Align with God.
Spiritual abuse and Complex Trauma can make faith feel confusing or unsafe. This course gives you space to ask honest questions about what you were taught, and shows how healing from trauma and reconnecting with God can happen together.
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FORMAT
Self-paced
ACCESS
Lifetime, with Thinkific account
LESSONS
52 lessons
CONNECTION
Community and monthly seminars
STARTING OUT
Is this course right for you?
Connecting with God can be one of the most meaningful, healing and beautiful parts of life. A relationship with Him can bring peace, comfort, purpose and a deep sense of being known and loved. Maybe you've felt that connection before. Maybe you haven't yet. If you’ve lived through trauma—especially Complex Trauma—connection can feel complicated, confusing or even painful. Often, the first step toward a deeper relationship with God is courageously questioning what we’ve been taught about Him.
Align With God is a good fit if…
✓ You long for connection with God, but trauma or painful religious experiences have made faith feel confusing or unsafe
✓ You carry wounds from religious systems that promised love but delivered fear, control or shame
✓ You want room to ask honest questions and to explore doubts
✓ You are from any Christian denomination
Not ready yet? That’s okay.
You can take the course slowly and gently, and take a break if you feel overwhelmed. Once you enroll, you have lifetime access.
HEALING AND FAITH
Healing and a healthy relationship with God can go hand-in-hand.
This course invites you to question the God you were taught about, and to give yourself permission to ask questions and learn about Him in a new way.
✓ How the Bible speaks about fear, doubt, anger, shame, grief, joy and faith, through trauma lenses
✓ Facing unworthiness and guilt, and how God's love meets us with grace
✓ Identifying the patterns and effects of spiritual abuse
✓ How trauma affects trust, connection and boundaries, and how healing happens with Scripture and safe community
PRACTICAL TOOLS
- Emotions
- Shame
- Complex Trauma
- Conflict
- Relationships and Boundaries
- Basic Needs
- and more..
What to expect.
52 lessons
Complex Trauma, addiction and holistic healing techniques.
Monthly webinars
Publicly available webinar lessons, also accessible in the course community.
Video, reading, reflection activities
Every module includes all three, plus journal prompts and self-work questions.
Community space
Connect and learn with others who understand your journey.
Faith-based and open to adults 18+ of all backgrounds.
Our programs and courses welcome each participant with dignity and respect, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, religious beliefs or otherwise, and will ensure that our staff members and other participants cooperate with courtesy, understanding, and most importantly, love.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Course curriculum.
8 modules containing 52 lessons. Each lesson has an introduction, Complex Trauma information, lessons, focus questions, a video, and additional resources.
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How to Use This Course
Reconnecting with God After Trauma
Helpful Tips
Course Overview
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Introduction • Complex Trauma Information • Video • Lesson • Focus Questions • Additional Information
Complex Trauma can leave us feeling written off by families, systems, and even spiritual communities. This module looks at where Jesus chose to show up and who he chose to show up for. You’ll learn to see survival responses for what they are, and what that means for how we trust, receive help, own our past, and forgive.
Trust
Fear can become a default state. We’ll look at how trust grows through safety using Peter’s story.
Humility
Shame can make us hide our need for help. We’ll look at who God chose to announce Jesus’ birth and what that says about where he meets us.
Repentance
Shame can tell us it’s too late to change. We’ll look at what honest repentance looks like through a man crucified beside Jesus.
Forgiveness
Guilt can follow us long after the mistake. We’ll look at how David’s story can help us receive forgiveness, including from ourselves.
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Introduction • Complex Trauma Information • Video • Lesson • Focus Questions • Additional Information
Many people raised in Complex Trauma learned to stuff their emotions or to fear them. This module reframes emotions as signals meant to bring us back to safety and connection, and looks at what disconnection does to us. You’ll see how honesty with God, ourselves, and others changes how we meet faith, doubt, and fear.
Faith
Faith can feel risky when trust has cost us before. We’ll look at what it means to bring our whole self to God through Hannah’s story.
Doubt
Many of us were taught that doubt is dangerous. We’ll look at how Jesus responded when John the Baptist asked a hard question.
Fear - Part 1
Strong emotions can drain us more than we realize. We’ll follow Elijah from his greatest victory to the wilderness and look at how God met him there.
Fear - Part 2
What do we do when God himself seems fearsome? We’ll look at Mount Sinai and what it means to hear “do not fear” and “fear God” in the same breath.
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Introduction • Complex Trauma Information • Video • Lesson • Focus Questions • Additional Information
We were made by a relational God and for connection. Complex Trauma can make closeness feel unsafe even when we long for it. This module looks at the relationship God models in the Trinity and how trauma changes the way we approach intimacy, family, and leadership. You’ll learn why relationship is part of healing and not separate from it.
Becoming One
The longing to be known is part of our design, yet intimacy can feel dangerous once we’ve been hurt. We’ll look at Adam and Eve and how God has worked to restore what was lost.
A Child of God
For many of us, the word “father” brings tension instead of comfort. We’ll look at the Prodigal Son and what it shows about how God responds when we come home.
Healthy Supports
Family can be a source of pain, and healing rarely happens in isolation. We’ll look at the messy family line Jesus came from and the people who surrounded him.
Leadership
Many of us grew up under leaders who used power to control. We’ll look at how Jesus led on the night of the Last Supper, including who he chose to serve.
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Introduction • Complex Trauma Information • Video • Lesson • Focus Questions • Additional Information
For many of us, conflict meant yelling, shame, or someone always losing. This module looks at why small disagreements can set off alarm bells and what it takes to believe conflict can be safe. You’ll learn how power, manipulation, and family tragedies shape the way we handle it, and how God invites us into a healthier way.
