A Different Kind of Flourishing

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

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”

Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.7	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.
0:10.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.7	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:33.6	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. All right, Rachel, I'm going to put you on the spot on this particular podcast. And you need to be working with me, given the situation I currently am in.
0:41.5	Here's the situation.
0:43.5	Life is beginning to open up.
0:47.3	Life is beginning to return to a kind of normal. Not what it was, not what it will be, but not what we've existed for
1:01.0	the last 14 months, which is another way of saying for the last 32 years.
1:06.9	So let me say, I don't feel like I'm depressed.
1:12.3	But I know I'm not flourishing.
1:15.3	And I'm also, but I don't think I'm, like, I'm not severely languishing, but I'm somewhere
1:22.5	between languishing and flourishing, maybe making a little bit of movement.
1:29.6	So help.
1:38.6	I think this might be just another version of us trying to have an honest conversation about what it means to not be well, but also maybe moving toward wellness with all of our best intentions.
1:48.2	But I hear what you're trying to put words to.
1:51.4	We are in this kind of threshold moment that doesn't necessarily feel like the kind of
1:56.9	threshold of like an ending and a new beginning.
1:59.1	It feels like moving into the next stage of this kind of threshold of like an ending and a new beginning, it feels like moving into the next
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