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It doesn't take much for your feelings to get hurt--a look or a tone of voice or certain words can set you ruminating for hours on what that person meant. It's all too easy to take disappointment and rejection personally. You can learn to handle these feelings and create positive options for yourself. Don't Take It Personally! explores all forms of rejection, where it comes from, and how to overcome the fear of it. Most of all, you'll learn some tools for stepping back from those overwhelming feelings. You'll be able to allow space to make choices about how you respond. ● Understand the effect that anxiety, frustration, hurt, and anger have on your interactions. ● Depersonalize your responses and establish safe personal boundaries that protect you. ● Practice making choices about the thoughts you think and the ways you respond to stressful situations. ● Understand and overcome fear of rejection in personal and work relationships. Elayne Savage explores with remarkable sensitivity the myriad of rejection experiences we experience with friends, coworkers, lovers, and family.

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"""This wonderfully readable book offers wise counsel and information...[with] useful insights into an issue that impacts each of our lives--rejection."" -- ""Judy Tatelbaum, MSW, author of The Courage of Grieve"""

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Elayne Savage, PhD, is ""The Queen of Rejection."" She is an internationally known relationship and communication expert, workplace coach, media guest, and professional member of the National Speakers Association. She holds a PhD in family psychology, drawing on twenty-five years of clinical experience with individuals, couples, and families in Berkeley, California. She writes an e-letter/blog ""Tips from the Queen of Rejection"" and is the author of Breathing Room: Creating Space to Be a Couple and Don't Take It Personally: The Art of Dealing with Rejection. Gina Rogers was asked to narrate her first audiobook in 2014 after an author overheard her imitating her Bronx-raised mother at a dinner party. While Gina swears her background in musical theater and television acting has in no way prepared her to speak in accents and dialects, her ability to breathe life into characters has taken her a long way in her career as an audiobook narrator. Outside of narration she teaches Zumba(R) fitness classes and enjoys spending time with family and volunteering at local animal shelters.

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