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The Allender Center Podcast

Checking In, Part 1

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re checking in with you, dear listeners, in a candid and vulnerable episode. 

Days before the U.S. Presidential Election, Dan and Rachael share the emotional weight they’re carrying, touching on the intense anxiety, anger, and grief of this turbulent season and honestly acknowledging, “We’re not doing well.” 

Together, they explore practices that help them stay grounded and find hope. We hope that this conversation possibly helps you navigate similar feelings in uncertain times, or, at the very least, reminds you that you are not alone.

Editor’s Note: Dan and Rachael recalled different percentages regarding White Protestants' views on immigrants. According to the source, however, the executive summary states: “While few Americans (35%) agree that “immigrants are invading our country and replacing our cultural and ethnic background,” this view is held by 65% of Republicans, as well as most viewers of far-right news (83%) and Fox News viewers (66%). White evangelical Protestants (62%) are the only religious group among whom a majority agree that immigrants are invading our country and replacing our cultural and ethnic background.” Source: prii.org

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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.

0:31.6

Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. We are a week away from what I think most people would argue, and I certainly experience, as a major

0:43.3

significant transition in the present and future of our country, and that is an election.

0:53.3

And if there is one simple sentence that we will offer,

0:58.5

it's please vote. Please vote. Don't refuse the incredible gift and right to cast your ballot.

1:16.2

But beyond that, I want to at least begin with the question. I hope you're doing, well, it's a statement, but it's a question. And that is, I hope

1:22.3

you're doing better than I am. Oh, gosh. I don't know. I would love, no, I can't lie to you, Dan. I don't know.

1:29.8

I would love, no, I can't lie to you, Dan.

1:31.1

I don't know if that's the case.

1:33.5

So I don't know if that's the case. Well, let's at least say that if anyone is particularly well right now, it is either because you bear a maturity that I can only anticipate I will one day

1:49.5

have when I stand before him and become as he is, or as possible, it is not your maturity,

1:58.6

but your dissociative distraction into other activities that allow you to, in one sense, do far better.

2:07.6

But I want to begin with that.

2:08.9

How are you?

2:09.6

How are you in this week?

2:15.0

You know, I mean, I think we've talked about this.

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