God Attachment Healing
Hi everyone! Welcome to the God Attachment Healing Podcast. I'm your host, Sam Landa. This podcast is dedicated to Christians who want to understand why they relate to God in the way they do. I explore how our early childhood relationship with our parents--specifically with how they met or did not meet our needs--influences how we relate to ourselves, the church, and to God. Because much of the pains and struggles of life are intertwined in these three areas, I discuss with my guests how we can find healing from the pain, confusion, doubt, and anger experienced in these relationships. If you're interested in learning more about your attachment style and how to heal from the pain you’ve experienced in the relationships mentioned above, then this podcast is for you. Welcome to the show! I'm happy you're here!
Episodes
119 episodes
Where Psychology Meets Theology For Real Healing w/ Dr. Jichan Kim
The “psychology vs theology” fight sounds serious until you realize it often hurts the very people we’re trying to serve. I’m joined by Dr. Jichan Kim, associate professor of psychology at Liberty University and a researcher in forgiveness psyc...
What If Rejection Is Teaching You Who You Are: My Response to a Listener
Rejection doesn’t just hurt. For someone with anxious attachment, it can hijack your story about who you are. We got a listener question from Jameson in North Carolina: he asked a girl out, she turned him down, and now he keeps seeing her at ch...
You Can Still Trust God after Unthinkable Loss w/ Ashley Glader
Some stories force a question most of us try to avoid: what do you do with God after life takes something you can’t replace? Ashley Glader joins me to share a journey marked by layered loss, starting with her brother’s death in the Columbine sh...
Counterfeit Christianity: You Cannot Follow A Jesus You Negotiate With w/ Ryan Shieh
Everyone seems to have an opinion about Jesus right now, but the hard question is the one most of us avoid: are we following the real Jesus or a version we’ve edited to fit our preferences? Sam sits down with Ryan Shieh, author of Counterfeit C...
Prayer As Two-Way Communication with God w/ Maggie McCane
Prayer can sound like a constant stream of words, worries, and requests but what happens when we actually expect a relationship on the other end of the conversation? I sit down again with therapist Maggie McCane to connect everyday communicatio...
Safety First: Why Listening Builds Love w/ Maggie McCane
What if the secret to fewer fights isn’t better arguments, but better timing, safety, and words that actually fit what you feel? We sat down with licensed clinical social worker Maggie McCane to break down communication that heals—starting with...
Rebuilding Faith After Deconstruction w/ Patrick Hubbard
Doubt, distance, and disappointment don’t have to be the end of your faith story. They can be the door back to a deeper, sturdier life with God. Today we sit down with pastor and church planter Patrick Hubbard to explore deconstruction with nua...
A Therapist’s Journey from Anxiety, New Age, and Shame to Faith in Christ w/ Elysse Rocha
A cracked façade can still shine on Instagram, but it cannot carry a soul. Elysse joins us to peel back the layers of anxious attachment, approval chasing, and meticulously controlled routines that unraveled into a full-blown mental breakdown a...
Understanding The Image Of God: Structure, Function, And Relationship w/ Jason Glen
What if our arguments about politics, ethics, and identity are symptoms of a deeper amnesia about what a human being is? We sat down with ethicist and professor Jason Glen to rethink the Image of God from the ground up—why it matters now, where...
Mercy Before Judgment: Is the God of the Old Testament a Harsh God? w/ Dr. Gary Yates
What if the Bible’s clearest portrait of God starts with compassion, not condemnation? We sit down with Dr. Gary Yates—professor and pastor—to trace a through-line of mercy and comfort running from Sinai to the Psalms, and all the way through e...
When Church Hurts: Reimagining A Safe Attachment To God w/ Carley Marcouillier
When faith and harm collide, the quiet question under the surface is often the hardest: why would God allow this? We sit down with therapist Carley Marcouillier to name moral injury, trace the subtle red flags of spiritual abuse, and map a stea...
