taking personally – Page 5 – Tips from the Queen of Rejection®

Overly Sensitive? Thin Skin? Tips for Protecting Yourself

Mar 31, 2017

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Being overly sensitive and having thin skin often results in blaming others, puffing ourselves up by bulling and lashing out.

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.

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?

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 . . .

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!

Finger Pointing, Taking Things Personally, Rejection and Projection

Aug 31, 2016

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Elayne Savage, PhD

By their nature, political campaigns are chock-full of personal attacks, finger pointing, taking things personally, rejection and projection – here’s why . . .

Does ‘The Art of the Deal’ Mean Selling Your Soul?

Jul 27, 2016

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Elayne Savage, PhD

Is Donald Trump the Prince of Darkness with Pied-Piper-Power, asking us to sell our souls? In a list of 50 characteristics of cult leaders, how many of these attributes does he possess?

The Holiday Recovery Editon

Dec 31, 2015

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Elayne Savage, PhD

In this Holiday Recovery Edition, Dr. Elayne Savage offers creative tips for surviving the after-the-holidays-letdown from disappointment of gift-giving and family get-togethers.

Thanksgiving Tips – Handling Your Asinine Uncle (and Other Turkeys)

Nov 21, 2015

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Elayne Savage, PhD

Thanksgiving get-togethers can be combative when relatives argue polarized points of view based on how politicians and presidential candidates are responding to terrorist attacks.

Don’t Be Telling Me What I Need to Do!

Oct 31, 2015

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Elayne Savage, PhD

Being told I “need to” or “have to” or “should” do something infringes on my personal space and incites adolescent rebellion. And yet, we hear and read these words every day.

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