Fly Fishing, Play, and Restoration

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We all need space to play: a concentrated period of time that opens the door for the restoration that our hearts and bodies most desperately need. One of the ways Dan, Rachael, and good friend Dr. Steve Call find restoration is through fly fishing. Over the course of this podcast episode, you’ll hear both humorous and insightful anecdotes from all three about their various endeavors into fly fishing and, even if you yourself are not energized by fishing, you can’t help but be swept up by their delight. And as you listen, ask yourself: Why do we need something that so deeply captivates us?

Listener Resources:

Listen to the podcast series, “A Summer of Play”

Read blog post “It’s Summer, Let’s Play!” by Robyn Whitaker

Listen to podcast episode “Play, Anxiety and Resilience: How to Help Kids in a Pandemic” featuring special guest Dr. Pam Davis

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-Cenn.
0:10.1	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.5	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.0	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:31.9	I doubt anyone needs to be reminded that it's summer.
0:42.0	And if there's one truth with regard to this summer, is that we all desperately need to play.
0:44.7	And we can play too hard.
0:49.6	We can play with a kind of effort to reenter Eden.
1:06.5	But whatever, we need to be in a concentrated period of beauty that captures us, that captivates us, and opens the door for a level of restoration.
1:13.8	So that's what we're going to talk about, inviting you to consider how you're going to play. And whether that play, honestly, is up to the capacity and goodness of what your soul really needs.
1:24.5	So I am with not only my dear friend Rachel Clinton Chen, who is a fly
1:31.3	fisher woman and my good, good friend Steve Call, whom I will be fishing with about the time this
1:40.2	podcast comes into the light of day. So we're going to talk about fly fishing, but don't, don't, don't bail on us.
1:48.4	We're going to be talking about that as one avenue for an entry into what our hearts and bodies most desperately need.
1:57.6	But before we go much further, Rachel, give just a little bit of history to your
2:05.5	fascination, compelling immersion into this God-given art.
2:13.4	Well, I actually started fly fishing in high school with my dad and brother in Colorado.
2:19.4	I grew up in Oklahoma, but we'd always go to Colorado for the summers.
2:23.3	And I just wanted to go.
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