Recovery from Spiritual Abuse and Reconnection with God

This course is designed for individuals who long for connection with God but find that trauma, spiritual abuse, or painful religious experiences have made faith feel confusing, unsafe, or out of reach. Through a trauma-informed and biblically grounded approach, the course creates space for honest questions, doubt, and healing, recognizing that complex trauma often disrupts our ability to trust, relate, and feel spiritually safe. Rather than dismissing hard questions, this course invites participants to wrestle with them, reflecting the biblical tradition of lament, inquiry, and truth-seeking.

Guided by Scripture and the compassionate example of Jesus, this course explores how spiritual abuse distorts our understanding of God and how healing involves restoring accurate, safe, and life-giving connection. Participants will learn to read the Bible through a trauma-aware lens, recognizing God’s heart for the wounded, his condemnation of abusive spiritual leadership, and his ongoing invitation into relationship. This course offers a gentle pathway toward reconnection, helping participants rebuild faith, trust, and spiritual identity in a way that honors both their pain and God’s enduring grace.

Complex Trauma Recovery

This module explores how complex trauma and spiritual abuse disrupt our connection with God, ourselves, and the people around us, often leaving individuals feeling unsafe, unseen, and spiritually abandoned. Through a trauma-informed lens and a close reading of Matthew 16:13–20, participants are invited to see how Jesus intentionally enters the darkest and most broken places, declaring hope where others see hopelessness. The module reframes trauma responses not as moral failures, but as survival strategies shaped by deep wounding, offering a compassionate and biblically grounded understanding of suffering, healing, and grace.

Rooted in the Gospel and the example of Christ at Caesarea Philippi, this teaching invites the Church to become a place of belonging rather than judgment, and a community of healing rather than exclusion. Participants will learn how Jesus builds His Church in places marked by pain, shame, and spiritual disconnection, and how understanding complex trauma opens new pathways for ministry, restoration, and authentic connection. This module offers a hopeful vision of recovery, reminding us that no person and no place is beyond the reach of God’s light, mercy, and redeeming love.

Reconnecting

This module explores how spiritual abuse, complex trauma, and addiction are rooted in disconnection rather than moral failure. Through a close reading of Genesis 1–3, participants are invited to reframe sin, addiction, and emotional struggle as consequences of broken connection with God, ourselves, and others. Drawing on trauma-informed insights and biblical truth, the teaching highlights how humans are wired for connection, and how disconnection fuels shame, fear, emotional dysregulation, and survival-based coping strategies.

Participants will learn how God designed emotions as protective signals meant to restore connection and safety, not tools for control, guilt, or shame. By examining emotional misuse in unhealthy spiritual environments and the role of honesty in healing, this module offers a compassionate pathway toward reconnection, emotional health, and spiritual recovery. Grounded in Scripture and hope-filled theology, it reminds us that healing begins with truth, restoration is relational, and reconnection with God is always possible, even after deep wounding.

The Trinity

This module explores how God’s design for human connection is rooted in the Trinity and how complex trauma disrupts our ability to experience safe, healthy relationships. Through Scripture readings from Genesis 1:26, John 17:20–23, and Matthew 3:13–17, participants are invited to understand that humans were created by a relational God and for deep connection with God, ourselves, and others. The teaching highlights how trauma rewires the nervous system toward survival, making intimacy, trust, and vulnerability feel unsafe even when connection is deeply desired.

By examining the Trinity as the model of secure, loving relationship, this module offers a hopeful framework for healing relational wounds caused by spiritual abuse and early attachment trauma. Participants will reflect on how survival mode interferes with belonging and how God gently invites us back into connection through grace, safety, and truth. This module emphasizes that relationship is not optional for healing, but central to recovery, reminding us that restoration happens in community and that God continues to call us into reconnection, even after deep relational pain.

Healing Fear, Power, and Disconnection

This module explores conflict through a trauma-informed and biblical lens, recognizing that for many survivors of complex trauma, conflict has been associated with fear, shame, control, or harm rather than safety and resolution. Drawing from Matthew 18:15–20, participants will examine how unresolved trauma can cause even minor disagreements to activate survival responses, leading to avoidance, people-pleasing, anger, or emotional shutdown. The module reframes conflict not as a threat, but as an essential part of healthy connection and relational growth.

