Voices that point you toward Jesus.

Trauma-informed licensed professional counselor, body-centered healer, and author whose work weaves neuroscience, contemplative faith, and honest storytelling. She walked through spiritual abuse and wrote her way back toward the Good Shepherd.

The Lord Is My Courage · This Too Shall Last · The Book of Common Courage

Trauma therapist, faith leader, and author who bridges clinical healing and the love of God with warmth and authority. Her work centers Black women's healing and speaks to everyone who needs to hear that God sees their pain.

The Garden Within

Licensed therapist and author whose work on gentle, somatic healing has changed how many people understand both their nervous systems and the tenderness of God. Deeply Jesus-centered, deeply kind.

Try Softer · Strong Like Water

Psychologist, author, and podcast host integrating faith and psychology in a way that is both clinically grounded and deeply Christ-centered. Her work on identity and inner healing is essential.

The Best of You · Boundaries with Souls

LPC, author, and spiritual director whose work centers healing, embodiment, and the restoration of women's voices within faith. She holds both the clinical and the sacred with rare grace.

Healing

Licensed counselor, author, and speaker whose work on emotional health, relationships, and mental wellness is rooted in faith and accessible to people wherever they are in their journey.

True Love Dates · Choosing Marriage · Filled

Accessible, warm content that holds both the clinical and the spiritual without collapsing one into the other. A trusted voice for people navigating faith and mental health simultaneously.

Clear, compassionate trauma education for people who are still trying to understand what happened to them. Faith-adjacent and deeply safe for survivors of all kinds of harm.

Trauma-informed therapist and faith-rooted healer whose work on nervous system regulation, spiritual harm, and restoration is both clinically grounded and Spirit-led.

Faith-integrated therapist and educator bringing clinical wisdom and Jesus-centered healing into accessible, honest content for people navigating real life.

Faith and mental health content that is honest, grounded, and rooted in the belief that wholeness is possible — and that Jesus is part of that story.

Faith-rooted healing from religious trauma and shame — pointing people toward freedom in Christ, not freedom from him. An important voice for those deconstructing harm rather than faith itself.

NYT bestselling author and co-founder of Evolving Faith — writing for people who are still devoted to Jesus but cannot go back to the religion that hurt them. Her phrase "still toward Jesus" is a lifeline for thousands in the wilderness.

Jesus Feminist · Field Notes for the Wilderness · Out of Sorts

Duke professor, cancer survivor, and author who tells the truth about suffering, prosperity theology, and the stubborn goodness of God. Her voice is necessary for anyone who has been sold easy answers and found them empty.

Everything Happens for a Reason · Good Enough · No Cure for Being Human

Author and speaker whose joy in Jesus is completely contagious and entirely unperformative. He makes the love of God feel real, accessible, and worth the mess of actually living it.

Love Does · Everybody Always · Dream Big

Post-evangelical author and podcaster who loves Jesus loudly and without apology, while refusing to use him as a tool for exclusion or harm. A warm, funny, honest presence for people rebuilding faith.

For the Love · Fierce, Free and Full of Fire · Of Mess and Moxie

Author writing honestly about leaving evangelicalism without leaving Jesus — for the "orphaned believers" who couldn't go back to the institution but couldn't let go of the person at the center of it.

Orphaned Believers

Faith-rooted content for people walking through grief, trauma, and the slow work of healing — holding the tension between real pain and the grace that outlasts it.

Content for people who have been through the kind of pain that makes you wonder if restoration is really possible — and who need to hear that it is, and that Jesus is in the middle of it.

Faith, healing, and identity in Christ — content that meets people in the middle of their story and points them toward who they were made to be.

Honest, warm, and often funny content for people who are a mess and know it — and who are learning that Jesus already knew that and showed up anyway.

Lutheran pastor, theologian, and author whose work on grace, sin, and the body of Christ is some of the most honest and necessary in the post-evangelical space. She has never left Jesus — she just refuses to pretend the church has always represented him well.

Pastrix · Accidental Saints · Shameless

Author of the foundational work on emotional health and spirituality — the belief that you cannot be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Essential reading for anyone in ministry or leadership.

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality · The Emotionally Healthy Leader

Historian, author, and theologian telling the truth about race and the American church — calling it back to the Jesus it claims to follow with clarity, courage, and deep faith.

The Color of Compromise · How to Fight Racism

Theologian and author asking the hard questions about faith, sexuality, and what it means to follow Jesus without using him as a weapon. Respectful, rigorous, and Jesus-centered throughout.

People to Be Loved · Embodied

Dr. Dan Allender's center for trauma-informed storytelling, healing, and faith — grounded in the belief that our stories matter and that God meets us in the darkest chapters of them.

The Wounded Heart · To Be Told · Healing the Wounded Heart

Author and speaker whose work on raising children in a complicated world — with justice, faith, and honesty — is rooted in love for Jesus and for the next generation he asked us to care for.

To Light Their Way · Every Season Sacred

Faith-rooted emotional health content that is gentle, grounded, and points consistently toward the tenderness of God for wounded people. One of the most quietly important accounts in this space.

Community and resources for survivors of religious trauma and spiritual abuse — a space that holds both the wound of what the church did and the hope of what Jesus offers outside of it.

Encouragement and faith-rooted content for survivors who are learning — slowly, imperfectly — that they are worth fighting for, and that freedom in Christ is real.

Also featured above. Melissa's work at the intersection of faith and emotional health is exactly the kind of voice this Library was built to elevate — honest, rooted, and pointing steadily toward Jesus.

Also featured above. Heather's body-centered, faith-rooted approach to healing is the kind of work that defies a single category — because the wholeness she points toward touches every part of a person.