Healing Hub

For the ones who are tired of surviving
and ready for something more than coping.

The Healing Hub is not a crisis space. It is a recovery space — for people who are done managing their pain and ready to understand it, name it, and walk through it. Together.

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Why this is not like the other things you've tried

It is not therapy.
But it is therapeutic.

Joy is not a licensed therapist. She is something rarer — a woman who has been healed of the very things she now helps others heal, sitting at the intersection of neuroscience, trauma healing, and theology. This is the bridge many people need to get to the place where clinical care can actually work.

It is not a church program.
But it is deeply rooted in Scripture.

The people who come here are often the ones who left church, sit quietly broken inside of it — or were never found by it. This ministry meets them before they are ready for Sunday morning. And walks with them until they are.

It is not another motivational platform.
It is a healing ecosystem.

Joy has built something comprehensive — not a single offering, but a full road. Personal healing. Marital healing. Community healing. Economic healing. Because real restoration is not a sermon. It is a journey.

The Hub is different. Intentionally.

Churches lose them. Programs lose them. Relationships lose them. Not because they are impossible to love — but because most environments were built for people who are further along in their healing than this audience is allowed to be.

The Healing Hub is a place for the ones who are still learning how to stay. Still learning how to be seen. Still learning how to name what they carry without being swallowed by shame.

No performance required. No having-it-together prerequisite. No timeline.

Just truth, community, and the real work of becoming whole.

Here, you will find

Healing groups facilitated by Joy and other trained facilitators — in person and online.

A community of people who understand the fog, the exits, and the shame.

Neuroscience-informed, theologically rooted tools for lasting recovery.

Resources for every stage — from "I don't even understand what's wrong" to "I'm ready to help others."

A safe place for the shame you have never been able to say out loud.

Find your starting place

How do you want to enter the Hub?

You do not have to know the whole road yet. You only need the next honest doorway.

"I need people who understand what I carry."

Join the Hub

Become part of a free community of people who get it — the fog, the exits, the shame. Access resources, tools, and connection at every stage of your healing journey.

"I want to sit with people who understand."

In-Person Healing Groups

Find a healing group facilitated by Joy or a trained facilitator near you. Nationally facilitated, personally held. No cost to attend.

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"I need to begin from where I am."

Online Healing Groups

Join a free online group from wherever you are. The healing is real. The community is real.

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The next step

"I feel called to help others heal."

Become a Facilitator

Anyone who has walked through the core lessons can be trained to facilitate them. You begin as a participant. In the second half of training, you apprentice — practicing facilitation as it's modeled for you. No degree required. Just a call and a willingness to be sent.

Training is open to leaders, para-ministry leaders, and anyone who feels called to this work. Certification is available at each level. Training: $150 per level.

For the ones who learned to leave

You are not a runner.
You are someone who learned, very early,
that staying was dangerous.

We know.

And we built this for you.

And if you lead a church or ministry — this is also who is sitting in your congregation. They are not difficult. They are not a problem to manage. They are people who have not yet found a room safe enough to stay in. The work below was built to help you build that room.

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For Churches & Organizations

Many churches are losing people
they were never equipped to hold.

Not because the love is absent. Because the framework is. Trauma produces patterns that are frequently misread in church environments — mislabeled, mishandled, and too often, met with responses that cause more harm than healing. Ascribe Healing Hub brings a proven, evidenced-based framework that changes that.

What your congregation is carrying

Regrettably, these individuals are often mishandled, mislabeled, misunderstood, and even demonized upon entering the church — resulting in re-traumatization rather than healing. This largely arises from a lack of training and awareness.

Relational Wounds

Trust is not a given here. Previous connections — inside and outside the church — have cost these individuals deeply. Forming and sustaining healthy relationships takes time, consistency, and a community that doesn't flinch when someone disappears and comes back.

Authority Wounds

Yielding to leadership is complicated when authority figures have previously caused harm. Scripture itself can become filtered through pain, producing a skewed understanding that takes patience and a safe environment to untangle — not correction, not doctrine alone.

Shame & Concealment

These individuals carry things they have never said out loud. The tendency to hide — their history, their feelings, their true state — is not deception. It is self-protection. Authentic connection cannot happen until the community is safe enough to hold what is revealed.

Fear of Rejection

The room feels dangerous before anything has even happened. They stand at the edge, go quiet, sit alone. What looks like disinterest or pride is almost always the weight of previous rejection — still active in the body, still making decisions before the mind has a chance to catch up.

The Framework

Healing the Wounds of Trauma

The central framework behind every Ascribe healing group is Healing the Wounds of Trauma: How the Church Can Help — an evidenced-based, participatory healing program developed by the Trauma Healing Institute (THI) in partnership with the American Bible Society. Built over more than 20 years, tested in war zones and communities across every continent, and available in over 150 languages, it is one of the most widely-used trauma healing frameworks in the world.

At its core, the THI method integrates biblical truth with mental health principles — not as parallel tracks, but as one road. It brings people together in a safe, structured group environment led by trained facilitators, using a participatory model that engages the whole person: mind, emotion, and body. It does not require literacy. It does not require a seminary degree. It requires a trained facilitator and a room safe enough to begin.

Joy is an advanced certified facilitator through THI and the American Bible Society. She brings this framework into churches, shelters, civic organizations, and any community that permits a faith-based model of recovery.

The six core lessons

If God loves us, why do we suffer?

What is a wound of the heart?

What can help our heart wounds heal?

What happens when someone is grieving?

Bringing our pain to the cross

How can we forgive others?

Optional modules include: Moral Injury · Sexual Assault · Domestic Abuse · Healing for Children · Healing for Teens · Suicide · Caring for the Caregiver. Core and optional lessons may be used as standalone or integrated curriculum.

How We Work With You

The Convening Model

We do not install a program and leave. We train your leaders to carry it — so the healing continues long after we are gone.

The Convening Session

We begin with the leadership team. A facilitated interest meeting where your leaders experience one of the core lessons firsthand — not as observers, but as participants. This is an invitation for them to see what it feels like to be in a room where healing is possible, so they can envision what that room could mean for their congregation. Leaders who have been through the work lead the work. The convening is where that begins.

Leader Training & Certification

Once leadership decides to adopt the framework, training opens — to pastors, ministry leaders, para-ministry leaders, and anyone who feels called to this work. You begin as a participant in the core lessons. In the second half, you apprentice — practicing facilitation as it's modeled for you. Certification is available at each level. Training: $150 per level. Healing groups for participants are always free.

Multiplication

The goal is never dependency on Ascribe. It is multiplication. Trained leaders train others. Communities become equipped. The framework spreads the way the gospel does — not through a single voice, but through a sent community that carries what it has received. This model works especially well with missions and missional churches, because healed hearts make it easier to carry the gospel.

Who we serve

Churches & Bible Study Groups Men's & Women's Ministries Missions & Missional Churches Women's Shelters Veterans Administration Men's Shelters Prison Ministries Disaster Recovery Civic Organizations Social Service Referrals

Available to any organization that permits a faith-based model of recovery and trauma healing.

Ready to bring this to your community?

The framework exists. The training is available.
Your community is ready — even if they don't know it yet.

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For the ones who are tired of surviving and ready for something more than coping.