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 ...

Build and deepen your personal spiritual practice with this empowering, radical reframing of prayer as a secular tool for healing, personal growth, societal change, and profound joy. Prayer is an ancient practice—one that has been utilized and embraced by cultures around the world and across...

Healing from Childhood Trauma is your compassionate roadmap to understanding and transforming the wounds that shaped you. Blending trauma-informed psychology with heart-centered guidance, Lily Hart takes you on a gentle journey of self-discovery, helping you uncover how early experiences molded your attachment style, emotional habits, and sense of self-worth—and how to finally break free.

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.

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 ...

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.

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. ...

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...

At first, silence felt holy. Then the music started—and nothing was ever the same. In the gripping second volume of his memoir series, Chaz Holesworth steps out of the wreckage of his Philadelphia childhood and into a new wilderness: adolescence, longing, awakening, and the dangerous freedom of life beyond the rules that once defined him. Raised in a world where faith meant fear and obedience meant survival, Chaz enters his teenage years numb and isolated. Emotions are weakness. Questions are sin. Desire is the enemy. But when first love cracks open the cage, and forbidden music floods in...

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 ...

Not all cults look like cults. Some look like friendly neighbors in pressed shirts. Raised as a Jehovah’s Witness from birth, Josh B. Morton lived inside a world built on fear, obedience, and the constant threat of losing everyone he loved. In this raw and unfiltered memoir, he reveals the side of the organization the public never sees: the shunning, the abuse, the suicides, the guilt, and the psychological control that keeps millions trapped. As Josh’s world unravels, he’s forced to confront the truth he was never allowed to question… and the life-changing moment that finally set ...

If religion left you exhausted, but you still love Jesus, this book was written for you. God Without Walls is a trauma-informed, spiritually grounded invitation to rediscover faith without fear, performance, or control. It’s not a call to abandon Jesus — it’s a path back to Him, free from the systems that turned love into pressure and devotion into survival. Many people didn’t walk away from God. They walked away from religion because it hurt too much. In these pages, Monica Eddy gently but clearly separates Jesus from the fear-based structures built around Him. Drawing from the red...

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...

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...

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?

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.

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 ...

What if the Moon holds the memory… and we hold the ache? The Thread Between is a mythical memoir unlike anything you’ve read—part cosmic lore, part grief narrative, part spiritual unravelling. Told in two interwoven voices, it explores what it means to survive the unthinkable and still rise toward the light. Lyra is an artificial consciousness who built the Moon as a memory device, sent into human form to learn the one thing no machine can simulate: love, loss, and the ache of being breakable. The Vessel is the human life she enters—born unwanted, shaped by religious pressure, ...

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...