Latest Relational neuroscience Podcast Episodes
089: Our Attachment Wounds and God's Promise (with Summer Joy Gross)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - May 14, 2024 19:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsEmmanuel—God with us. We have heard this promise of God’s presence. But might our attachment wounds skew, distort, or hinder us from embracing this reality? Do we live as slaves to our attachment strategies rather than as beloved children of God? And how can we learn to do something different in...
088: Don't Do Nothing about Mental Health in the Church
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - May 07, 2024 19:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThere is an innate need in all of us to know that there is something more beautiful than the dark places of the world we live in. After two losses within their community just prior to the 2020 pandemic, St. Andrew Methodist Church in Plano, TX discerned that God was asking them to go on the offe...
087: Geoff's Second Half of Life "Crisis" and why the new name
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - April 03, 2024 20:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe inaugural episode of season six, and all about "Geoff's Second Half of Life 'Crisis' and why we renamed the podcast" (and note, 'crisis' is in scar quotes). Welcome to Season 6, of what is now called the Attaching to God podcast. We are going to be doing more episodes of just the two of us...
086: Non-Toxic Masculinity (with Zachary Wagner)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - January 30, 2024 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe problem of toxic masculinity is much bigger than contemporary expressions of Christianity. Mistreatment of women and men dehumanizing others is a feature of human culture fraught with sin. But the church is called to be salt and light, so how can we foster a non-toxic masculinity? Our gues...
085: Forming Spiritually Resilient Children (with Dr. Holly Allen)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - January 23, 2024 19:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsMany children today are growing up amid adversity, whether brought on by family difficulties or larger societal crises. All children need to be able to deal with stress, cope with challenges, and persevere through disappointments. While we cannot protect children from all hardships, we can promo...
084: Mental Illness or Spiritual Issue? And how they connect (with Dr. Matthew Stanford)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - January 16, 2024 18:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsResearch 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 kn...
083: Does God Hate? Or, Making Sense of God's Emotions (with David Lamb)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - December 12, 2023 17:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsDoes God hate? Is God emotional? Emotions feel irrational, impulsive, and problematic for God, especially when we think about hate, jealousy, or sorrow. But the truth is the Bible is full of all sorts of stories that express God expressing emotions. This episode focuses particularly on God and t...
082: On Getting Out of Bed; Or, on Living with Mental Anguish (with Alan Noble)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - December 07, 2023 14:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsFor many people, sorrow, despair, anxiety, and mental illness are everyday experiences. And while we have tremendous advancements in therapy and psychiatry, the burden of living often comes down to some mundane choices, like "Should I still bother to get out of bed?" Dr. Alan Noble joins us to ...
081: From Therapy, to Trauma, to Attaching to Immanuel (God With Us) with Stephanie Rossing
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - November 28, 2023 17:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHow do we help people get their brains back online? Can the Spirit lead us through a process of healing without triggering re-traumatization? And how can we attach more deeply with God? Guest Stephanie Rossing (Licenced Marriage and Family Therapist) talks about her own journey as a therapist, ...
Is Joy Even More Central Than Love? (Thanksgiving Double Feature)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - November 22, 2023 14:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings(This and the previous episode are part of a special Thanksgiving Double Feature Rewind of past episodes that are good to revisit in the ups and downs of a holiday) What is so important about joy? The great commandment is to love God and others, but is joy even more central than that? Where doe...
The Psalms as a Guide to Joy, Sadness, and Anger (Thanksgiving Double Feature)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - November 22, 2023 13:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings(This and the next episode are part of a special Thanksgiving Double Feature Rewind of past episodes that are good to revisit in the ups and downs of a holiday) What if the Psalms aren't just old religious poetry, but guideposts for our everyday struggles and wounds? What if the Psalms are a pa...
080: Finding Freedom in Constraint—Reimagining Spiritual Disciplines with Jared Patrick Boyd
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - November 21, 2023 16:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWe often think that freedom comes through casting off what controls us, and that we need to find our true selves apart from community. But what if it is the constraints of the spiritual life that set us free? What if it is focused practices in community that lead to the flourishing of individua...
079: Being the Church in an Age of Secular Mysticisms (Dr. Andrew Root)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - November 15, 2023 16:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhen atheists want spirituality, how should the church respond? In a secular age offering a buffet of spiritualities, all focused on the self and personal transformation, how is the Christian view similar or different than these alternative pathways? When everyone is spiritual, but few are relig...
078: Formative Spirituality, Agency in the Bible, and Being Human
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - November 08, 2023 15:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhat is spiritual formation? Is that even a very good term for life with and in Jesus? What are we being formed into anyway? Or, maybe we should ask “when” are we being formed? In this episode, we talked with Dr. Richard Middleton about formative spirituality, agency in the Bible, and being hum...
078: Formative Spirituality, Agency in the Bible, and Being Human (Dr. Richard Middleton)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - November 08, 2023 15:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhat is spiritual formation? Is that even a very good term for life with and in Jesus? What are we being formed into anyway? Or, maybe we should ask “when” are we being formed? In this episode, we talked with Dr. Richard Middleton about formative spirituality, agency in the Bible, and being hum...
