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Pause: Looking Ahead to the Summer
In this brief episode, Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen take an intentional pause from our regular rhythms on the podcast. We hope that...
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I Wonder
I married a man who often has a swirl of controversy about him. It seemed like a good fit because I was the skinny girl...
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New Normal?
An unexpected shift At first so shocking, So unsettling, So off-center. Fear began without understanding. A kidney donation surgery canceled. Fury and outrage, “Why?”...
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Food and Body, Part Three
In their final conversation, Dr. Dan Allender, Diane Summers, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD, and Matt Tiemeyer, LHMC, explore ways we can heal our relationship with food...
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Food and Body, Part Two
Picking up their conversation from the first episode, Dr. Dan Allender, Diane Summers, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD, and Matt Tiemeyer, LMHC, continue talking about the connection...
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Food and Body, Part One
This week on the podcast, Dr. Dan Allender hosts two guests, Matt Tiemeyer, LMHC, and Diane Summers, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD to begin a three-part conversation...
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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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Mary Christmas
I imagine her Girl with dust-smudged cheeks. Robe wrapped tight around swollen belly, Fringed dirty. Windblown. Grit in teeth. Inner thighs burning and chapped. Donkey...
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