How not to take rejection and disappointment so personally in your personal and professional relationships

Bullying: Disrespect du Jour

Aug 31, 2025

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Elayne Savage, PhD

The amount of vindictiveness and bullying coming daily from the Trump White House, and too-often from Congress is cringe-worthy. Let’s try for some respect for a change…
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Categories: baiting, belittling, Bullying, bullying, discrediting, disrespecting, humiliating, insulting, lashing out, loyalty and betrayal, mocking, name-calling, psychological projection, resilience, respect, revengeful, shaming, taking personally, Trump White House
Figuring Out Tariffs Is Crazy-Making

Aug 7, 2025

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Elayne Savage, PhD

There seems to be huge confusion and disagreement about exactly which country pays tariffs – Donald Trump insists the exporting country will be paying these taxes and repspected economists argue the importing country always pays the fees, which means the…
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Categories: authoritarianism, control, Cult of Trump, Current Affairs, Donald Trump, Gaslighting, Loyalty/Betrayal, Politics, power, Power and Control, punishment, taking personally, tariffs, Unpredictability, volitility, inconsistancy, chaos
An Onslaught of Disrespect

Jun 30, 2025

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Elayne Savage, PhD

Sometimes instead of mirroring respectful behaviors we find ourselves copying negative, belittling, abusive behaviors . This appears to be going on as many of us are mirroring disrespectful, ugly words and behaviors that we observe from members of Congress or…
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Categories: bullying, Congress, Donald Trump, lashing out, mean-spiritedness, taking personally, Uncategorized
Never-ending Accusations and Lawsuits

May 31, 2025

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Elayne Savage, PhD

Donald Trump decides he has been caused “Mental Anguish” by last years CNN interview with Kamala Harris before the 2024 election when they edited her words. He is suing the network for $10 billion.
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Categories: $10 billion lawsuit, CNN interview, Donald Trump, Jonathan Alter, Kamala Harris, Uncategorized
Why I Feel Connected to the Menendez Brothers

Apr 30, 2025

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Elayne Savage, PhD

ct oI actually have felt a kind of a connection to Lyle and Erik Menendez ever since I was a panelist on the ‘Abuse or Greed’ Maury Povich show decades ago. I was able to discuss how it wasn’t just…
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Categories: ‘Abuse or Greed?’ Maury Povich, Abandonment, Abuse, Anger, Bullying, Child Neglect, childhood neglect, Current Affairs, Erik Menendez, Family, Lyle Menendez, Menendez Brothers, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, prison, PTSD, Rejection, sexual abuse, Sexual Abuse, trials
The Poster Child for Taking Things Personally

Mar 31, 2025

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Elayne Savage, PhD

Years ago I began to think of Donald Trump as the ‘Poster Child of Taking Things Personally’ –– super sensitive to all kinds of perceived rejections and lashing out whenever his feelings get hurt.
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Categories: betrayal, blaming, disloyalty, insulting, Invisible Loyalties, Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, lashing out, loyalty, magical thinking, retaliating, Selma Fraiberg, The Magic Years, Uncategorized, wishful thinking

How not to take rejection and disappointment so personally in your personal and professional relationships

Bullying: Disrespect du Jour

Figuring Out Tariffs Is Crazy-Making

An Onslaught of Disrespect

Never-ending Accusations and Lawsuits

Why I Feel Connected to the Menendez Brothers

The Poster Child for Taking Things Personally