Trauma and the Body in Pandemic
The Allender Center Podcast
The Allender Center
4.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
We’re coming up on a full year of living in the midst of not only a global pandemic, but multiple crises on a national, communal, and personal scale. So today, Dan and Rachael dive into a much-requested topic from our listeners: What is trauma, and what happens to our bodies in the midst of trauma? It’s important to name and honor what you’re experiencing as many of us, if we’re being honest, are not doing well, having hit our “pandemic wall” long ago. You’ll hear our hosts begin to provide language and a framework for how trauma impacts our brains, our physical bodies, and share examples of what this looks like from their own experiences.
It is our hope that by providing these definitions and categories you will be able to name what is happening in your body, be more prepared to engage trauma, and be able to tend to yourself, your family, and your community in this season.
Resources:
Listen to the podcast episodes Dan refers to on “Not Doing Well”
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:25.8 | Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Well, Dan, we are here today with a much anticipated and actually much requested conversation around trauma and the body. |
| 0:36.3 | We have been getting a lot of requests from people to talk |
| 0:38.7 | more about what is trauma, what's the impact of trauma, how do we heal, how do we grow resiliency |
| 0:47.7 | in the midst of ongoing persistent chronic and or collective trauma?, we have not shied away from talking about |
| 0:58.7 | the different ways in which we have been at the mercy of disordered systems of threat and crisis this |
| 1:08.7 | year. And I think for the most part, if we were honest, we could say |
| 1:14.1 | we've been trying to have all those conversations managing our own relationship and trauma. |
| 1:21.4 | You all might remember a while ago we did a podcast series on like not being well. And today feels like one |
| 1:31.7 | of those moments of attempting and trying to be faithful to step into naming and bringing |
| 1:37.8 | categories that could be helpful to people to locate themselves, to have imagination for |
| 1:43.8 | how to tend in this season, how to tend to your |
| 1:46.3 | families, how to tend to your community. And it's also really hard to do when you find yourself |
| 1:51.6 | in moments where it's in our home, we would call it like, turtle. You're like, you know, like, |
| 1:58.0 | pull into your shell, anchor down, like wait out the storm. You know, it's a language we've cultivated with our children, you know, like, pull into your shell, anchor down, like, wade out the storm. |
| 2:01.6 | You know, it's a language we've cultivated with our children, our breed teams around like, I need a turtle for a minute. |
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