Date: 22 September, 2025
As a child, Lisa Phillips already endured her parent’s divorce. Then later, she endured the unthinkable. She was rejected by her own mother, who had relapsed back into the chaos of untreated mental illness.As Lisa watches her mother’s temperament descend into unmanaged anger, bitterness, revenge, and destructive behaviors, Lisa’s autonomy, the right to think, feel, express, and interpret events and experiences, was stolen through emotional invalidation, scapegoating, and gaslighting.Despite the confusion, the source, and the ambiguity surrounding her mother’s hostility, unloving actions, and the lack of a grace-filled home, Lisa’s yearning to have that coveted mother-daughter relationship propels her into...