Your daughter used to talk to you.
Now she is always scrolling, always on edge, always one wrong word away from an explosion you did not see coming. You have tried rules, consequences, and confiscating the phone. Nothing sticks. And somewhere between her first smartphone and her first online meltdown, you started to wonder if you had already lost her.
You have not. But you do need a new set of tools.
Triggered and Scrolling is a trauma-informed, spiritually grounded guide for mothers raising teen daughters in the age of social media, written specifically for the single parent navigating urban life with limited margin, limited resources, and unlimited love for a daughter who does not always know how to receive it.
Dr. Delisa Rodgers, pastor, educator, and trauma-informed practitioner with over two decades of ministry and public school leadership, pulls back the curtain on why your daughter is so angry, what social media is actually doing to her developing brain, and what you can do, starting today, to rebuild the bridge between you.
Inside this book, you will discover:
- Why your daughter's anger is almost never really about you, and what it is about instead
- How social media functions as an identity laboratory and emotional battlefield for teen girls
- The MAP Method, a spiritually rooted, trauma-informed framework built specifically for single parents raising teen girls in high-pressure urban environments
- Trauma-sensitive conversation starters that open real communication without triggering walls and defenses
- How to speak identity over your daughter in a way that becomes her internal voice when the world turns loud and cruel
- The Calm Parent Plan, a sustainable self-care framework so you can parent from fullness, not depletion
- Practical strategies for creating sanctuary in your home, even when the world outside your front door is at war
This is not a book about perfect parenting. It is a book about present parenting. Rooted parenting. The kind of parenting that does not require you to have it all figured out, only to keep showing up.
Your daughter was born for greatness. And she needs your grounded spirit to find her way back to herself.
Breathe. Open these pages. Let healing begin.