Power
Some of us stay small out of fear while others chase control to feel safe. We’ll look at David’s story and what it means to use influence well.
Manipulation
When honesty wasn’t safe, many of us learned to bend the truth to survive. We’ll look at Jacob’s story and where he finally found the security he had been grasping for.
Healthy Values
Conflict can protect love instead of ending it. We’ll look at how Abram handled a dispute with his nephew Lot and what that shows about facing conflict well.
Tragedies in Families
Many of us hid parts of ourselves to survive our families. We’ll follow Joseph through betrayal and injustice and look at what God was doing along the way.
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Introduction • Complex Trauma Information • Video • Lesson • Focus Questions • Additional Information
Many of us learned that anger is sinful or that holy people never feel it. For those with Complex Trauma, it often felt frightening. This module looks at anger as a signal meant to be noticed and worked through, and what happens when it goes unchecked. You’ll learn how honest anger can lead to connection instead of damage.
Anger with God
Many of us were taught that good Christians never get angry with God. We’ll look at the Psalms of lament and what it means to bring our anger to God honestly.
Unresolved Anger
Anger that gets buried doesn’t disappear. We’ll look at Cain and Abel and how God responded to Cain before things went too far.
Revenge
Wanting justice is natural, but taking it into our own hands twists it. We’ll look at the night David nearly sought revenge and the person who stepped in.
Narcissism
Pride can twist anger into something that demands control. We’ll look at Ahab and Jezebel and how God responded to them.
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Introduction • Complex Trauma Information • Video • Lesson • Focus Questions • Additional Information
Shame doesn’t just tell us we did something wrong; it tells us we are something wrong. This module looks at the distorted mirrors trauma and religion can hold up to us and how they shape the way we imagine God sees us. You’ll look at what God’s mirror shows instead and how that changes the way we receive love.
A Work in Progress
Many of us learned to see God through distorted mirrors. We’ll look at who Jesus chose to follow him and what that says about who God is.
How Can God Love Me?
Love can feel like something we have to earn. We’ll look at David and Mephibosheth and what it means to be invited to the table.
Big Sins
Some failures feel too big to forgive. We’ll look at one of the darkest kings in Israel’s history and gently untangle the fear that we’ve gone too far.
Loving Ourselves
Shame can make caring for our own needs feel selfish. We’ll look at Rahab and what healthy humility looks like.
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Introduction • Complex Trauma Information • Video • Lesson • Focus Questions • Additional Information
Many of us experienced boundaries used for control, silence, or shame. Others were taught that love means having no limits at all. This module looks at where boundaries come from in Scripture and what they were designed to protect. You’ll learn why boundaries are part of love and not the opposite of it.
Space for Love to Flourish
Some people take more than they give, and boundaries with them can feel impossible. We’ll look at Abraham and Lot and how love and distance can exist together.
With Unhealthy People
Our bodies can react with guilt and fear even when a boundary is wise. We’ll return to Abraham and look at what it means to be generous without being used.
In Intimacy
Closeness can feel dangerous when we’ve been wounded. We’ll look at the Ten Commandments in a way many of us weren’t taught.
God’s Boundaries
Many of us learned that boundaries are rigid rules to obey at all costs. We’ll look at the Good Samaritan and what Jesus restored about their purpose.
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Introduction • Complex Trauma Information • Video • Lesson • Focus Questions • Additional Information
Complex Trauma often brings layers of loss nobody taught us to grieve. We learned to survive them instead and the grief waited. This module makes room for that grief and looks at what honest sorrow can look like in faith. You’ll learn why grief is a path toward healing and not a sign something has gone wrong.
Losing Everything
Some losses arrive in waves and tear the ground out from under us. We’ll look at Job and what it means to stay connected to God without having answers.
Losing Loved Ones
Losing a person can stir earlier losses that were never mourned. We’ll look at Naomi and what it means to grieve without being hurried.
Losing Connections
Sometimes the deepest grief is being cut off from family, safety, or home. We’ll follow Joseph through years of loss and look at how grief and growth can exist together.
Losing Subtle Things
Some grief is the loss of a dream or an expectation we never knew we were holding. We’ll look at Peter and what happens when the future we pictured falls apart.
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Healing from Complex Trauma is not a one-time event. This final section looks at how to keep the tools you’ve learned working in daily life, why reconnecting may be one step in a deeper healing process, and what to do next.
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It was very healing for me to begin reparenting myself by working on the 12 Basic Needs I didn’t receive as a child.”
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PRICING OPTIONS
Enroll in Align With God.
It’s time to break the cycle of trauma and build a rich and healthy connection with God.
This course gives you permission to question the God you’ve been taught about and to learn about Him in a new way. After all, God invites us to ask questions: “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.” (1 John 4:1)
$75 CAD/month
6-month payment plan.
$450 CAD
One-time payment. Afterpay and Klarna available.
Included with either option:
✓ Lifetime access with your Thinkific account
✓ Community space and monthly seminars included
✓ Cancellation and refund requests must be made within 45 days of purchase
YOUR FIRST SMALL STEP
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What is Complex Trauma?
“Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you.” —Gabor Maté
Trauma is someone’s response to a deeply scary or harmful event that makes them unable to cope.
Complex Trauma (or C-PTSD) is defined as the response to an ongoing environment of danger where one never feels safe. This response constantly signals a stress response such as fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. It affects every aspect of a person—their bodies, relationships, brains and ability to have a spiritual connection. Tim Fletcher has identified over 85 Characteristics of Complex Trauma which may help you put the pieces together as to how it may be affecting you.
