Attached to God, Krispin Mayfield
Attached to God, Krispin Mayfield
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Attached to God
A Practical Guide to Deeper Spiritual Experience

Author: Krispin Mayfield, K.J. Ramsey

Narrator: Mark Smeby

Unabridged: 5 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 02/22/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Why does God feel so far away? The reason--and the solution--is in your attachment style.We all experience moments when God's love and presence are tangible. But we also experience feeling utterly abandoned by God. Why?The answer is found when you take a deep look at the other important relationships in your life and understand your attachment style. Through his years working in trauma recovery programs, extensive research into attachment science, and personal experiences with spiritual striving and abuse, licensed therapist Krispin Mayfield has learned to answer the question: Why do I feel so far from God?When you understand your attachment style you gain a whole new paradigm for a secure and loving relationship with God. You'll gain insights about:How you relate to others--both your strengths and weaknessesThe practical exercises you can use to grow a secure spiritual attachment to GodHow to move forward on the spirituality spectrum and experience the Divine connection we all were created forYou'll learn to identify and remove mixed messages about closeness with God that you may have heard in church or from well-meaning Christians. With freedom from the past, you can then chart a new path toward intimate connection with the God of the universe.An assessment, accompanying appendix, and references are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

About Krispin Mayfield

Krispin Mayfield, LPC (BS, Bible & Theology; MA, Counseling, Multnomah University) has a background in full-time ministry and is now in private practice with individuals and couples as a licensed professional counselor with the state of Oregon, where he and his wife D.L. live with their two children. He previously served in Minneapolis with Christian organization Inner-CHANGE and has regularly partnered with churches to help create safe and healing communities.  Trained in attachment-based emotionally focused therapy, Krispin has served for over ten years in church trauma-recovery programs. In his writing, podcasting, and speaking, Mayfield explores the integration of faith and psychology, inviting readers and listeners into the safety and freedom of finding the whole of their lives seen and upheld by God. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including Christianity Today, Relevant, Aletia, Boundless, and Fathom.


Reviews

Goodreads review by K.J.

My friend Krispin Mayfield has written a book that I truly believe will be a spiritual classic. In Attached to God, Mayfield not only helps us name why we struggle to feel close to God, he gives us space to practice turning toward the God who is always turned toward us. I could say so much about what......more

Goodreads review by Jenai

Krispin put so many words to how my wounds have affected my relationship with God. After religious trauma, I have been navigating a spiritual crater, logically believing that God is good, but wondering why the pieces of my life had been nuked by an inescapable bomb. Reading on my standard attachment......more

Goodreads review by Landry

This is probably the best book on integrating Spirituality and Attachment Science. Highly recommend this one if you struggle to understand why you feel distance in your relationship with God and why you interact with God the way you do. I love how science is catching up to the fact that we were crea......more

Goodreads review by Emily

This book is such a balm. I can’t get enough. To understand the psychology behind our feelings of disconnection with God and then have insights on who God is and his desire for connection with us is such a gift.......more