Recommended Books
- True spiritual maturity requires emotional maturity; one cannot exist without the other.
- Many Christians, including Pete Scazzero himself, struggle with emotionally unhealthy patterns like avoiding conflict, suppressing emotions, overworking for God, and living without limits.
- Slowing down and cultivating a personal, grounded relationship with Jesus is key to transformation.
- The updated edition serves as the foundation for the global Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Course, offering practical guidance for discipleship and growth.
- Readers learn to recognize unhealthy spirituality, embrace grief and loss as formative, and develop emotional maturity for lasting spiritual change.
- The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry makes a compelling case for slowing down and embracing a simpler, more intentional life to preserve emotional and spiritual health.
- Author John Mark Comer shares his personal struggle with inward unrest despite outward success, seeking guidance from a trusted mentor.
- The central insight is that hurry and busyness are major enemies of spiritual life, often at the root of modern toxicity.
- The book provides practical, prophetic guidance for identifying and addressing the causes of stress and chaos rather than just treating the symptoms.
- Readers are offered a roadmap to remain spiritually alive and emotionally healthy amidst the pressures of contemporary life.
- Boundaries teaches that setting clear limits is essential for emotional health, balance, and healthy relationships.
- The updated edition addresses modern challenges, including digital life, online dating, single parenting, and workplace boundaries.
- Common struggles like guilt, fear of saying “no,” and worry about hurting others are explored and addressed.
- Boundaries act as personal property lines, defining what we are and aren’t responsible for, helping us live wisely and lovingly.
- The book provides practical, biblically grounded guidance for setting healthy boundaries with family, friends, co-workers, and oneself.
- The Deep-Rooted Marriage explores how marriage can be life-giving, fostering deeper intimacy, healing, and joy.
- Past experiences and unresolved stories often create friction, but examining them can help couples rewrite a healthier narrative for the future.
- Allender and Call provide guidance to address past trauma, break cycles of shame and resentment, and build emotional safety in relationships.
- The book teaches practical attitudes and behaviors—humility, honesty, kindness, curiosity, and intentional blessing—to strengthen marital connection.
- Couples learn practices that cultivate emotional intimacy, allowing marriage to become a space of honor, delight, and reflection of God’s image.
- How the Soul Grows through Loss guides readers through healing from various forms of suffering, including illness, divorce, unemployment, disappointment, or the death of a loved one.
- The 25th anniversary edition is revised and expanded, with a new introduction and two additional chapters, including guidance for pastors and counselors.
- Jerry Sittser shares his own profound grief after losing three generations of his family in a tragic accident, modeling vulnerability and honesty.
- The book emphasizes that loss can lead to spiritual growth, deeper compassion, joy, and appreciation for ordinary life when approached with grace.
- Readers are encouraged to embrace the transformative power of grief, discovering new life and meaning even through profound pain.
- Toxic Faith explores how religion can become harmful when it is used to avoid life or control circumstances, rather than foster a genuine relationship with God.
- The book distinguishes between healthy faith and toxic religiosity, which can trap believers in legalistic, addictive, or fear-driven practices.
- It highlights how unbalanced ministries, misguided churches, and manipulative leaders can lead people away from God into despair.
- Readers are shown how toxic faith manifests as expecting God to fix every problem, prevent every hurt, or solve every conflict.
- The book offers guidance and hope for returning to a genuine, balanced faith that brings meaning, freedom, and spiritual vitality.
- Retrain Your Brain offers a structured 7-week plan using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to manage anxiety and depression.
- Dr. Seth Gillihan draws on 15 years of clinical experience to provide practical exercises that help identify and change negative thought patterns.
- Each week builds on the last, guiding readers through real-life activities to set goals, face fears, manage tasks, and develop healthier habits.
- The workbook is suitable for both chronic and occasional anxiety, making it adaptable to a variety of mental health experiences.
- Relatable examples and accessible exercises make CBT techniques easy to understand and apply, even for beginners.
- Overcoming Self-Hatred addresses the struggles of self-criticism, low self-esteem, and destructive thoughts about oneself.
- Martha Kilpatrick draws on her own life experiences, including failures and devastation, to offer a message of hope and transformation.
- The book emphasizes that self-hatred is not part of God’s plan and can be recognized, confronted, and overcome.
- Readers are encouraged to reject destructive patterns and stop allowing self-loathing to control their lives.
- Through faith in Jesus Christ, the book guides individuals toward embracing their God-given identity and becoming the person they were created to be.
- Fearfully and Wonderfully Made explores the human body as a complex, purposeful creation, highlighting the miracle of skin, bones, muscles, and bodily systems.
