How Your Attachment Strategy Shaped Your Picture of God with Geoff Holsclaw pt. 2

What if the way you relate to God has less to do with your theology — and everything to do with your attachment strategy?

Dr. Geoff Holsclaw is back, and this time the conversation goes somewhere none of them planned. In part one, Geoff laid out the attachment landscapes — the desert, the jungle, the war zone, and the pasture — and gave listeners a way to see themselves in their relational patterns. This episode takes that framework somewhere more personal: straight into the room where faith lives. How does your attachment strategy shape your picture of God? And what does it actually look like to move toward something more secure — not just with people, but with Him?

KEY TAKEAWAYS

How your attachment strategy shapes your picture of God — the difference between compensation and correspondence

Why anxious/jungle people and avoidant/desert people often end up in the same church frustrated with each other for completely opposite reasons

Why deconstruction is sometimes just dragging God into your insecure attachment landscape — and why that's worth sitting with

How stoicism and trauma-informed therapy are two sides of the same insecure coin in our current cultural moment

CHAPTERS

(00:00) Cold open: am I always trying to do it right with God?

(02:00) Welcoming Geoff back — and what we left on the table in part one

(05:00) The question this episode is built around: how does your attachment strategy shape your picture of God?

(08:00) Compensation vs. correspondence — two ways your childhood gets projected onto God