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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:

Calling & Character: Priest Archetype Oct 16, 2020

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"Stories are what change the human heart."

- Cathy Loerzel

This week, Dan, Rachael, and Cathy take a deep dive into and further reflect on the archetype of priest. What is required for a priest to grow in their ability to do what priests are meant to do? In this episode, you'll hear our hosts and Cathy talk about the importance of archetypal thinking, how the archetype of an "orphan" relates to the calling of a priest archetype, and the process by which an orphan is transformed.

Calling & Character: Priest, Prophet, King Oct 09, 2020

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In this episode of the podcast, Dan and Rachael are joined by Cathy Loerzel, Executive Vice President of The Allender Center, to begin a conversation about a particular aspect of The Allender Theory: prophet, priest, and king/queen. During the conversation, they invite you into each of these three categories and to consider what it means to have been given a kingdom in which you are a priest, prophet, and king/queen.

Listen to a podcast series with Cathy Loerzel about "The Complexities in Leadership"
Listen to Dan and Rachael talk about "The Particulars of Spiritual Abuse" on the podcast

How Are You Doing? Checking in with Dan and Rachael Oct 02, 2020

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Since it has been a few weeks since Rachael and Dan hosted together on the podcast, they decided to sit down and check-in both with each other and the state of the world before launching into more of our regularly scheduled fall content. It's been a hard season and a hard year. Feeling scattered, fragmented, numb, and isolated are normal. Yet, at the same time, we must also continue to ask ourselves the question: Who do we want to become, how do we want to live in this crazy period?

Resources:

Listen to a podcast series with Dan and Rachael about "Not Doing Well"
Listen to a recent podcast series about "Love and Courage in a Global Pandemic"

Read a blog post by Rebekah Vickery entitled "Honoring Our Embodied Trauma in the Midst of a Pandemic"

Relationships between Married Couples and Single People Sep 25, 2020

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"We all have something to offer and we all have something to learn from each other in all of our various stages of life and relationships."

-Beau Denton

As the month of conversations about marriage draws to a close, Dan and Becky invite Beau Denton and Ashley Wright on the podcast to talk about how single people and married people can relate better together. Beau was a former Content Creator for The Seattle School and played an integral role in synthesizing podcast episodes, and Ashley serves as the Director of Marketing and Communications for The Seattle School, overseeing the production and planning of The Allender Center podcast. In a couple-oriented world, single people can often feel excluded, or feel they do not have a lot to say about marriage as they are not in a marriage relationship. Beau and Ashley provide deep wisdom and perspective for how single people can, in truth and trust, engage married couples, and invite those who are married to do the same for single people.

Resources:

Purchase a bundle of our new marriage offerings, including our Marriage Conference, Marriage Online Course, and Date Nights for 15% off—only until October 10, 2020
Listen to a podcast episode in the Family of Origin series about triangulation.

Read an article by Abby Wong-Heffter entitled "Post Traumatic Single Disorder."

Rituals to Redeem Your Marriage Sep 18, 2020

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Dan and Becky Allender invite Paul and Sara Steinke into a conversation about creating and living rituals in marriage, particularly in this era of COVID-19. Paul is the Vice President of Students and Alumni at The Seattle School and Sara is a private practitioner, yoga instructor, and poet. Throughout the episode, they talk about the presence of ritual in their relationships, the specific kinds of rituals they practice to enhance and grow their marriage, and the difference between creating a ritual and a habit.

Resources:

Purchase a bundle of our new marriage offerings, including our Marriage Conference, Marriage Online Course, and Date Nights for 15% off—only until October 10, 2020

Listen to a podcast series about the Marriage Quadrants, a system of sorting and classifying patterns and structures that are highly intricate and complex.

Engaging Triggers in Marriage Sep 11, 2020

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This week on the podcast, Dan and Becky Allender talk about triggers in marriage with their good friends Dr. Steve and Lisa Call. You may recognize Steve and Lisa from the new Marriage Online Course.What follows is both a humorous and deeply insightful conversation. Triggers can undermine a marriage relationship as a couple often does not have language or context to understand what provoked their partner, or how to engage one another after someone is triggered.

