You’ve carried the emotional pain and scars long enough.
It’s time to find a better way to heal.
Where Faith Meets Therapy to Help You Heal from the Inside Out
Healing is like working with clay. Messy at first, but rich with possibility. The same pressure that once felt painful can, with faith and grace, begin shaping you into something stronger.
If you’ve ever wondered why faith alone hasn’t eased the ache inside, you’re not alone. These books offer compassionate guidance to help you understand your story and heal emotional wounds. There really is a better way to heal.
Faith-Based Therapy Books from Trauma Therapist Eleanor L. Brown, LPC
Each book below is designed to help you understand your story and move you toward healing that feels safe for both your heart and your faith.
Faith doesn’t erase emotional pain. It gives us a foundation to heal it.
A Better Way: Integrating Faith and Psychology to Heal Inner Wounds
You love God, but you still feel stuck. You pray, journal, and tell yourself to “let it go,” but peace still feels far away. A Better Way helps you understand why.
This book bridges the gap between faith and emotional health, guiding you to see how old wounds and unspoken pain shape your present. You’ll learn how to find safety in your faith again without shame, without pretending, and without losing yourself.
Each chapter blends Scripture, real-world insights, and evidence-based tools that help you move from simply surviving to thriving. Healing isn’t about trying harder. Healing is about finding freedom and steady peace through a renewed mind and heart.
Healing starts with compassion and grace.
From awareness to action. Your step-by-step journey toward freedom.
A Better Way: The Companion Guide - Your 8 - Week Path of Healing
Healing takes time, but it doesn’t have to feel overwhelming. The Companion Guide walks with you through eight intentional weeks of reflection and growth, helping you apply the principles from A Better Way to your daily life.
Each week invites you to slow down, notice what’s happening beneath the surface, and take small, steady steps toward healing. You’ll explore the BETTER Framework, beginning to notice, educating yourself, taking down walls, transforming, establishing, and rising up, through Scripture, journaling prompts, and practical tools that nurture both faith and resilience.
This is your space to process what hurts, rediscover your voice, and practice a gentler way of being. Whether you use it alone or with a group, The Companion Guide helps you not just understand healing, but live it.
Walk the 8-week path from surviving to thriving.
When shame tells you you’re not enough, it’s time to tell a different story.
From Surviving to Thriving: Overcoming Shame with Faith and Healing
Shame keeps us small, silent, and second-guessing ourselves. The Shame Workbook helps you understand how those beliefs take root—and how to replace them with truth and compassion. Through guided reflections, practical exercises, and faith-available insights drawn from the BETTER Framework, you’ll begin to move from self-condemnation to confidence, from fear to freedom.
Whether you’re just beginning your healing journey or continuing the work you started in A Better Way, this workbook will help you recognize the lies shame tells and step into the steady peace of knowing your worth.
Heal the roots of shame and rediscover who you were created to be.
What People are Saying About A Better Way
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Larry Brown
“Honestly, I thought this book was for women … I knew traumatic events had occurred in my life, but I hadn’t recognized the little ‘t’ traumas—those unmet needs over time... This book provides insight into the causes of how I currently feel, think, and act, and offers tools to continue the journey of healing….
The healing steps helped me connect my current struggles to unmet needs in the past and offered practical ways to get unstuck.
This book adds 'works' to your 'faith,' whether your faith is in health professionals, God, or another source... Faith is good, but adding works is essential…”
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Chanell Smith
“l picked up your book and couldn't put it down yesterday. l read straight from ch.1 to ch.5.
I know so many lives will be changed and restored due to your openness and transparency.
It is totally amazing!
I can hardly wait to pick it back up!!!
To God be all the GLORY!!!
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Jenn Witt
“Elly, I just finished reading your book and I LOVE everything about it. It’s so interesting how you’ve integrated Maslow’s hierarchy and Bible verses that create God’s hierarchy.
I look forward to continuing to study this book, completing some of the ‘healing steps’ and passing this information along to some of my clients, friends, and colleagues. Thanks for sharing, it has been a blessing to read!”
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Jonathan Prudholme
“I just finished reading “A Better Way” and I really enjoyed it. Thank you for being transparent by sharing your testimony. I, myself, have gone through trauma growing up. My father abused me … It definitely took its toll on me as a young adult in my 20s (2001-2010). I came to Christ in 2008 and a year later He began the healing process through a restoration ministry 2009-2012). Over the years I thought I was completely healed, but I was not. Recently I began counseling so I can allow God to transform my thinking process.
When you advertised your book, I said to myself, “I should read it!” I knew dealing with trauma was what God was speaking to me about.
Your book is motivating and insightful. I will reference your book to try new things to help with the healing process. Thank you for obeying the voice of the Lord. We love you and miss you.”
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Catherine Camp
“Spending Labor Day reading a book written by a friend. It’s no secret I have fibromyalgia, it is at times completely debilitating. I’m learning that a lot of it is to do with emotional trauma and toxic stress. I speak this not only to make others aware but to hold myself accountable on my healing journey.
I WILL get there and God will receive all the glory. Here is to a better me. Thank you Elly for trusting and acting upon God’s plan for your life. If you would like one of these books please message me.”
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Stephanie McNeill
“I finished reading your book today! It was informative, insightful, and inspiring. I’m excited to see where your journey continues to take you.”
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Jacinta Walker
“Overcoming vulnerabilities and insecurities, Elly’s desire to assist others on a healing journey has been inspiring. A Better Way has been invaluable as I interact daily with students and peers. Understanding the pain of trauma in others has presented opportunities for personal growth and acknowledgment that God can heal using His Word and people.”
Dear Reader,
I’m truly grateful for your curiosity and willingness to join me on this journey. Writing "A Better Way" has been a deeply meaningful journey for me, allowing me to explore the depths of faith and psychology to heal inner wounds. My hope is that through these pages, you find comfort, clarity, and practical tools to help you move from simply surviving to thriving.
I’m honored that you’re inviting my words into your healing process. Your willingness to learn and reflect brings this work to life. You’re not alone on this path. Together, we can find a better way.
~Eleanor