Writing the Light: Finding the Light in the Darkness of Depression. the Awakening of a Lightworker

With a strict upbringing in the Midwest, author Phoenix Rose was molded into what a young woman was expected to be. In her culture, girls were raised to become housewives and mothers in arranged marriages by their late teens. It was all she knew, and it seemed normal to her.

At seventeen, Rose was sent to New York City as a virgin bride to marry a man she didn’t know. Away from family, she was forced to learn about life through this emotionally and physically abusive arrangement, later a cu...