Dr. Alison Cook on Attachment Wounds, the Parts That Keep Us Stuck, and the Secure Soul

Dr. Alison Cook is a psychologist and the host of the top-ranked podcast The Best of You. For more than twenty years she's helped people move out of painful patterns and into a more secure, connected life with God — right at the intersection of faith and the inner life most of us were never taught to navigate.

In this conversation she names the tension so many leaders live in — "spiritually strong, emotionally struggling" — and traces it back to attachment wounds we carry without realizing it. We talk about the panic attacks that stopped her near the end of her doctorate, why the body registers what the mind insists is fine, and the framework she uses to shepherd her own soul through change.

If you're in the in-between — a role you've left, an identity you're untangling, a decision you can't yet make — this gives you language for what's happening inside you, and a way forward that doesn't require faking certainty.

Takeaways:

👉 What "spiritually strong, emotionally struggling" is actually pointing to

👉 The controller and the shadow: the two parts that hijack every transition

👉 The difference between "I'm anxious" and "a part of me is anxious"

👉 The two questions that build self-trust: "Could it be?" and "Is it possible?"

👉 Why we're formed more by what we return to than by what we believe

👉 Why churches run like teams but called families leave people disoriented

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📝 Show Notes: https://itstheinbetween.com/episode36-dr-alison-cook/

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