Rachael’s Maternity Leave

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In case you missed the title of this episode, the big news is that our beloved co-host of The Allender Center Podcast, Rachael Clinton Chen, will be taking some time away as she and her husband prepare to welcome a new baby into their lives.

Rachael reflects on her journey so far as she chats with Dan Allender in what will be her final episode for the next few months. Please join us in wishing Rachael all the best, and as she says in her closing statement of this podcast: “See you on the other side.”

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-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.
0:29.1	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Rachel Clinton Chen.
0:33.3	We've got really good news, don't we?
0:36.9	And I will speak for myself. The good news so supersedes
0:42.5	all other news that it's just good. But I'll also admit, on the side, that there is some sad news,
0:53.3	at least for me, and for many of our listeners.
0:58.7	So let's start, I think it's one of those.
1:00.9	Let's start with some extraordinary good news, which, as I said, will cause anything that brings loss, it will become opaque in the translucent goodness
1:16.4	that is about to be spoken. So anyway, good, good to be with you, Rachel. Good to be with you,
1:22.7	Dan. You just want me to share my news. Oh, you know know is there any other way to do this other than
1:30.4	to go we're in a transitional period now we can also argue that the entire pandemic has been
1:38.3	one wicked transitional period from one almost one episode to the next. But this feels like such good news
1:48.8	that people are like, I think they already know, don't they? The good news is that my husband and I
1:58.2	are expecting a baby girl sometime in mid-August.
2:02.2	So we are at the time of this conversation well into our third trimester and counting down our days.
2:11.0	So it is a very, very joyous season, one long, hope for, anticipated, labored for, waited for, and we are
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