Silent Battles: how can a child learn to build relationships if all they know is instability and tension? in Bloomington, MN

In Brittney Rogers' memoir debut, she sets the stage of her life, starting with her tumultuous childhood filled with trauma, abuse, deceit, and hurt. Silent Battles delves into Rogers' emotional battles as she grew up in a single-parent, fatherless home. Growing up without a father and a series of boyfriends to call "daddy", Rogers' developed abandonment issues at an early age. Unapologetic, Rogers shows unabashed vulnerability as she connects the dots from her adolescent years to her adult life, exploring the dichotomy of her problematic relationship with her mother to the abusive relationships she endured with men. Rogers' gets real as she explains her issues with emotional and physical abandonment, getting to know the man who she believed to be her father, and eventually finding the love of her life, and how that love gave her license to find love with the most important person of all: herself.
Silent Battles is a poignant book filled with essays that Rogers hopes will help others liberate themselves from their past lies of unworthiness of love while unlearning those deceptive "truths" that self-love isn't available to everyone. She desires to show that healing is possible, and to have it, one must remove the emotional, negative poison that can no longer be festered but freed from their life to allow for a more wholesome living of happiness and peace. Silent Battles reclaims Rogers' need for reassurance and stability, finding a place of security, love and happiness. Emotional poison tries to drag us down into negativity, but Rogers' story reminds readers that they must love themselves. The most beautiful type of love stems from loving yourself first.