It's Sunday dawn and a gridiron is sizzling with flavor.

And here come your hometown heroes, bushes chili beans, red gold canned tomatoes, and tilamook cheese.

And we can't forget the tremendous team efforts of premium salting crackers and daisy sour cream.

It's the only way to tailgate effectively every Sunday through the playoffs.

You guys are supposed to be calling the game, not the tailgate.

Well, we'll catch up at half time.

I'm starving.

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Hello, good morning, Angels, and welcome back to Morning Ray. I'm your host, Lan or Alana.

Today's episode is all about rejection. I feel like this is a topic. I haven't really seen a lot of podcasts on,

and I definitely think this is something that I've worked on a lot in the past few years,

especially in therapy with myself and everything.

I feel like I used to take rejection so hard as really quick to just like blame it on the other

person or to blame it on myself, think something was wrong with me, and just get really

upset and hurt about it, which is a totally normal emotional reaction to rejection.

I went and read a few articles because I wanted to figure out the best way to articulate what I was

trying to talk about in today's podcast. So I'll link the two articles that I looked at and read.

In the show notes, one of them is written by Aaron Itow. She has her PhD and I thought it was a really great article on betterup.com.

And then the other one was from digital label.org and it was more like from a dating perspective

in terms of rejection. I feel like dating and jobs, career focused things is where a lot of us

in our early 20s and our teens experience the most

amount of rejection. And I know rejection and dating has definitely been something that's hurt my

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