There are too many wonderful resources internationally to not send some love their way.
The views reflected in these resources may not necessarily align with ours, and we acknowledge that there are many other perspectives out there. However, we want to share a variety of resources that are available to offer different viewpoints and options.
Books
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When Religion Hurts You - Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion by Dr Laura E. Anderson
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion - Marlene Winell
Grief & God. When religion does more harm than healing - Terri Daniel
When Narcissism Comes to Church - Chuck De Groat
The Religious Trauma Survival Guide - Anna Clark Miller
Holy Ghosted: Spiritual Anxiety, Religious Trauma, and the Language of Abuse - Tiffany Yecke Brooks
The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse- David Johnson
#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing - Emily Joy Allison
You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity - Jamie Lee Finch
The Diabolical Trinity: Healing Religious Trauma from a Wrathful God, Tormenting Hell, and a Sinful Self - Mark Gregory Karris
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Wisdom of the Body & Practices for Embodied Living - Dr Hillary McBride
The Vagus nerve reset: train your body to heal stress, trauma and anxiety - Anna Ferguson
Anchored - Deb Dana
Healing in Your Hands - Katie Truitt
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror - Judith Herman
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Unsettling Truths- Mark Charles, Soong-Chan Rah
This Here Flesh & Black Liturgies - Cole Arthur Riley
Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto - Tricia Hersey
Decolonizing Trauma Work - Renee Linklater
Decolonizing Therapy - Jennifer Mullan
I’m Still Here - Austin Channing Brown
Native - Kaitlin Curtice
Sacred Wounds - Theresa B. Pasquale
Asian American Apostate - R Scott Okamoto
Your Body Is a Revolution: Healing Our Relationships with Our Bodies, Each Other, and the Earth - Tara Teng
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Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion - Matthais Roberts
Out of Focus: My Story of Sexuality, Shame, and Toxic Evangelicalism - Amber Cantorna-Wylde
Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms - Matthais Roberts
Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith - Mihee Kim-Kort
Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity - Rev Elizabeth Edman
Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate - Justin Lee
UNclobber - Colby Martin
Stumbling: A Sassy Memoir about Coming Out of Evangelicalism - Brandon Flanery
Our Deepest Roots: Navigating Past Trauma To Build Healthier Queer Relationships - Jen Towns
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Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy - Cait West
Giving Up God: Resurrecting a Spirituality of Love and Wonder - Sarah Henn Hayward
This. Becoming Free - Michael Gungor
The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen - Lisa Gungor
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy - Tia Levings
On Her Knees - Brenda Marie Davies
Wayward - Alice Greczyn
Pure - Linda Kay Klein
Educated - Tara Westover
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine - Sue Monk Kidd
Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World - Rob Bell
Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions - Rachel Held Evans
Escape - Carolyn Jessop
Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir - Daniel Barban Levin
You Lied To Me About God - Jamie Marich
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Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith - Rob Bell
A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith- Brian McLaren
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life - Richard Rohr
Wholehearted Faith - Rachel Held Evans
Finding God in the Waves. How I lost my faith and found it again through science - Mike McHague
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived- Rob Bell
Jesus Feminist & Out of Sorts - Sarah Bessey
The Shack - William Paul Young
Accidental Saints & Pastrix - Nadia Bolz-Weber
The Sin of Certainty- Pete Enns
God & The Gay Christian - Matthew Vine
Learning to Walk in The Dark - Barbara Brown Taylor
Women Rising: Learning to Listen, Reclaiming Our Voice - Meghan Tschanz
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality - Donald Miller
Changing our Mind - David Gushee
Fat Church: Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation - Anastasia Kidd
Othered: Finding Belonging with the God Who Pursues the Hurt, Harmed, and Marginalized - Jenai Auman
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Shameless - Nadia Bolz-Weber
Sex, God & The Conservative Church- Tina Schermer
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life - Dr Emily Nagoski
The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended - Sheila Wray Gregoire
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth - Beth Allison Barr
Recovering From Purity Culture - Dr Camden Morgante
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Deconstructing your Faith without Losing Yourself - Angela Herrington
Bad Theology Kills: Undoing Toxic Belief & Reclaiming Your Spiritual Authority - Kevin Garcia
What Makes You Bloom: Cultivating a Practice for Connecting with Your Divine Self - Kevin Garcia
Faith Shift: Finding Your Way Forward When Everything You Believe Is Coming Apart - Kathy Escobar
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation - Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Gaslighted by God: Reconstructing a Disillusioned Faith - Tiffany Yecke Brooks
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church - Sarah McCammon
Self Deconstructing: Mormon Faith Journey Poetry - Kristi Hyde
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Combatting Cult Mind Control - Steven Hassan.
Walking Free from the Trauma of Coercive, Cultic and Spiritual Abuse: A Workbook for Recovery and Growth - Gillie Jenkinson
Take Back Your Life: Recovering From Cults & Abusive Relationships - Janja Lalich
Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults - Janja Lalich
Podcasts
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Sunday School Dropouts- Center for Trauma Resolution and Recovery
Holy/Hurt - Dr Hillary McBride
Pure White - Dr Sara Moslener
The Wise Jezebels - Tia Levings & Dr Laura Anderson
The Divorcing Religion Podcast - Janice Selbie
Survivors Discuss - Clare Heath-McIvor, Cait West & Shari Smith
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Confessions Of A Reformer- Mike Maeshiro
The New Evangelicals - Tim Whitaker
The Liturgists - Michael Gungor
The Evolving Faith - Sarah Bessey & Jeff Chu
Faith & Feminism - Meghan Tshanz
God is Grey - Brenda Marie Davies
Holy Heretics: Losing Religion & Finding Jesus - The Sophia Society
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Hello Deconstructionists - Maggie
You Can’t Get To Heaven In A Miniskirt - Jess & Sarah
Deconstructing the Myth - Elizabeth Mall
Born Again Again - Katie & Joe Bauer
Dirty Rotten Church Kids - Adrian Gibbs
Flaws of Attraction - Jillian Alexa
For the Love - Jen Hatmaker
Holy Hell - Savannah Carenno & Josh White
Collision - Nic Flores
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A Little Bit Culty- Sarah Edmondson & Anthony ‘Nippy’ Ames
IndoctriNation - Rachel Berstein
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Come As You Are - Dr Emily Nagoski
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Parenting Forward - Cindy Wang Brandt
Bare Marriage - Sheila Gregoire
Deconstructing Mama's - Liz Enns Petters & Esther Joy Goetz
Other
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Hymns Reclaimed: Songs For Former Church Kids - Alanah Sabatini
Demonology Album - Candi Carpenter
Music by Maddi Zahm
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Dr Laura Anderson's Substack - Therapy in the Headlines
Jenai Auman's Substack - Othered
Cait West's Substack - My Blue Peninsula
Tia Levings' Substack - The Anti-Fundementalist
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