The Parent Left Standing: Surviving Divorce. Supporting Your Child. Staying Whole

By Dr. Ariane Elizabeth Phillips

What happens when you're the only one left holding the family together?

The Parent Left Standing is an honest, empowering, and deeply personal guide for custodial parents navigating the emotional wreckage of high-conflict divorce. Drawing from her own lived experience as a single mother and her doctoral research on custodial parenting, Dr. Ariane E. Phillips delivers a heartfelt roadmap for parents who feel exhausted, unseen, and emotionally stretched to the limit.

This is not a legal manual.
This is a survival guide for your soul.

Inside, you'll find:

Personal stories of pain, parenting, and emotional resilience

Research-backed insights on how conflict impacts children and custodial parents

Practical tools for setting boundaries, creating a safe haven at home, and working with schools

Reflection prompts to help you process, heal, and reclaim your peace

Encouragement for those silently suffering, feeling isolated, or doubting if they're doing enough

Whether you're newly navigating life after divorce or years into doing it all alone, this book will remind you of one powerful truth: you are not broken-you are the one still standing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FRY9MG5J
• ISBN13: 9798264955594
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 46 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"