When My Mother and Father Forsake Me... the Workbook: Five G. R. A. C. E. Steps for Healing Parental Rejection and Hurts

This workbook will help you to examine the causes and effects of parental rejection and disconnection in your own life as well as the lives of others you know. It will also guide you through the steps for overcoming parental rejection and help you break down the barriers blocking you from accessing your full potentialities by leading you through prayers, exercises, and encounters.

As a practical compliment to "When My Mother & Father Forsake Me...," this workbook is intended to provoke you to think critically about your family structure, your relationship with your parents, and their impact on your current ability to function at optimal levels. In these pages you will be challenged and engaged to examine the causes of parental rejection and its impact on both the children and adults in your household, work through steps to overcome it, and create preventative measures to protect yourself from forming future generational households impacted by parental rejection. This workbook is uniquely designed to equip parents, students, teachers, spiritual aids, foster parents and foster children with the tools necessary to overcome the limiting and pernicious effects of parental rejection.

The workbook's objectives are:

1. To introduce you to the conceptual foundations of parental acceptance and rejection theory.
2. To impart to you specific steps that can be taken to overcome the effects of parental rejection in any child's or adult's life.
3. To assist you in developing a personal family structure and parental behavior theory that will prevent parental rejection in your future families and curtail it in your current families.