
Bloom: Learning to Thrive in Light of Our Stories
I sit as part of a circle of seven women and watch as one of them begins to cry. I begin to rock my body...
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The Complexity of Authority
Rachael Clinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender dive into a three-part series that wrestles with complex questions about authority. In a culture that grows increasingly...
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Attachment and Relationships, Part Three
Concluding a podcast series on attachment and styles of relating, Rachael and Dan discuss how they see their attachment styles playing out in the midst...
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Tune Those Strings: A Reflection on Attachment
I’m all up in the business of attachment these days. I observe the attachment styles of friends and family members. I consider my attachment dynamics...
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Attachment and Relationships, Part Two
In this episode of The Allender Center podcast, Rachael and Dan continue a series about attachment; how our earliest relationships impact who we come to...
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The Battle for Joy
I just woke up early in my daughter’s home. There are no sounds of our freshly born granddaughter, Parker, or her mother or father. I...
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Attachment and Relationships, Part One
Rachael Clinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender have a conversation about our individual styles of relating and how they can be, as Dan describes, a...
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Reconnection in Marriage with Dr. Dan Allender and Dr. Steve Call
We’re revisiting an insightful conversation between Dr. Dan Allender and Dr. Steve Call, a therapist and Affiliate Faculty member at The Seattle School of Theology...
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