Bouncing Back from Rejection

Build the Resilience You Need to Get Back Up When Life Knocks You Down

De: Leslie Becker-Phelps PhD, Ronald D. Siegel PsyD

Narrado por: Jennifer Dorr

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.

©2019 Leslie Becker-Phelps, PhD, Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD (P)New Harbinger Publications New Harbinger Publications

Comments from a reader

This is a great self-help book for those who have a hard time connecting with others and making friends. As a mental health therapist I can say the interventions in this book are sound and supported by research.

This is an elementary level book that was not helpful

The author speaks to you like you are a child. Directions for how to “assemble supplies” to do “arts & crafts”? I had to stop reading this - too patronizing for me