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Food, Kindness, and Our Bodies
Picking up on the episode from last week, today you’ll hear the second half of a conversation on food and our bodies featuring guests Matt...
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Engaging Food & Body
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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A Letter to My Younger Self
This letter is one I wrote to my younger self who grew up in a country with continuous effects of colonialism in the Philippines, where...
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Racial Inequality and Inequity: An Ongoing Lament
“I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not … I now make...
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Face to Face with My White Privilege
Melanie Lindell, LMHC and a Training & Pastoral Care Team Member at The Allender Center, reflects openly and honestly about her journey of wrestling with...
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Collective Trauma
As a therapist, I commonly spend time working with my clients around trauma they’ve experienced. In my experience, trauma is often addressed from an individualistic...
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Facing Failure, Part Three
This week, Dan is joined by his wife, Becky Allender, to conclude our series on Facing Failure. Dan and Becky reflect on moments when they...
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Blood Woman
Our bodies are storytellers, yet we have a choice whether or not to let ourselves tell its story or to let what the world perceives...
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