Become an Allender Center Podcast Supporter

by on November 19, 2025

Become a Monthly Podcast Supporter

For more than a decade, the Allender Center Podcast has been showing up, week after week, to offer conversation, care, wisdom, and honest engagement. Over 600 episodes are now freely available to anyone who needs language for their experience, hope for the journey, or simply the reminder that they are not alone.

And we plan to keep it free. But it is not free to make.

Each episode represents the work of many hands: scheduling conversations, preparing content, editing hours of audio and video, writing show notes, producing graphics, and getting it all to your headphones, commute, or morning walk. 

So if you’ve ever waited for the next episode to drop… If you’ve shared an episode with a friend who needed to hear it… If the conversations have met you in your own story with truth, tenderness, or courage…

Would you consider joining us as a monthly supporter?

Your monthly gift of any amount—$5, $10, $25, or more—helps sustain the podcast year-round. It helps us continue creating thoughtful, trauma-informed, spiritually grounded content that reaches people around the world, many of whom will never be able to give but will benefit from listening. 

Become a Monthly Podcast Supporter

We know there is no shortage of need in our country and our world, and we know that finances are tight for many. But if you are able, we would be deeply grateful for your support. 

Thank you for listening. Thank you for being part of this community. And thank you for considering whether this is a moment to lean in a little closer and help keep this work going.

With gratitude,
The Allender Center Team

 The Allender Center at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and your gifts may be tax-deductible.

Become a Podcast Supporter Today

 

What your gift makes possible:

  • Covers the work of creating, editing, producing, and delivering each weekly episode
  • Keeps the podcast free and accessible to anyone who needs it
  • Supports the ongoing mission of the Allender Center to bring healing through story

About the Allender Center Podcast:

For over a decade, the Allender Center Podcast has offered honest, thoughtful conversations about the deep work of healing and transformation. Hosted by Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen, MDiv, this weekly podcast explores the complexities of trauma, abuse recovery, story, relationships, and spiritual formation. Through questions submitted by listeners, stories, interviews, and conversations, we engage the deep places of heartache and hope that are rarely addressed so candidly in our culture today. Join the Allender Center Podcast to uncover meaningful perspectives and support for your path to healing and growth.

Thank you for your feedback about the Allender Center Podcast!

Amazing content I can’t get enough of. Thank you so much for providing this amazing service to those of us looking to dive in deep to our past and emotions in order to move forward and heal.

I am grateful for you doing and giving us the opportunity to continue to grow and heal.

I appreciate the honest dialogue back and forth. Laughter and tears. Dan and Rachael’s real, vulnerable life stories in the present and in the past. They are welcoming in the way they invite me to know and experience Jesus without being demanding or intrusive. I feel the desire, containment and repair in each episode. Such good examples for me.

Love it! Very grateful for Dan and Rachel, and all the guests you bring on to the podcast.

I discovered The Allender Center Podcast a few years back. And I had a whole bunch of them and I made my way through and actually finished the catch-up just recently and now I pretty much listen every week.

Thank you for engaging your stories publicly and thereby encouraging us to continue to engage our own.

Thank you so much for making this podcast and making it so widely available. I was recently asked to reflect on the people/places/practices that help me to feel anchored and grounded and I realized that I can actually feel a shift in my body and my felt sense of safety when I listen to your podcasts and hear your (Dan and Rachael’s) voices. I feel like you are partners and cheerleaders with me on my own healing journey and that is such a gift. Thank you.

I love the honesty and vulnerability. I incorporate the practical applications to my life as a wife, mother, and mental health practitioner.

Thank you for the knowledge you impart. I am focused more on connecting hearts and enjoying relationships at this season of my life.

I listen to specific topics that I need/want to hear… Thank you over and over again for providing these deeply meaningful discussions with valuable information (both psychological and spiritual) and for reminding us of the love and kindness of God in healing!

Love the podcast! Thank you so much for your rich conversations and for sharing them with the world, they do bring healing and hope to a fragmented world and bringing restoration to many hearts ♥️

Thank you for your continued bravery, for your willingness to go first, and for being willing to join the mess of Christian culture. I praise God for your faithfulness and sacrificial love.

I have been greatly inspired and uplifted by your content. The insights and wisdom you give in your talks brings so much light and clarity to the questions I have been asking for so long but didn’t have the language to articulate. I find myself feeling fresh energy to dive into the engagement of my own story, and I am eager to unlock the healing and peace that can be found in the journey. Keep on keeping on!

This has been a blessing to me. I’ve learned a lot about myself and my outlook on relationships and how my story informed my life has been incredibly impactful paired with story work professional counseling. I can’t say thank you enough.

The Allender Center Podcast has been such a helpful resource for my personal healing journey and something I refer others to in friendship or ministry. I hope to pursue other opportunities with the Allender Center. In the meanwhile the podcast continues to feel like a lifeline or a mentor. Thank you for this gift!