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Scripture, trauma-healing helps, and simple practices we trust, most of them free. Take what serves you, and pass it on.
YouVersion Bible
The Bible on your phone in over a thousand languages, with reading plans for grief, fear, and hope. Works offline.
bible.com → PDF & e-book · freeDownloadable Bibles
Whole Bibles as free PDF and e-book files you can keep, print, and share, including the public-domain World English Bible.
ebible.org → Printed helps · freeABS Free Resources
Free Scripture resources from the American Bible Society: portions, booklets, and study helps.
bibles.com →The Healing Toolkit
Our own six-module, trauma-informed guide, written for the wounds medicine cannot reach. Free to anyone who asks.
Receive it → Groups & methodsTrauma Healing Institute
Bible-based trauma healing used around the world, including materials behind the well-known “Healing the Wounds of Trauma.”
traumahealinginstitute.org → BooksTrauma-Healing Editions
Bibles and workbooks designed for trauma healing, from the American Bible Society's dedicated collection.
Browse the collection →Journaling the wound
Grief that stays in the chest grows heavier. Writing it down is one of the oldest healing practices Scripture models; a third of the Psalms are laments. The practice we teach is three lines a day:
- Write the day. One honest sentence about what happened.
- Write the wound. One sentence about what it did to you, anger and doubt included. God has heard worse from His psalmists.
- Write one verse. Copy a single line of Scripture by hand, slowly. Start with Psalm 34:18.
A printable journaling companion to the toolkit is being written now, page by page, as a true companion volume; it will be announced on the Updates page the day it is ready. Until then, any notebook is enough, or write to me and I will send you the one-page guide.
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