Dealing With Rejection

Come on, is it really rejection? They don’t even know your favorite color, how on earth can they be “personally rejecting” you? They aren’t! Rejection is painful because we suffer a perceived loss.

Rejection is both a feeling and an action. For instance, sadness, anger, and feeling devalued. As an action, it can be perceived as an act of deliberate exclusion or dismissal.

It is OK to feel all those things or to presume their actions, but let's reframe it into a more appropriate context.

What story have you attached to the feeling?