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

Becker-Phelps, Leslie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1684034027 ISBN 13: 9781684034024

Publisher: New Harbinger, 2020

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Leslie Becker-Phelps, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, author, and speaker. She writes the Relationships blog for WebMD and is the relationship expert for WebMD's Relationships message board. She also writes the blog Making Change for Psychology Today. Becker-Phelps previously served at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Somerset, 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, NJ. Find out more about her
at www.drbecker-phelps.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Harbinger
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1684034027
• ISBN 13: 9781684034024
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192