Engaging Our Stories with Gwen St. John

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today is the start of a series of episodes we’ve been eagerly waiting to share with you. We're going to be engaging the stories of some of our dear friends and colleagues in order to help you—our listeners— get a better sense for how to look at and read your own story. In this episode, Dan and Rachael talk with Gwen St. John, a therapist and long-time Allender Center facilitator, about how her experience growing up shaped who she is today as someone with high sensitivity, and how this led her to become a “reader of people and the world.” Listen closely to the ways Dan and Rachael engage her stories of harm with care and kindness, and how they invite her to stay in her body while recounting these stories.

Listener Resources:

Do you relate to high sensitivity? Take a quick survey, recommended by Gwen
Learn more about Gwen and her counseling practice
Curious about pursuing your own story work? Learn more about and apply to Story Workshop—applications due August 31, 2021

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Austin, and I'm one of the show's producers. As many of you know, we are in the process
0:05.4	of looking for an executive director to join our team at the Allender Center at the Seattle School.
0:10.7	Our search committee is currently seeking applicants, and we deeply value your imagination on our
0:15.4	behalf. If you or someone you know might be a good fit for this role, please visit the
0:19.9	Seattle School.edu forward slash jobs, and click on the executive director link under open positions.
0:29.6	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast. I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:34.6	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centon. We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:40.7	And restoration for the heart.
0:43.1	Thank you for joining us.
0:44.4	Let's get this conversation started.
0:51.8	One of the things we delight doing is to bring dear friends and colleagues who have labored with us at the Allender Center for what feels like centuries into conversation.
1:08.9	What we really want to do is to invite story to help you get a better sense of how
1:14.7	to look at and read your own story. And so Gwen Shingen, a long-term Alamter Center leader,
1:26.1	Gwen, so good to have you with Rachel and me today. So thank you for coming.
1:31.8	Thank you. I'm delighted to be here. So let's talk about your wild, lovely, odd, compelling life. And to do that,
1:42.1	I just want you to kind of introduce yourself and tell people a little bit about
1:46.8	how you are situated in the world with whom, and enough to begin that conversation.
1:55.7	Sure.
1:56.4	Well, I'm situated in the world.
1:58.2	I live in Seattle with my husband Gabriel and our daughter, Marigold.
2:03.1	And I am working, I've been working for a number of years as a therapist here,
2:07.4	have a private practice, and have had the honor and joy of working with the Allender Center
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