Guilt-Tripped Out of Her Own Life

## Guilt-Tripped Out of Her Own Life I knew a feisty teenager once - brilliant, sensitive, sharp in a way that frightened the dull and manipulative.

Already, her family was judging, oppressing, and rewriting her instincts. This young woman was being bent into a shape that didn't belong to her.

Bent by parents who spoke the language of "conscious parenting" but lived out a distorted theology of guilt, shame, and spiritual gaslighting.

They told her to "honor her birth mother" and quickly "forgive." They told her she was "too angry" and that her pain was the only real problem.