Resource Recommendations
Thoughtful resources to support emotional, relational, and spiritual growth.
Explore With Care
We invite you to approach these offerings with curiosity and discernment. These recommendations are offered as possibilities, not prescriptions. A resource’s inclusion does not imply endorsement of all views expressed.
Podcasts
Host: Curt Thompson, MD
Explores shame, beauty, community, and cognitive and emotional functioning through a Christian theological lens of creation, fall, and eternity. Each season highlights a different topic such as Season 4: Trauma; Season 5: Shame; Season 8: In the Path of Oncoming Beauty; Season 11: Rupture and Repair.
Encountering You
Host: Laura Williams
Short, digestible episodes for those interested in exploring attachment and/or relational trauma. Laura Williams educates listeners about the nervous system, regulatory practices, and engaging their story in light of the gospel.
Host: Kelley Streiff
This podcast offers honest, faith-centered conversations for mothers experiencing pregnancy or infant loss. It addresses grief without minimizing it, explores how to walk with others through loss, and speaks to the complex reality of trusting God while carrying deep, lasting sorrow.
Books
Addiction and Grace
Author: Gerald May, MD
This thoughtful book explores the connection between addiction and the deeper human longing for control, meaning, and spiritual awareness. Looking beyond substances alone, it examines the many attachments that can shape our lives, while inviting readers toward greater freedom through honesty, humility, and grace.
Anatomy of the Soul
Author: Curt Thompson, MD
Integrating neuroscience, attachment theory, and Christian spiritual practices, this book shows how our brains and relationships influence personal growth. With clear explanations and practical exercises, it highlights practices like community, Scripture, and reflection as pathways toward healing and deeper relationships..
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Authors: Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA
A research-based and relatable guide that helps women understand burnout, navigate societal pressures, and fight back against the exhausting stress cycle.
Come As You Are
Author: Emily Nagoski, PhD
Based on groundbreaking research that explains why factors like stress, mood, trust, and body image are central, not peripheral, to a woman’s sexual well-being. Practical, empowering, and deeply validating, this book equips women to approach intimacy with greater clarity, confidence, and freedom.
Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering
Author: Kelly M. Kapic
A thoughtful meditation on suffering that connects our embodied pain to Christ’s own, guiding readers through lament toward consolation, connection, and renewed hope.
Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)
Author: Eve Rodsky
A practical book about sharing domestic responsibilities and owning your part of the problem. Written for women.
Forgiveness After Trauma: A Path to Find Healing and Empowerment
Author: Susannah Griffith
Exploring the difficult and deeply personal work of forgiveness, this book supports survivors of trauma in navigating the tension between anger, grief, and faith. Drawing on both Scripture and her own experience as a domestic violence survivor, Griffith shows how forgiveness is a complex concept as she invites readers to confront their pain while discovering a path toward healing, safety, and empowerment.
Forgiving What You Can’t Forget
Author: Lysa TerKeurst
A thoughtful, Scripture-centered exploration of forgiveness for those carrying deep emotional wounds. It helps readers release pain and resentment, find peace even when reconciliation isn’t possible, and move forward with clarity, healing, and healthy boundaries.
Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners & Sufferers
Author: Dane Ortlund
A healing and hopeful picture of Jesus’ heart, especially for those wrestling with doubt, longing for deeper connection, or recovering from religious or church hurt.
Held: 31 Biblical Reflections on God’s Comfort and Care in the Sorrow of Miscarriage
Author: Abbey Wedgeworth
A compassionate devotional that combines Scripture-based reflections and personal stories to remind grieving women they are seen, known, and held by God in the midst of heartbreak from miscarriage and still birth.
Intimate Deception: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Betrayal
Author: Sheri Keffer, PhD
A supportive, practical resource for navigating the aftermath of sexual betrayal, offering insight, self-care strategies, and guidance for setting healthy boundaries and letting go of shame.
It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand
Author: Megan Devine
This book offers a tender and compassionate look at grief, encouraging readers to fully experience loss without shame or pressure to “move on.” Devine validates the depth of sorrow, challenges cultural misunderstandings, and provides guidance for living alongside grief rather than trying to overcome it.
Learning to Walk in the Dark
Author: Barbara Brown Taylor
This book explores the spiritual and personal insights that can emerge from the darkness. Rather than fearing or avoiding the dark, it invites readers to walk through it with curiosity and openness, learning to find their footing amid uncertainty and face life’s most challenging moments with hope.
Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
Authors: Jenni Schaefer and Thom Rutledge, LCSW
Through personal story and clinical perspective, this book invites readers to view an eating disorder as a separate, harmful voice rather than their identity. It offers practical tools and encouragement for the journey toward recovery and freedom.
On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living
Author: Alan Noble
An honest reflection of the reality of depression, anxiety, and the daily weight of being human. With compassion and faith-centered insight, it affirms the courage required for ordinary endurance and reframes small acts of perseverance — like simply getting out of bed — as meaningful expressions of hope and faith.
Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections
Author: Emily Nagoski, PhD
This book explores the factors that can challenge sexual fulfillment in long-term relationships, including stress, body image, relationship dynamics, and cultural beliefs about how sex “should be.” Drawing on research and practical insight, it offers strategies to overcome these obstacles and cultivate a more satisfying, enduring sexual connection.
Prayer in the Night: For those Who Work, or Watch, or Weep
Author: Tish Harrison Warren
A reflective and honest exploration of prayer in seasons of anxiety, loss, and doubt, inviting readers to bring their fears and sleepless nights before God and find grounding in His faithful presence.
The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
Author: Curt Thompson, MD
This book explores how suffering can become a place of transformation rather than despair. Integrating Scripture, neuroscience, and clinical insight, it shows how secure attachment, God’s presence, and supportive community can foster resilient hope and peace — even in the midst of pain, doubt, and loss.
Try Softer
Author: Aundi Kolber, LPC
A trauma-informed exploration of healing that encourages readers to move away from the pressure to push harder and move toward greater self-awareness, healthy boundaries, and compassionate engagement with their own stories.
Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing
Author: Jay Stringer
This book explores the deeper stories and wounds that often shape patterns of sexual brokenness. Drawing on extensive research and clinical insight, it helps readers understand the roots of their struggles while offering thoughtful pathways toward healing, healthy relationships, and renewed freedom.
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