Encountering Grief: Jeanette White
The Allender Center Podcast
The Allender Center
4.7 • 648 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Dan and Rachael continue a conversation about grief on the podcast, this week engaging Jeanette White, Interim Senior Director of The Allender Center. Jeanette, a dear friend and colleague of our hosts, graduated from The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology with an MA in Christian Studies in 2007 and has been an essential member of The Allender Center since its founding in 2011. As you listen to their conversation, you'll hear them discuss in more depth Jeanette's story and the two sides of grief—one that is messy and hard, and the other that opens your heart and eyes to the realities that we cannot engage without walking through the valley of the shadow of death. As we are in a season of collective loss, trauma, and grief, it is our hope that grief would move us to a deeper understanding of the suffering of others and ways we can come alongside and be a catalyst for care.
Listener Resources
- Listen to the first episode in this series, "Encountering Grief: Mary Ellen Owen"
- Read a blog post by Jeanette titled "The Loudness of Grief"
- Listen to a podcast series about "Grief, Emotions, and Essential Oils"
Listen to a podcast series about "The Grief of Miscarriage"
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-Cent. |
| 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. |
| 0:27.0 | Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. For many, the topic of grief and loss will cause you to just go, I'm not going to listen to this podcast. |
| 0:35.9 | And, you know, in an era like this, where there is so much |
| 0:40.6 | loss, so much grief, there is a sense of we get it. Yet, I'm going to introduce you to one of our |
| 0:49.6 | dear, dear friends and colleagues who will talk about the two sides of grief, one side that is so messy |
| 0:57.9 | and hard, and the other side that opens your heart and your eyes to realities that in some sense |
| 1:06.9 | we cannot engage without walking through the valley of the shadow of death. So, you know, |
| 1:14.1 | it isn't a matter of saying to you, you know, don't have children nearby as you're listening |
| 1:18.5 | to this podcast, but your heart needs comfort. And I believe that's what you're going to |
| 1:26.3 | encounter. And so to have Jeanette White and |
| 1:29.6 | Jeanette, such a delight to have you with us, she is the director of offerings and administration |
| 1:35.9 | and actually has about 14 other titles and other jobs at the Allenture. To have you here, |
| 1:44.0 | let me just remind the audience that we've talked about some of the issues that you have encountered in infertility, miscarriages and death. |
| 1:56.8 | And just the gift of being able to have you back on after a significant period of deep wrestling, |
| 2:07.3 | guide us as to where you want to go with regard to the notion of these two sides of grief and loss. |
| 2:13.9 | Thank you, Dan. |
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