Listener Questions: Spiritual Abuse & Healing

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We’re back to engage more questions from you, our listeners, about healing from spiritual abuse. In this episode, Rachael Clinton Chen, alongside Allender Center Product Manager Melissa Dowell, addresses heartfelt and challenging questions from our community.

These questions explore the complexities of bringing spiritual abuse to light, navigating healing as survivors, especially those who have faced backlash for speaking out, and managing the unique struggles of working in a church while dealing with past or present spiritual harm.

Thank you to all who submitted questions. This is part of an ongoing conversation, and we are deeply grateful for your willingness to ask questions, listen to this episode, and engage with these issues with us.

More resources on spiritual abuse:

Listen to this Spotify playlist: Over 20 Podcasts on Spiritual Abuse & Healing from the Allender Center
Check out this set of recorded webinars with Rachael Clinton Chen: Confronting Spiritual Abuse and Healing from Spiritual Abuse (with Matthias Roberts)

Join the waitlist for the Story Workshop for Spiritual Abuse & Healing, happening May 16-18, 2025.

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.
0:08.7	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Cent.
0:10.6	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.
0:30.1	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Well, good people with good bodies. As you know, we have been asking for your questions on
0:36.2	spiritual abuse for a kind of podcast Q&A. And I am
0:41.6	really grateful and privileged to be joined by my friend and colleague Melissa Dowell. Hi, Melissa,
0:47.5	thanks for joining me on the podcast. Melissa, you may remember, she is the manager of product
0:53.9	development here at the
0:54.7	Allender Center and has hosted a Q&A with Dan B4. She's also been on an episode we did on
1:01.7	different forms of spirituality. So her and her husband Jordan joined us for an episode on
1:07.4	the spirituality of craft. She's an actor. She's a fellow new mom. And I experience
1:14.0	Melissa not only as just a colleague who's kind of been assigned to ask me these questions,
1:19.8	but as someone who is a fierce advocate for survivors and someone who seeks to, you know,
1:26.9	bring a context and a process of healing wherever you go.
1:31.8	So I'm really glad to be doing this with you today.
1:34.7	Thank you.
1:35.8	I'm excited to be here.
1:37.0	And we received so many questions, so many wonderful questions, difficult questions.
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