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The Allender Center Podcast

Family of Origin with Dr. Dan Allender and Adam Young

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

So much of our beauty and brokenness — so much of what makes us who we are today — is tied to our family of origin. 

The ways in which we act, react, and interact with others are directly tied to our childhood origin stories and the hurt that we all inevitably experienced – no matter how perfect (or imperfect) our families were.

Why should we spend time going back to name the hurt we experienced growing up? Is it worth it to stir up those memories, talk about painful experiences, and potentially upset our loved ones? 

Dr. Dan Allender and Adam Young, LCSW, MDiv, candidly share their own personal experiences of courageously engaging their parents in conversations and, over time, discovering more grace, understanding, and freedom in the process.

We hope this conversation sparks courage within you to engage some of the difficult truths of the past in order to discover a new hope for your life right now. 

If you’d like to hear more, we invite you to join Dan and Adam on February 23 for “Family of Origin,” a new online seminar from the Allender Center.

Registration is now open at theallendercenter.org/events

Transcript

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0:00.0

We welcome you to a special collaboration between Dan Allender, co-host of the Allender Center podcast, and Adam Young, host of The Place We Find Ourselves podcast.

0:17.8

In this episode, Dan and Adam give you a glimpse of what they will cover in their upcoming

0:21.9

Family of Origin online webinar presented by the Allender Center on February 23, 2003.

0:28.5

If today's conversation speaks to you and you'd like to hear more about how to engage your

0:32.8

family of origin with honor and grace and how to find relief in order to step into the freedom that God

0:38.3

has called you to in your own story. We invite you to register for the Family of Origin webinar

0:43.7

at the Allender Center.org slash events. Now here are Dan Allender and Adam Young.

0:59.1

Are we supposed to deal with our families?

0:59.9

Really?

1:00.8

Come on.

1:04.4

It only creates complication.

1:17.5

It's better just to live with a tableauosa, a white screen with no markings. At least that's some view by some.

1:32.8

But my dear friend and colleague, Adam Young, and I are going to talk about it. And Adam is a brilliant therapist and brilliant podcaster,

1:39.2

just a righteously good human being.

1:45.0

And so, Adam, welcome to this version of a podcast. That's right. It's fun to be on the other side.

1:48.0

It's good to be with you.

1:50.0

I love listening the place we find ourselves.

1:53.0

It's just one of those gifts on a weekly basis to see what mischief you have engaged, created, and followed and ensued.

2:05.8

But as we begin talking about this difficult topic, we can also say that we, without

2:15.7

embarrassment, we are inviting this conversation in part because we get the

2:21.0

privilege, I get the privilege, of being able to spend a longer period of time addressing

2:26.8

these questions on February 23rd, sometime between, well, not sometime, but actually between

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