Routine and Rituals in Covid-19, Part Two

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen talk with Heather Stringer about her creative process of stepping into a moment in someone’s story in order to create a ritual. Heather invites us to pause, gather a few items, and participate in a special ritual to account for the past few days and to ask: How do I need to move toward myself during this time?

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Visit Heather Stringer’s website to learn more about her practice of ritual-making.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.5	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Cenn.
0:10.7	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.5	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.4	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.4	Let's get this conversation started.
0:33.9	Well, Dan, we are back with Heather Stringer, our friend, colleague, and ritual maker.
0:41.6	And as we mentioned in our previous podcast, Heather is part of the Allender Center team.
0:50.1	She's a therapist, and she is a ritual maker among many other things. And we've been having a conversation around the difference between routine and ritual, the power of ritual,
0:57.1	the need of ritual, especially in the midst of a season like COVID-19. And, you know, I've actually
1:03.8	had the profound privilege of being a part of a ritual with Heather that I actually kind of commissioned her to do.
1:14.3	This is something that she is willing and so gifted to do on behalf of others.
1:20.4	You can find more out at lifein ritual.com where Heather kind of talks more about her work with ritual. But I asked Heather to do a ritual.com, where Heather kind of talks more about her work with ritual. But I asked Heather to do a
1:31.2	ritual with me, and I've mentioned this before actually on a previous podcast. I went through a pretty
1:36.9	significant sexual assault many years ago. And in the healing process of coming to do work around all that had been
1:46.5	kind of ravaged with regard to my heart, mind, and body and felt this kind of very small
1:55.7	growing bud of desire that had felt so kind of squelched in the midst of that season. And, you know,
2:04.9	obviously any of us who have known a traumatic experience, it always beckons to more trauma. So,
2:10.3	of course, my healing journey extended beyond that trauma to more thematic trauma in my life and therapeutic work was just coming to this
2:20.8	place of knowing it was time to reclaim what I had come to call this woman who had kind of been
2:27.0	cast into the shadow lands, this part of me, this woman who loved, who was, I was needing a really tangible and also communal way to mark entering a threshold of healing.
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