Healing Religious Trauma

The Hurt Is Real… The hurts of spiritual trauma and abuse are real. They didn’t start with your church, but they do exist there. Why? Because people sin. And at its basic level, spiritual abuse is just one kind of sin. There is nothing particularly complicated about it—spiritual trauma is the mental and emotional harm that comes from having damaging or abusive interactions with other Christians. Any tight-knit church fellowship, regardless of its denominational affiliation, will naturally supply the preconditions necessary for spiritual hurts to occur. But what if you could heal from ...

Dr. Mark Karris' The Diabolical Trinity is a thought-provoking manifesto and practical guide for those seeking healing from the harm caused by the toxic beliefs of Hell indoctrination—the unholy trinity of traumatizing beliefs in a tormenting Hell, a wrathful God, and human depravity.

With Healing the Roots of Trauma, Dawson Church, bestselling author and founder of the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare, examines the growing body of research on why energy-based practices like EFT play a critical role in the treatment of trauma. Throughout, Church shares dozens of groundbreaking studies, clearly demonstrating the importance of combining psychological, physical, and energetic approaches for both trauma recovery and building resilience, with EFT being one of the most accessible and impactful options.

From Trauma to Healing is a practical guide to breaking free of these traumas and finding hope for the future. In four chapters, Causes of Trauma, Symptoms of Trauma, Relocating Trauma, and Processing Trauma, we learn what trauma is, how it can affect us for decades, and how we can liberate ourselves from it in a healthy way.

Psychotherapist and trauma survivor Jasmin Lee Cori offers new insight into trauma-related difficulties (including PTSD, depression, substance abuse), provides self-care tools, candor about therapy and medications, and addresses spiritual issues. While there are many different approaches to...

One of the most over looked problems in the church are Christians who are suffering because of trauma. As a clinical therapist and pastor, Timothy Lane realized there was a void of understanding and addressing trauma in the church. Most Christians and Christian leaders are ill informed and ill equipped to bring healing from trauma. Timothy Lane introduced the church world to his pioneered model of healing trauma through God Therapy, which is a combination of inner healing, deliverance, and therapeutic techniques. By including the power of God with knowledge and clinical modalities, this ...

If you felt unloved or unsafe as a child, you may have difficulty trusting others as an adult. You might struggle to maintain healthy relationships, or feel like you are somehow damaged. Written by a renowned family therapist, this gentle guide offers an evidence-based approach to help you move past relational trauma—the psychological wounds that can result from experiences of abuse, neglect, or betrayal. By building self-awareness, understanding triggers, and improving your communication skills, you can achieve the love and connection you deserve.

You don’t have to perform to be loved. You don’t have to hustle for healing. And God was never the one who shamed you. The God Beyond Religion is a soul-shaking memoir of liberation — from childhood trauma, addiction, religious control, and the exhausting chase to be “holy enough” for love. Monica Eddy tells the unflinching truth of what it means to be raised in dysfunction, abandoned as a child, then imprisoned by addiction and spiritual abuse — all while searching for a God who could hold her brokenness. But healing didn’t come through striving. It came through therapy. ...

As a trained body worker, Emily Francis offers a refreshing perspective into healing trauma. She reveals unique knowledge of the body as a holder for memory. Emily will lead you on a path deep within yourself to rearrange the ways that pain and trauma have been holding you back from whole body, mind, spirit, and energy healing. You will rearrange the dialogue within your body memory systems as well as learn a practice to rebirth by healing your inner child and adolescent selves, coming into the present to create the best adult self possible.

Break free from the chains of your past, reclaim your life, and embrace a future filled with resilience, growth, and happiness. Do you tend to avoid getting too close to others, because you have this overwhelming dread and fear that they are going to leave you? Or perhaps you gravitate toward unhealthy relationships, because it’s what you’ve seen growing up?

Healed But Not Hidden: Escaping the Grip of Spiritual Abuse and Reclaiming Your Prophetic Voice By Dr. Tieasha Stephens There is a sound rising from the shadows. A sound from those who were silenced in sanctuaries, bruised behind pews, and buried beneath performance. This book is for them—for you. Healed But Not Hidden is a clarion call to every wounded worshipper, rejected reformer, and silenced seer who dared to believe that the house of God would be a haven but instead found spiritual betrayal behind its altars. Written with prophetic fire and healing compassion, this scroll confronts ...

