HIS INVISIBLE HANDS
"All things are possible with God.” Mark 10:27 CSB
Helping Individuals, Couples & Families Find Healing, Hope and Restoration
Supportive Resources & Healthy Community Groups
Healing and restoration do not have to happen in isolation. God often uses Scripture, wise counsel, healthy community, educational resources, support groups, and trained professionals as part of the healing journey. The resources below may provide additional education and support as you work through grief, trauma, betrayal, relational wounds, sexual brokenness, abuse, family-of-origin experiences, and restoration.
A Note About Resources
Inclusion on this list does not mean that we endorse every belief, therapeutic approach, theological position, or recommendation presented by an author or organization. We encourage you to prayerfully evaluate all resources through the truth of Scripture and seek appropriate pastoral, medical, or mental-health care when needed.
BOOKS & STUDY RESOURCES
Restoring Hope Bible by American Bible Institute
A Scripture-centered resource for encouragement, hope, and restoration while walking through difficult seasons and pursuing spiritual and emotional healing.
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Explores the ways traumatic experiences can affect the brain, body, emotions, relationships, and responses to perceived danger. This resource can help readers develop greater awareness of how past experiences may continue to influence present reactions.
* Discernment note: This is a clinical trauma resource rather than a Christian resource. Use helpful concepts as educational tools while evaluating its worldview and treatment recommendations through your biblical framework.
Hiding from Love by Dr. John Townsend
Explores the ways people may hide from healthy relationship, attachment, vulnerability, responsibility, and love because of past wounds, fear, shame, or unhealthy relational patterns.
People Fuel by Dr. John Townsend
Focuses on the importance of healthy relationships and understanding which relationships strengthen growth and which relational patterns may drain, harm, or hinder it.
No Place to Cry / The Girl Nobody Loved by Dorie Van Stone
Personal accounts involving childhood suffering, abuse, rejection, faith, and the journey toward healing and forgiveness.
*Content note: These books address painful experiences of childhood abuse and may be emotionally difficult for some readers.
The Path to Sexual Healing
A resource for addressing sexual wounds, sexual brokenness, shame, unhealthy beliefs, and the restoration of a healthy understanding of sexuality, intimacy, and God's design.
Forgiven and Set Free
Post-Abortion Bible Study
A Scripture-based study designed to help women process grief, shame, forgiveness, and healing following abortion.
Healing a Father's Heart
Post-Abortion Healing for Men
A resource addressing the often-unspoken grief, loss, regret, and emotional impact abortion can have on fathers.
I'll Hold You in Heaven
A faith-based resource offering comfort and hope to parents grieving miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth, or the loss of a child.
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
Explores complex trauma and the long-term effects that difficult childhood and relational experiences can have on emotions, self-perception, relationships, and coping patterns.
*Discernment note: This is not a Christian resource. It may provide useful language for understanding trauma responses, but psychological concepts should be used as tools rather than becoming a person's identity or removing personal agency and responsibility.
PODCASTS
Free to Love — Transforming Pain into Peace
Conversations and teaching focused on understanding emotional pain, relational wounds, healing, and moving toward greater freedom, peace, and healthy connection.
SUPPORT GROUPS & SPECIALIZED RESOURCES
Healthy community can be an important part of healing. At the same time, different situations require different kinds of support. Sexual abuse, intimate betrayal, compulsive sexual behavior, domestic or emotional abuse, and severe relational dysfunction may require specialized care beyond the scope of coaching or a general church support group.
Mending the Soul
Provides resources and group opportunities for individuals who have experienced abuse, including sexual abuse. Their programs incorporate Christian faith, education, community, and opportunities to process painful experiences with others.
Website: mendingthesoul.org
The Allender Center
Provides workshops, educational resources, and healing experiences addressing trauma, sexual abuse, shame, relationships, and personal stories.
Website: theallendercenter.org
Pure Desire Ministries
Provides Christian recovery resources for individuals struggling with pornography, sexual addiction, and unwanted sexual behaviors. Support and recovery resources are also available for spouses who have experienced sexual betrayal.
Website: puredesire.org
Marriage Recovery Center
Specializes in difficult and destructive relationship dynamics, including emotional abuse, narcissistic patterns, controlling behaviors, and high-conflict marriages. Resources can help individuals better understand unhealthy patterns, establish boundaries, and determine appropriate next steps.
Website: marriagerecoverycenter.com
Brave One
Provides specialized education and support for individuals who have experienced intimate and sexual betrayal. Resources address betrayal trauma, boundaries, emotional safety, recovery, and rebuilding trust.
Website: braveone.com
The MEND Project
Provides education and resources for people impacted by emotional abuse and other destructive relationship dynamics. The organization also equips family members, ministry leaders, helpers, and professionals to better recognize and respond to abuse.
Website: themendproject.com
HEALTHY COMMUNITY MATTERS
Healing is personal, but it was never intended to be entirely private. Scripture repeatedly points us toward safe, truthful, compassionate community:
“Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” — Galatians 6:2
“Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.” — Romans 12:15
Healthy community does not pressure you to pretend that everything is okay. It provides room to grieve, tell the truth, receive wise counsel, accept appropriate correction, practice healthy boundaries, and grow. At the same time, community should not become a place where we remain permanently identified by what happened to us. Support should help move us toward healing, maturity, responsibility, wisdom, forgiveness, healthy relationships, and greater dependence upon God.
The goal is not to remain defined as the betrayed, the abandoned, the abused, the addict, the wounded, or the victim.
What happened matters. Your pain matters. Your story matters. But your wounds are not the entirety of your identity.
Healing invites us to acknowledge what happened honestly, grieve what was lost, receive appropriate support, identify unhealthy beliefs and patterns, take responsibility for what belongs to us, establish necessary boundaries, and continue moving toward freedom and maturity.
Healthy support says:
“I will sit with you in your pain, but I will also walk with you toward healing.”