- Dr. Paul Brand and Philip Yancey guide readers through the intricate inner workings of the body, from cells to chemistry, revealing its remarkable design.
- The book emphasizes the spiritual significance of the body, showing how its structure reflects deeper, unseen realities and God’s eternal design.
- Through engaging stories and insights, readers gain a deeper appreciation for the human body as both physical marvel and spiritual metaphor.
- Winner of the Gold Medallion Award, the book connects anatomical knowledge with lessons about the Body of Christ and God’s purpose.
- Steps: A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough by John Ortberg offers guidance for spiritual transformation when personal effort alone falls short.
- The book addresses common addictions and attachments—love, success, comfort, control, and more—that keep us from authentic growth.
- Using Jesus’ teachings and the framework of AA’s 12 steps, Ortberg shows how to surrender control and let God work where human effort fails.
- Readers learn to understand their spiritual attachment styles, core doubts, and the role of practices like prayer, meditation, and mindfulness in lasting change.
- The book provides a roadmap for living joyfully, authentically, and in deeper connection with God and others, cultivating freedom, fellowship, and happiness.
- Made for People by Justin Whitmel Earley explores God’s design for deep, life-giving friendships and the habits that make them possible.
- The book emphasizes that loneliness points to our God-given need for connection and is contrary to how we are created to live.
- Vulnerability is presented as the foundation for authentic, lasting friendships.
- Earley provides guidance on deepening existing friendships and cultivating a lifestyle centered on meaningful relationships.
- Through personal stories, research, and biblical wisdom, readers are encouraged to overcome isolation and embrace covenantal, life-long connections.
- Victory Over the Darkness by Neil Anderson guides Christians in overcoming spiritual struggles and experiencing freedom in Christ.
- The book emphasizes the importance of internalizing Scripture’s truths as the foundation for spiritual growth and mental renewal.
- Anderson provides practical strategies for resisting Satan’s lies and living confidently in the identity Christ gives.
- Revised and expanded for a new generation, the book builds on a ministry that has impacted over a million readers.
- Central to the teaching is Christ’s promise: “You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free,” encouraging believers to embrace their full potential in Him.
Sexual Purity
MENd
MENd is a recovery ministry that helps men be strengthened in Christ, surrounded by community, and supported in their walk towards freedom from sexual abuse.
Pure Desire
At Pure Desire, we know you want to be sexually healthy. In order to do this, you need healing from the effects of unwanted sexual behavior and betrayal trauma. The problem is you are stuck in a pattern which makes you feel powerless. We believe you were designed to live a life without sexual brokenness or betrayal trauma and the effects they can have on your future. Like you, we once felt powerless, but have found freedom and healing. We now have shared this healing with hundreds of thousands of men and women around the world.
Covenant Eyes
Covenant Eyes helps you and the ones you love live porn-free through transformative accountability relationships.
Husband Material
Husband Material exists: so you can stop fighting the battle and enjoy sexuality...without porn.
Recommended Providers in DFW
Cowtown Christian Counseling
Cowtown Marriage Counseling in Forth Worth, Texas is our recommended practice if you are in the Ft Worth area. They have great expertise and experience and love helping locals with counseling. We have had a great experience working with them.
Resources for Recovery
Re:generation at Watermark in Dallas, Texas
Find freedom from all struggles, including: anxiety/depression, pornography, fear, control, substance abuse, codependency, sexual abuse, same-sex attraction, eating disorders/body image, anger, obsessive thoughts, and any other struggle that has you stuck.
Celebrate Recovery
Celebrate Recovery is for EVERYONE!
No one should have to face their pain alone.
We are a grace-filled community of strugglers who courageously enter this safe and beautiful space to get honest about our pain, and the negative ways we may see ourselves, God, and others. In this process, we come to accept that some of the habits we have developed to escape our pain may have hurt us and those close to us.
It is a biblically based approach to help us achieve long lasting recovery by healing our hurts, guiding us toward new healthy truths, and developing life-giving habits.
Steps - Citizens Church in Plano, Texas
We bring glory to God through lives changed by the gospel. The gospel is not just something we believe once and move past but is something that must continue to apply as we are changed by it. It is not only foundational but applicable to all that we do. It tells us who God is, who we are and how we should respond. Steps is a semester-long intensive discipleship program that we run three times a year. It provides us the structure and support to gain traction in our relationship with God, address unresolved issues from our past, uproot sinful patterns of coping and practice the basic principles of spiritual formation so that we become whole people living as we were intended to live.
Free Guide For Couples