Joy Without Apology: How Christian Women Can Heal Trauma, Release Emotional Weight, and Reclaim a Life of Worth and Joy Are you tired of being strong on the outside while secretly aching inside? For too long, Christian women have been told to stay quiet, to keep the peace, and to carry the weight of everyone else while burying their own. But silence doesn’t heal. Pretending doesn’t bring peace. And suffering was never God’s plan for you. In Joy Without Apology, Nati Carrillo—nurse, life coach, and Certified MAP Method Practitioner — shares her raw, faith-filled journey of breaking...

What does it mean to heal from trauma caused by the people, beliefs, and practices of your faith? And to rebuild a sense of self, when high-control religion said you shouldn’t have one? Indoctrinated from early childhood to obey, conform, and want what others wanted for her, Tia Levings...

Purpose of This Book The purpose of MindLift: Understanding and Healing from Trauma is to guide you on a journey of self-discovery, healing, and empowerment. Trauma can leave deep scars on the mind, body, and soul, often affecting how we live, think, and interact with the world around us. This book is designed to help you not only understand the impact of trauma but also provide practical tools and strategies to process and heal from it. Through this combination of educational insights and hands-on exercises, you will gain the knowledge and confidence to confront past wounds, break free ...

Hidden deep in the Appalachian mountains, the Solista Commune promised sanctuary, purpose, and salvation. But for eighteen-year-old Lucy, born and raised under the rigid teachings of Kanen and Purin, devotion came at the cost of autonomy. When Lucy is sent beyond the commune's borders to a college in the outside world, her journey begins—not just into academia, but into freedom, identity, and unsettling truths. Torn between loyalty to her family and the awakening of her own voice, she must navigate friendships, love, betrayal, and trauma. The deeper she looks, the more tangled her past ...

This is not a book about losing faith. It’s about walking away from the version of it that asked you to disappear. In Not Your Good Girl Anymore, Faith Hubble writes with razor-edged tenderness about what it means to grow up obedient, to unlearn silence, and to come home to a self you were never taught to love. Told in three parts—what they taught me, the leaving, and free looks like this—this collection traces the quiet violence of religious shame and the fierce, beautiful work of reclaiming your body, voice, and worth. These poems are for the ones who stopped being good to start ...

After enduring physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of her father, a young girl engages in a life-long journey to understand and apply high spiritual principles to overcome her damage, reclaim her power, and teach others to rise above their abuse. This book is an intimate story of betrayal of an innocent child’s love and trust from the one person who was supposed to protect her the most: her father. Keeping his secret deeply buried within every cell of her being led to chronic pain and diseases throughout her body. One resulted in a total hysterectomy. “In order to be free...

Listen Linda's devotional component is a pathway to testimony, offering readers a chance to share their own experiences of God's presence in their waiting rooms. Through dissertations, poetry, positive affirmations, and more, these 33 women dedicate their pages to uplift and inspire readers, bridging the gap between women from all walks of life and the divine. This project, born out of a divine vision, seeks to create an impact that transcends borders. Listen Linda's anthology and devotional provide solace, strength, and guidance to those who may not have had the opportunity to access the ...

Your secret is safe with me. You have come across this book because you have questions. The faith that was supposed to provide you with joy, purpose and meaning in life has come up a bit short. You may be a bit afraid to question the tenets of your belief system because you have been warned against questioning the Bible, God, or what you have been told about Jesus. But something feels off. Maybe you are beginning to suspect that there is more to the story than what you have been led to believe. In No Strings Attached: Healing the Jesus Wound and Reconnecting with Unconditional Love , author...

Becoming the Magician – Volume IA Soul-Led Guide to Manifestation, Magick, and Sacred Will You are not here to follow the rules. You are here to remember your power — and become the one who writes them. In this powerful first volume of Becoming the Magician, Frantasia the Wayseer leads you through a soul-deep journey of manifestation rooted in sacred remembrance, not hustle. This isn’t another fluffy “think positive” guide. It’s a mystical initiation into true magick — the kind that transforms reality. Whether you’ve been burned by the Witch Wound, disillusioned by religious...