The Secure Soul: Finding Inner Strength and Connection When Trust Doesn't Come Easy

A secure soul is built from the inside out. This book will guide you through the inner work of restoring your own sense of safety and trust—anchored in God's unshakable love—so that your foundation for all other connections becomes steady and strong. From this place, you can approach every relationship, every loss, and every new beginning with confidence. Even when trust has been broken externally, it can still be anchored securely within.

The ache of disconnection isn't only about feeling unseen by a parent, distant from a partner, or excluded by a friend. It's not just a byproduct of busy lives or too many notifications. It runs deeper. It's a spiritual ache that reminds us: we long for a connection that reaches beneath our defenses and restores us from the inside out.

Attachment isn't just something that happens between people—it's something that also happens within yourself. The same dynamics of fear and safety, pursuit and withdrawal, need and shame, get played out inside your own inner world.

When we begin to notice, tend, and nourish that inner ecosystem—gently, patiently, and in the presence of something greater than ourselves—we begin to re-cultivate something sacred: A home within ourselves. A secure base from the inside out. And a connectedness with God.

In The Secure Soul, Dr. Cook shows you how to:

• practice the ongoing rhythm of connection through learning how to recognize distance and be equipped to reconnect to the center of loving presence. • recognize—the moment when you've shifted out of connection into anxiety, overwhelmedness, fear, distance, or shut down. • return—to the sacred center within, to God's presence, to Love itself. • identify the controller, shadow, and younger parts of yourself that make up the landscape of your soul. • cultivate an inner sense of belonging and connectedness by diagnosing where you have become disconnected from your own soul.

Dr. Cook paints an intimate picture of what secure attachment can look like in your real life—not as a psychological label, but as an intimate invitation that is alive in every relationship, every silence, every longing, always unfolding in every moment you're alive. And it starts not only in the space between us, but deep inside your own soul.

© 2026 Thomas Nelson (ספר מוקלט): 9781400352623

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ספר מוקלט: 18 באוגוסט 2026