Things I Didn’t Expect When Healing From Trauma, Part 1 with Rachael Clinton Chen

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

We’re pleased to bring you a new, three-part series this summer from Rachael Clinton Chen, where she candidly shares personal insights from her own journey of holistically healing from complex PTSD and anxiety, and the things she didn’t expect when healing from trauma.

In the first episode of this series, Rachael shares some of her earliest memories of contending with anxiety as a child, how she managed it, and what eventually drove her to begin to seek help.

From the heart-wrenching lows to the moments so absurd they bring laughter, and every breakthrough in between, we hope this series of heart-to-heart conversations will bring you hope, make you laugh, make you think, and most of all make you feel like you're not alone.

Stay tuned for Part 2, which will be released on July 5.

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0:00.0	Good people with good bodies.
0:06.9	Welcome.
0:07.9	I'm Rachel Clinton Chen, co-host of the Allender Center podcast.
0:12.2	This episode is a little bit different from what you're used to hearing from us.
0:16.0	Throughout the summer, we're going to mix things up with a handful of episodes where I get to share some personal insights from my own healing journey and the things I never expected when healing from trauma.
0:25.9	From the heart-wrenching lows to the moment so absurd they bring laughter and every
0:30.7	breakthrough in between.
0:32.6	My healing journey from anxiety and complex PTSD has been a winding road.
0:38.3	It's one that I'm still traveling on.
0:40.3	And if you find yourself on a similar journey,
0:43.3	whether you're forging ahead or feeling a bit lost,
0:46.3	welcome. You're among friends.
0:48.3	I hope these conversations bring you hope,
0:51.3	make you laugh, make you think,
0:53.3	and most of all make you feel like you're not
0:55.9	alone. Let's get started.
1:00.9	When I was in first grade, I had my very first existential crisis. I was a child who didn't know at the time,
1:16.0	who was managing and navigating a profound amount of anxiety. But in Mrs. Heidery's class,
1:24.1	I experienced a kind of attunement and care that brought a kind of soothing I desperately needed but
1:33.0	didn't know. Mrs. Heidery read us stories every day under this big, probably made from
1:41.4	construction paper, but a big tree that was like on one end of the classroom.
1:46.8	And it was big enough that it kind of created like a canopy. And we would sit under the tree
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