Resources:

Purchase a bundle of our new marriage offerings, including our Marriage Conference, Marriage Online Course, and Date Nights for 15% off—only until October 10, 2020
Listen to a podcast episode, "Reconnection in Marriage with Dr. Dan Allender and Dr. Steve Call"

Listen to a podcast episode about "Dissociation in Marriage"

The Reality of Marriage in COVID-19 Sep 05, 2020

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"Can you be faithful with the small?"

-Dr. Dan Allender

As we enter a fall that is full of complexity, we're going to be having conversations over the next few weeks on the topic of marriage. Before we dive in, however, we want to emphasize that this is a series for everyone—whether you are single, about to be married, just married, or have been married for a long time. Today, you'll hear Dr. Dan Allender and his wife, Becky Allender, talk about the elements of disruption they have been experiencing in their own lives and marriage, what spending more time together exposes in their relationship, and what they continue to learn about one another during this season of deep change and growth.

Resources:

Purchase a bundle of our new marriage offerings, including our Marriage Conference, Marriage Online Course, and Date Nights for 15% off—only until October 10, 2020
Listen to a podcast episode with Dr. Steve Call, "Connection in Marriage During a Pandemic"
Listen to the "Love and Courage in a Global Pandemic" podcast series

Read the blog post "Dance with Me" by Robyn Whitaker

Developing a Theology of Abuse with Dr. Chelle Stearns Aug 28, 2020

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Today we're revisiting a conversation that Dr. Dan Allender had a few years ago with Dr. Chelle Stearns, Associate Professor of Theology at The Seattle School, exploring her ongoing work of developing a theology of abuse. She believes that as a theologian, an artist, and a witness of other artists, she is called—and we are called—to hold together immense sorrow and stunning beauty. Ultimately, Chelle invites us to wrestle with how we address trauma in view of the embodied life of Christ, and how this might change the way we tend to the stories of harm in our own lives and communities.

Resources:

Watch Dr. Chelle Stearns speak on 'Lament and Hope Through a Trauma-Informed Theology' at The Seattle School's Seventh Annual Stanley Grenz Lecture
Watch Rachael Clinton speak at the 2019 Theology & Trauma Conference

Read "Let the Lament Come" by Heather Stringer

The Particulars of Spiritual Abuse: Dissociation and Healing Aug 21, 2020

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This week, we're re-sharing the second half of a series Rachael Clinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender recorded last year on the particulars of spiritual abuse. Throughout their conversation, you'll hear them discuss the effects that spiritual abuse has on our bodies, including dissociation and shame. Because spiritually abusive leaders rarely stop with mind control, they work to create a system in which they can control every aspect—including the bodies—of the people under their authority. Rachael and Dan also explore the long, slow movement of healing in the wake of abuse and the work of tending to small areas of growth, trusting that God is contending for us in the big areas.

No matter how long it takes, how can we begin reclaiming our minds and moving back into our bodies? What are the small steps we can take on the long road to healing? As we attune to that which is beautiful and true, and to that which honors the dignity in who we were created to be, we may begin living into the hope that trauma, death, and spiritual abuse do not have to have the last word.

Resources

Read an article "Enigmas, Myths, and the Shame of the Strong Silent Type" by Beau Denton
Read "Leading out of Healing" by Wendell Moss
Read "When Shame is Deeper than Salvation" by Andrew Bauman

The Particulars of Spiritual Abuse: Mind Control and Loyalty Aug 14, 2020

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Last year, Rachael Clinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender dove into a series on the dynamics of spiritual abuse and forms of trauma that can emerge in situations of spiritual abuse. This week, we're sharing with you their conversation about some of the particulars of spiritual abuse including mind control, dogmatism, suspicion, and loyalty. One of the first categories you'll hear them unpack is mind control, including the implications and consequences of abusive mind control which distorts desire for attunement in order to grow suspicion and mistrust.

All of these systems and categories, however, are ultimately about control—structuring power and authority in such a way that spiritually abusive leaders have total control over the minds and bodies of those in their communities. Ultimately, though, Dan and Rachael invite us back to that which spiritual abuse most fundamentally sabotages: hope.

Resources:

Listen to an episode of the podcast where Dan and Rachael address listener questions about spiritual abuse.
Read a blog post, "Dogma, Abuse, and Embodied Theology"

Read a blog post, "Tuning in to the Unseen"

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