Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation

Is there something between being SELFISH and SELFLESS? Between CODEPENDENCY and total INDEPENDENCY? How do I stop painful patterns in my life? How can we mend the past and life in the present? And how can I make joyful connect with others, God, and myself.
Embodied Faith host, Geoff Holsclaw, talks with Dr. Alison Cook about discovering your true self in God. Check out her new book, The Best of You: Break Free from Painful Patterns, Mend Your Past, and Discover Your True Self in God, and find her here.
If you would like coaching or spiritual direction that aligns with this podcast, then connect with Cyd Holsclaw here.

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• Starting Nov. 12 (2024), with the live calls on Tuesdays, 2:30pm-3:30pm (EST).
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Is there a way forward beyond certainty and after deconstruction? Is it possible to hold to faith after such disappointment?
Author and Pastor Brian Zahnd joins the podcast to talk about the crisis of faith and the journey of reconstruction.
If you are in the midst of DECONSTRUCTION (or want learn more to journey with others through it), check out this short course on the 5 Shifts to make while Deconstructing Fundamentalism without Losing Faith.
Get the FREE ebook, The Brain God Gave Us , when you join the Being With community (connecting you to new episodes, posts, and other resources).

Please subscribe and review on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube.

If you would like coaching or spiritual direction that aligns with this podcast, then connect with Cyd Holsclaw here.

Join Attaching to God Learning Cohort: Quieting an Anxious and Avoidant Faith.

• Starting Nov. 12 (2024), with the live calls on Tuesdays, 2:30pm-3:30pm (EST).
• Link: https://www.embodiedfaith.life/attaching-to-god-cohort

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• NEED spiritual direction or coaching that aligns with this podcast? Connect with Cyd Holsclaw here.
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Many talk about the need for more self-esteem, and even more self-compassion.
But what about self-control?
Why are we so often our biggest enemies?
Why do we do what we don't want to do?
And what can we do about it?
Drew Dyck joins the podcast to talk about all this and more. Drew is the acquisitions editor at Moody Publishers and a contributing editor at CTPastors.com. He's also written Your Future Self Will Thank You: Secrets to Self-Control from the Bible and Brain Science (Moody, 2019), Yawning at Tigers: You Can’t Tame God, So Stop Trying (Thomas Nelson, 2014), and Generation Ex-Christian: Why Young Adults Are Leaving the Church...and how to Bring Them Back (Moody, 2010).
Don't miss an episode of the Being With podcast on neuroscience and faith. Like, and subscribes, or join the community here (http://geoffreyholsclaw.net/beingwithpodcast/​).
Get the FREE ebook, The Brain God Gave Us , when you join the Being With community (connecting you to new episodes, posts, and other resources).

Please subscribe and review on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube.

If you would like coaching or spiritual direction that aligns with this podcast, then connect with Cyd Holsclaw here.

Join Attaching to God Learning Cohort: Quieting an Anxious and Avoidant Faith.

• Starting Nov. 12 (2024), with the live calls on Tuesdays, 2:30pm-3:30pm (EST).
• Link: https://www.embodiedfaith.life/attaching-to-god-cohort

Stay Connected:

• NEED spiritual direction or coaching that aligns with this podcast? Connect with Cyd Holsclaw here.
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What happens when someone is told a lie from childhood onward? And not just about themselves, but about all our people, their entire race? And what happens when this racial lie turns abusive, oppressive, traumatic, and violent?
In this episode Sheila Wise Rowe helps us understand, identify, and resolve racial trauma. Sheila has over twenty-five years of experience as a Christian Counselor, Spiritual Director, Educator, Writer, and Speaker.
Check out her books, Healing Racial Trauma, and the newly released Young, Gifted, and Black: A Journey of Lament and Celebration.
Get the FREE ebook, The Brain God Gave Us, when you join the Embodied Faith community (connecting you to new episodes, posts, and other resources).

Please subscribe and review on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube.

If you would like coaching or spiritual direction that aligns with this podcast, then connect with Cyd Holsclaw here.

Join Attaching to God Learning Cohort: Quieting an Anxious and Avoidant Faith.

• Starting Nov. 12 (2024), with the live calls on Tuesdays, 2:30pm-3:30pm (EST).
• Link: https://www.embodiedfaith.life/attaching-to-god-cohort

Stay Connected:

• NEED spiritual direction or coaching that aligns with this podcast? Connect with Cyd Holsclaw here.
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Research tells us that when people suffer from a mental health crisis, the first person they turn to for help is not a physician, a psychiatrist, or a social worker, but a pastor, a priest, or a minister. Unfortunately, many church leaders are not trained to recognize mental illness and don’t know when to refer someone to a mental health professional. And how do we know the difference between a mental illness and a spiritual issue?
This is what we are talking about with Dr. Matthew Sanford, author of Grace for the Afflicted: A Clinical and Biblical Perspective on Mental Illness, and CEO of the Hope and Healing Center in Houston, TX.
Other books by Dr. Stanford:

• The Biology of Sin: Grace, Hope and Healing for Those Who Feel Trapped
• Madness and Grace: A Practical Guide for Pastoral Care and Serious Mental Illness

Join Attaching to God Learning Cohort: Quieting an Anxious and Avoidant Faith.

• Starting Nov. 12 (2024), with the live calls on Tuesdays, 2:30pm-3:30pm (EST).
• Link: https://www.embodiedfaith.life/attaching-to-god-cohort

Stay Connected:

• NEED spiritual direction or coaching that aligns with this podcast? Connect with Cyd Holsclaw here.
• Join the Embodied Faith community to stay connected and get posts, episodes, & resources.
• Support the podcast with a one-time or regular gift (to keep this ad-free without breaking the Holsclaw's bank).