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The Allender Center Podcast

“Make Sense of Your Story” with Adam Young, LCSW

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today Dan and Rachael welcome longtime friend and Allender Center Facilitator Adam Young, LCSW, to the podcast for a deeply moving conversation about the unexpected plot twists that shape our stories—and how they can become sacred invitations to connection, healing, and transformation.

 

Adam, who is a counselor, author, podcast host, and an NFTC Certified Instructor & Facilitator with the Allender Center, joins us to talk about his new book, Make Sense of Your Story: Why Engaging Your Past with Kindness Changes Everything.

 

He vulnerably shares about a life-altering moment that brought him to his knees, and ultimately, into deeper communion with God. Together, Adam, Dan, and Rachael explore why revisiting the painful parts of our stories isn’t a detour from growth, but the very path that helps us make sense of who we are today and imagine who we’re becoming. Whether it's the story of our family of origin, our bodies, our culture, or our relationship with God, Adam offers practical and grace-filled ways to approach our histories with kindness instead of shame.

Join us for today’s conversation to consider how you can engage your past with even more courage and kindness—and to discover freedom, healing, and hope along the way.

If you haven’t already, don’t wait - order your copy of Adam Young’s new book, Make Sense of Your Story: Why Engaging Your Past with Kindness Changes Everything: 

https://adamyoungcounseling.com/ or

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1540904695/ 

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0:00.0

If you've been doing some personal work, maybe through journaling, therapy, reading, or even listening to this podcast, and yet still feel like there's something missing, you're not alone.

0:14.5

Our stories were never meant to be engaged in isolation.

0:18.6

That's why participating in a story workshop with the Allender Center can be such a powerful

0:23.5

next step.

0:24.9

I'm Rachel Clinton-Centon, and I want to personally invite you to this unique in-person

0:29.6

experience in Seattle, happening August 21 through 24, 2025.

0:35.8

Over the course of three and a half days, you'll receive live teaching from Dan Allender,

0:41.1

Wendell Moss, and myself, and other Allender Center instructors.

0:45.7

But what makes this workshop truly transformative is the time you'll spend in a story group,

0:51.7

a small, intimate setting, led by a trained facilitator who will walk

0:56.1

with you as you engage a part of your story with care and courage. It's a space marked by

1:01.8

compassion, reflection, and healing, a space where deep change becomes possible. If you're

1:08.6

feeling called to take your storywork further and to do it in community,

1:12.9

this might be the next step you've been looking for. Learn more and register now at the

1:18.7

allander center.org slash workshops. We would love to have you with us.

1:36.5

Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.

1:38.2

I'm Dr. Dan Allender.

1:39.8

And I'm Rachel Clinton-Cenn.

1:44.2

We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.

1:46.5

And restoration for the heart.

1:49.8

Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. When we invite you to think about a new book, I'm going to think about a new book, there's always a sense of, what are we getting you into?

2:10.7

And this is one of those conversations where I just want to say, oh, we're taking you into some good stuff.

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