Trauma Archives - The Allender Center

Understanding Gaslighting

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Let’s talk about gaslighting — a manipulation tactic that seeks to distort reality and erode one’s sense of self. In this episode, Dan and Rachael...

Connections Between Spiritual and Sexual Abuse

by The Allender Center

In this episode, Dan and Rachael begin to talk about the connections between sexual and spiritual abuse. Sexual abuse is also spiritual abuse, but not...

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Engaging Our Stories with Gwen St. John

by The Allender Center

Today is the start of a series of episodes we’ve been eagerly waiting to share with you. We’re going to be engaging the stories of...

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Trauma-Informed Parenting with Abby Wong-Heffter

by The Allender Center

Dan is back this week with Abby Wong-Heffter to talk about trauma in light of their upcoming training, Effective Trauma Care, in just a few...

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Trauma-Informed Care with Abby Wong-Heffter

by The Allender Center

This week on the podcast, Dan begins the first of two conversations with special guest Abby Wong-Heffter, a teaching staff member at the Allender Center...

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Engaging Food & Body

by The Allender Center

A few weeks ago Dan and Rachael talked about what it means to find flourishing in a world that is slowly reopening, to honor what...

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Mental Health: How to Help Kids in a Pandemic

by The Allender Center

Dr. Pam Davis again joins Dan and Rachael to continue their conversation about how to help kids in this year of pandemic and the many...

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Play, Anxiety, and Resilience: How to Help Kids in a Pandemic

by The Allender Center

Dr. Pam Davis, Associate Professor of Counseling at Gordon-Conwell Seminary and Director of the Counseling Department at Charlotte campus, joins Dan and Rachael to engage...

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Practicing Kindness: Trauma and the Body

by The Allender Center

Following their conversation from last week about the impact of trauma on our body and our brain, Dan and Rachael turn their attention to ways...

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Trauma and the Body in Pandemic

by The Allender Center

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,...

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