{"podcast":{"title":"The Allender Center Podcast","slug":"the-allender-center-podcast-1093683","podcast_index_feed_id":1093683,"rss_url":"https://theallendercenter.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://theallendercenter.org","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/e/8/f/f/e8ff350178e26c4c/TAC_Podcast_LogoBadge-UPLOAD-V2.jpg","author":"The Allender Center","episode_count":616,"summary":"The Allender Center Podcast features Dr. Dan Allender and his team engaging topics on healing and restoration through the unique intersection of theology and psychology. 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 us to gain refreshing insight into understanding your story, handling relational struggles, recovering from trauma and abuse, and more. The mission of The Allender Center is to help people tell their stories with awareness and integrity, and to train them to listen to the stories of others with care, artistry, and skill so that they may foster redemption and healing in their lives. The Allender Center is a pioneering organization committed to boldly engaging the impact of trauma and abuse, providing healing and teaching to individuals, couples, and communities, and training professionals to listen and enter into stories in a way that facilitates transformation and hope. For information on all our programs and live events, visit theallendercenter.org","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T00:18:44.426745+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-allender-center-podcast-1093683"},"episode":{"title":"Feeling Far From Home with Esperansita Bejnarowicz","slug":"feeling-far-from-home-with-esperansita-bejnarowicz","published_at":"2026-05-22T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-allender-center-podcast-1093683/feeling-far-from-home-with-esperansita-bejnarowicz","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-allender-center-podcast-1093683","url":"https://theallendercenter.libsyn.com/feeling-far-from-home-with-esperansita-bejnarowicz","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/theallendercenter/TAC636-Export.mp3?dest-id=214185","summary":"Have you ever felt like you were living between worlds? Maybe you've moved across countries or cultures. Maybe your family story carries immigration, missionary work, military life, trauma, loss, or displacement. Or maybe, even surrounded by familiar people and places, you still carry an ache for belonging — a longing to feel fully known, rooted, and at home. Today, Dan and Rachael sit down with Esperansita Bejnarowicz, who is a story coach, an NFTC Certified Facilitator with the Allender Center, and the founder of Far From Home. Together, they explore the hidden grief, loneliness, and longing that can come from living \"far from home\" — geographically, emotionally, spiritually, and relationally. Esperansita reflects on the experience of living between identities, cultures, languages, expectations, and communities, and the ways these in-between spaces can leave us carrying forms of grief that often go unseen or unnamed. The conversation also considers the story of Jesus as someone deeply acquainted with displacement: a child forced to flee, a man who \"had no place to lay his head,\" and someone who understood sorrow, exile, and longing for home. Through her own story and the stories of women she now serves through Far From Home, Esperansita offers language for the ache of leaving home, the complexity of belonging nowhere and everywhere at once, and the loneliness that can exist even when life appears beautiful from the outside. Whether you've crossed borders or simply know what it feels like to search for belonging, this conversation offers language, comfort, and hope for the parts of us still longing to find home. You can learn more about Far From Home at: https://www.womenfarfromhome.org/ About the Allender Center Podcast: For over a decade, the Allender Center Podcast…","meta_description":"Have you ever felt like you were living between worlds? Maybe you've moved across countries or cultures. Maybe your family story carries immigration, miss…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2688,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-allender-center-podcast-1093683/episodes/feeling-far-from-home-with-esperansita-bejnarowicz/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-allender-center-podcast-1093683/feeling-far-from-home-with-esperansita-bejnarowicz.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}