Grace, extended to yourself.
Grace means extending favor. We help you extend that grace to yourself — because healing takes time, and giving yourself that time is how confidence comes back.
A small group of survivors, led by survivors.
This is healing ground. You are welcome here.
Recovery isn't one program — it's a toolbox. Peer Support is the tool we're using right now.
We're forming our very first group now — planned for mid-January 2027.
We connect, learn, and reflect together — no pressure to retell or explain what happened to you. Just space to hear your own voice again, at your own pace.
We do not rush healing. We do not require storytelling. We do not define people by what they endured.
Your story belongs to you. We're here to help you write your next chapter.
There's a seat for you.
Restoring confidence, security, and independence to survivors of intimate partner violence.
Through survivor-led support, connection, and community partnership, we create pathways for survivors to rebuild confidence, strengthen independence, and move forward with greater choice.
Learn How We're Building ThisImmediate safety matters. But reaching safety is not the end of rebuilding.
Life after abuse can involve rebuilding confidence, identity, relationships, boundaries, financial stability, community, decision-making, and a sense of what comes next. Graceful Confidence is being built for that next chapter.
We create supportive pathways where healing unfolds with dignity, choice, and time.
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Crisis Response
Meets the emergency. Gets a survivor to safety.
Graceful Confidence
Meets what comes after. Walks alongside the years of rebuilding.
Together
We work alongside shelters, law enforcement, and counselors — not in place of them.
Founded in September 2023.
We are a community. It begins with you. We're survivor-led, virtual, and volunteer-run today, with a founding board we're actively growing.
Some of our work happens through partnerships with licensed professionals.
Six pillars. Six chairs at the table.
Secure Housing, Teaching Life Skills, Restoring Confidence, Overcoming Trauma, Changing Patterns, Gaining Independence — six chairs gathered around one table, each pillar built through partnership, not alone.
What happens after survival?
Graceful Confidence is a survivor-led, volunteer-run nonprofit — built and led by people who've lived and are surviving what our participants are living now.
Debbie Barentine founded Graceful Confidence from lived experience. After leaving an abusive marriage, she discovered that reaching safety was only the beginning. The years that followed involved rebuilding confidence, identity, relationships, boundaries, and a sense of what came next.
Graceful Confidence grew from a question shaped by that experience: what happens after survival? Survivor leadership remains central to how this organization is built and led.
This work needs a community behind it.
Your time, your talent, or your treasure — see all the ways to help build what Graceful Confidence is becoming.
Join the remodel crew.
Confidence House has been gifted to Graceful Confidence and will become our first home for programs and gatherings. Renovation has not yet been scheduled, and we're accepting volunteer help right now to get it ready. Tell us how you'd like to help, and we'll reach out.
We'll only use your information to contact you about the Confidence House remodel.
Help create what comes next.
Your gift helps Graceful Confidence build survivor-led Peer Support and the resources that make connection, reflection, and rebuilding possible. After survival, we walk with you — your generosity helps make that walk possible.
Give NowGraceful Confidence is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Gifts are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. We're honest about where we are, and where your gift goes. Gifts support our charitable programs and mission, including the development of Peer Support and future survivor-centered programming.