The Allender Center Podcast
The Allender Center
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
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
Episodes
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Jun 6, 2015 • 25min
What if I fear my story?
This week, Dan discusses the fear that so many of us hold about confronting the stories of our past.
May 30, 2015 • 21min
How do I trust my memory?
How do I trust my memory? What if the way I remember an event is not what really happened? It’s a legitimate question, even a kind and righteous question, says Dan, rooted in a desire to know and tell the truth.
May 23, 2015 • 21min
No one's story is normal
On this week’s podcast, Dan begins a new series about the beauty and power of living, telling, and hearing meaningful stories.
May 16, 2015 • 21min
When endings don't go well
This week, Dan continues his disussion on endings by examining something most of us are all too familiar with: endings that have gone terribly wrong.
May 9, 2015 • 21min
Ending Well
Dan concludes this series on endings by inviting us beyond procrastination and sabotage in an effort to learn to end well. This is a process of acknowledging the sacrifices we have made and the work we have accomplished, as well as the grace and gifts that have allowed us to reach this point.
May 2, 2015 • 22min
Sabotage - Endings
On this week’s podcast, Dan continues a series on endings by discussing the role of sabotage—the moment when celebration gives way to indulgence and we sabotage our ability to enjoy our endings, potentially undoing everything we have just accomplished.
Apr 25, 2015 • 23min
Endings
Dan begins a new series about endings—how we handle them, avoid them, sabotage them, grieve them, and celebrate them.
Apr 19, 2015 • 22min
Owning our work
Apr 11, 2015 • 21min
Carrying Trauma - part 2
On this week’s podcast, Dan discusses how we are all invited to carry the burdens of others, even if we don’t feel like we have anything to offer.
Apr 4, 2015 • 22min
Carrying Trauma - part 1
This week, Dan continues the series on trauma care in Galatians 6 by addressing how we can help carry those who are harmed by the sins of others.
