Spiritual · Belief
God Concept Repair Worksheet
Attachment shapes the image
Attachment research (Kirkpatrick, Granqvist) shows that people's felt sense of God largely mirrors early attachment figures. That means the "God" you were angry at may not have been the God you now want to know.
The felt sense of God I inherited
Angry, distant, disappointed, waiting to punish, transactional, absent, loving on conditions
Who taught me that felt sense
Parents, clergy, community, specific events
The God I'm reaching toward now, if any
Practices that would meet that God
The image can heal
For many, a large part of the spiritual work of adulthood is letting the inherited image loosen so a truer one can form.