Emotional & Mental Health Books
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality teaches that true spiritual maturity requires emotional growth, guiding readers to recognize unhealthy patterns, embrace grief, and cultivate a grounded relationship with Jesus for lasting transformation.
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry urges slowing down to combat busyness and stress, offering practical guidance for intentional living, emotional health, and spiritual vitality amid modern life’s pressures.
Retrain Your Brain provides a 7-week CBT-based plan to manage anxiety and depression, offering practical exercises, goal-setting, and habit-building to identify negative thoughts and foster lasting mental health improvements.
Overcoming Self-Hatred helps readers confront self-criticism and low self-esteem, offering hope through faith in Christ to reject destructive patterns, embrace God-given identity, and experience lasting transformation.
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made reveals the human body’s intricate design, blending anatomy, storytelling, and faith to show how physical systems reflect God’s wisdom, spiritual truths, and the unity of the Body of Christ.
John Ortberg’s Steps blends Jesus’ teachings and the twelve steps to show how surrender, spiritual practices, and community bring lasting transformation when willpower fails, freeing people for joyful, authentic, connected living.
A practical parenting guide using neuroscience to explain children’s behavior and offer twelve strategies that integrate emotions and logic, transforming everyday conflicts into opportunities for healthy brain development and connection.
Alan Noble’s essay reflects on the hidden struggles of everyday life—sorrow, anxiety, and mental illness—highlighting how simple daily choices, like getting out of bed, can become acts of resilience and a witness to the goodness of God amid suffering.
In The Book of Forgiving, Desmond and Mpho Tutu offer a practical guide to healing through forgiveness. Drawing on South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation experience, they outline a fourfold path—admit, witness, forgive, and renew—to break cycles of pain and embrace personal and collective transformation.
Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing is a ground-breaking resource that explores the "why" behind self-destructive sexual choices.
Chip Dodd’s The Voice of the Heart helps readers understand their hearts and emotions—hurt, lonely, sad, anger, fear, shame, guilt, and glad—to live fully in relationships with others and God. Through self-awareness and spiritual insight, it guides toward authentic, gospel-centered living.
In Beautiful People Don’t Just Happen, Scott Sauls guides readers to freedom from regret, hurt, and fear, drawing on his pastoral experience and personal struggles. He offers practical, gospel-centered tools to embrace hope, emotional health, contentment, and God’s transformative grace in everyday life.
Relational Health Books
Atlas of the Heart explores 87 emotions and human experiences, offering language, research, and practical tools to understand ourselves and others, fostering meaningful connection, courage, and choice in how we live and relate.
Boundaries teaches the importance of setting clear limits for emotional health and healthy relationships, offering practical, biblically grounded guidance to navigate modern challenges and live wisely and lovingly.
Justin Whitmel Earley shows how God designed us for deep friendship, using habits, vulnerability, research, and biblical wisdom to overcome loneliness and build meaningful, covenantal, life-giving relationships that truly last.
In The Soul of Desire, Curt Thompson explores how trauma and shame distort our God-given desire to be known and create beauty. Blending neuroscience and spiritual formation, he shows how community, imagination, and faith can restore longing, reveal identity, and bring beauty from brokenness.
The Deep-Rooted Marriage helps couples transform past wounds into healing, fostering intimacy, emotional safety, and joy through humility, honesty, and intentional practices that strengthen marriage and reflect God’s design.
Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott’s Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts provides couples with practical tools, exercises, and the SYMBIS Assessment to build strong, lasting marriages. Covering communication, conflict resolution, finances, intimacy, and personality insights, it equips couples to launch and sustain lifelong love.
Timothy and Kathy Keller’s The Meaning of Marriage offers a biblically grounded, insightful guide to marriage, challenging modern myths about romance and soulmates. It teaches that marriage, designed by God, deepens our joy, love, and connection with Him, providing practical wisdom for lasting, meaningful relationships.
Spiritual Health Books
John Ortberg’s book explores the neglected health of the soul, emphasizing that true spiritual depth—not material success—satisfies. Through practical, story-driven guidance, he helps readers connect with God, nurture their inner life, and move from shallow faith to lasting spiritual vitality.
Toxic Faith examines how religion can become harmful when used for control or avoidance, highlighting legalism, fear, and manipulation, while guiding readers back to a balanced, genuine, and life-giving relationship with God.
Neil Anderson’s Victory Over the Darkness helps Christians renew minds through Scripture, resist lies, embrace identity in Christ, and walk in freedom, confidence, and spiritual growth grounded in truth daily.
Grief & Trauma Books
Walking with God through Pain and Suffering explores why suffering exists and how to respond, offering biblical wisdom and personal insights to find meaning, hope, and deeper trust in God amid life’s trials.
How the Soul Grows through Loss guides readers to transform grief into spiritual growth, compassion, and deeper appreciation for life, offering wisdom from personal tragedy and practical guidance for healing and meaning.
Dan Allender and Cathy Loerzel guide readers through healing from past wounds, showing how shame and coping mechanisms hinder wholeness. Using biblical insight and modern research, they help identify trauma archetypes, embrace God’s calling, and transform pain into purpose, hope, and freedom.
Paul David Tripp’s book offers hope amid life’s unexpected pain—loss, illness, or broken relationships—by combining personal stories, ministry experience, and biblical insights. It guides readers to trust God, avoid common traps in suffering, and embrace His promises with gospel-centered hope.
Seminal trauma work showing how traumatic experiences reshape brain and body, impairing connection and self-regulation, while presenting science-backed, relationship-centered and somatic treatments that activate neuroplastic healing and restore wholeness, hope.
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
