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Welcome to The Bride’s Return!

“If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” — John 8:36

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The Bride's Return is a Christian-based 12-step recovery and mentorship program designed to lead women into healing, wholeness, and biblical preparation for marriage by restoring their identity in Christ.
Because every woman’s healing journey is unique, there are two ways to go through the program — so you can choose the path that best fits your season and spiritual walk.
🌿 1:1 Mentorship & Group Mentorship
Both paths are flexible, accessible, and rooted in Scripture — designed to meet you right where you are and lead you closer to God’s heart and His best for your life.

WATCH THE INTRO VIDEO...



🌿 1:1 Mentorship Experience
This private track is for women who desire a more personalized, Spirit-led journey with focused support and accountability.  ​Receive personalized guidance, deeper accountability, and customized support tailored to your individual needs. This option allows you to move through the material at your own pace with private mentorship and Spirit-led encouragement.

What You’ll Receive:
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📺 Video Teachings on YouTube
Go deeper into the heart of each week’s lesson with engaging, Bible-based video teachings you can watch anytime. These lessons provide the foundation, strategies, and encouragement to help you walk in true transformation.

👑 The Kingdom Coaching Call (Private Weekly Session)
This is your sacred one-on-one space for clarity, encouragement, and breakthrough. Each week, we’ll invite the Holy Spirit to guide our conversation as we blend practical coaching with spiritual wisdom tailored to your personal journey.

Here’s what our time together will look like:
✨ Prayer & Presence – Inviting the Holy Spirit to lead and prepare our hearts.
📖 Walking Through The Bride’s Return – Applying each of the 12 steps to your unique story and healing process.
📝 Workbook Unpacking – Exploring reflection questions, insights, and revelations together.
🎨 Creative Expression – Engaging in hands-on projects to bring your growth to life.
💡 Breakthrough Coaching – Personalized strategies, accountability, and Spirit-led direction.
🌿 Empowerment – Leave each session with clarity, confidence, and peace grounded in God’s truth.

📖 The Bride’s Return Workbook
Your companion for the full journey — filled with Scripture meditations, journaling prompts, and guided exercises to help you reflect deeply between sessions. This bridges your personal walk with God and our one-on-one time together.

👉 Get the free workbook (here)
🌿 Group Mentorship Experience
This community track is for women who desire to grow together in sisterhood — learning, healing, and encouraging one another through the 12 steps in a supportive, faith-filled space.  Walk through the 12 steps alongside a supportive community of women pursuing the same transformation. In this group setting, you’ll experience shared wisdom, fellowship, prayer, and encouragement as you grow together in Christ.

What You’ll Receive:

​📺 Video Teachings on YouTube
Watch engaging, Bible-based lessons each week that lay the biblical foundation and offer practical guidance for your healing journey.

👑 The Kingdom Group Coaching Call (Weekly Group Session)
Join a weekly live call where we come together as sisters in Christ to share, reflect, and grow. Each session blends teaching, prayer, discussion, and group coaching to help you apply the principles of The Bride’s Return to your life.

Here’s what our time together will look like:
✨ Prayer & Presence – Inviting the Holy Spirit to unite and guide the group.
📖 Walking Through The Bride’s Return – Studying and applying each of the 12 steps as a community.
📝 Workbook Reflection – Sharing insights from your journaling and hearing from others’ journeys.
🎨 Creative Expression – Participating in group creative activities that deepen connection and revelation.
💡 Group Coaching & Discussion – Receiving collective wisdom, encouragement, and gentle accountability.
🌿 Empowerment – Leave each gathering uplifted, connected, and spiritually refreshed.

📖 The Bride’s Return Workbook
This workbook serves as your anchor throughout the program. It includes Scripture meditations, journaling prompts, and exercises that align with each video teaching and group session—helping you deepen your walk with God between meetings.
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👉 Get the free workbook (here)

WATCH STEPS 0, 1 & 2 here...

