Bonus Episode: The Healing Power of Understanding Your Story with Adam Young, Cathy Loerzel, and Dan Allender

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

You have a story and that story matters. Your story in your family of origin significantly affects the way you think, feel, and act in the world today. This is why Dan Allender says, “It is time to listen to your story.”

What if healing begins by listening to your story? By reflecting on—and engaging—the experiences in your growing-up years, you can better understand why your brain has been shaped in the way that it has.

These are the topics that Dan Allender, Cathy Loerzel, and Adam Young explore in today’s bonus podcast episode, which is a co-production between The Place We Find Ourselves Podcast and the Allender Center Podcast.

If you want to experience more of the healing power of understanding your own story, join Adam, Cathy, and Dan in Atlanta, GA, on Saturday, February 3, 2024, for the StoryWork Conference. In-person and livestream tickets are available. CEU’s are also available for therapists.

🎫 Register at adamyoungcounseling.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to a special bonus podcast episode, produced in partnership with the Place We Find Ourselves podcast, featuring a conversation between Dr. Dan Allender, Adam Young, and Kathy Lorzell. Welcome back to the place we find ourselves podcast.
0:33.1	I'm Adam Young and I am delighted to be joined today by Dan Allender and Kathy Lorsel.
0:40.3	Welcome to you both.
0:42.3	Thank you.
0:43.3	Hey, we did that pretty duet.
0:46.3	I like that.
0:48.3	That's the closest I've ever come to singing with you.
0:52.3	We always have more time, Dan. I've ever come to singing with you.
0:57.0	We always have more time, Dan. The melody of today's episode is going to be story.
1:02.0	I've asked you to come on to talk about story.
1:06.0	You've been here before talking about story.
1:09.0	But let's start with the most obvious question.
1:11.6	Dan, I'll ask you, what do we mean when we say your story?
1:18.6	Well, just to start with the fact that we don't look at mere facts, brute reality, that our brain is constantly bringing some degree of order
1:34.2	to everything that's happening around us and everything that's happening within us.
1:40.6	So in that sense, our efforts to come to meaning, not just explanation as to why did
1:48.1	X occur, but what is the meaning? It is the most elemental core part of who we are as human
1:55.6	beings. So from that, what we can say is we are trying to make sense of the world. And mere facts
2:03.6	never suffice. We are storybound and therefore we're looking at time and space. We're looking
2:11.9	at people. We're looking at dialogue. And we're looking at the movement of a plot in regarding every portion of our lives.
2:20.2	So at least the beginning is we are meaning making, storytelling, story hearing people.
2:30.2	Kathy, when you hear him say story bound, what does that stir in you?
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