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.
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.
It’s Not an Affair to Remember
We’ve been taught that David and Bathsheba had an affair.
What if it’s not true?
It Seems as Though God Doesn’t Like Women
We’ve forgotten that God created women in his image too, that he didn’t create the woman out of dirt, but He took his time to create and design her and put into her what was in Him. When we as the church consider women as less than, we are telling God that part of Him is wrong. God has both male and female attributes.
Does God Expect Women to Stay in Abusive Marriages?
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