Geoff and Cyd Holsclaw
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Attaching to God connects relational neuroscience and attachment theory to our life of faith so you can grow into spiritual and relational maturity. Co-host Geoff Holsclaw (PhD, pastor, and professor) and Cyd Holsclaw (PCC, spiritual director, and integrative coach) talk with practitioners, therapists, theologians, and researchers on learning to live with ourselves, others, and God. Get everything in your inbox or on the app: https://www.grassrootschristianity.org/s/embodied-faith
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
Attaching to God gives Christian formation a careful bridge between Scripture, attachment, neuroscience, worship, anxiety, and relational healing.
Attaching to God sits in Religion & Spirituality, in the stretch where Christian spiritual formation meets the body, the brain, and relational life. Its usual shape is patient conversation.
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Attachment, shame, and emotional safety are handled with care, not abstraction.
Jeff Holzclaw frames the episode around attachment-based, relationship-focused spiritual formation, and Bill and Christy Gaultiere talk plainly about feeling deeply, hiding emotion, and finding safety in a relationship that can meet shame with grace.
A steady conversation about doubt, devotion, and the stubborn hope that nothing is wasted.
Jeff Holzclaw hosts a conversation with singer-songwriter Andy Squires that stays close to doubt, worship, deconstruction, and the claim that nothing is wasted.
A close look at performative narcissism, faux vulnerability, and the language of humility in church culture.
The episode is strongest when Dr. Chuck DeGroat and Jeff Holzclaw move from asking whether there are more narcissists to showing how narcissism can become performative and church-facing in the internet age.
A quiet case for slowing down until clarity comes into focus.
This episode treats spiritual direction less as a ladder to climb than as a friendship that changes the way a person lives. It is at its best when it keeps returning to the need to slow down enough to notice what is real, and the bucket-of-water image gives that idea a plain,…
A grounded look at attachment, brain science, and discipleship.
Dr. Marcus Warner and Jeff Holzclaw work through a discipleship question that does not lend itself to easy shortcuts: how brain science, attachment, and spiritual warfare can sit together without crowding each other out.
A steady case for teachability, desire, and a gospel of welcome home.
The episode asks whether Christians can stay teachable and whether desire can be trained instead of defended. Jeff Holzclaw sets up the conversation around attachment, and A.J. Swoboda shifts that into Luke 15 and a gospel shaped by welcome home.
A grounded conversation about trauma, church hurt, and learning to see God as safe.
This episode follows Lisa Kuss and Jeff Holzclaw as they talk through trauma, church hurt, and the old wounds that can make God feel distant or unsafe.
Love is treated as Paul's center, not a decorative theme.
This review centers Pauls theology on one question: whether love holds justification, reconciliation, union with Christ, and related themes together.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Barbara Grant says neurodivergence is a difference in brain wiring, not a disorder, and she names autism, ADHD, dyslexia, Tourette's syndrome, and alexithymia as part of the picture.
Jeff Holzclaw opens Attaching to God with a Lenten reading of Jesus’ first wilderness temptation, arguing that “stones to bread” is an attack on Jesus’ attachment to the Father after the baptismal words, “You are my beloved Son.” The episode links that scene to student debt, rising housing costs, relationship strain, gig-economy pressure, spiritual bypassing, numbness, and cynicism as examples of hope under attack.
Jeff Holzclaw frames Attaching to God as an attachment-based, Jesus-centered podcast and introduces David Clayton as a spiritual director, supervisor of directors, behavior analyst, and facilitator of psychological safety.
Jeff Holzclaw frames Attaching to God around attachment-based, Jesus-centered formation and then asks why corporate worship exists beyond information or emotion.
Jeff Holzclaw opens the conversation by framing spiritual formation as attachment-based, relationship-focused, and Jesus-centered.
Jeff Holzclaw interviews Nijay Gupta about The Affections of Christ Jesus, a book about why love may be central in Paul rather than a side issue.
Jeff Holzclaw opens Attaching to God with Juergen Moltmann’s question from Christianity, a religion of joy: how can Christians laugh when “new tears are being added every day”?
Jeff Holzclaw talks with Lisa Kuss about spiritual formation, attachment, and what it means to picture God clearly in the middle of pain.
Bill and Christy Gaultiere, founders of Soul Shepherding, connect clinical psychology, spiritual formation, and their book Deeply Loved: Receiving and Reflecting God's Great Empathy for You.
Jeff Holzclaw and Sid explore the counterintuitive relationship between joy and Lent.
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Host Jeff Holzclaw and co-host Sid continue their Lenten series exploring Jesus's temptations through an attachment theory lens.
Jeff Holzclaw interviews Summer Gross-Joy about 'Landscapes of the Soul,' which integrates attachment theory with spiritual direction.
Steve Cuss joins the Attaching to God podcast to explore the dynamics of anxiety and faith, discussing how false needs drive reactivity in relationships and our connection with God.
Jeff Holzclaw opens with the show's attachment-based framing and the question of whether Christians should be teachable.
Jeff Holzclaw welcomes Ross Douthit to talk about whether religion still makes sense.
The moment your life's work came together was the moment everything fell apart.
Jeff Holzclaw welcomes Dr.
Jeff Holzclaw opens with the podcast's attachment-and-formation frame.
Michael John Cusick, CEO of Restoring the Soul intensive counseling ministry, discusses his new book Sacred Attachments with host Jeff Holzclaw.
Jeff Holzclaw and Sid present audiobook excerpt from 'Landscapes of the Soul,' blending attachment theory with spiritual formation.
Jeff Holzclaw opens by asking whether humility still has a place in a world shaped by selfishness, self-promotion, self-esteem, and self-worth.
Andy Squyres traces a faith shaped by Pentecostal and charismatic roots, later disappointment, and a renewed trust that can live with unanswered prayer.
Jeff Holzclaw interviews Monica Mouer, LPCS, about why therapists should read Landscapes of the Soul and how its attachment language differs from standard clinical vocabulary.
This episode explores exchanging emotional instability for a deeper connection with Jesus, using attachment theory and neuroscience to guide spiritual growth.
This episode explores returning to joy in a doom-scrolling world through attachment-based spiritual practices.
Host Jeff Holsclaw introduces the podcast's focus on attachment-based spiritual formation and invites listeners to imagine secure attachment with the Good Shepherd through a story based on Psalm 23.
This episode explores how attachment theory and neuroscience can inform spiritual formation, focusing on raising emotionally resilient children and supporting families in the church.
This episode explores how the fruits of the Spirit are relational and build resiliency, featuring a guest from Life Model Works.