Rituals to Redeem Your Marriage

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Dan and Becky Allender invite Paul and Sara Steinke into a conversation about creating and living rituals in marriage, particularly in this era of COVID-19. Paul is the Vice President of Students and Alumni at The Seattle School and Sara is a private practitioner, yoga instructor, and poet. Throughout the episode, they talk about the presence of ritual in their relationships, the specific kinds of rituals they practice to enhance and grow their marriage, and the difference between creating a ritual and a habit.

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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.
0:41.0	Now, one of the most important things is to have couples that you know and love and respect and you get to watch. You get to be part of, but you get to watch.
0:47.8	And one of those couples that we are sad to say we don't spend as much time with, certainly in the COVID era. It's Paul and Sarah Stanky. And Paul, gosh, to go through his title is so complex, but let me just,
0:57.3	let me just take a whack or two at it. It's the vice president of students and alumni development,
1:04.9	or the dean of students and alumni, or what more precious category that we often referred to Paul as our field abbot.
1:14.8	And Paul has been working with the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology for about,
1:21.6	I would say, close to about 140 years.
1:25.9	Would you not?
1:31.5	Yeah, because we do dog years, and it's been well over 20.
1:45.7	And Sarah, who is a private practitioner, a therapist and private practice, but as well, a yoga instructor and a poet.
1:52.9	So between the two of them, we have watched this beautiful couple for decades. Way before children you guys had.
1:56.1	Yeah, yeah.
1:57.7	And again, it's a joy to have you with us.
2:01.1	And what we want to talk a bit about is we've looked at the two of you on so many levels
2:08.1	with so much respect.
2:10.5	But one of the things that we note is that the two of you have created poetic, living rituals to mark not just your lives, but the lives of the
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