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Rejection Hurts Enough So Stop Beating Yourself Up About It

Rejection truths you need to hear

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Joe Gibson
Aug 03, 2023
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Rejection truths you need to hear

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“I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.” — Edward Morgan Forster

Rejection is one of the most visceral emotional blows we can experience with scientific studies highlighting similarities between emotiona…

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