Reflections on the Year with Dr. Dan & Becky Allender

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As we near the close of the year, Dan and Becky Allender are continuing a podcast tradition: sitting down to reflect on their experiences and inviting you, our listeners, to join them in this meaningful practice.

Dan and Becky share their own reflections—what they’ve learned, what they’re grieving, and what they’re celebrating—as they prepare to transition into a new season.

They’ve also shared a few practical ways you can reflect on your year:

Scroll through your photo gallery. Notice the moments that brought you joy, growth, or even challenge.
Review your calendar. Whether you logged your events in a digital calendar or on paper, look back on events and milestones from each month. Do you notice any themes?

Choose five words. If you could describe your year in just five words, what would they be?

We hope you’ll take a moment as we close out the year to pause, reflect, and dream for what’s to come.

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.
0:30.5	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Well, we're not quite ready to wish you a happy new year, but it is just on the border of a happy new year. And what I'm hoping,
0:42.5	and we're hoping to do, is to reflect with you about the nature of your year, even though we don't
0:50.2	have the privilege of being able to sit at a table and have that conversation. But I am
0:56.3	joined by my remarkable and beloved wife. Becky, Becky, welcome to the podcast. It's so great to be
1:04.5	with you. Well, this has been a little bit of our, shall we say, our history of sort of ending the year for ourselves
1:14.2	and for others to reflect on how we hold a year and then how we move from that into the new year.
1:24.5	So one of the things I would want to underline is that we get this privilege,
1:29.1	and it is an incredible privilege to do this. But we're not doing it primarily for the sake of
1:36.3	asking you to think about our year. We just want our effort to actually open the door for you to be thinking about how to transit from this year
1:52.0	and in a way that allows some sense of reflection, of gratitude, perhaps of grief,
2:00.3	and being able to not just end the year and start a new one,
2:05.2	but be able to hold the year well and be able to put it down and then move in to the new year.
2:13.1	It's really been a very good practice for us to do this each year. I'm thankful for it.
2:18.5	I don't think we'd be doing it if we didn't have this podcast.
2:21.7	So, yeah, I just want to wish that for everyone to try and do that as a practice.
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