The Protect+ Relationships Series
Four workbooks that grow with your child from age 4 to 17, and a two-volume guide for adults. Clear, honest lessons on spotting red flags early and knowing what safe, healthy love looks like.
Leading a school, church, or group? Bring Protect+ to your group.
Why It Matters
Many abusive situations seem harmless at first. They start with small red flags that are easy to miss or explain away. Love bombing, guilt, secrecy, and gaslighting are just a few.
Some unsafe people appear charming, caring, and deeply understanding. That is what makes these patterns so hard to see, and why learning about boundaries, empathy, honesty, and self-trust matters at any age. The sooner, the better.
The Books
Each workbook covers the same core ideas at a level your child is ready for. Older books build on earlier lessons and add new red flags, boundaries, and skills.
Littles · Ages 4 to 6
Simple stories and pictures help little ones tell real kindness from tricky kindness. Gentle lessons on feelings, honesty, saying "no," and who to tell when something feels wrong.
Kids · Ages 7 to 9
Kids learn to notice bossy, jealous, and put-down patterns in friendships and families. They practice the respect, loyalty, and confidence that healthy connections are built on.
Preteens · Ages 10 to 12
As friendships get more complicated, preteens learn to name red flags like jealousy, being cut off, and having their name smeared. They learn to set boundaries that protect their self-worth.
Teens · Ages 13 to 17
A self-guided workbook for friendships, relationships, and online life. Teens learn to read coercion, isolation, and image-over-reality, and the signals of a relationship worth keeping.
For adults · In the works
The Complete Guide to Narcissistic, Emotionally Abusive & Toxic Relationships is a two-volume guide for adults. It focuses on behaviors, not diagnoses. It names the tactics that keep people confused, hooked, and stuck, so you can see them clearly and they lose their power.
Volume 1
Recognize the patterns. Learn how harmful people build attachment, protect a fragile image, twist reality, and take control. Then understand why it is so hard to see from the inside.
Volume 2
Living, leaving, and healing. The red flags that escalate into isolation, fear, smear campaigns, and financial or spiritual control. Then the practical steps to protect yourself and get free.
Every red flag is marked by how serious it is
The Protect+ App · Coming soon
A private companion that helps you learn the patterns and make sense of the relationships in your own life.
Coming first to iPhone, with Android to follow.
Red flag of the day
Gaslighting
You clearly remember them yelling at you last night. Today they say it never happened and you're "too sensitive." What's going on?
Maybe I remembered it wrong This could be gaslighting It's only a problem if it happens a lot ContinueCommunity · Coming soon
A private community for survivors of toxic relationships and narcissistic abuse. Join workshops on spotting red flags, hear exclusive podcast episodes, and connect with others in a members' forum. You don't have to figure this out alone.
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For adults · Coming soon
Surviving Toxic Relationships, Narcissism & Cults
True stories of life with narcissists, from family and friendships to work, faith, and cults. A trauma bond can pull like an addiction. This show is about seeing it clearly and breaking free. From Protect+.
Get launch updatesSurvivor Stories
Read real stories from people who have lived through toxic relationships, narcissistic abuse, and cults. Every story is read personally and shared only with permission. You choose whether to stay anonymous.
Workshops & Speaking · Coming soon
Protect+ works with groups and organizations to help adults and youth recognize harmful patterns, set healthy boundaries, and protect themselves in every kind of relationship: at home, at work, in faith communities, and online.
Interactive sessions for organizations, businesses, support groups, churches, and schools. Adults and youth leave knowing how to spot red flags, respond to manipulation, and set boundaries that hold.
Talks for conferences, businesses, organizations, churches, support groups, schools, and community events. Topics include narcissistic abuse, coercive control, cults and high-control groups, and raising kids who know their worth.
Coaching · Coming soon
Private coaching for adults working through a toxic relationship or healing from narcissistic abuse, and for parents and caregivers helping a child through one. All sessions are on Zoom, so you can join from anywhere.
Rates are shared on your free intro call.
Coaching is not therapy or counseling. If you need a therapist or are in danger, we'll help point you to the right support.
Contact
Questions about the books, the app, or bulk orders? Send us a note. To book a workshop or talk for a group, use the group request form. For one-on-one support, see Coaching.
Author & Founder
"My hope is that you will learn what I wish I had known before the damage was done. Not so you become afraid of people, but so you become equipped."
Sarah's work begins with her own story. Over the years she faced harmful people in nearly every part of life: a cult, marriage, dating, friendships, the workplace, family, and even next door. Getting out of one unhealthy relationship often left her more vulnerable to the next.
The hardest part was that the danger rarely looked dangerous. The people who hurt her most often seemed generous and caring at first. Her instincts tried to warn her, but she doubted them and blamed herself instead.
In 2017, learning how human trafficking works helped her make sense of her years in a cult. She began working against trafficking and online exploitation, and since 2019 has studied narcissism, emotional abuse, and high-control groups.
Everywhere she looked, she found the same playbook: in cults, trafficking, online exploitation, and domestic violence. She built Protect+ to share the lessons she needed years ago, so others can see the warning signs sooner.
Sarah is also a filmmaker and writer, with a B.F.A. in Film and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Full Sail University, and an M.A. in English and Creative Writing (Screenwriting) from Southern New Hampshire University.
A Healthy Male Perspective & the Protect+ App
"For years I let my ex-spouse and my religion push me around, pretending everything was okay and holding on to their promises. They took what they wanted, one lie and broken promise at a time, until I was almost completely erased. Leaving both opened the way to a new freedom, and now I stand my ground with clear, firm boundaries."
James knows firsthand what it takes to walk away from a high-demand religion and rebuild a life on his own terms. He is still walking the long road of co-parenting after divorce, and he has a special heart for parents facing high-conflict co-parenting.
He and Sarah co-hosted a small church group for people healing from spiritual and emotional abuse. Together they discovered what it takes to create a truly safe space, and they designed and led a curriculum to help people recognize who is safe and learn to trust again.
Today, James works alongside Sarah on Protect+ workshops and speaking events. He designs, builds, and runs the Protect+ app, and he brings a healthy male perspective to the Protect+ podcast, community, and social media.
