Diffusing Rejection - by Shannon Moyer

COURSE

Diffusing Rejection

With Shannon Moyer

Rejection, as an emotion, is the feeling of being dismissed, unheard, or refused. For those who are sensitive to rejection, it can manifest into feelings of unworthiness, self-gaslighting, people-pleasing, guilt, and shame. Through this course, we will work through these feelings while exploring techniques such as journalling, meditation, challenging intrusive thoughts, and extending compassion to ourselves. Rejection, and the emotions it reveals, is not a character flaw and it does not make you unworthy. Lean in, listen, offer yourself love and grace, rationalize with yourself, and diffuse rejection.

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Meet your Teacher

Shannon Moyer
London, ON, Canada

Shannon Moyer-Szemenyei is a Mental Health Counsellor and Trauma Support Specialist from London, Ontario. She uses the modalities of meditation, art, journalling, and CBT foundational practices to help other humans through their mental and emotional healing. Shannon is a survivor of PTSD, a human living with Inattentive ADHD and Oppositional Defiance Disorder and is certified in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychotherapy, Trauma Support, Child and Adolescent Counselling, and ADHD Management. She has a strong desire to help others process their lived experiences through counselling, while validating their experiences as real and embracing their emotional selves. Shannon believes that there are no bad emotions, that your story is valid, and you are deserving of support!

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5 Days

1.9k students

4.9 stars

13 min / day

Acceptance

English

Lesson 1

Cultivating Compassion

Compassion is a foundational feeling that we are all deserving of, and one that is the natural opposite to rejection. In today's lesson, we will spend a few minutes journalling and considering the ways in which we extend compassion to ourselves, then go into a space of meditation to do some affirmation work before returning to our journal and making some final conclusions.

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Lesson 2

Catastrophic Thinking

Today we ask ourselves the question "What Evidence Do I Have To Believe This Is True?" while considering situations that have brought forward the feeling of rejection. Through meditation and journalling, we find root attachments and leave the lesson with some homework to extend compassion to ourselves.

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Lesson 3

Inner Dialogue

The words with which we use to speak to ourselves when we have recently faced rejection can be quite unkind. In our lesson today, we spend some time in contemplation over the inner dialogue and impact of rejection, then head to the pages of our journal to work through it.

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Lesson 4

Circle Of Control

Today we learn about taking accountability for how we arrive into situations, and give context to potential conflict and rejection by using the Circle of Control. This is a helpful tool to use during and after interactions with others when we are left with feelings of rejection, hurt, confusion or unworthiness.

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Lesson 5

Today, I Need

Advocating and taking responsibility for our needs is something that gets lost a lot of the time. Society has conditioned us to believe that those closest to us automatically know what we need, but the onus is actually on us to speak up and advocate for those needs. In our final session, we learn about advocacy and consider what it would feel like for those needs to be met.

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This course includes 22 community questions and 5 audio replies from Shannon Moyer. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Marilyn

September 12, 2025

I got a lot of of this course helpful actionable suggestions. I will definitely listen to this again.

Belinda

February 17, 2025

So much useful stuff in this course. I’m sure I missed thing so am going to repeat it. Very helpful and useful. Thank you.

Beverly

February 25, 2024

Excellent points made on getting what I need. Thank You. 🩵

Jayne

February 8, 2024

A wonderful class!

Tim

January 12, 2024

Thank you. 🙏 That was a very helpful short course that really helps to frame rejection as a 'non personal' thing, with helpful reminders of what we are, and are not, responsible for.

Marty

October 1, 2023

Thank you

Robin

September 17, 2023

Thank you so much for offering this course. It comes at a perfect time in my life when I needed extra support. This really helped keep me present so very grateful for this course that you’ve offered Namaste.

angela

August 11, 2023

Excellent! Each day’s teaching is something to apply in many facets and situations of life.

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