Landscapes of the Soul

How the Science and Spirituality of Attachment Can Move You into Confident Faith, Courage, and Connection

By: Cyd Holsclaw, Geoff Holsclaw

Narrated by: Cyd Holsclaw

Does it feel like you experience life in a totally different way than others? Like you are living somewhere else, and you can’t build connection or intimacy with God like others can?

There’s a good chance that you, like so many of us, have tried it all: read your Bible more, gone to church more, prayed more, and delved deeper into self-awareness. But you still struggle with discontent, anxiety, avoidance and doubt. You still feel stuck.

No matter where you find yourself emotionally, relationally, or spiritually, Jesus meets you there and helps you move toward a place of peace and rest. As pastors, coaches, and educators, Cyd and Geoff Holsclaw are very familiar with this struggle, and they are prepared to help. In Landscapes of the Soul, they draw on the science and spirituality of attachment theory, biblical wisdom, and the language of spiritual formation to show us why Christians tend to get stuck spiritually―and how to get unstuck and move forward.

Whether you feel like you’re living in a spiritual jungle, desert, or war zone, you will discover:

• how you are designed to grow good roots through healthy relational attachment
• how things go wrong through your often-distorted survival strategies
• how God repairs your faith, hope, and love for Him, others, and ourselves
• how Jesus quiets your anxious and avoidant faith
• how to incorporate practices for building your security with God

You aren’t meant to live in the anxiety of a jungle, the desolation of a desert, or the chaos of a war zone. God designed you to live in joy and peace in relationship with Him, as if you are in a pasture, under the protective care of the Good Shepherd.

©2025 Cyd Holsclaw and Geoff Holsclaw (P)2025 Tyndale Refresh

This is doable!

I loved this book because it was accessible, encouraging and actionable. It made me long for faith, hope and love….and joy! I found myself clapping after some chapters and then immediately rereading them because they were so full of goodness.
I appreciated how the authors helped me to understand where I am and why, and their gentle nudges to keep seeking the face of God. 👏👏👏

Real life applications

Too often in religious “self-help” literature and, I might add, in Sunday morning sermons, the answer is to love God more. Trust God more. The genius of this book is that it outlines common obstacles to loving and trusting God as well as allowing God’s love to renew and transform us (what the authors cleverly call the jungle, the desert and the war zone), and then provides suggestions, prayers, and attachment theory neurological insights to actually help us do so. Grounded practical wisdom, based on a powerful combination of Biblical interpretation and theology as well as modern neuroscience and psychology, moves us closer to God. Personal examples elucidate each of the chapters in this flawlessly written book. We see ourselves in the examples, even as we are reassured of the path to the “pasture” and reminded we cannot do this alone, so we should feel no shame on our journey. The grace-filled pages offer God’s compassion and hope alongside of truly innovative ways of exploring our longed-for attachment to God. I highly recommend this book to all Christians and parents, and to pastors looking for ingenious ways to help the hopeless.

I loved the poetic nature of this book

This book is a great and beautiful opportunity to explore the deep need we all have for abiding in a deeper way!

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Expected attachment theory and insight... got some of that with an overwhelming amount of Jesus.