Rejection is never easy.

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We have all felt rejected at one time in our lives.

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Over time, the pain of rejection lessens.

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Until the next one comes.

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The rejection we experience may be from friends, lovers, family, or even institutions.

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Some people learn how to have a "thick skin" and deal with rejection that way.

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Others feel crushed every time they are met with rejection.

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Most of us are somewhere in between.

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We learn to be okay with some forms of rejection over the years.

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Yet still the sting of rejection from someone close to us may affect us greatly.

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That searing pain when we bare our hearts until to be met with a rejection is always the most painful.

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It may not be from the love of our lives, yet it still hurts all the same.

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We might fall into a funk because of it.

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Or feel the need to seek the help of a professional.

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Sometimes we drown our sorrows by diving deep into our livelihood.

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Distracting ourselves from the pain we feel in our hearts.

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There are many ways we can distract ourselves.

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We cam do it through our phones, our work, extra projects, or even going to the gym.

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Filling up every waking hour with something so we don't have to think about it.

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Yet we do.

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We think about every second when we are not focused on our distraction.

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And it is okay to want to be distracted for a while.

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To allow some distance from the painful event until we are strong enough to truly face it.

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The real challenge is that whenever we do work up the courage to face it, it is still going to be as painful as it was before.

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It is still going to break our hearts.

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Maybe even take us out of commission for a while.

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It is not a matter of if, but when.

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So in the end no matter what we do to delay the inevitable, we eventually have to deal with the pain.

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All of it.

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Or it will fester inside our bodies until it kills us.

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And that does not serve us at all.

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The only way past the pain is through the pain.

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Numbing ourselves only pushes it down into the unconscious.

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Where it will surface in other ways.

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So for better or worse we have to deal with the pain of rejection.

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Somehow finding a way to feel that even through this person rejected us, it does not mean we are bad, unworthy, or defective.

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It just means they were not in a place to accept whatever it was that we were offering at that point in time.

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Perhaps the future will be different?

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And maybe, just maybe, the next time we take a chance we won't be rejected.

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Have you ever faced a devastating rejection?

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Where you able to deal with the pain, process it, and move on?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour