With and For hosted by Dr. Pam King

By Dr. Pam King

With & For bridges psychology and spiritual wisdom to help you thrive. Hosted by developmental psychologist and ordained minister Dr. Pam King.... more

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January 15, 2024Rhythms of Work and Rest: Leadership and Self-Care After Trauma and Burnout with Dr. Alexis Abernethy
Coming from decades of research, clinical work, and practice in the field, Dr. Alexis Abernethy cuts through theory and ideals, addressing the complex realities of life: loss, trauma, systemic racism, the grinding and wearing away from the stresses of everyday life, and the pressure to lead in the face of unsolvable suffering and need.
Alexis keeps spiritual health real and accessible, addressing research-backed principles on sleep, concentration, irritation, relationships, and burnout.
Absolutely essential to spiritual health and thriving in our chaotic and frenetic days, Alexis describes rhythms that we can internalize before we get to those soft symptoms or signs of stress.

In this conversation, we discuss:
Her research and therapeutic work with traumatized pastors after Hurricane Katrina, emphasizing the necessity of self-care for the caregivers.

How to identify the symptoms of burnout and how to respond.

The Christian practice of Sabbath rest, worship, and singing, which Alexis personally experiences as a source of healing and restoration.
Pam’s Key Takeaways
Catastrophes don't hit us all the same. We all weather life storms in different ways. It's when we find healing and restoration in community that we can integrate personal, relational, and political thriving.

Limitations can be our friends. Irritation, lack of concentration, fatigue are all signposts to the need for self care.

Burnout is complex, often involves a shift in our context, making our environment or job not a good fit for who we are.

To quote Bessel van der Kolk, our bodies keep the score. Burnout and psychological stress are often manifested with psychosomatic symptoms.

We need to be aware of our relationship to time and how our trust and faith come into play when it comes to rest.

I need more microdoses of rest and perhaps macrodoses of sleep.

We thrive when our vocation lines up with our work. but we need to address our culture's workaholism by talking more about strategies for rest that contribute to spiritual health.
About Alexis Abernethy
Alexis Abernathy is a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology in the Fuller School of Psychology, where for over 25 years she has served as Chaplain to the Faculty, Chief of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and her current role as Chief Academic Officer at Fuller Theological Seminary. She graduated from Howard University with a BS in psychology. She received her MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her primary research interest is the intersection between spirituality and health and her Spirituality and Health Lab includes three research teams: Experience of Spirituality and Health-Related Outcomes; Spirituality, Cancer, and Health Disparities; and Spirituality, Culture, and Eating Disturbance. She is author of many journal articles in psychology of religion, as well as Worship That Changes Lives: Multidisciplinary and Congregational Perspectives on Spiritual Transformation (2008). For more information, visit her faculty profile.

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About Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.

About With & For
Host: Pam King

Senior Director and Producer: Jill Westbrook

Operations Manager: Lauren Kim

Social Media Graphic Designer: Wren Juergensen
Special thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
...more
1h 5min
January 05, 2024Loved, Held, Guided, and Never Alone: The Science of Spirituality with Dr. Lisa Miller
What does science have to say about spirituality?
Dr. Lisa Miller, clinical psychologist and researcher, has made the case through years of research collaborations that spirituality is a birthright to the human species. In her best selling book, The Awakened Brain, she notes the glorious complexity of the human spiritual brain, revealing an innate capacity for transcendence. But she's not content to stop at these psychological capacities. She wants to help people with practical, tangible, evidence backed interventions that lead to their thriving and spiritual health. Lisa not only gives words, but explains scientifically why spirituality is so transformative.
In this conversation with Lisa Miller, we discuss:
The neuroscience of spirituality

Guided meditative practices to fortify spiritual health and a sense of love, purpose, and possibility

How paying attention to our inner mental and spiritual life builds awareness and resilience

Research findings from the science of spirituality that we're wired for transcendence

How transcendent love fortifies our brain in ways that buffer against depression and anxiety

How human connection and spiritual guides are vital for a healthy life and even a thriving democracy

And we explore all of these experientially, working through the ideas with practical exercises to increase our awareness
About Lisa Miller
Dr. Lisa Miller is bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and The Awakened Brain, and researcher and professor in clinical psychology at the Teachers College of Columbia University. Learn more on her website.
About Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.

Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenter

Follow us on X @thrivecenter

Follow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenter

About Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.

About With & For
Host: Pam King

Senior Director and Producer: Jill Westbrook

Operations Manager: Lauren Kim

Social Media Graphic Designer: Wren Juergensen
Special thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
...more
1h 6min
December 15, 2023A New Podcast on Spiritual Health, Wholeness, and a Life of Thriving
With & For is a new podcast exploring psychology, spirituality, and culture, with the aim of helping you grow wholly alive, with and for others, and a higher purpose. In this introductory episode, podcast host Dr. Pam King shares elements of her personal story and background, along with the goals of the podcast, and let's this season's guests share their personal take on what it means to thrive.
With & For is hosted by Dr. Pam King—the Executive Director the Thrive Center and Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
Show Notes
Dr. Pam King introduces the show. Drawing on twenty years as a psychologist, pastor, and parent, her mission is to help people thrive.

Our approach to spiritual health is informed by years of psychological research that provides empirical insight into how aspects of spirituality can be helpful for thriving.

What is thriving?

"Thriving is growing wholly alive with and for others and a higher purpose."

"By pursuing spiritual health, we become equipped with the skills that we need for resilience in hard times, and also for pursuing purpose and meaning and connection throughout it all, given that we all thrive differently."

Season 1 guests share their responses to one of Pam's favorite questions, "What is thriving to you?"

About the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.

Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenter

Follow us on X @thrivecenter

Follow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenter

About Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.

About With & For
Host: Pam King

Senior Director and Producer: Jill Westbrook

Operations Manager: Lauren Kim

Social Media Graphic Designer: Wren Juergensen
Special thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
...more
21min
November 20, 2023Our Spiritual Brains: The Science of Our Innate Spirituality - Lisa Miller
"Every single one of us is born with natural spirituality."
This preview clip features With & For guest Dr. Lisa Miller—bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and The Awakened Brain, and researcher and professor in clinical psychology at the Teachers College of Columbia University.
Lisa shares about her findings in the science of spirituality; our innate capacities to perceive, to feel, and to know a transcendent relationship; and the amazing role of the human brain in seeking out this transcendence beyond ourselves.
Show Notes
Don't forget to subscribe to With & For, which is launching in January 2024.

Happy Thanksgiving from Dr. Pam King and The Thrive Center!

How gratitude and positive emotion enlarge our capacity for joyful transcendence and activate our innate spirituality

Pam King introduces Dr. Lisa Miller—bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and The Awakened Brain, and researcher and professor in clinical psychology at the Teachers College of Columbia University.

"Every single one of us is born with natural spirituality."

"This capacity to perceive and feel and know a transcendent relationship is one third innate. We are all born with the wiring, but two thirds environmentally formed gives way to a tremendous impact of our environment."

"Although this is our birthright, it must be cultivated, and it is an opportunity of our lifetimes to do that."

"We invited 18 through 25 year olds to come in and tell us about a time where you felt a deep personal connection to God. ... The same neural correlates ran in every single person."

Credits
About Lisa Miller
Dr. Lisa Miller is bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and The Awakened Brain, and researcher and professor in clinical psychology at the Teachers College of Columbia University. Learn more on her website.
About Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam King
Senior Director and Producer: Jill Westbrook
Operations Manager: Lauren Kim
Social Media Graphic Designer: Wren Juergensen
Consulting Producer: Evan Rosa
Special thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.

About the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.

Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenter

Follow us on X @thrivecenter

Follow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenter

About Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.

