The Place We Find Ourselves #86: How Attachment Affects Your Relationship With God

Adam Young
Podcast
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God

This podcast helped me (Claire) to get a lot more clarity on why my relationship with God has been fraught with anxiety. It has given me language about what is going on inside and has brought much encouragement. 

We relate to God the same way we related to our primary caregivers, unless we have done significant healing.If we were insecurely attached, we may imagine God’s face towards us to be disappointed or frustrated. If we were insecurely attached, we will also experience self-contempt. Self-contempt gets in the way of our attachment to God more than anything else.

Attachment dynamics run down into the deepest parts of us. Adam Young encourages us to let that reality prompt us to have compassion for where we are at with God, and to be kind to ourselves while we learn to trust or to believe that He loves us when we fail. 

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