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If you're stuck in the painful middle of healing--aware of your trauma but unsure how to move forward--you'll find here a clear, compassionate blueprint for using your story as building material for a beautiful future. Trying to heal from trauma can feel like sorting through the ruins of a...

In this book, Matthew Loftus unpacks how this kind of "therapy culture" can distort the Christian life. He argues that the church cannot do for people what therapy and psychiatry are designed to do. While church should be a place of healing and love for people who are suffering from mental illness, churches and their leaders should focus on what they are called to do: bringing people together to worship God.

God's Purposes in Our Pain examines 10 powerful statements from 2 Corinthians that highlight how God transforms our suffering. Written for Christians struggling to understand why they experience grief, this book explains how suffering prepares us to strengthen others, rely on God's provision, display the life of Christ, glorify God for his grace, and more.

Read by the author. What stands between you and Jesus? Jesus loves to set people free. So why do we feel stuck? Why do mental barriers, fear, bad habits, and toxic thoughts keep us trapped even as we search for Jesus’s abundant life? We all struggle with barriers between us and God, but these...

Many of us feel ashamed and undesirable after years of sexual brokenness and addiction. The guilt and stigma surrounding sexual struggles can paralyze us and keep us from seeking help and healing. Author Jay Stringer approaches these sensitive subjects with gentleness and understanding as he shows the way to restoration.

Are you anxious? Plunge into ten of the most comforting passages in Scripture, immersing yourself in God's tender promises. Rich theology, practical suggestions, and reflection questions guide you to assurance and hope.

Discussing spirituality and religion in the therapy room is increasingly accepted, some even forgetting that integration of psychology and Christianity was once a rare thing. Yet even as the decades-long integration movement has been so effective, the counselor's lived context in which integration happens grows increasingly complex. Christian practitioners need a fresh look at integration in a postmodern world. In Embodying Integration, Megan Anna Neff and Mark McMinn provide an essential guide to becoming integrators today.

We are called to remain steadfast in our faith, but that can be difficult when we are burdened with the challenges and struggles of life. The Faith to Flourish: Bible Lessons from the Olive Tree is a 7-week, group-discipleship resource designed to inspire women to remain steadfast in every...

A compassionate and practical framework to address the wounds of trauma and learn how to develop churches as trauma-informed spaces. Whether you're a pastor, counselor, church leader, or someone who has been hurt by the church, Traumatized Church—written jointly by New Testament scholar Scot...

Transform Your Suffering with Tools from Theology, Psychology, and Spiritual Formation We don’t like pain. So, we find creative ways to go around it. We try to ignore, minimize, or deny our suffering, but we're still left hurting. Drawing on six years of research, When the Journey Hurts...

The local church is meant to function as a healing and helping community that cares for God’s people. But what if, instead of grace and care, someone experienced harm and hurt? When the church becomes a place of abuse and silence, the pain leaves people spiritually disoriented and alone. These individuals may wonder if they will ever feel safe around God’s people again. Instead of running to God and his people, they run as far away as possible.

In this book, you will learn how to lay a simple, biblical foundation for hearing God's voice and apply practical tools, testimonies, and training exercises to grow in discernment and prophetic clarity. For too long, hearing God's voice has been viewed as something reserved for prophets, pastors, or hyper-spiritual believers. But if you are born again and filled with the Holy Spirit, you have access to hear your Father's voice.

In this book, you will learn how to break free from spiritual and mental strongholds by identifying hidden blockages, applying biblical strategies, and walking in total freedom through Christ. Are you struggling with spiritual strongholds that seem impossible to break, even after traditional deliverance? Do certain patterns in your life persist, leaving you frustrated, defeated, and wondering why freedom hasn't come?

Whether you are in the early stages of divorce or beginning to restore your life, this book points to Christ's faithful presence every step of the way. Helpful check-ins throughout invite you to pause, reflect and take hold of God again and again.

We could live free, but cleaning house is hard. Emotional baggage is trendy. We might even joke about it. Yet, one of the early English definitions of luggage is anything of more weight than value. Let that sink in. When we collect, stack, and stockpile burdens, we add weight but not value to our lives. What is clogging your heart? Worry, panic, or regret? False guilt, anger, or pride? Maybe deep places you don’t talk about are buried under bitterness, worthlessness, or loneliness. You long for relief. This stuff has kept you stuck for too long.

You can learn how to succeed anyway despite past discretions, unhealthy expectations, generational strongholds, low self-esteem, self-image, and correct limiting beliefs about your ability to become successful.

Everyone has secrets. Elizabeth Good’s seem shocking – at first – until the room begins to shift, hands raise, tears well, and hurting hearts respond, “I thought I was the only one.” Brave enough to lay her own story on the table, Elizabeth Good noticed, as the scales of shame and fear began to fall from her eyes, the same was happening to others in domino effect of healing. Thousands who have lived paralyzed by secrets are learning to speak up and live free through Good’s Real Talk curriculum, and the move of God is not so quietly transforming churches, business, families, and communities.

A heartwarming spiritual children’s novel that gently guides young listeners through grief, healing, and hope. When nine-year-old Mia Grace loses someone she loves, her world suddenly feels colorless. Everything changes when her children’s minister gives her a small notebook called The Garden of Feelings. Inside are six pages labeled Sadness, Anger, Confusion, Fear, Loneliness, and Hope, each waiting to be explored and understood. As Mia learns about the different emotions that grow during grief, she discovers that these feelings are like a garden that needs care, patience, and kindness.

While grief is a universal experience, there are no clear rules or roadmaps for getting to the other side. And yet God is on this journey with us, holding us up and leading us to restoration. Amy Kulbok is a professional trauma therapist and a Christian whose own life was upended by heartbreaking tragedy. Sharing both therapeutic insights and hard-won wisdom, In the Valley of the Shadow combines personal, biblical, and evidence-based perspectives to explore the complexities of grief, faith, and suffering.

For both beginning students and seasoned practitioners, Skills for Effective Counseling provides a biblically integrated approach to foundational counseling skills. It trains the listener to use crucial microskills such as perceiving, attending, empathic connection, and authenticity.