ANCHORING the SOUL through a Neuroscience-Informed Spiritual Formation
Helping you get unstuck in your relational and spiritual life: Individuals, Churches, and Teams
A Failure to Integrate Hurts
Many Christians struggle to integrate questions of mental health, trauma, and psychology with their journey of faith.
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How do you integrate your journey of faith with questions of mental health?
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How does our struggle with trauma, abuse, addiction, and broken relationships connect to the gospel?
What We Do
We mine all the resources God gave us...
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from brain science to Bible study,
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from spiritual direction to theological doctrine.
And practically connect all this to the everyday life of faith so that you can...
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faithfully grow
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in relational capacity
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and spiritual maturity.
So that you can become UNSTUCK in your spiritual and relational lives, growing into the people God has made us to be.
Who Are We?
Moving forward from their own DEEP WOUNDS and DISCONNECTED PATTERNS, Geoff and Cyd Holsclaw began learning about how our minds, memories, and bodies can keep us trapped in the past and fearful about the future—in our relationships and spirituality.
- Both Geoff and Cyd have been in pastoral ministry for over 20 years.
- Co-authors of Does God Really Like Me? Discovering the God Who Wants to be With Us.
- Co-hosts of the Attaching to God podcast, on neuroscience and spiritual formation.
Integrative Coach and Pastor
Cyd Holsclaw (PCC)
Cyd Holsclaw is an author, spiritual director, and pastor. She is also a trauma-informed, Jesus-centered, professional certified coach (PCC) focused on embodied practices and building a secure attachment to God.
She co-hosts the Embodied Faith podcast, offering a neuroscience-informed spiritual formation. And she is the co-author of Does God Really Like Me? Discovering the God Who Wants to Be With You (InterVarsity Press).
Trauma-informed training through The Power of Embodied Transformation and The Neuroscience of Coaching
Visiting Professor of Theology and Pastor
Geoff Holsclaw
Dr. Geoff Holsclaw is an author of multiple books, is a visiting professor of theology at Western Theological Seminary, and co-host of the Embodied Faith podcast, which offers a neuroscience-informed spiritual formation.
With Cyd Holsclaw, Geoff is the co-author of Does God Really Like Me? Discovering the God Who Wants to Be With You (Inter Varsity Press).
Trauma-informed training through the Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate.
What People Are Saying
“Cyd and Geoff’s work has been a source of deep refreshment for me. I’m grateful for how they’ve been teachers to me through their various resources.”
Chuck DeGroat, author of When Narcissism Comes to Church, and professor of Pastoral Care and Christian Spirituality at Western Theological Seminary
"We must recover from a shame-based theology. Geoff and Cyd Holsclaw offer a winsome road map helping us toward the reality of God's love for us."
Jared Patrick Boyd, Founder and Director of The Order of the Common Life, Author & Spiritual Director
“Cyd gives such clear frameworks that I could keep going back again and again as I work through my stuff.”
Leah Morrison, Worship Pastor and Visual Artist
Attaching to God Podcast
Geoff & Cyd Holsclaw interview practitioners, therapists, theologians, and researchers on learning to live with ourselves, others, and God.
LISTEN HERE (on all your favorite podcast players)
What is neuroscience-informed spiritual formation?
The way Cyd would explain it:
An embodied faith includes:
- Securing your ATTACHMENT to God.
- Embracing the hidden PARTS of yourself.
- Feeling grounded in your BODY and EMOTIONS.
- Clarifying and integrating your PURPOSE to feel more whole.
How Geoff would explain it:
Making sure our spiritual practices take seriously our...
- EMOTIONAL LIVES: emotions are the God-given energy of life connecting us to other people
- ENCODED EXPERIENCES: our cognitive life is always slightly out of our control—coming to us already shaped by life experience, relationships, and culture.
- EMBEDDED RELATIONSHIPS: who we love and who loves us back shapes how we think and feel
- EXTENDED MINDS: we always live outside ourselves through culture and technology.