The 12 Steps of The Bride’s Return

  1. Preparation: Commit your heart and invite Jesus to begin His work in you.
  2. When Worth Is Misplaced: Admit seeking worth in people and things instead of Christ.
  3. The Only One Who Can Restore: Believe Jesus alone can restore your identity and sanity.
  4. Surrendering to Christ’s Lordship: Surrender your life and will fully to Jesus.
  5. Facing the Wounds & Lies: Examine your heart to uncover wounds and false beliefs.
  6. The Power of Confession: Confess sins, shame, and brokenness to God and trusted sisters.
  7. Choosing Forgiveness: Release bitterness and forgive as Christ forgave you.
  8. Making Amends: Take responsibility and make peace where God leads.
  9. Daily Heart Check: Practice ongoing self-examination and quick repentance.
  10. Living Surrendered: Seek God daily through prayer, Scripture, and surrender.
  11. Walking in Fellowship: Grow through accountability and connection with other believers.
  12. Becoming a Vessel: Share God’s work in your life by blessing and serving others.
“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in Me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit...” – John 15:5
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The Bride’s Return is a Bible-based mentorship journey designed to help women break free from the bondage of sex, love, and emotional dependency through the healing power of Jesus Christ. Inspired by the original Twelve Steps of recovery and firmly grounded in Scripture, this path weaves together both the wisdom of Christian fellowship and the transforming power of discipleship in Christ.

The only requirement for participation is a sincere desire to be set free and to walk in purity, healing, and intimacy with the Lord.
To overcome the destructive consequences of distorted love, sexual sin and emotional strongholds, we rely on five Christ-centered foundations that unite recovery principles with biblical truth:
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  1. Repentance & Sobriety in Christ
    Through the power of the Holy Spirit, we turn daily from sin and pursue purity in thought, word, and deed. Sobriety is more than abstaining from destructive behaviors — it is walking in obedience and holiness through Christ.
    “So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace...” – 2 Timothy 2:22
  2. Biblical Fellowship & Accountability
    We seek authentic relationships with believers who encourage, exhort, and walk with us in truth and grace. Through confession, prayer, sponsorship, and community, we sharpen one another in love.
    “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” – Proverbs 27:17
  3. Discipleship Through God’s Word & the Twelve Steps
    We prayerfully engage with the Twelve Steps as a framework for repentance and growth, while being firmly rooted in Scripture. By renewing our minds through God’s Word, prayer, and obedience, we are transformed into Christ’s likeness.
    “Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.” – James 5:16
  4. Serving Others in Love
    As we freely receive healing, we freely give, offering our testimony, encouragement, and service to others on the same journey.
    “Freely you have received; freely give.” – Matthew 10:8
  5. Intimacy with Christ
    Our ultimate victory comes not from steps or systems but from abiding in Jesus Himself. In Him we find our true identity, freedom, and hope, drawing near daily through prayer, worship, and surrender. 
✝️ The Blessings of The Bride's Return
"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights..." – James 1:17

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As we walk through the Twelve Steps in the light of Scripture and surrender to Jesus Christ, we experience deep healing and transformation. God, in His grace, gives us unexpected blessings—far greater than anything we could have imagined or asked for.


  • We came to know true intimacy—first with Jesus Christ, then with ourselves through His love, and finally with others in healthy, God-honoring relationships.
    “We love because He first loved us.” – 1 John 4:19
  • In our marriages and relationships, God redeemed our view of sexuality, restoring it as a sacred and joyful expression of love within His design.
    “Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure...” – Hebrews 13:4
  • In our interactions with others, we laid down selfish ambition, no longer driven by power, prestige, or control, but by humility and Christlike love.
    “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.” – Philippians 2:3
  • We no longer pursued careers solely for financial gain, but sought work that aligned with our God-given purpose, bringing both provision and fulfillment.
    “Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.” – Proverbs 16:3
  • Our past pain became part of our testimony. God used our wounds to minister healing to others, just as He had healed us.
    “He comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort others.” – 2 Corinthians 1:4
  • We found strength and joy in helping others find freedom, affirming our own recovery as we walked with others toward Christ.
    “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” – Galatians 6:2
  • We discovered that God’s love was not just something we received, but something that now flowed through us—healing, restoring, and pointing others to Jesus.
    “Whoever believes in Me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” – John 7:38
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