What is Trauma? With Rachel Clinton Chen

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Three Percent

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Welcome to Three Percent. This is your space if you’re on a journey of pursuing holistic masculinity, growing your emotional awareness, and cultivating deeper relationships and an authentic faith. We’re here to provide evidence-based guidance and proven strategies drawn from our experiences as therapists, friends, and mentors. We aren’t here to give you gimmicks or superficial “hacks.” We’re not telling you who to be, we're helping you uncover what gets in the way of being the man you want to be and offering you the authentic tools needed for tangible growth.

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What is Trauma? With Rachel Clinton Chen

Three Percent

56 minutes 7 seconds

2 months ago

What is Trauma? With Rachel Clinton Chen

In this soul-shaking episode, we sit down with therapist, trauma practitioner, and spiritual leader Rachel Clinton Chen to explore the sacred, painful, and courageous work of healing. Rachel guides us into the realities of trauma, powerlessness, spiritual abuse, and what it takes to become whole. We talk about the cost of integrity, the betrayal of our bodies, and the profound invitation to let lament and grief become doorways to hope. With honesty, wisdom, and fierce gentleness, Rachel names what so many are afraid to say aloud—and calls us to be people of truth and love in the face of harm.

Takeaways

Trauma is not just what happens to you—it’s what you carry when you’re alone in it.
Integrity has a cost, especially in spiritually abusive systems.
Grief is not the end of the story—it’s the beginning of embodied hope.
Healing often begins with naming what is true, even when it’s disruptive.
Your body keeps the score, but it can also be the site of redemption.
We need language, witness, and safety to metabolize harm.

When we stop trying to hold everything together, we begin to heal.

Check out more of Rachel Clinton Chen:

🌐 ⁠The Allender Center⁠

📸 Instagram –⁠ @rachelclintonchen ⁠

🎙 Podcast – ⁠The Allender Center Podcast⁠

Learn more about Three Percent: 🌐⁠ www.threepercentco.com

Chapters

(00:00) Meet Rachel Clinton Chen

(04:00) Powerlessness and the Language of Trauma

(07:30) What Spiritual Abuse Steals from the Soul

(12:00) The Cost of Integrity in Religious Systems

(15:30) The Body Knows What the Mind Tries to Hide

(19:00) Naming the Truth and Being Witnessed

(22:30) What Is Lament and Why Does It Matter?

(26:00) Becoming People Who Can Grieve and Hold Hope

(29:00) From Dissociation to Embodiment

(34:00) Holding Complexity in a Black-and-White World

(38:00) Rachel’s Own Healing and Leadership Journey

(41:00) Why She Still Believes in the Church

(46:00) A Word for the Tender and Tired Listener

(49:00) Where to Find Rachel and Her Work

Keywords

Rachel Clinton Chen, Three Percent, trauma healing, spiritual abuse, integrity, grief, lament, The Allender Center, Dan Allender, embodiment, Christian trauma, spiritual formation, emotional health, mental health, religious harm, narrative healing, counseling, black-and-white thinking, abuse recovery, faith and pain, hope, integrity, safety, truth-telling, nervous system, therapeutic practices, power and vulnerability, shame and resilience, holistic masculinity, tenderness, church healing