Revisiting Spiritual Abuse

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We recently re-released the recording of the Confronting Spiritual Abuse webinar led by Rachael Clinton Chen, so we’re also revisiting the topic of spiritual abuse here on the podcast. This week, Dan Allender interviews Rachael Clinton Chen about her experiences with spiritual abuse, how she started teaching on this topic, and how people can identify spiritually abusive people and systems that they encounter.

We invite you to stay tuned for the second part of this conversation next week. If you’d like to go deeper into this topic, consider enrolling in the “Confronting Spiritual Abuse Re-Release.” This is a full day of teaching from Rachael Clinton Chen that you may go through at your own pace.

We offer this information not only to expose the harm, but because we believe that healing is possible. By doing this work, you can begin to reclaim spiritual beliefs and practices and reconnect with God and others in a deeper way.

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0:00.0	Spiritual abuse is one of the most insidious and pervasive forms of abuse in our culture.
0:07.0	Whether subtle or obvious, spiritual abuse is a form of trauma that undermines your relationship with yourself and with God.
0:14.0	How do we begin to unravel the harm caused by spiritual abuse, reclaim our spirituality, and regain healthy relationships with ourselves,
0:22.0	others, and God. Hi, I'm Rachel Clinton Chen, a trauma specialist and co-host of the
0:28.2	Allender Center podcast. Last year, I led an online seminar called Confronting Spiritual Abuse.
0:34.4	We've had so many requests to make this content available again, so for a limited time, you can access the recording from this seminar.
0:41.3	Enrollment is open through June 30, 2022, and you'll have access to the material for the rest of the calendar year to work through at your own pace.
0:50.3	In confronting spiritual abuse, you'll spend time understanding spiritual abuse in context, the systems, processes, and people who perpetrate it.
0:59.0	You'll also learn to identify and name the abuse and learn ways in which you can start to heal.
1:04.0	We believe that healing is possible. By doing this work, you can begin to reclaim spiritual beliefs and practices and reconnect with God and others in a deeper way.
1:14.7	Visit the Allender Center.org slash online dash courses to enroll in confronting spiritual abuse today.
1:31.5	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
1:33.3	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
1:34.9	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Cenn.
1:39.2	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
1:41.5	And restoration for the heart.
1:43.1	Thank you for joining us.
1:45.0	Let's get this conversation started. Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Rachel, the topic we're going to address today is one with a lot of grief, but so important to engage. And we're going to be talking
2:06.0	about spiritual abuse. Before we do so, let me just say such an important topic, but in a different
2:13.7	sense, I'm so excited about this because I get to interview you. So obviously,
2:22.3	most of the time as we talk, there is no question. You are a beloved and preeminent co-host.
2:29.6	But today, you get to be interviewed.
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