Understanding Spiritual Abuse And Religious Trauma w/ Carley Marcouillier
Ever been told to “just get over it” when church wounds still ache in your body? We sit down with therapist Carley Marcouillier to unpack spiritual abuse and religious trauma with clarity and compassion—naming how coercion, control, and scriptu...
Modern Churches And The Warnings Of Revelation w/ Dr. Paul Cooke
A bigger crowd doesn’t mean a brighter lampstand. We dive into the seven churches in Revelation to uncover what faithfulness looks like right now: encouragement for the steady, warnings for the compromised, and hope for those who feel lukewarm ...
Leaving A Cult to Find My Faith in Christ w/ Dr. Paul Cooke
What if your hunger for God is influenced by mistaking a bad shepherd for a good one, and you don't even realize it? That’s the tension Dr. Paul Cooke lived for nine years inside a communal Christian movement that slowly shifted from gospel lan...
How Can I Develop a Secure Attachment to God?
What if your relationship with God could actually change how your nervous system handles stress, grief, and trauma? We close the year by wrestling with two essential questions: does a secure attachment to God reduce distress, and how do we move...
Why You Can Love God And Still Feel Distant
Ever feel like you’re doing everything “right” and still can’t shake the sense that God is far away? We dig into three core questions many Christians carry in secret: why we can feel anxious or avoidant with a God we call our secure base, how e...
From Anxiety To Trust: Rewriting Your Story With God w/ Heather O'Brien
Fear knows how to sound reasonable. It hides inside “what if” spirals, budget math that never adds up, and prayers that feel stuck on repeat. We sat down with prophetic healing coach Heather O’Brien to ask a bold question: what if fear isn’t th...
Anxious? Or Anxiously Attached?
Your anxiety isn’t random noise; it’s an alarm. The real question is what it’s warning you about. We explore the line between general anxiety and anxious attachment, showing how one spreads across life’s domains while the other flares when inti...
You Need A Relationship To Heal, And Here’s Why
What if healing doesn’t happen in isolation, but in the friction and tenderness of a committed relationship? We take a clear-eyed look at why romantic commitment can catalyze growth in ways friendship and mentorship rarely reach, and how that t...
Episode 100 - How Healing Our View Of God Transforms Our Relationships
A milestone worth pausing for: 100 episodes into God Attachment Healing, we trace the journey from a simple idea—created to connect—to a grounded framework for healing shame, reshaping identity, and building secure attachment with God and other...
Why Genuine Relationship Fuels Christian Growth w/ Carley Marcouillier
What if the fastest path to transformation is slowing down for connection? We sit with attachment-focused therapist Carley Marcouillier to explore how Christian growth and lasting psychological change flow from safety, presence, and honest rela...
"Big T" Trauma vs "Little t" Trauma: How Trauma Shapes Belief And Recovery w/ Maggie McCane
What if your brain isn’t broken—it’s just stuck? We sit down with trauma therapist Maggie McCane, LCSW, to unravel how big T and little t trauma shape your body, beliefs, relationships, and even how you see God. From the first moment a young br...
Trauma, Attachment, And Hope
Trauma can overwhelm the body and bend the story you tell about your life—but the way you name it and narrate it can open the door to real healing. We dig into what counts as Big T trauma under the DSM and what small t trauma looks like when ch...
Finding Joy Amid Loss: A Christian Perspective on Grief w/ Dr. Jerri Woodbridge
What happens when grief arrives unexpectedly, shattering the life you carefully built? Dr. Jerry Woodbridge knows this terrain intimately. After losing her husband to cancer just one day after his diagnosis, she found herself navigating not onl...
Bridging Theology and Psychology in Trauma Recovery w/ Jason Glenn
The complex relationship between faith and psychology takes center stage in this third installment of our shame series with theologian Jason Glenn. What happens when biblical understanding meets modern psychology? Can they coexist, or are they ...