The Soul of Healing: A Survivor's Guide to Recovery After Religious Trauma (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781250374271)

Indoctrinated from early childhood in Christian patriarchy to obey, conform, and want what others wanted for her, Tia Levings learned love and acceptance meant being someone other than herself. After years of marital and religious abuse, she escaped with her children (a story told in her memoir, A Well-Trained Wife) and thought the worst was behind her.

But that was just the beginning.

With an audacious persistence to reclaim her life, Tia set off on a 15-year path to psychological health. The result is an emotionally regulated, actualized, self-aware woman able to tell her hard story without retraumatizing herself, a woman able to reach a hand back to help others claim what's theirs. If trauma took your past, it shouldn't get your present and future too.

Through a series of personal stories, therapeutic stages, and resources built around a multi-step model, Tia Levings will guide you through the journey that helped her leave abuse, rediscover selfhood, and heal her mind, soul, and body after religious trauma --so that you can too.

Author: Tia Levings
ISBN-10: 1250374278
ISBN-13: 9781250374271
Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2026
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover