Karen DeArmond Gardner
Karen DeArmond Gardner – Did you see or hear my interview with Focus on the Family? In the Menu bar above, click on Another One Free for my message to you. 

Karen survived 30+ years of abuse, walked out with her soul intact, and now spends her time flipping tables—spiritually, emotionally, and occasionally metaphorically in church lobbies.

Pastoral Trauma Coach. Advocate. Author.

Professional narrative disruptor.

She doesn’t whisper about abuse, she drags it into the light, names it, and refuses to let it hide behind scripture, marriage vows, or “just pray harder.”

She speaks fluent coercive control, calls out spiritual manipulation on sight, and has zero tolerance for theology that protects abusers and sacrifices women.

Equal parts compassion and holy fire. She will sit with you in the wreckage and burn down every lie that told you to stay there.

If it costs your safety, your sanity, or your soul… she’s not calling it love.

And she’s definitely not calling it God.

Welcome to Another One Free, where freedom isn’t just a verse, it’s a line in the sand.

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Book, abuse, healing

Award Winning Book

Hope for Healing from Domestic Abuse

Karen DeArmond Gardner understands the difficulties and realities of leaving an abusive marriage. Learning the facts of what happened to her didn’t help. Not knowing healing was an option, she assumed she had to live with the pain.

Now she knows the liberating truth: domestic abuse doesn’t have to be a life sentence. She wrote the book she needed when she left. 

This isn’t a how-to book with a few easy steps. By sharing her own history, as well as the faithfulness of God as she healed from the one who harmed her.

Karen helps readers:

  • discover life beyond abuse
  • recognize God’s relentless pursuit of their heart
  • gain courage to release the trauma of their past
  • regain life, hope, and wholeness in Jesus’s healing love
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I have never suffered from domestic abuse. This book educated me, teaching me all the signs to look out for, and many tools for how to love someone who might be stuck, or getting the courage to leave an abusive situation. I think every pastor, teacher, and business leader should read this book.

– Mrs. S

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Karen’s book is a work birthed out of the practical experience of the author written with knowledge, wisdom, compassion, and grace. But it is more than an enlightening experience. It offers solutions rooted in Biblical truths that educate and facilitate healing to the wounded soul. 

– Mr. W

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My first impression was that it might not be very well written and a little too Polly Anna, but it repeatedly resonated with my experience, and provided major breakthrough, when I read, “You are not responsible for his darkness.”

– Robin S. 

When It’s Abuse; Love Doesn’t Look Away

When It’s Abuse; Love Doesn’t Look Away

by | Oct 15, 2025 | , ,

When someone you love is trapped in an abusive relationship, it’s hard to know what to do. You see the fear in their eyes, the tension in their voice, and the way they defend the person who’s hurting them. Every instinct in you wants to either step in and fix it or step back and protect yourself. But there’s another way — one that keeps love at the center even when you feel powerless: showing up.

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