RAW an unfair trade

Is the foster parent a narcissist, psychopath, sociopath, or just a grieving mother who has excusable strict behaviours? Is it wrong to not let a mental illness define you? Does it prolong the healing process? Kate reaches out with her own experience to better individualise mental health therapy. Deepening society's understanding of mental illness through her life.

Kate's lived experience is told in its raw form through the eyes of the abused. She is not afraid to provide an insightful view, with unflinching honesty, speaking the truth of her emotional survival destructions.

There is a genuine fear of rejection, an anxiety about disclosing her prejudiced childhood, and the effects of not healing throughout her adulthood.

Kate's foster family inflicted physical and mental manipulation during infancy into adulthood. She has experienced sexual abuse by a priest and her employers. An exploration of Kate's complex multiple traumas from childhood to adulthood. The effects of prejudicial childhood from the 1970s through to the 2000s. Inclusive of foster care, authentic transcripts of police interviews, court cases, and correspondences. Also, interactions between district welfare officers, foster family, and Kate's natural family.

She bravely exposes the potential flaws in foster care and mental health systems, sharing a raw and honest memoir about the consequences of neglecting a child's voice from parental alienation.