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The Allender Center Podcast

Not Doing Well, Part One

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton begin a conversation about the familiar experience of not doing well, and the messages that tell us we need to power through the pain, not let our guard down, and not let anyone truly see us when things are not well.

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

0:08.0

This week, Dan and I, Rachel Clinton, set down to record a different conversation, but we

0:14.4

quickly realized that we just weren't doing well.

0:17.1

So that's what we talked about instead, the all too familiar experience of not doing well,

0:22.3

and the messages that tell us we need to just power through or not let anyone see us.

0:36.7

Well, we have the privilege of talking about not doing well, how we do well when we are not well.

0:46.3

And it is good to be with my dear friend and colleague Rachel Clinton.

0:51.3

It's good to be with you.

0:52.9

And let's just be, again, fairly upfront to say that we had a very different podcast planned.

1:00.5

Yes.

1:01.0

And we'll do those probably in the next two to four weeks.

1:05.4

But as we had a plan, we both had to acknowledge that we were not doing well. And so often what happens,

1:15.2

at least in my own life, is when I'm not doing well, it's very hard to acknowledge that I'm not

1:22.3

doing well. I'm so, so used to normalizing, not doing well, that I just power through and just do what's on the schedule, assuming that's the right thing to do and the thing that actually honors God, honors the task, and honors myself.

1:47.0

So we both acknowledged that we were not really in the place and space to do what we had

1:54.0

planned, thank goodness. We'll spend more time in our second talking about what things need to occur. But we're in a very different

2:04.0

place than we were an hour ago as we were beginning to admit that the exigencies in our

2:10.5

lives were crowding in enough that there was a real question whether we should even do a podcast

2:17.4

at all today.

2:18.8

Yeah. I mean, that feels very true. And I would say I'm so used to like having to manage

2:27.3

not being well and holding all kinds of fragmentation, whether it's mine or somebody else's, and just kind of having

2:36.4

to get through. I mean, I was a long-distance runner for 12 years, and there is this sense as an

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