Our Take: Your Relationship Style Determines How You Feel Toward God By Tim Clinton and Joshua Straub, Special to CNN A few weeks ago, Christopher Hitchens was interviewed on CNN. A renowned atheist who has recently been diagnosed with cancer, Hitchens told Anderson Cooper, “If you hear that I…

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Is God dead? Is he nothing more than a figment of our imagination and crutch for the psychologically weak to lean on for security in life? Or is God real? Can we know him? Trust him for everyday life? Believe him? Billions of people say they believe in God, but does he make a difference in our everyday life? In God Attachment, Drs. Tim Clinton and Joshua Straub help explain why you believe, act, and feel the way you do about God.

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Helping people change is no small task. But attachment theory and the secure-base system can help guide you in therapy, no matter what model or techniques you like to use.

Attachment-based therapy is based on six broad principles that spell out the acronym SECURE:

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God Attachment Guitars. Gospel. And God. Love him or hate him, there’s no denying Johnny Cash lived with passion. Though his journey was packed full of arrests, affairs, and addiction, he battled through it all to become one of America’s most legendary and iconic singers…

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There are grandmas. And then, there are Me-maws. I had a Me-maw.

As a boy I went to her house often. Special moments were Sunday’s after church when my family got together and turned the peaceful ambience of her home into playful chaos. My sister and I wrestled and nitpicked. Dad and I whipped each other with wet towels we had used to dry the dishes. The real fun was seeing who would end up with the bright orange, “Special $.99” sticker from the chip bag, on their back. After lunch, we napped, played cards, or watched football.

I lived every kid’s dream of being loved.

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