Karen DeArmond Gardner
Author ~ Speaker ~ Advocate
Karen is a certified advocate who provides emotional support for domestic abuse survivors. Walking with survivors through hell as they discover how to reframe what is normal and real after leaving, or being left. Learning how to move from hopelessness to hope and from death to life through mentoring and inner healing.
“Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell.” C.T. Studd
“When you’re ging through hell, surround yourself with people who’ve been through hell.” Patrick Weaver
Survivors ask:
- Am I the abuser?
- Am I crazy?
- Why did he abuse me?
- Why do I miss him?
- What if he can change?
- Why don’t my family and friends believe me?
- Why doesn’t anyone confront him?
- Is it my fault?
- Did I fail?
- Will God hate me if I get a divorce?
Survivors desperately need to know they are seen, heard, and believed.
God loves us more than he hates divorce and God loves us more than He loves the institution of marriage.
God hates abuse (Proverbs 6:16 – 19; Titus 1:15 – 16).
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
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
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
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.
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