Shadows of Acceptance is a broad expose of an experience that every human being has dealt with at one time or another during their lifetime. Rejection is the flipside of what we all need, and its shadow or results haunt us, stealing our joy and our relationships.

What will surprise the reader is the depth of the negative wound one receives when rejected. This hurt can last a lifetime if not attended to by negative emotions being removed from the memories.

With the light of this information applied to a rejection wound, and the method for healing used, life takes on a whole new direction....

People everywhere have questions about why life has dealt them a devastating blow, or why their thoughts and feelings lead them to behaviors which sabotage their joy and distance them from the very relationships they long for.

In this book, Ron and Nancy Rockey, who teach from personal experience and their advanced education, use the stories of themselves and others to teach the answers that most have been searching for:

Sam, a convicted killer,

Ron, an ex-con who lived as a loner from his infancy,

Rick, an alcoholic,

Mike who thought that his beginnings were perfect,

and several...

Do you long for closeness but can't seem to get there? If you have a "good" relationship, wouldn't you like for it to be a "great" one? Are you feeling left out because no one has come along who finds you attracting enough to consider connection? Does your busyness crowd out time and interest in a deeper relationship? Has God just not looked down in compassion and sent along the "right" companion to you? What is it that seems to thwart what you were designed to experience? What style of connections do you have - distant or surface, clinging or anxious or confusing (sometimes clingy and other...