Bouncing Back from Rejection: Build the Resilience You Need to Get Back Up When Life Knocks You Down

Bouncing Back from Rejection: Build the Resilience You Need to Get Back Up When Life Knocks You Down

Bouncing Back from Rejection: Build the Resilience You Need to Get Back Up When Life Knocks You Down

Bouncing Back from Rejection: Build the Resilience You Need to Get Back Up When Life Knocks You Down

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Overview

Go beyond your fear of rejection to develop confidence, compassionate self-awareness, and resilience!

Do you have a fear of rejection? If so, you aren’t alone. But if you have difficulty bouncing back after rejection, experience intense pain as a result, or if the fear of rejection is so crippling that it interferes with your everyday life, it’s time to make a change. This groundbreaking guide can help.

With this book, you’ll learn why you fear rejection by gaining an understanding of your unique attachment style. Secure attachment is defined as a feeling of being protected and well-cared for. People who experience secure attachment as young children are more likely to be happy, healthy, and resilient adults. On the other hand, insecurely attached people are less likely to cope well with rejection, and may have trouble “bouncing back” after difficult experiences. Once you understand how your attachment style has informed your fears, you can begin the work needed to overcome them!

Using the theory of attachment, and the five domains of awareness: Sensations, Thoughts, Emotions, Actions, and Mentalizing (STEAM), you’ll learn to relate to yourself and to others in more positive ways, even when difficult situations arise. So, whether you experience rejection in a romantic relationship, at work, or with friends, you’ll have the resilience needed to recover quickly and focus on what makes you special and unique.

This isn’t a book that promises to protect you from future rejection. Unfortunately, rejection happens to everyone and is a normal part of life. But you will learn skills to handle this rejection and come to see it as less scary. With this view, you’ll gain confidence, self-awareness, and the resilience needed to bounce back, even when life throws you a curveball.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781684034024
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Publication date: 12/01/2019
Pages: 216
Sales rank: 660,863
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.10(d)

About the Author

Leslie Becker-Phelps, PhD, is an internationally published author, speaker, and psychologist. She is a trusted expert on relationship issues that people have with themselves, as well as with others. She is author of Insecure in Love and Bouncing Back from Rejection. She writes the Making Change blog for www.psychologytoday.com. In addition, she has created a library of short videos on her YouTube channel to offer people the opportunity to learn how to feel better about themselves and their lives.
 
Becker-Phelps has a private practice in Basking Ridge, NJ; and is on the medical staff of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset, where she previously served as clinical director of women’s psychological services, and chief of psychology in the department of psychiatry. She lives with her husband and two sons in Basking Ridge. Find out more about her at www.drbecker-phelps.com.


Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD, is assistant clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. He is a longtime student of mindfulness meditation, and serves on the board of directors and faculty at the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. He teaches internationally about the application of mindfulness practice in psychotherapy and other fields, and maintains a private clinical practice in Lincoln, MA.

Table of Contents

Foreword v

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1 Feeling Rejection Can Be Complicated 7

2 Commitment to Change: Concepts and Tools 23

3 Sensations 37

4 Thoughts 53

5 Emotions 73

6 Actions 95

7 Mentalizing 115

8 Building Self-Acceptance 139

9 Nurturing Compassionate Self-Awareness 155

10 Recovery Through Relationships 171

Postscript 189

List of Emotions 191

Bibliography 197

Interviews

Becker-Phelps resides in Basking Ridge, NJ (Somerset County).

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