92 | Healing a rejection wound
In this podcast, I talk about the importance of healing our rejection wounds.
All posts tagged: dealing with rejection
REJECTION
One of the most difficult challenges a person can experience is rejection and in a recent article in The Epoch Times, Dawn Milberger, 55, shared her story. Dawn had been adopted into a Christian family, and it wasn’t until she was 18 that she discovered the full story of what had happened, when she finally tracked down her birth mother. It was then she discovered that her mother, with the aid of a nursing friend, tried to abort Dawn several times in the first seven months of pregnancy, before eventually giving birth. Her mother’s friend provided abortion-inducing drugs that she stole from the office where she worked. After telling the story, her birth mom pleaded for Dawn to forgive her. This was the ultimate form of rejection and for the next several months, Dawn struggled as anger began building in her heart over the rejection. But with the help of her adoptive parents, Dawn worked through her emotions to forgive her mother. “He can’t build on us if we have unforgiveness on us. Unforgiveness cannot …
I will show you a better way
When we find ourselves in a messy situation where there is confusion and doubt, I wonder if there isn’t a message in it for us. And, maybe the message is the Holy Spirit saying, “hold on here, slow down because I want to show you a better way through these circumstances. The Bible talks about God making the path of life known to us. “You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever.” (Psalm 16:11) This verse expresses God’s desire for us to know Him and experience happiness in our lives. There is a better way of doing things. It’s what happened to me several year’s back. I was in a very uncomfortable situation in our church, where I was experiencing rejection from people. No matter what I did, or how hard I tried to gain their approval, nothing changed. In fact, the rejection seemed to get worse. I wanted to defend myself and attack back, and as long as I continued …
A journey from rejection to witchcraft to Christ
Illiana Soltani became interested in the occult when she was 12-years-old because of the rejection that she experienced from her father after her parents divorced prior to Illiana’s birth.
Rejection or redirection?
Rejection is hard, and repeated rejection can be devastating unless we view it with a healthy perspective. I truly believe that through rejection God wants to show us that there is a better way to fulfill our desires and His plans for our life. Over the years, I have looked to people and church leaders that I believed could help me put in motion my plans to encourage women through various avenues. I gave a lot of time and energy communicating my thoughts to them. There were countless emails and one-on-one meetings in an attempt to connect and create what was on my heart. I tried so hard to make it happen and left no page unturned. However, instead of encouragement, I encountered rejection. Some felt threatened I was competing with them. Others wanted it done their way. Some just ignored me because, they already had a program in the church. But I was simply trying to do, what I believe God had put on my heart, and the repeated rejection was difficult to understand. That is because, so …
35 | Are you rejecting yourself?
In this podcast, I ask the question: Are you rejecting yourself? Many of have been rejected in the past and suffer from emotional wounds surrounding the rejection. But Jesus not only heals people of physical diseases but emotional woundings as well.
Burnout: Fighting your past and future expectations
For the past month, I have been feeling anxiety, fear and intimidation and it has risen like a giant wall of foreboding in my life. At night I would lay in bed and my heart would start racing. I have been walking in a fog for a month and I eventually went to the doctor for medication for my anxiety. What has been going on? I believe I have been experiencing a form of burnout. And, if I have learned anything, it’s that burnout breaks down our defenses and leaves us vulnerable to spiritual attacks on our body, mind and spirit. Burnout is fear based. It is often based on experiences from our past more than anything that is going on in the present. I started to get a sense of foreboding, as old memories from my past resurfaced injecting themselves into my life. I had gone through periods of rejection in the past and they were returning to haunt me. And, this past rejection was becoming a stumbling block in the present. As well, …
The agony of rejection
Español: La agonía del rechazo A study conducted in 2003 by researchers at the University of California and reported in the Journal Science revealed rejection has the same impact on the brain as physical pain. Scientists created a computer program that simulated a ball throwing game between a live participant and two computer simulations. The 13 test subjects (four men and nine women) were hooked up to an MRI and invited to play the game. They were told the other two players (operated by the computer) were actually controlled by live people. The computer simulation involved a simple game of catch between the three players. The MRI tracked brain responses during the game. Initially, the computer played along, but after the test subject had caught the ball seven times, the computer ignored the live subject and only threw the ball back and forth between the animations. However, the test subjects believed they were purposely being ignored by the live participants in the game. As the game progressed into the rejection part, the MRI scans noted …
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