Tips from the Queen of Rejection®

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

Robin Williams: Creativity and Madness-A Fine Line

Aug 16, 2014

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Elayne Savage, PhD

Robin William’s life shows us the fine line between Creativity and Madness. And his suicide gives us the gift of taking depression into the light.
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Categories: Anxiety, anxiety. Parkinson’s, bi-polar, Creativity and Madness, Current Affairs, depression, Kay Redfield Jamison, Loss, mental illness, Robin Williams, Suicide, suicide, USA Today
The Drama Triangle: Eye-Opening View of Relationship Interactions!

Jul 28, 2014

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Elayne Savage, PhD

The Drama Triangle is an eye-opening way of looking at problematic relationships – both in the workplace and at home. Awareness of the Victim, Persecutor and Rescuer roles helps stop hurt feelings, misunderstandings, anger, resentment and taking things personally.
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Categories: Anger, bully, Bullying, Communication, Drama Triangle, Eric Berne, Family, Family, Games People Play, Karpman Drama Triangle, MD, persecutor, Rejection, Rejection, Relationships, relationships martyr, rescuer, Resentment, Stephen Karpman, taking personally, Taking Personally, victim, victimizer, workplace
Limiting Factors and Defining Characteristics: What Are Yours?

Jun 28, 2014

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Elayne Savage, PhD

Letting our early experiences and traumas define us can contribute to a replay of hurts from the past. Let’s look at how our Defining Characteristics and Limiting Factor affect our potential for living life.
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Categories: Acceptance/Self-Acceptance, Betrayal, Defining Characteristics, Disappointment, Disappointments, Family, Film, grief, Grief, Limiting Factors, Monday Morning Academy, plane crash, Rejection, Rejection, Roy H. Williams, Taking Personally, taking personally, Wizard Academy
Memorial Day and the VA scandal: Dishonoring Our Service Men and Women

May 26, 2014

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Elayne Savage, PhD

The VA scandal has turned this Memorial Day from a day of honor into a time of dishonoring our service men and women.
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Categories: Anger, betrayal, Betrayal, CA, Current Affairs, disloyalty, Grief, Hill of Crosses, Lafayette, Memorial Day, Rejection, Rejection, VA medical backlog, VA scandal
Tangling with Safeway Stores – An Alternate Reality

Apr 29, 2014

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Elayne Savage, PhD

Sometimes someone says or does something that triggers old experiences. This time for me it was crazy-making communication by the Safeway Stores Claims Manager – full of denials, deflections, and evasions.
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Categories: Communication, crazy-making communication, Deflections, denials, Evasions, Family, Gaslighting, Inc, mystification, R.D. Laing, Rejection, Rejection, Safeway Stores
The Not Knowing is Excruciating – The Malaysia Airlines Mystery

Mar 22, 2014

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Elayne Savage, PhD

The mystery of the missing Malaysian Airlines 777 brings up memories of the agonizing wait for news connected to a plane crash many years ago. It’s the not knowing that is so excruciating.
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Categories: Anxiety, Beijing, Braniff DC-3, Current Affairs, Family, Fear, Flight 370, Grief, Iowa, Kuala Lumpur, Loss, Malaysia Airlines 777, Mason City, Mayo Clinic