Tips from the Queen of Rejection®

Category: magical thinking

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.
Did Mueller Hearings Symbolize the Tattered Fabric of Our Country?

Jul 31, 2019

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Elayne Savage, PhD

Ridicule of Robert Mueller by the public, the media and Congress may be coming from Magical Thinking, unrealistic expectations and disappointment that he didn’t offer additional information during the hearings. Sometimes folks take their disappointments personally.