Holiday Madness

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

As nature slows down, many of us are gearing up for a busy holiday season - beginning with Thanksgiving next week.

Dan and Becky Allender unpack some of the nostalgia that surrounds the holiday, the tensions that arise from unmet expectations or clashing opinions, and what we can mindfully bring to the Thanksgiving table - and what can be left at the door.

So as we enter into this season of “holiday madness,” as Dan puts it, we hope you can pause to consider what this time of year means for you, and how you can help foster a season of goodness for you and the people in your life.

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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-Centen.
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.
0:28.6	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. This episode is about Thanksgiving, which, you know, given that we're but a few days from it, makes a whole lot of sense. But I will
0:41.0	also admit that as we come to talk about Thanksgiving, two things are happening for me. One is,
0:48.7	this is a holiday that I bear at least some level of ambivalence about, even though historically it's like
0:56.4	if you look at like, what's the number one holiday? It's either Christmas or Halloween and
1:03.0	followed up usually by Thanksgiving. So this is a holiday people really do look forward to.
1:10.8	And the two of us, my beloved wife,
1:14.7	hi, Becky. Good to have you with us. It's good to be on with you. And we're probably physically
1:21.0	closer than we've been for, I don't know, about seven or eight days, given that we've been
1:25.6	in quarantine. You and I both had our first
1:31.7	experience of COVID. So if we cough, if you hear the sounds of some degree of illness,
1:41.8	that's what we're bringing into thinking about the holiday season. And we're really
1:48.6	referring to this as Thanksgiving madness. And to the degree that you can engage, sort of the realm
1:57.0	of madness, this is our presumption. You'll be better to enjoy the goodness of what this
2:04.9	holiday brings, to the degree that you flood yourself with naivete or nostalgia, there
2:15.0	will be things that probably keep the holiday from being as good as it is meant to be.
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