Narcissism and the Church with Chuck DeGroat"

Listen to our very first, three-part podcast series on Spiritual Abuse

Listen to a podcast episode about the particulars of "Mind Control and Dogmatism in Spiritual Abuse"

Collective Grief May 22, 2021

Show notes

Over the past few weeks on the podcast we've talked about grief on a more personal level in our lives, but we also recognize we're in the midst of an unrelenting season of trauma and grief on a collective scale. So today, Dan and Rachael invite guests Danielle Castillejo, Rebecca Wheeler Walston, and Rev. Michael S. Chen to the podcast to continue a conversation about the nature and impact of collective grief. As you'll hear Dan say, you may not see how your story fits into this conversation, but "part of the development of wisdom is to enter a world we may not be familiar with" and we encourage you to be open to hearing the wise words these guests have to share.

Listener Resources:

Read a blog post by Danielle Castillejo "Emergency Mental Health Care: How Therapists of Color Contend with Racial Trauma"

Encountering Grief: Jeanette White May 14, 2021

Show notes

Dan and Rachael continue a conversation about grief on the podcast, this week engaging Jeanette White, Interim Senior Director of The Allender Center. Jeanette, a dear friend and colleague of our hosts, graduated from The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology with an MA in Christian Studies in 2007 and has been an essential member of The Allender Center since its founding in 2011. As you listen to their conversation, you'll hear them discuss in more depth Jeanette's story and the two sides of grief—one that is messy and hard, and the other that opens your heart and eyes to the realities that we cannot engage without walking through the valley of the shadow of death. As we are in a season of collective loss, trauma, and grief, it is our hope that grief would move us to a deeper understanding of the suffering of others and ways we can come alongside and be a catalyst for care.

Listener Resources

Listen to the first episode in this series, "Encountering Grief: Mary Ellen Owen"
Read a blog post by Jeanette titled "The Loudness of Grief"
Listen to a podcast series about "Grief, Emotions, and Essential Oils"

Listen to a podcast series about "The Grief of Miscarriage"

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