Get Your Hope Back: A Workbook for Rising Above Rejection (DoodlyCouch Therapy Journal Series)

While no one really seeks out opportunities to be rejected, we all encounter almost-daily experiences where we are opening ourselves up to some type of rejection. When being exposed to continuous rejection, our level of hope can decrease, leaving us to feel "rejected and hopeless." However, on the contrary, if we are exposed to continuous acceptance, we feel full of hope. Our perception of the rejection we receive, its importance, and its validity, can greatly affect these feelings. This workbook is designed to help you manage those experiences, recalling and writing about them, and then put yourself in control of how you perceive the rejection. By doing this, you can better control your own feelings of hopefulness, and take away the power of rejection. Once you learn to manage each experience of rejection as it happens, you'll find yourself going back to past experiences and using these same tools, and applying them. Your perception may change, and the past experiences may then have less of a negative effect on you. You may even find yourself forgiving. This is called healing... and you'll find that as you heal your past experiences, the way you react to new ones will be different as well. This journal is designed with 4-page daily sections which ask questions that will help you work through an experience with rejection.