Tips from the Queen of Rejection®

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

Having ‘Thin Skin’ – Brooding, Blaming, Fuming, Lashing Out

Feb 28, 2017

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Elayne Savage, PhD

Having thin skin can lead to taking things personally – brooding, blaming, fuming, lashing out. White House discord is bringing up painful memories of chaotic and divisive family interactions, rejection, insults, teasing, taunts, criticism, accusations and manipulation.
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Categories: Accusations, Anger, Blame/Blaming, blaming, brooding about, Bullying, criticism, Donald Trump, Donald Trump and Trump White House, Harassment, hurt feelings, lashing out, Lashing Out, over-reaction, perceived slights, Politics, Rejection, Rejection, Shame, Taking Personally, taking personally, White House
I Really Hate Being Lied To!

Jan 31, 2017

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Elayne Savage, PhD

I really hate being gaslighted and lied to and recent events in Washington are reminding me of all the lies I endured in childhood.
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Categories: Concealment, Current Affairs, Deceptions, Deflections, Delusional Disorder, Evasion, Falsehoods, Family, Gaslight the movie, Gaslighting, Gaslighting, lies, Lying and Liars, Misrepresentation, mystification, Personality Disorders, Politics, R.D. Laing, Rejection, Secrecy
Did Taunts, Insults and Taking Things Personally Start WW I?

Dec 27, 2016

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Elayne Savage, PhD

Did Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Taunts, Insults and Taking Things Personally Start WW I? Can a 140 character tweet do the same for Donald J. Trump and put him in the history books?
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Categories: Bullying, Current Affairs, Donald Trump, Donald Trump and Trump White House, Germany monarch, insults, Jonathan Alter, Kaiser Wilhelm II, MSNBC, Politics, Rage, Self-esteem, Taking Personally, Taking things personally, taunts, The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, WW I
Healing and Hope – Coming Together as Community

Nov 30, 2016

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Elayne Savage, PhD

In times of uncertainty, confusion and fear, there is hope and healing power in coming together as community . . .
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Categories: Coming Together, community, Current Affairs, depression, Disappointment, Disappointments, Fear, Fear, Gratitude, gratitude, Healing Resentment, Helplessness, Hopelessness, Politics, Pro-active, Rejection, Rejection, Resentment, Taking Personally
My Mortifying Personal Experience with “Just Locker Room Talk”

Oct 11, 2016

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Elayne Savage, PhD

Donald Trump’s throw-away excuse: “Just locker room talk” re-triggered a humiliating sexual harassment experience for me from 6 years ago when someone who doesn’t know me broadcasted an outrageous sexual lie – supposedly from decades ago!
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Categories: Anxiety, Bullying, Current Affairs, Harassment, Humiliation, humiliation, Just Locker Room Talk, Lying and Liars, mortification, Politics, PTSD, Rejection, sexual harassment, sexual harassment. Donald Trump, Taking Personally, University of Alabama. sexual lies
The Gruesome Twosome

Sep 29, 2016

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Elayne Savage, PhD

The gruesome twosome debate – Interruptions, facial expressions, disrespect and the moderator losing control was like a couples therapy session swirling out of control.
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Categories: 2016 first Presidential debate, Anger, Bullying, Couples, couples therapy, Current Affairs, disrespect, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, gruesome twosome, Hillary Clinton, interruptions, Lester Holt, losing control, Politics, raised voices, Relationships, respect, talking over