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The Place We Find Ourselves podcast features private practice therapist Adam Young (LCSW, MDiv) and interview guests as they discuss all things related to story, trauma, attachment, and inte...
Stephanie Duncan Smith joins me today to talk about her book, "Even After Everything: The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risks and Loving...
Dr. Hillary McBride talks about her new book titled, Holy Hurt: Understanding Spiritual Trauma and the Process of Healing . Topics covered i...
I am joined today by author Jay Stringer to talk about sexual stuckness/difficulties/struggles. Healthy sexuality is deeply tied to the degr...
Today's episode is different. Dan Allender takes over the podcast to interview me about my new book titled, Make Sense of Your Story: Why En...
John Eldredge returns to the podcast to talk about his newest book titled, "Experience Jesus. Really." Topics covered include: how to live a...
I am joined today by my friend Gail Stucker who is a trauma-informed story coach. Gail generously shares a story about herself as an 8th gra...
You have a story and that story matters. Your story in your family of origin significantly affects the way you think, feel, and act in the w...
I am joined today by Dr. Dan Allender and Dr. Steve Call to talk about the complexities of marriage relationships. Dan and Steve recently co...
I dive into a detailed explanation of avoidant and ambivalent attachment. I explain why and how a child develops each of these insecure atta...
The fundamental premise of story work is that your past story is affecting your present life. This is just as true for your collective story...
Memory is the way in which a past experience affects how the mind will function in the present. There are two layers of memory: explicit and...
Triangulation occurs when a parent requires a child to function as an emotional adult by meeting the parent's adult needs and wants. Were yo...
Sexuality is an emotionally charged topic. Period. But when you are talking about sexuality for people with a history of trauma, you are ste...
I am joined today by therapist and friend Reid Zeller who shares a story about egging cars when he was 16. Behind every story is a backstory...
When you were a child, you were deeply dependent on your primary caretakers. This means that the development of your brain was contingent up...
If you have difficulty regulating your emotion, there is a reason for that! No one comes out of the womb with the ability to regulate their...
This episode is for people who experience emotional pain but feel like "nothing that bad happened to me growing up. I had a pretty good chil...
When I began exploring my story, five objections kept coming up for me. These objections kept me stuck. In today's episode, I respond to eac...
My invitation to you today is simple: to take your story seriously. Engaging your story is the single most important thing you can do to exp...
In "As Long As You Need," author J.S. Park writes that "Grief is not about letting go, but about letting in." Letting in sorrow, letting in...
I am joined today by author Jay Stringer to talk about sexual stuckness/difficulties/pain. Healthy sexuality is deeply tied to the degree to...
I am joined today by Dr. Hillary McBride to discuss excerpts from her new book titled, "Practices for Embodied Living." Topics covered inclu...
Pastor and counselor Mike Boland shares a story from when he was 15 years old. It's a story about the interplay of longing for connection an...
The opposite of trauma is not "no trauma;" the opposite of trauma is connection. To be human is to be wounded. However, wounds heal naturall...
Today I focus on two important ways that your body tells you things. The first is through your affect. Whenever your affect becomes dysregul...
You have a story and that story matters. Your story in your family of origin significantly affects the way you think, feel, and act in the w...
Your body knows things that your enskulled brain does not. Moreover, if you listen, your body will tell you important things—things that wil...
Friend and fellow therapist Matthias Roberts joins me today to share a very vulnerable story involving triangulation with his mother. How do...
Therapist and fellow podcaster Vanessa Sadler shares a story from when she was 11 years old. As children, all of us needed to belong—to feel...
I am joined today by therapist Jenny McGrath who is passionate about helping people heal from the damage of purity culture. One byproduct of...
Matthias Roberts joins me today to talk about his book Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned By Religion . Topics covered in...
We pick up with Curt sharing about Cora's experience in a story group. Specifically, we talk about about why Cora's intense bouts of panic w...
Curt Thompson returns to the podcast to talk about how we heal from trauma. In short, trauma and emotional pain begin to heal when our stori...
Jimmy McGee and Rebecca Wheeler Walston join me to talk about how they came to understand the importance of trauma and story engagement. If...
I am joined today by my friend Rebekah, who shares a story from when she was six years old. Topics covered include: feeling like there is so...
Fellow therapist Mary Ellen Owen joins me today to share her journey with sorrow. Like many people with trauma, it took Mary Ellen years to...
I am joined today by Heather Stringer, who has lots of experience creating rituals that heal. Heather begins by describing two rituals: one...
I am joined by Cathy Loerzel to talk about how to engage another person's story. Effective story engagement is not a magical skill that some...
Jay Stringer joins me to talk about the relationship between our current sexual difficulties and our story in our family of origin. Sexual s...
In order to heal from sorrow, we need to move our bodies as we participate in rituals of honoring and releasing our sorrow. A ritual is a se...
This is part 2 in a series of episodes on how to engage our sorrow and grief in a way that brings healing. The focus today is on the four co...
For most modern people, the place we find ourselves is in a land where grief and sorrow are unwelcome. Most of us do not feel like the peopl...
This episode is a joint release of The Allender Center podcast and The Place We Find Ourselves. We have all experienced hurt, abandonment, o...
I'm joined today by theologian and author Pete Enns, who also co-hosts a podcast called The Bible for Normal People. Although we talk about...
God created our hearts, minds, and bodies to heal. When the conditions are right, healing will occur. Therefore, it's important to clear awa...
Last year I saw an Instagram post asking people to share stories of Bible verses that had been used against them. The comments section was d...
Connections between brain regions lead to a healthy and stable brain (and a healthy and stable life). Trauma prevents these brain connection...
Pascale Wright joins me today to share a very vulnerable story from her childhood. The temptation is to view her story as one of neglect… bu...
Today's episode looks more deeply at the spiritual abuse KJ Ramsey suffered at the hands of Christian leaders. We begin by talking about the...
I am joined by KJ Ramsey to talk through her new book, "The Lord Is My Courage." KJ explains why it's so important to be honest and clear ab...