Encountering Grief: Mary Ellen Owen

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast, Dan and Rachael begin a new series that takes a deeper look into the topic of grief. In this particular episode they engage in conversation with special guest Mary Ellen Owen, who is a core member of The Allender Center team as well as a mental health therapist with over 20 years of experience. Rachael describes her as a woman with wild depth and someone well acquainted with grief, both in her own life and the lives of those she serves.

So, what are we talking about when we talk about grief? Over the course of their conversation, you’ll hear more about the necessity of and different kinds of grief, what boundaries we put up to avoid engaging grief, and how grief connects us to the work of Jesus and the tenderness of God.

Listener Resources

Read a blog post by Mandy Hughes about “Embracing Grief, Embracing Joy”
Listen to a two-part podcast series about engaging Grief and Gratitude

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.
0:08.5	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Chen.
0:10.6	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.8	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:26.6	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. I'm here today with Dan and our guest, Mary Ellen,
0:30.7	and we are actually entering into a new podcast series on grief.
0:35.2	And if there was ever a more relevant time to try to dive more deeply
0:39.5	into a concept, an action, a reality, an embodied expression of grief, now is the time.
0:50.5	And we're going to be doing, we're having this conversation over a few weeks, but
0:54.4	today we're so privileged to be joined by Mary Ellen. Mary Ellen is a core member of our team here
0:59.7	at the Allender Center. She is a veteran therapist. She has been doing this work for over 20 years.
1:06.7	She is a graduate of the original Mars Hill Graduate School, now known as the Seattle School.
1:14.4	And she is a woman of, I would say, wild depths.
1:18.8	She is someone who can bring me laughter and delight in ways that just feel so precious and so lavish.
1:26.6	And she is a deep well of a woman, a woman who is well
1:31.3	acquainted with grief and has walked that way with Jesus over many a season in her own life
1:37.5	and in the lives of the people that she is called to love and to serve. And so today we're going to
1:43.1	just kind of lay some groundwork and explore
1:46.0	together what the heck are we talking about when we talk about grief and what is the work
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