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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:

Connection in Marriage During a Pandemic May 29, 2020

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Continuing to talk about the impact of the pandemic on relationships, Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen invite Dr. Steve Call into a conversation about the impact of covid-19 on marriage. We do not approach this topic lightly—we know there is much heartache and brokenness in many homes. Marriage itself is full of complexity and possibility. We hope you hear encouragement, vulnerability, and playfulness as Steve invites us to hear how tension and conflict is created, how increased exposure can lead to shame, and the beauty couples can offer one another when they remind each other what is true.

Resources:

Listen to a podcast series featuring Steve on Reconnection in Marriage

Read Steve's book, reconnect: insights and tools for cultivating meaningful connection in your marriage

Parenting in the Midst of a Pandemic May 22, 2020

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"There are broken parts in every one of us that need a good parent." Dr. Dan Allender

Rachael Clinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender have a conversation with Meredith Dancause—a pastor, writer, and parenting expert—about the complexity of being a parent during a pandemic. Not only parenting young children, but how to be a good parent to ourselves. With both humor and honesty, Meredith speaks to positive discipline and grace, the unique opportunity this season affords us, and the need to pause and be curious about our children's behavior.

Resources:

Learn more about Meredith by visiting her website.

Read a blog post "Good Enough Parenting in a Time of Crisis" by Jay Stringer

Routine and Rituals in Covid-19, Part Two May 15, 2020

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In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen talk with Heather Stringer about her creative process of stepping into a moment in someone's story in order to create a ritual. Heather invites us to pause, gather a few items, and participate in a special ritual to account for the past few days and to ask: How do I need to move toward myself during this time?

Resources:

Visit Heather Stringer's website to learn more about her practice of ritual-making.

Routine and Rituals in Covid-19, Part One May 08, 2020

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Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen invite Heather Stringer, a facilitator at The Allender Center, therapist, and ritual-maker, to begin a conversation about the importance of ritual and routine in a season of traumatic disruption. What does the loss of our previously held routines mean for each of us, and how can creating rituals become life-giving during this time?

Resources:

Read a blog post by Heather Stringer about tuning into our bodies.
Listen to an episode of Makers and Mystics: Ritual Making and Performance Art

Watch a presentation Heather gave at The Seattle School titled "Breaking Frozen Seas: How Rituals of the Body Transform Clients and Communities"

Food and Body, Part Three May 01, 2020

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In their final conversation, Dr. Dan Allender, Diane Summers, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD, and Matt Tiemeyer, LHMC, explore ways we can heal our relationship with food and our bodies. No matter where we are in our journey with food or disordered eating, it is never too late to "turn back to kindness."

Resources:

Matt Tiemeyer practices at Blue Harbor Counseling
Diane Summers practices at Hope Nutrition Therapy Center
Follow Covid19 Eating Support on Instagram for around the clock community care meal support

Read more about Elly Satter's division of responsibility in feeding.

Food and Body, Part Two Apr 24, 2020

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"We are all too willing to turn over our awareness around our bodies to something outside of ourselves, whether its praise or shame of some kind."

Picking up their conversation from the first episode, Dr. Dan Allender, Diane Summers,RDN, CEDRD-S, CD, and Matt Tiemeyer, LMHC, continue talking about the connection between desire, shame, and food. Not only are we at war with food, we are also at war with shame in regards to our relationship with our bodies and how we relate to the people around us.

Resources:

Matt Tiemeyer practices at Blue Harbor Counseling
Diane Summers practices at Hope Nutrition Therapy

Read more about NEDA's The Marginalized Voices Project

Food and Body, Part One Apr 17, 2020

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"Why are we at war with food?"

Dr. Dan Allender hosts two guests, Matt Tiemeyer, LMHC, and Diane Summers, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD , to begin a three-part conversation about the war many of us wage against food and our bodies. In this strange space we find ourselves, food and how we nourish our bodies can become a way of gaining control, particularly for those with stories of harm. Throughout their conversation, you'll hear how Matt and Diane entered the world of eating disorder treatment, the impact of our trauma stories on our relationship with food, and the insidious influence of diet culture.

Resources:

Matt Tiemeyer practices at Blue Harbor Counseling
Diane Summers practices at Hope Nutrition Therapy

Read an interview with Matt, Diane, and their friend Kate about Redeeming Food & Body

Holding the Tension of Holy Saturday Apr 10, 2020

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Rachael Clinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender have a poignant conversation about making space for the tension and grief of Holy Saturday. In the protestant Christian tradition, the movement from Good Friday to Easter Sunday often bypasses Saturday—the day Jesus "spent time before the face of evil itself." How then do we engage the reality of Holy Saturday, to sit well in the space between the despair of Friday and the joy of Sunday?

Resources:

Read Psalm 22
Read Romans 8

Preparing for Holy Week Apr 03, 2020

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We find ourselves in the midst of a collective trauma that both exposes, overwhelms, and compounds past traumas. In this new reality, as we come upon the end of the Lenten season, "how do we live as though the resurrection is more true than death?" Rachael Clinton Chen offers words of grounding and hope as she invites us into a different kind of preparation for Holy Week.

Resources:

Read Psalm 23

Listen to voices from the Asian American Christian Collaborative

Love and Courage in a Global Pandemic, Part Three Mar 27, 2020

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Do I believe God is still good even in the midst of profound suffering I don't understand?"

Our world continues to change in monumental ways. In this episode, Rachael Clinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender engage the implications and anxieties brought about by Covid-19, but also turn our attention to the goodness, power, and protection of God.

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