140 What If You Were Created For Connection?

The Place We Find Ourselves

Adam Young

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🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Jenn talks about how she often felt excluded and on the outside during childhood—“I felt so far from people all the time. I felt so far from myself. I was always over-thinking, never in my body.” As she grew into adulthood, Jenn became opposed to weakness. However, something in her broke after having children and not being able to hold it all together. In today’s episode, Jenn shares a story from first grade and links her childhood trauma to her adulthood struggles.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, just a quick note before diving in. This is the final episode of season 7,
0:07.1	which means that I will be taking a three month break to prepare content for season 8.
0:12.7	The first episode of season 8 will be released on September 4th. If you are caught up on all the
0:20.0	episodes, I recommend going back and listening again to the ones that were the most helpful to you.
0:26.6	And if you're new to the podcast, I recommend listening to the following seven episodes.
0:32.9	1, 2, 5, 7, 11, 18, and 20. Those seven episodes, 1, 2, 5, 7, 11, 18, and 20, will give you a solid
0:49.0	foundation for understanding what this podcast is all about. Thank you so much for listening.
0:56.0	You're listening to the place we find ourselves podcasts. I'm Adam Young and I am joined today
1:02.9	by Jennifer Jordan. Jennifer, it's good to see you. Good to see you. Tell us a little bit about
1:09.5	where you are, what you do during the day. Yeah, so I live in Alabama right near Mobile and I'm
1:18.6	a therapist, a work in Mobile and I am also a fellow with Alander Center. I'm currently leading a group
1:26.8	in their certificate one process and so love engaging story and helping others engage there.
1:33.6	So I'm really excited to be here. Tell us a little bit about like your journey engaging your
1:39.4	own story. Like why'd you start to do that? The journey for me in beginning to engage my story
1:45.5	took about five years. It honestly began when I was 21 and not hadn't lived much life and I don't
1:55.5	know that I was really ready to start engaging my story but I was going through an assessment
1:59.6	process with a ministry that I was going on staff or and through the course of that came to the
2:06.4	realization that I had a story to engage. So it was more external prompting than internal but I was
2:15.1	dutiful and willing to look at that and so I started going to a therapist but honestly in that time
2:23.2	of my life and in the environment that I was in I ended up seeing what was called at that time
2:29.6	I knew that it counselor and then an attempt to engage my story and what that ended up looking like
2:38.2	was me going from owning that I had experienced some abuse to then naming that I was actually just
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