What the Fear of Rejection Is Calling out and How We Can Shift the Meaning

So how do we do that? Lucky for you, I’ve got you and I’m going to share my top 5 tips with you!

1. Take risks, get rejected, feel it and then do it again

The only way to become better at something is by doing it, right? So take risks, get rejected and in doing so, allow yourself to feel whatever it is that comes up for you! If you suppress the pain, its not going anywhere; it’s just going to haunt you later. Remember lovely, the only way out is through!

2. See rejection as proof you’re courageous enough to take risks

If you’re not getting rejected, are you really living? Not everyone is going to like you. If you’re not getting rejected, maybe you need to get out of your comfort zone and start! Wear that rejection like a badge of honor, babe.

3. Be compassionate with yourself

Instead of allowing an inner bully to laugh in your face at rejection, speak back to her with kindness and compassion. Think about how you would speak to your best friend in that same situation. You wouldn’t be mean to her, so why be mean to yourself?

4. Be a student again

Use this as an opportunity for growth. What can you take away from this? Maybe you learn that there’s something in your life that you need to improve on, or you may just learn this opportunity wasn’t actually for you after all. Life is always teaching us something.

5. Let your reaction define you, not the rejection

As the old saying goes ‘as one door closes, another one opens’ – and I believe this to be so true! But you need to allow that new door to open for you! How you react to rejection will define you, not the rejection itself.

So with that, I want to leave you with this mind-blowing fact: when we spend our lives pleasing others and avoiding rejection, we are in actual fact, rejecting ourselves. So ask yourself this, who’s more important?