What Is Restored?
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Whether you’ve just come across Restored, or you’ve been following us for a while, a little introduction never hurts. So if you’ve ever wondered ‘what is Restored?’ or ‘how does Restored help people from broken families?’, this article is for you.
WHAT IS RESTORED (RestoredMinistry.com)?
Restored is a ministry that serves teens and young adults from broken families. Our mission is to give children of divorce practical guidance on how to heal from the trauma of their parents’ divorce, so they can feel whole again. Our founder, Joey Pontarelli, started Restored because of the pain he experienced when his own parents divorced when he was 11 years old. Searching for help, he was shocked at the lack of resources for young people from broken families. Years later, he began Restored to help meet the needs of this population.
HOW DOES RESTORED (RestoredMinistry.com) HELP YOUNG PEOPLE FROM BROKEN FAMILIES?
Restored gives teens and young adults from broken families practical guidance to heal from the trauma of their parents’ divorce. This is primarily done in three ways: coaching, content, and community.
COMMUNITY: Restored offers a free and private online community for teens and young adults from broken families. This allows them a space to share openly about the struggles they are experiencing, and receive advice and empathy in return. In this way they can get the support they need for the difficulty they are experiencing and become stronger people.
COACHING: Restored has a free national referral network of counselors and spiritual directors that are vetted and trusted to help meet the specific needs of this population. These one-on-one sessions will help children from divorced families process the trauma they have experienced, and work through the deep-rooted effects that often come as a result.
CONTENT: Restored offers content through the Restored podcast and blog, as well as talks in churches, schools, and universities across the country. Restored content includes coping tactics for managing the pain from your parents’ divorce, evidence-based steps to heal the brokenness, time-tested ways to build a thriving and divorce-proof marriage, and practical tools that take the confusion and obstacles out of healing.
Restored also recently published a book, It’s Not Your Fault: A Practical Guide to Navigating the Pain and Problems from Your Parents’ Divorce. This book covers questions such as: “I struggle with low self-esteem. How can I become more confident?”, and “How do I avoid repeating my parents’ mistakes, and build a healthy marriage?”, as well as “What is grieving and how does it work?”. In a simple Q&A format, this short read addresses the problems that children of divorced parents often face as well as simple, science-based strategies to help overcome them and find healing.
WHY RESTORED?
Although often overlooked, teens and young adults from broken families have serious problems. Children of divorce are more likely to:
Struggle in romantic relationships
Get divorced
Struggle in relationships with their parents
Attempt suicide
Experience emotional problems like depression, anxiety, and loneliness.
Struggle with low self-esteem
Experience health and social problems
Restored is the only non-profit organization that is exclusively dedicated to helping teens and young adults heal from the trauma of their parents’ divorce. The founder and employees have experience with this type of pain and so are well-equipped to understand and address it.
WHERE TO START?
If you are looking for help with healing from the trauma of your parents’ divorce, you’re in the right place. To begin your healing journey, you can fill out the intake form for the coaching network, order a copy of the Restored guide to healing, join the community of people who are facing similar struggles, or check out the podcast that covers a multitude of topics from healing to relationships to growing in virtue.
HOW CAN I HELP?
If you are interested in supporting our mission, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to our non-profit organization, or contact us for more ways to help.
Regardless of where you are in your healing journey, we want to help. Together we can undo the cycle of divorce and dysfunction.
