Coaching practices for How Do I Deal with Rejection Trauma
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- I keep telling myself to just move past what they did and not make a big deal of it, so I never actually look the hurt in the face
- After a rejection or a bad day my mind spins the same dark story on a loop and I can’t find where it’s actually going wrong
- I keep going over what happened wanting to actually understand it, but every replay just drops me back into reliving the hurt blow by blow instead of figuring out why it went the way it did
- What happened left me with this flat verdict about myself
- I know I need to face the memory eventually, but the moment I get near it I get pulled all the way under
Practices that may help
- R — Recall the hurt
Face what happened deliberately and calmly, without minimizing it or replaying it as a victim.
Forgiveness: The REACH Model - USA journaling: write your way to acceptance
After a failure or rejection, write out the ABC chain and the USA disputation before bed.
Unconditional Self-Acceptance - Take the fly-on-the-wall perspective
Replay a distressing event as a distant observer watching from afar, not from inside your own eyes.
Self-Distancing: Thinking Clearly About Your Own Problems - Identifying and Targeting the Trauma Memory
Pinpoint the specific memory, its worst moment (the "touchstone"), and the negative belief it installed.
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - Safe Place Installation
Anchor a vivid, calming mental image you can return to when distress spikes during processing.
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - Installation of the Positive Cognition
Once distress has cleared, strengthen the preferred self-belief with bilateral stimulation.
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - Body Scan and Session Closure
Sweep attention through the body after processing to catch residual tension before closing the session.
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - Reframe through cognitive reappraisal
Change how you interpret a stressor — its meaning, scope, and permanence — to change its emotional impact.
Building Resilience, Made Practical - ACCEPTS — structured distraction from crisis
Use Activities, Contributing, Comparisons, Emotions, Pushing away, Thoughts, and Sensations to redirect attention during a crisis.
Distress Tolerance Skills, Made Practical - Debrief after each stressful encounter
Within 24 hours of a challenging event, review what you did, what worked, and what you will adjust.
Stress Inoculation Training
Related concerns
- Between Session Emdr
Begin every new EMDR session by checking whether last session’s gains held — and what emerged in between.
Reevaluation at the Start of Each Session
- Discharging Trauma Activation
Somatic Experiencing, developed by Peter Levine, proposes that overwhelming experience leaves incomplete survival energy "stuck" in the body, and that gently completing and discharging that activation — in small, titrated doses, moving between activation and calm (pendulation) — helps the nervous system settle. The body-awareness skills it teaches are low-risk and increasingly studied, but the evidence base is still emerging and the "stored energy" model is a clinical theory, not established physiology. These are self-regulation skills; trauma work belongs with a trained professional.
- Emdr Assessment Phase
Begin every new EMDR session by checking whether last session’s gains held — and what emerged in between.
- Emdr Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing After A Loss
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a structured trauma therapy developed by Francine Shapiro in which a client processes distressing memories while tracking side-to-side stimuli. It is among the most evidence-supported treatments for PTSD, though the specific role of eye movements versus the broader exposure-and-processing protocol remains debated among researchers.
- Emdr Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing After A Setback
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a structured trauma therapy developed by Francine Shapiro in which a client processes distressing memories while tracking side-to-side stimuli. It is among the most evidence-supported treatments for PTSD, though the specific role of eye movements versus the broader exposure-and-processing protocol remains debated among researchers.
- Emdr Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing As A Caregiver
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a structured trauma therapy developed by Francine Shapiro in which a client processes distressing memories while tracking side-to-side stimuli. It is among the most evidence-supported treatments for PTSD, though the specific role of eye movements versus the broader exposure-and-processing protocol remains debated among researchers.
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