Participants will learn how Scripture presents conflict as an opportunity for honesty, humility, and reconciliation rather than power or punishment. By exploring how fear, manipulation, and misuse of authority distort relationships, this module offers practical and compassionate insight into handling conflict in ways that protect dignity and restore connection. Rooted in God’s design for relationship, the teaching invites participants to approach conflict with courage, clarity, and grace, discovering how healing transforms conflict from a source of danger into a pathway toward trust, truth, and deeper love.

Understanding, Healing, and Restoration

This module explores anger through a trauma-informed and biblical lens, addressing the deep confusion, fear, and shame many survivors of complex trauma carry around this powerful emotion. Drawing from Ephesians 4:26, Psalm 13:1–2, and John 2:13–17, participants will learn that anger itself is not sinful, but a God-designed signal that something important has been violated. The module challenges harmful beliefs shaped by spiritual abuse, such as the idea that anger must be suppressed or that expressing it separates us from God.

Participants will examine the difference between healthy anger that leads to protection and restoration, and unhealthy anger that turns into rage, control, bitterness, or revenge. With compassion and clarity, this module offers a pathway toward understanding anger as a tool for truth, boundary-setting, and healing rather than destruction. Rooted in Scripture and nervous system awareness, the teaching invites participants to bring their anger to God with honesty, allowing it to be transformed into courage, wisdom, and deeper connection with God, themselves, and others.

Identity, Belonging, and God’s Mirror

This module addresses shame as one of the deepest and most damaging effects of complex trauma and spiritual abuse. Drawing from Romans 8:15–17, Romans 15:7, 1 Peter 2:9–10, and 1 John 3:1–2, participants will explore the difference between guilt and shame, learning how shame attacks identity by convincing us that we are defective, unlovable, or beyond repair. The module highlights how early relational wounds and conditional spiritual environments distort self-perception and deeply influence how we imagine God sees us.

Through a trauma-informed and biblical framework, this teaching reveals God’s response to shame not as rejection or punishment, but as adoption, welcome, and restoration of dignity. Participants are invited to consider God as the true mirror, replacing distorted reflections formed by trauma with the truth of belonging as God’s beloved children. This module offers a hopeful pathway toward healing shame, rebuilding identity, and learning to receive God’s love with honesty and grace, reminding participants that they are not a mistake to be fixed, but sons and daughters who are fully known and deeply loved.

Protecting Love, Safety, and Connection

This module explores boundaries through a trauma-informed and biblical lens, addressing the confusion and fear many survivors of complex trauma and spiritual abuse experience around limits, needs, and self-care. Drawing from Genesis 2:15–17, Matthew 22:37–39, and Mark 6:14–32, participants will learn that boundaries were God’s idea from the very beginning and are essential for healthy relationships, rest, and flourishing. The module challenges harmful spiritual messages that equate love with self-erasure or exhaustion, reframing boundaries as an expression of love rather than selfishness.

Through Scripture and practical reflection, participants will explore how God, Jesus, and the early Church modeled healthy limits that protect dignity, connection, and emotional safety. This module offers a compassionate pathway toward understanding boundaries as tools for healing, helping participants rebuild self-worth, maintain healthy relationships, and live with greater peace and freedom. Rooted in God’s design for love, this teaching reminds us that boundaries do not distance us from others or from God; they protect love and make lasting connection possible.

Rising from Ashes and Walking with God Through Loss

This module explores grief as a necessary and sacred part of healing from complex trauma and spiritual abuse. Drawing from Psalm 22 and Psalm 23, participants are invited to understand grief not as weakness or lack of faith, but as an honest response to loss. The teaching acknowledges that trauma often involves layered and unrecognized losses, including the loss of safety, childhood, identity, and connection, and that many survivors were never given permission or tools to grieve. Instead, grief was buried in the name of survival, only to resurface later in recovery.

Through Scripture and a trauma-informed lens, this module creates space for honest lament, unresolved pain, and the slow work of healing. Participants will see how the Bible welcomes raw expression, questions, and sorrow, and how God’s presence does not remove grief but accompanies us through it. This final module emphasizes that grief and faith can coexist, that healing happens at a pace the nervous system can tolerate, and that no one walks the valley alone. Rooted in compassion and hope, it offers a gentle invitation to rise from ashes, allowing grief to move us toward restoration, connection, and renewed life with God.