Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.

I'm Dr. Dan Allender.

And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.

We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.

And restoration for the heart.

Thank you for joining us.

Let's get this conversation started.

Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Well, Rachel, we put words to what it's like to be with us. We've named that every person

thematically has a kind of effect, a gravity that we tend to draw and actually repulse other people.

We're made up of things that are very broken and very beautiful.

But our style of relating, as we talked about last week, has, we didn't come to this by virtue of the fluoride in the water, or just a form

of determinism like an enneagram. Oh, I've made one through seven, so you're the eight, you're the nine,

I'll start over again. The fact is, we come to be who we are through the experiences primarily

through the relational lens of our primary core relationship, and that is our mothers and fathers

and brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, our family, and then our larger culture. So we're going to

step into this somewhat arcane category

of attachment, but it's important to hear that attachment is something that every human being

who has a limbic system requires in order to be able to grow to become who they're meant to be,

including dogs and cats, including animals, including human beings.

Without attachment, we will not grow to be who were meant to be.

And in many ways, for those of you who want a biblical theological reference for this,

we're talking about the Amago Day. We're talking about being made in the image of God.

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