Sacred Wound

The Sacred Wound is a raw, unflinching memoir that exposes what happens when faith becomes a weapon and love becomes a cage. LaBrina J. Nettles pulls readers into the haunting intimacy of her survival-growing up in the pews of a Southern Baptist church, molded by doctrine, and later entangled in an abusive relationship with a man who hid his violence behind the language of God. Through vivid storytelling and searing honesty, Nettles dismantles the illusion of holy love and reveals how spiritual abuse seeps into the mind, body, and nervous system how trauma can masquerade as devotion, and how healing demands both rebellion and grace. Blending memoir, theology, and psychological insight, The Sacred Wound is more than a personal story it s a reckoning. It s for every woman who was told her suffering was sacred, for every believer who dared to question the God they were given, and for every survivor learning to reclaim their body, their faith, and their truth.