Ep 14: Rejection and Embracing No

Run, Selfie, Repeat

Kelly Roberts

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Let's talk about my arch nemesis, rejection. I think rejection isn’t a death sentence, I think it’s just a reminder to work your patience muscle and keep fighting. Sometimes no does mean no but more often than not, no just means not right now. But because our relationship to rejection, failure, and no is built on sand, we crumble and fall apart whenever it happens.

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0:00.0	Try something with me. Take a deep breath in through your nose. Hold it and then release it.
0:10.3	Ah, yeah, that felt nice. Welcome to episode 14 of the Run, selfie, repeat podcast, where we talk life with a side of running.
0:22.8	I'm the lady of the 15 minutes,lly roberts and i had you breathe because as much as i love to take calming breaths
0:29.1	when someone asks me to do it in a class i get really impatient and i always do it wrong and
0:34.7	then i get frustrated and then I start laughing because I'm
0:37.9	like irrationally frustrated over my inability to be calm when I'm given the opportunity.
0:42.9	But one on one like I can totally rock some structured breathing.
0:49.7	Whereabouts I going with this?
0:51.3	Beautiful question.
0:52.1	I'm so glad you asked it.
0:54.7	Today's episode is all about my arch nemesis.
0:58.2	No, not mindfulness.
0:59.3	I love mindfulness.
1:00.5	Rejection.
1:02.0	I think the fear of rejection runs in all of us.
1:04.2	Actually, I know it.
1:05.6	I don't believe that there is anyone who doesn't kind of care about being rejected or being told no or or kind of like not
1:14.3	being validated or heard. I hope I hope I never have to meet that person because that person
1:19.5	scares the crap out of me. Because secretly I think everyone wants to belong and it starts
1:24.5	innocently when we're young or when someone decides that they don't want to play with you.
1:28.8	And then that kind of like manifests itself in our careers and our love lives.
1:32.7	And we're all afraid to humiliate.
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