Written Off: Navigating Rejection and Faith in the Search for Love, Family, and Belonging - Hardcover

by Lisa Phillips (Author)

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 false coping mechanisms in an effort to win the parental blessing. Yet beneath the wounding and forsaken status, and the ever-present gnawing soul ache for connection and belonging, Lisa feels something stirring in her spirit: a quiet whisper of hope.

In Written Off - The Journey Begins, Lisa courageously opens the pages of her past and invites you into her raw, real, and redemptive story. It showcases the lives of three generations of mothers and daughters, and how parental rejection robbed her of her identity, joy, and purpose. What begins as a journey of loss transforms into a powerful faith journey of discovery and truth.

This is the first book in a gripping trilogy that traces the long arc from rejection to restoration. Through powerful storytelling, soul-deep reflection, and gentle truth, Lisa offers more than a memoir; she offers a mirror for your own healing journey.

• Understanding the spiritual link between trauma and a spirit of rejection.
• Learn what emotional encroachment means and why it erodes childhood identity.
• Discover how our enemy, Satan, uses footholds and strongholds to gain entry into our lives and create unhealthy generational patterns, and how to break them.
• Learning the original biblical meanings of the parental blessing and the consequences when it's withheld.
• Encouragement to face your past with honesty, courage, and grace.