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RESOURCES FOR RECOVERY


Looking for resources for emotional and spiritual healing?  

View our list of suggested books, audio teachings and websites. 

RECOVERY 

  • The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse by Dan Allender
  • GriefShare (Grief and Loss Support Groups) 
  • The Truth About Sex by Kay Arthur
  • Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing by Joyce Meyer
  • Hush by Nicole Braddock Bromley
  • Healing for Damaged Emotions by David Seamands
  • Healing the Shame that Binds You by John Bradshaw
  • Healing The Wounded Heart by Dan B. Allender
  • Unashamed by Christine Caine
  • Breathe: Finding Freedom to Thrive in Relationships After Childhood Sexual Abuse by Nicole Braddock Bromley
  • How Long Does It Hurt? (Teenagers) by Cynthia L. Mather (Revised Edition)
  • Safe People: How to Find Relationships that are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
  • On the Threshold of Hope by Diane Mandt Langberg, PhD
  • Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
  • Not Marked: Finding Hope and Healing After Sexual Abuse by Mary Demuth 

SPIRITUAL GROWTH

  • I'm Not Good Enough...and Other Lies Women Tell Themselves by Sharon Jaynes
  • Bondage Breaker by Neil T. Anderson (Knowing Your Identity in Christ) ficm.org - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfWUYNVNVwA&t=1814s
  • Love, Sex & Lasting Relationships by Chip Ingram
  • Restoring Relationships - Christian Psychologist Dominic Herbst (Online Program available)
  • Intimate Issues -21 Questions Christian Women Ask About Sex by Linda Dillow & Lorraine Pintus
  • 60 Things God Said About Sex by Lester Sumrall
  • Boundaries: When To Say Yes-When To Say No-Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud & John Townsend - Click here to take Boundaries quiz
  • Recovering from Losses in Life by H. Norman Wright
  • Grace, Grace & More Grace by Joyce Meyer
  • How To Forgive...When You Don't Feel Like It by June Hunt
  • Do Yourself A Favor...Forgive by Joyce Meyer
  • 7 Things Forgiveness Is Not - https://sunshynegray.com/forgiveness-is-not/
  • Walking Into Walls: 5 Blind Spots That Block God's Work In You by Stephen Arterburn
  • The Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer
  • The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman - click here to discover your love language
  • Personality Plus by Florence Littauer - click here to take personality test
  • We Too: How the Church Can Respond Redemptively to the Sexual Abuse Crisis by Mary E. DeMuth

SEX ADDICTION

  • Breaking Free by Russell Willingham​
  • Winning the Battle Within By Neil T. Anderson
  • No Stones: Women Redeemed from Sexual Addiction by Marnie C. Ferree
  • She Has A Secret: Understanding Female Sexual Addiction by Doug Weiss, Ph.D
  • The Invisible Bond: How to Break Free from Your Sexual Past by Barbara Wilson

DATING 

  • The Right One: How to Successfully Date and Marry the Right Person by Jimmie Evans and Frank Martin

  • Boundaries in Dating by John Townsend and Henry Cloud

ABORTION RECOVERY

  • Forgiven & Set Free by Linda Cochrane
  • Surrendering the Secret: Healing the Heartbreak of Abortion by Patricia Layton

MARRIAGE 

  • Heaven in Your Home: Sex, Marriage & Mission of God  - click here to view video 
  • The Love Dare Day by Day - A Year of Devotions for Couples by Alex Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick
  • Marriage Today by Jimmy & Karen Evans - click here to view website
  • 21 Day Inner Healing by Jimmy & Karen Evans - click here to view website
  • Boundaries in Marriage by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
  • Intimacy Ignited: Fire Up Your Sex Life with the Song of Solomon .by Linda Dillow & Lorraine Pintus
  • A Celebration of Sex by Dr. Douglas E. Rosenau
  • The Sexually Confident Wife: Connecting with Your Husband Mind Body Heart Spirit by Shannon Etheridge
  • The Act of Marriage by Tim & Beverly LaHaye
  • Sex and The Supremacy of Christ by John Piper & Justin Taylor
  • Sexplosion by Ramona Bailey
  • Intended for Pleasure by Ed Wheat, M.D. & Gaye Wheat
  • When A Woman You Love Was Abused: A Husband's Guide To Helping Her Overcome Childhood Sexual Molestation by Dawn Scott Jones (for husbands)
  • When a Man You Love Was Abused: A Woman's Guide to Helping Him Overcome Childhood Sexual Molestation by Cecil Murphey (for wives)
  • Haunted Marriage by C. Barshinger, L. LaRowe & A. Tapia
  • When Victims Marry by Don & Jan Frank
  • Ghosts in the Bedroom by Ken Graber

TALKING TO CHILDREN ABOUT SEXUAL ABUSE

  • Don't Be Scared To Tell by Kathy Delgado Chatterton
  • The Swimsuit Lesson by Jon Holsten
  • Don't You Dare Touch Me There! by Kandra Albury
  • Boundaries With Kids by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
  • My Body Belongs To Me by Jill Starishevsky
  • My Body Is Not Your Playground by Sheryll E. Roberts
  • National Protect Yourself Rules (video) Grades 4-6 - click here  to view  
  • Tell Somebody by Leesh Bee
  • Your Body Belongs to You by Cornelia Maude Spelman
  • Let's Talk About Boundaries, Consent and Respect by Jayneen Sanders

WEBSITES

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