About With & For
Host: Pam King

Senior Director and Producer: Jill Westbrook

Operations Manager: Lauren Kim

Social Media Graphic Designer: Wren Juergensen
Special thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
...more
7min
November 06, 2023What Makes a Healthy Mind? Awareness, Connection, Insight, and Purpose - Richie Davidson
With & For is launching in January 2024! Subscribe now in your favorite podcast app. In this preview clip, With & For guest Dr. Richie Davidson—a pioneer in contemplative neuroscience—shares how his research on the neuroscience of emotion and meditation has led him to identify four pillars of well-being and human flourishing.
Show Notes
Don't forget to subscribe to With & For, which is launching in January 2024.
Pam King introduces Dr. Richie Davidson, the William James Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Pillar 1: Awareness
Pillar 2: Connection
Pillar 3: Insight
Pillar 4: Purpose
About Richie Davidson
Dr. Richie Davidson is a pioneer in contemplative neuroscience, and does cutting edge research on the neuro-correlates of emotion and meditation. He's also the founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin Madison, where he's the William James Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry.
About Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam King
Senior Director and Producer: Jill Westbrook
Operations Manager: Lauren Kim
Social Media Graphic Designer: Wren Juergensen
Consulting Producer: Evan Rosa
Special thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
About the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.
Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenter
Follow us on X @thrivecenter
Follow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenter
About Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.

About With & For
Host: Pam King
Senior Director and Producer: Jill Westbrook
Operations Manager: Lauren Kim
Social Media Graphic Designer: Wren Juergensen
Special thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
...more
7min
October 16, 2023Welcome to With & For: Spiritual Health, Wholeness, and a Life of Thriving
Listen now and subscribe to With & For—a new podcast from The Thrive Center at Fuller Theological Seminary.
Starting January 8, 2024 the show will explore insights from psychology to understand what it means to become spiritually healthy and thrive.
Every Monday, Dr. Pam King will host expert guests whose work sheds light on practical steps toward growing fully alive, connected, purposeful, and whole.
And don't miss "Playing with Light", for a weekly series of short reflections from Dr. Pam King, all in the With & For podcast feed.
Show Notes
Coming January 8, 2024 from the Thrive Center at Fuller Theological Seminary, this is With & For, a podcast for growth seekers and people focused leaders that plumbs the depths of psychological science and spiritual wisdom to offer practical guidance toward spiritual health, wholeness, and a life of thriving.
About Dr. Pam King: "It's my life's purpose to help people thrive."
I've spent the last two decades at the intersections of psychology and spirituality, wrestling with the most practical questions of how people grow, relate, and become their whole selves. We're all walking a path towards spiritual health, discovering that it's something we pursue in deep relationality with each other, and always for a greater purpose than ourselves.
Obstacles to spiritual health
Life's hustle and bustle, he relentless bombardment of stimuli, the frantic pace of life
Epidemic of loneliness, relational strains, and a misleading culture of self reliance
Crisis of purpose and vocation, and the meaning of work
"The tears in our social and moral fabric are eroding a sense of who we are, as relational creatures that thrive with and for others."
"With & For is my invitation to pursue thriving through relational connection: who we're with. And through purpose: what we're for."
Weaving scientific insight with spiritual wisdom
Concrete practices that keep us on the path towards spiritual health and thriving
Season 1 topics and themes
The hallmarks of a healthy mind
how to find purpose
what to do when you encounter trauma and suffering
Compassion
Self care
Rest
Patience
Relational neuroscience
Reorientation of theology around human flourishing and a life worth living
The psychological dynamics of racial and economic justice
Our innate capacities for transcendence
"Each Friday, I'll share a short practical reflection that I'm pondering, in a series on the pod I like to call Playing with Light."
Both science and spirituality are showing us that we are interconnected, relational, purposeful beings, and we truly thrive with and for others.
Subscribe in your favorite podcast app today so that you can join us when we launch on January 8th!
About Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam King
Senior Director and Producer: Jill Westbrook
Operations Manager: Lauren Kim
Social Media Graphic Designer: Wren Juergensen
Consulting Producer: Evan Rosa
Special thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
About the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.
Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenter
Follow us on X @thrivecenter
Follow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenter
About Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.

About With & For
Host: Pam King
Senior Director and Producer: Jill Westbrook
Operations Manager: Lauren Kim
Social Media Graphic Designer: Wren Juergensen
Special thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
...more
6min

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