Reflections on the Year 2025 with Dr. Dan and Becky Allender

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Mental Health

4.7 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As the year comes to a close, Dan and Becky Allender continue their annual podcast tradition: pausing to reflect on the year that has passed. They share a bit about their own experiences—what they've learned, what they're grieving, and what they're celebrating—as they prepare to enter a new season.

Together, they invite you to also pause and reflect: What moments from your year need remembering? What relationships could use repair or deeper care? What desires and hopes might God be stirring in your heart for the year ahead?

We are deeply grateful for your presence and support of the Allender Center Podcast in 2025. As we step into 2026, we look forward to continuing this journey together!

About the Allender Center Podcast:

For over a decade, the Allender Center Podcast has offered honest, thoughtful conversations about the deep work of healing and transformation. Hosted by Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen, MDiv, this weekly podcast explores the complexities of trauma, abuse recovery, story, relationships, and spiritual formation. Through questions submitted by listeners, stories, interviews, and conversations, we engage the deep places of heartache and hope that are rarely addressed so candidly in our culture today. Join the Allender Center Podcast to uncover meaningful perspectives and support for your path to healing and growth.

At the Allender Center, we value thoughtful dialogue across a wide range of voices, stories, and lived experiences. In that spirit, our podcast features guests and hosts who may hold differing perspectives. The perspectives shared on this podcast by guests and hosts reflect their own experiences and viewpoints and do not necessarily represent the views, positions, or endorsements of the Allender Center and/or The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jeanette White, executive director of the Allender Center. For over a decade,
0:12.3	the Allender Center podcast has been sharing weekly conversations about faith, story, trauma, and
0:18.1	healing, all free for anyone who needs them. But producing these episodes
0:23.0	isn't free. Every planning meeting, every hour of recording and editing, every show note,
0:29.6	it all adds up. That's why we want to invite you to become a monthly supporter of the podcast.
0:36.5	Even $5 a month helps keep the podcast going.
0:40.5	If you'd like to be a part of what we're doing with the Allender Center podcast,
0:44.6	visit allendercenter.org slash podcast and click on Become a Supporter.
0:50.6	Thank you for listening and for being part of this movement toward healing and restoration.
1:09.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
1:11.6	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
1:13.6	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.
1:15.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
1:19.7	And restoration for the heart.
1:22.2	Thank you for joining us.
1:23.5	Let's get this conversation started.
1:34.1	Thank you. Let's get this conversation started. As much as I delight working with Rachel, I have my favorite, shall we say, partner today on our podcast. And that is my beloved wife, Becky. Becky,
1:49.8	welcome as we talk about the end of the year. It's great to be here. And I can't believe it's
1:56.9	almost the end of the year. I know. Just in some ways, I think this is a typical phrase that
2:03.0	old people use. It just goes so fast. Remember the days in second and third grade when I would
2:09.4	look out the window at traffic going by Barrington Elementary School thinking it will be
2:17.0	infinity before I get out of here.
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