077: Why Humility and Hope is Essential for Therapists & Pastors (Dr. Chuck DeGroat)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - November 01, 2023 17:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhat character formation is required for soul care professionals, people like therapists, pastors, or spiritual directors? And what does this mean for everyone who follows Jesus? It is humility and hope, says Dr. Chuck DeGroat. It is doing your work, the work on yourself. Today we talk about...
077: Why Humility and Hope is Essential for Therapists & Pastors
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - November 01, 2023 17:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhat character formation is required for soul care professionals, people like therapists, pastors, or spiritual directors? And what does this mean for everyone who follows Jesus? It is humility and hope, says Dr. Chuck DeGroat. It is doing your work, the work on yourself. Today we talk about...
076: Bearing God in the Storms of Death and Life (with Marlena Graves)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - October 24, 2023 15:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHave you ever been tossed around by the storms of life and wondered where God is in all? Or have you wished Jesus would quiet the storms a little quicker and more often? Today we are talking about bearing God in the storms of life. Marlena Graves is the Assistant Professor of Spiritual Formati...
075: Being Still Amid the Distractions and Downtime (with Brian Heasley)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - October 17, 2023 18:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsScripture tells us, “Be still and know that I am God”. But for so many of us, this is so hard. Today’s episode explores downtime, devotions, and distractions as we seek to be with God in our private and public lives. Our guest, Brian Heasley, is a long-term pioneer within the 24-7 prayer mov...
074: Hope Is The First Dose: A Treatment Plan For Recovering From Trauma (with Dr. Lee Warren, MD)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - October 10, 2023 18:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIs the abundant life as promised in Scripture possible for trauma survivors? Can those who suffer deep tragedy really find wholeness, or happiness, again? Today we are talking with a medical doctor who has walked with many people through trauma and tragedy even as he was walking through it himse...
073: Be Kind To Your Attachment Strategy and Nervous System
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - October 05, 2023 19:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhen reactions shoot out of us that we regret, then what do we do? Do you blame or berate yourself? Do you shame and shout at yourself? Too often we are unkind to ourselves in situations like this. But instead of this, we need to cultivate compassion (and build understanding) for the attachmen...
072: How Your Attachment Style Shapes Reality (with Dr. Todd Hall)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - October 03, 2023 13:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHow can two different people experience the same event differently? Do we see, hear, and even feel the world differently? Are we filtering social and emotional information in different ways? The answer is yes. And this has to do with what Dr. Todd Hall calls attachment filters (or what attachme...
071: Resourcing the Church for Mental Health (with Laura Howe)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - September 26, 2023 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe church is not immune to the growing mental health crisis, certainly not pastors and leaders. And we don’t always know where to get mental health resources for creating resilient individuals and churches. Howe guest today is passionate about bridging that gap. Laura Howe is a clinical mental...
070: Exploring a Theology of the Body and Confronting Shame with Beth Felker Jones (Summer Rewind)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - August 17, 2023 19:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings(During our Summer Break we are airing important past episodes) We're tackling a topic that treads the tightrope between theology and personal acceptance - body theology and body shame. Why have we turned "your body is a temple" into a shaming mechanism? What if our bodies are the place we meet...
069: Leading with & through Emotion: Limbic Resonance, Leadership, and Spirituality with MaryKate Morse (Summer Rewind)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - August 16, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings(During our Summer Break we are airing important past episodes) What if the secret to impactful leadership and genuine community connection lies deep within our biological construct? Are emotions and moods contagious, between people and in groups? Why are we unconsciously drawn to certain peop...
068: Exploring Low Anthropology and its Impact on the Human Condition, with David Zahl (Summer Rewind)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - August 07, 2023 13:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings(During our Summer Break we are airing important past episodes) We spend our days feeling like we’re the only one with problems, when everyone else has their act together. We feel like other are achieving so much, but we aren’t living up to our potential. What if the answer wasn’t a higher ...
067 Being God's Image: Why Creation Still Matters (with Dr. Carmen Joy Imes)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - July 25, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhat does it mean to be human? This timeless question proves critical as we seek to understand our purpose, identity, and significance. Amidst the many voices clamoring to shape our understanding of humanity, the Bible reveals important truths related to our human identity and vocation that are ...
066 From Division to Connection: Escaping Enemy Mode with Jim Wilder (Summer Rewind)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - July 12, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHow do you escape enemy mode? When your brain and body are just against someone (and maybe you don’t even know why). What if one brain state could explain why we stop listening to, talking with, or caring about, other people? What if this brain state reveals why we lose it on people, fall out o...
064 Raising Resilient Kids: Emotional Regulation and the Role of the Church (with Jessica Nagy)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - June 30, 2023 19:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIs it possible to raise kids who are emotionally resilient within the dysfunctional dynamics of abuse, divorce, or shared custody? And how can the church be more supportive for children who have hidden trauma? That's what we are talking about with Jessica Nagy, the founder of Mosaic Motherhood,...
065 What is Spiritual Formation? (2 Minute Explainer)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation - June 30, 2023 19:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSeems like everyone is talking about spiritual formation. But what is it exactly? In this two-minute explainer episode, Dr. Geoff Holsclaw dives into the realm of spiritual formation, and how it is a "process of being conformed to the image of Christ, within the community and trajectory of Chr...
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