What Happened to You Is Not the End of Your Story.

Were You Dropped?

A Journey of Healing, Identity, and Restoration at the King’s Table

By Roxene Dunn Barrett · Publication Date: September 1, 2026

Full book jacket for Were You Dropped? by Roxene Dunn Barrett, featuring a family walking toward a sunrise at the King’s Table.

Were You Dropped? is a biblical journey of healing, identity, and restoration for anyone who has carried the wounds of rejection, abandonment, abuse, loss, or feeling forgotten.

Some wounds do more than hurt. They begin to tell you who you are. They whisper that you were unwanted, overlooked, too damaged, or beyond restoration. This book challenges those lies with the truth of God’s Word and invites you to return to the place pain tried to steal from you: your identity, your voice, your hope, and your seat at the King’s Table.

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Have You Ever Wondered Whether You Were Dropped, or Never Picked Up at All?

There are experiences that leave you questioning more than what happened. They make you question your worth, your place, and whether you were ever truly seen. You may have learned how to keep functioning while carrying pain no one recognized. You may have smiled, served, prayed, and kept moving, while a quieter part of you still wondered whether healing was possible.

Were You Dropped? was written for that part of you. It does not minimize your pain, rush your process, or offer empty promises. It walks honestly through the wounds that shape identity and points you toward the God who still sees, still calls, and still restores.

You Are Not What Happened to You.

Through biblical teaching, personal testimony, reflection, and compassionate guidance, Roxene Dunn Barrett helps readers confront the messages trauma leaves behind and replace them with the truth of who they are in Christ.

Readers Will Be Encouraged To:

  • Recognize how rejection, abandonment, abuse, and loss can distort identity.
  • Separate what happened to them from who God says they are.
  • Release shame and false labels that have shaped their thinking.
  • Understand healing as a process rather than a test of faith.
  • Make room for forgiveness without denying the truth of what occurred.
  • Reclaim their place, voice, dignity, and purpose in Christ.
  • Believe that restoration is still possible.

You are not broken beyond repair. You are being restored.

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Identity After Trauma: 5 Biblical Truths Trauma Tries to Steal From Your Identity

Before you begin the full journey, receive this free guide created to help you identify five truths trauma often tries to steal from your identity.

Inside the guide, readers will explore biblical truth about identity, survival responses, silence, the pace of healing, and the security of belonging to Christ.

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This Journey May Be for You If...

  • You have carried rejection or abandonment longer than you know how to explain.
  • You learned to survive, but never learned how to feel safe.
  • You have struggled to separate your identity from your pain.
  • You love God, yet still have questions about what He allowed.
  • You feel pressure to be over something that still affects you.
  • You have forgiven, but still need healing.
  • You are ready to believe that your story can hold more than what wounded you.

This book is for readers who need both truth and tenderness. It is grounded in Scripture while honoring the complexity of healing.

Roxene Dunn Barrett, pastor, author, educator, and founder of A Light of Hope Christian Network.

Meet Roxene Dunn Barrett

Roxene Dunn Barrett is a pastor, author, educator, and the founder of A Light of Hope Christian Network, Light of Hope Community Center, and Light of Hope Publishing. She serves as Pastor of Solomon’s House A Light of Hope in North Carolina.

Her ministry flows from her own journey of healing and deliverance. Through biblical teaching, discipleship, leadership development, and personal testimony, she is committed to helping wounded, overlooked, rejected, and abandoned people renew their minds, reclaim their identity, and awaken to purpose.

Roxene holds a Bachelor of Theology from Christian Life School of Theology and a Master of Education from East Carolina University. Her writing brings together doctrinal depth, practical clarity, and the compassion of someone who knows what it means to be restored by grace.

More Than a Book, a Guided Path Toward Healing

Were You Dropped? is supported by resources designed for personal reflection, group study, teaching, and discipleship.

The Book

A biblical and personal journey of healing, identity, forgiveness, and restoration.

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Companion Workbook

A guided resource with reflection prompts and exercises for applying the message personally.

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Teacher’s Guide

A structured teaching resource for churches, ministries, support groups, and discipleship settings.

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You Still Have a Seat at the Table.

What happened may be part of your story, but it does not have the authority to write your ending. Healing is possible. Identity can be restored. Purpose can awaken again.

Begin today with the free Identity After Trauma guide, then continue the journey through Were You Dropped?

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