Supportive Resources & Healthy Community Groups
Updated: Sep 4
You Don't Have to Walk Through This Alone
We believe God desires you to grow in truth, wisdom, safety, freedom, and healthy relationship, regardless of whether another person chooses to change. Healing does not mean pretending that something harmful did not happen. It does not require remaining in an unsafe or destructive situation, nor does it mean that reconciliation must occur before genuine change, repentance, and safety are established. God often brings support through Scripture, prayer, healthy Christian community, wise counsel, trained professionals, support groups, and trustworthy resources. The following organizations, books, podcasts, and educational resources may provide additional support along your journey.
Resource Disclaimer: Inclusion on this page does not mean His Invisible Hands endorses every belief, theological position, therapeutic approach, treatment recommendation, or statement made by an author or organization. We encourage you to prayerfully evaluate resources through Scripture and seek qualified pastoral, medical, mental-health, or legal assistance when appropriate.
RELATIONAL ABUSE, SAFETY & DESTRUCTIVE RELATIONSHIPS
The MEND Project
Education and support for people impacted by emotional abuse and destructive relationship dynamics. The MEND Project also provides training and resources for those who support individuals affected by abuse.
Called to Peace Ministries
Christ-centered education and support for women experiencing domestic abuse and destructive relationship patterns.
Their Warning Signs Quiz may help individuals begin identifying concerning or potentially abusive behaviors in a relationship.
Leslie Vernick
Biblically based education and resources for women navigating difficult, unhealthy, and destructive marriages, with an emphasis on wisdom, boundaries, personal growth, and safety.
Marriage Recovery Center
Provides education, assessment, coaching, and other resources for individuals and couples dealing with emotionally destructive, narcissistic, and high-conflict relationship patterns.
SEXUAL BETRAYAL, SEXUAL BROKENNESS & RECOVERY
BraveOne
Specialized support and education for individuals affected by intimate sexual betrayal. Resources address betrayal trauma, emotional safety, boundaries, healing, and recovery.
PuRe Desire MinistrieS
Christian resources and recovery groups for individuals struggling with pornography, sexual addiction, or unwanted sexual behaviors.
Resources and groups are also available for spouses who have experienced sexual betrayal.
SEXUAL ABUSE & TRAUMA RECOVERY
Mending the Soul
Christian resources and support groups for individuals who have experienced abuse, including sexual abuse. Programs provide opportunities for education, processing, healing, and healthy community.
The Allender Center
Offers workshops, educational resources, and healing experiences addressing trauma, sexual abuse, shame, relationships, and the impact of our personal stories.
Pacific Counseling & Trauma Center
Professional psychotherapy and trauma-focused mental-health services.
Sarah Jackson Coaching
Provides online somatic-focused education and support exploring how difficult experiences may affect emotions, physical responses, and patterns of relating. Somatic approaches can be useful tools for increasing awareness of what is happening in the body. They should not become our identity or remove personal responsibility, agency, or the ability to make healthy choices.
CHRISTIAN HEALING & RESTORATION
His Invisible Hands
Christian relationship restoration coaching, individual mentorship, healing and restoration groups, discipleship, and trauma-informed support. Our approach integrates biblical truth, relational restoration, story work, trauma awareness, practical discipleship, personal responsibility, and compassionate support.
Our desire is not simply to help people understand their wounds, but to help them move toward healing, maturity, healthier relationships, renewed thinking, and greater trust in God.
Restoring the Foundations
A Christian ministry offering prayer-based resources addressing areas such as life's hurts, ungodly beliefs, generational patterns, spiritual struggles, and freedom in Christ.
MARRIAGE, SEPARATION & DIVORCE SUPPORT
Before You Divorce
Resources designed to encourage individuals and couples to seek wisdom, counsel, and appropriate help before making the decision to divorce. When appropriate and safe, obtaining wise counsel and understanding the condition of the marriage may help determine whether repentance, change, healing, and restoration are possible.
DivorceCare
Christ-centered support groups and resources for individuals experiencing separation and divorce, as well as resources for children affected by family separation.
