Body & Soul, Healed & Whole:

An Invitational Guide to Healthy Sexuality After Trauma, Abuse, & Coercive Control

If you’re a survivor of sexual harm, recovering your sexuality is possible. You are worthy of good care.

This book is a lifeline for Christian women who need an honest path to healing after her sexuality has been shattered by harm.

Releases Tuesday, 01 April 2025

With honest wisdom and empathetic understanding, Body & Soul, Healed & Whole will help you discover how to:

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    Process your story of abuse—whether it occurred as a child, within marriage, or by someone in a position of power—without shame,

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    Develop healthy relationships with God, with ourselves, and with others (including those of the opposite sex)

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    Reconnect with your good body and establish a foundation for healthy sexuality, whether currently married or single

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    Identify and address any spiritual abuse that may have taken place within sexually abusive relationships

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    Understand what arousal structures are, how they’re formed and distorted by abuse, and how to shift them when needed for healing.

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    Incorporate practical skills for self-care during your healing process

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  • The message our hearts have needed all along.

    Body & Soul, Healed & Whole is the message our hearts have needed all along. What a powerful resource. This book is for you. It’s for your mother, your sister, your friend. It’s for a world of women who, for far too long, have had to carry the burden of their physical, emotional, and sexual trauma alone. You are not alone.

    YOLANDA HARPER, LCSW, trauma and relationship therapist, TEDx speaker, author of Soul Sabbatical

  • A practical & essential guide

    My friend Tabitha Westbrook’s work, as well as her own personal story, grants her deep empathy and qualifies her to point the way toward healing and wholeness—in both body and soul. This book is a practical and essential guide for those whose sexuality has been shattered and for those of us who care for them.

    GREG WILSON, DEdMin, LPC-S, coauthor of When Home Hurts

  • A lifeline for women

    Tabitha Westbrook offers a pathway to healing that is deeply compassionate and rooted in biblical truth. Body & Soul, Healed & Whole is a lifeline for women who have been wounded and silenced, longing to break free from the chains of abuse and embrace the abundant life Jesus offers.

    CHRIS MOLES, pastor and author of The Heart of Domestic Abuse

  • Deeply compassionate

    Tabitha Westbrook combines her own story of survival with her vast knowledge and experience as a Christian therapist to help survivors of abuse engage with the difficult topics of sex and sexuality. This book is deeply compassionate and handles a difficult topic with straightforward but careful language. Any female abuse survivor who struggles to find a healthy and God-honoring view of sexuality will find hope and practical guidance from this book.

    BETH M. BROOM, LPC-S, executive director of Christian Trauma Healing Network and contributing author in Caring for Families Caught in Domestic Abuse