Category: Rejection
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On Valentine’s Day Is the Value of Your Relationship Tied Up in a Gift?
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Don’t get thrown off center by Valentine’s Day disappointment. Here are some tips for navigating Valentine’s Day whether you are part of a couple or unattached.
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Django Freeman Meets James Hood
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A look at some parallels between Django Unchained and James Hood’s role in civil rights history when he and Vivian Malone courageously integrated the University of Alabama in 1963.
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Rage is ‘Anger with a History’ – Trying to Make Sense of the Sandy Hook School Killings
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Trying to understand the Sandy Hook Elementary School Killings: Rage is beyond the experience of anger. Where anger reflects something happening in the present, rage reflects overwhelming feelings from the past which intrude into the present situation. Rage is ‘anger with a history.’
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There Is to Be No Grieving
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When my mother and grandmother died in a DC-3 crash I was 12 years old. The rule in my family was “There is to be no grieving.” Incomplete or unresolved or complicated grieving has powerful long-term effects throughout our lives. As with others who have experienced significant childhood challenges, I’m repeatedly reminded that healing is…
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When Showoffmanship Becomes Self-Sabotage
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Revealing examples of self-sabotaging behavior came out of Mitt Romney’s trip to Great Britain, Israel and Poland. Could there be some ambivalence about running for President?
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“Am I Not Good Enough?”
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When Ann Curry asked, “Am I not good enough? before her sudden departure from the “Today” show, ” it brought up feelings about rejection, criticism, betrayal and taking things personally.
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Breaches of Trust, Betrayals and Looking the Other Way – Part 2
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An emotional response to the Jerry Sandusky verdict – 45 of 48 counts of child abuse. Will Penn State continue Looking the Other Way?”
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Rage and Riots and Rodney King – 20 Years Later
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Twenty years ago rage, riots and fires broke out in South Central LA after four policemen were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. Here are some explanations of the rage that led to the riots, and Twenty years ago rage, riots and fires broke out in South Central LA after the charges against four…
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Hope and Fear and Hunger Games
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Watching the Hunger Games movie lets us recognize how our hopes and fears are connected to expectations, disappointment, loss and rejection.