MARRIAGE INTENSIVES & RELATIONSHIP EDUCATION
The Relationship Resource
Offers relationship workshops, marriage intensives, and other educational opportunities for couples seeking relational growth and restoration.
LEGAL RESOURCES FOR SEXUAL ABUSE SURVIVORS
Andreozzi + Foote
A law firm representing survivors of sexual abuse and their families.
Legal representation is separate from emotional, spiritual, or mental-health care. Individuals considering legal action should consult a qualified attorney regarding their specific circumstances.
PODCASTS
Free to Love — Transforming Your Pain into Peace
Conversations and teaching focused on emotional pain, relationships, healing, and moving toward greater freedom and peace.
Restoring the Foundations Podcast
Christian teaching addressing healing, spiritual freedom, beliefs, wounds, and restoration.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS & STUDIES
Restoring Hope Bible
American Bible Institute
A Scripture-centered resource offering biblical encouragement, hope, and truth for difficult seasons.
Hiding from Love
Dr. John Townsend
Explores the ways fear, shame, wounds, and relational patterns can cause us to hide from healthy love, vulnerability, attachment, responsibility, and relationship.
People Fuel
Dr. John Townsend
Explores the importance of healthy relationships and learning to recognize the people and relational patterns that encourage growth.
No Place to Cry
Dorie Van Stone
A personal account addressing childhood abuse, suffering, faith, healing, and forgiveness.
Dorie: The Girl Nobody Loved
Dorie Van Stone
A powerful personal story of rejection, abuse, suffering, faith, and God's redemptive work.
The Path to Sexual Healing
Linda Cochrane
A Christian study addressing sexual wounds, sexual brokenness, shame, forgiveness, and healing.
Forgiven and Set Free
Linda Cochrane
A Scripture-based Bible study designed to help women process grief, shame, forgiveness, and healing following abortion.
Healing a Father's Heart
Linda Cochrane
A Christian resource addressing the grief and emotional impact abortion can have on fathers.
I'll Hold You in Heaven
Jack Hayford
A faith-based resource offering comfort and hope to parents grieving miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth, or the death of a child.
Suffering and the Heart of God
Diane Langberg
Explores trauma and suffering from a Christian perspective, including how God's people can respond compassionately to those who have experienced profound harm.
TRAUMA EDUCATION
The following books are included as educational resources rather than statements of our theological position. Trauma terminology can help us understand patterns and responses, but we do not believe a diagnosis, nervous-system response, past wound, or trauma history should become the entirety of a person's identity. Understanding our story should help move us toward truth, responsibility, compassion, wise choices, healing, and maturity—not hopelessness or permanent victimhood.
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Explores how traumatic experiences may affect the brain, body, emotions, relationships, and responses to perceived danger.
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
Pete Walker
Explores the effects of prolonged childhood and relational trauma, including emotional patterns, coping responses, relationships, and self-perception.
A WORD ABOUT HEALTHY COMMUNITY
Healing does not mean remaining alone with your pain.
“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 gives us space to tell the truth, grieve losses, receive compassion, seek wisdom, establish appropriate boundaries, accept loving correction, and continue growing. There is also a difference between being supported in our pain and being encouraged to remain stuck in our pain.
We can acknowledge: “I was wounded.” without believing: “My wound is who I am.”
We can acknowledge: “Someone sinned against me.” without allowing another person's choices to determine the direction of the rest of our lives.
We can understand why we developed certain protective responses while also recognizing that, as adults, we are responsible for how we respond, what we believe, the boundaries we establish, and the choices we make moving forward.
Healing does not erase the story.
Healing changes what power the story has over our future.
Our hope is that healthy support ultimately leads us toward greater truth, freedom, responsibility, wisdom, love, forgiveness, discernment, maturity, and dependence upon God.
Affiliate Disclosure
Some of the book links on this page are affiliate links. We may earn a small commission when you purchase through these links, at no additional cost to you. Thank you for supporting His Invisible Hands.
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