“Strong Like Water” with Aundi Kolber

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We’re so pleased to be joined by therapist and author Aundi Kolber, known for her acclaimed works "Try Softer" and, most recently, "Strong Like Water."

As a licensed professional counselor specializing in trauma- and body-centered therapies, Aundi's expertise is deeply informed by her personal journey of healing from complex childhood trauma.

Aundi candidly shares her personal journey of healing, from confronting the profound extent of her past trauma and discovering healing methods that nurture a sense of safety, self-care, and self-compassion.

She shares: “Part of my own journey, and I think my writing, I hope, I pray, that the trajectory of my writing is about that to live into these values actually has required me to get softer so I could get stronger.”

We invite you to join Dan, Rachael, and Aundi on this week’s episode of the Allender Center Podcast.

This episode contains brief explicit language that may be offensive to some listeners; discretion is advised.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Have you ever felt like you were living a narrative that someone else wrote for you?
0:07.0	Maybe your story was written by your family, your church, or your culture.
0:12.0	You may be asking yourself, what is my story?
0:15.0	And how does it uniquely fit into the story of the gospel?
0:19.0	At the Allender Center, we believe that your story reveals God's wild goodness in a way
0:23.9	that no other story can.
0:26.4	We've helped thousands of people understand and live their unique stories, and we'd like
0:30.8	to invite you to start engaging your story with the free guided exercise available for download
0:36.0	at the Allender Center.org slash story.
0:53.5	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:57.1	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:58.6	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.
1:00.4	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
1:04.6	And restoration for the heart.
1:07.1	Thank you for joining us.
1:08.4	Let's get this conversation started.
1:22.1	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. This is such a great day. I'm so grateful. We're going to introduce our guest, Andy Culper. Now,
1:30.1	Andy is, from my standpoint, a brilliant, compelling, beautiful writer. And the first book was so
1:43.6	disruptive. And that was a book called Try So Softer, which obviously is the
1:50.4	playground of being able to reverse this ridiculous phrase of Try Harder.
1:56.4	But to follow it up with a book called Strong Like Water, Finding Freedom, Safety, and Compassion
2:03.7	to Move Through Hard Things.
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