The Presence Project Podcast Summer Gross

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This episode is DAY 1 of a private 7-Day podcast devotional called “Welcome Home,” a gift for anyone who pre-orders The Emmanuel Promise. 
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The Emmanuel Promise is an invitation to set down shame and recognize that your attachment story, your earliest relationship with your caregiver, may be what’s obstructing your relationship with God. Your caregivers were human. Limited. Living with their own broken and imperfect story. God’s love is lavish. He’s . Compassionate. Perfect. But, since our neural pathways for relationships were created in those first three years, our brains have to be rewired to Perfect Love.
 

The neural pathways for relationship are developed in the first three years of a person's life. This affects even our relationship with God and is at the heart of attachment theory. Therapist Maggie Rhine, the head of the Healing Care Center, tells the story of her struggle to gain a secure attachment after having multiple surgeries as an infant. 
"Looking at our attachment stories is not dishonoring to our parents. So many of them did the best they could. It is not blameworthy, or shame-worthy, but it is grief-worthy and we've got to name it and bring it into the presence of God so we can heal." Maggie Rhine
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Find out more about the Healing Care Center where Maggie and other experts work, a place where you can do intensive work on your attachment story, here: https://www.thehealingcarecenter.org/

Attachment theory and the many obstacles to a life immersed in the Trinity's Love Honest conversation about detaching to attach in our marriages Understanding our attachment story and style in order to heal and live out of knowing you are God's beloved. The simple, but profound spiritual practices which have been a gift for Terry Experience Terry Wardle lead you into Jesus' Presence through Safe Place  
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Terry Wardle has written a treasure trove of incredible books including Identity Matters
and one of my favorites, Every Breath We Take, a book every Presence Project Listener will LOVE.
 
He also has a weekly podcast called Slingstones: Listen here.

The insecure anxious attached hope to get an "A" in Lent to try to be more worthy for God. They're afraid they have to clean themselves up before God wants to be in their presence.
The insecure avoidant attached like to keep things more intellectual, reading about someone else's Lent. If they have sin in their lives, they think they have to go at it alone.
The truth is that the Holy Spirit wants to be the One in charge of inviting us to new areas of increased freedom. He wants us to come to Him to become unbound. We were never meant to do this alone. 
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Neuroscience. Attachment theory. The stories that shape our image of God AND the spiritual practices that invite us to experience His tender love to build attachment. 
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Writer 
Summer Gross @revsummerjoy on Instagram
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Jodi Grubbs @jodi.grubbs on Instagram
Live Slowly: A Gentle Invitation to Exhale ALSO on April 30th
 
Julianne Clayton: @juleclayton on Instagram
Listen to the Remind{h}er podcast here.
 
Bette Dickinson @bette_dickinson on Instagram
https://www.bettedickinson.com/
https://www.bettedickinson.com/all-art
 
Kris Camealy: @kriscamealy on Instagram
https://www.kriscamealy.com/
An illustration of her sweet mixed media makings
Kris’ podcast: Refine Retreat, the podcast
 
Maeve Gerboth: @maeve_gerboth on Instagram
Explore spiritual direction with Maeve.
 
Books and Resources:


Kate Bowler On Being with Krista Tippett: On Having a Body
https://onbeing.org/programs/kate-bowler-on-being-in-a-body/



Celtic Benedictions with J. Philip Newell
Jamie Winship: Fearless Living
Tanner Olson: Walking a Little Slower 
David Benner: Soulful Spirituality
John O’Donohue: Bless the Place Between Us 
Get Summer’s free resource to move through tangled emotions here.