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Exposing the Rejection Mindset: Experience Love - Know Who You Are - Empower Your Relationships
Your identity and relationships are everything when it comes to living a full life on this planet. But what happens when your lens in those areas becomes distorted or tainted? Discover in this book how the subtle mindset of rejection seeks to alter your thoughts and train you to carry a tainted lens on life. You will discover that rejection is not just something that happens to you, it is a toxic stronghold, set up to prevent you from walking in the love of God and knowing who you are. Throughout this book, you will learn to see how this root system of rejection seeks to get itself into every facet of relationships. You will understand how - Confront unresolved brokeness and the masks that we wear in relationships. - End the slave life of performance, perfectionism and people pleasing. - Walk free from constant busyness and hyper-driven living. - Let go of relationship burdens you should not be carrying. - Address the toxic relationships around you. - Break addictive habits and addict living. - Love and accept yourself right where you are. - End the twisted communication that goes in in relationships. - Take the limits off where you are stuck in breaking free. - Practical steps on walking free from rejection. - Develop a healthy lens of God, yourself and your relationships. - Get out of isolation, get back out there and live an authentic life!
234 pages, Paperback
Published January 26, 2018
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About the author
Mark DeJesus
13 books49 followersMark DeJesus has served as a communicator in various capacities since 1995. As a teacher, author, pastor, coach and exhorter, Mark is deeply passionate about restoring the hearts of people in the love of God and teaching them to walk in transformational living. His message involves getting to the heart of mental health struggles and the day to day battles believers face in their thoughts, emotions and relationships. Out of their own personal renewal, Mark and his wife Melissa founded Turning Hearts Ministries International, a ministry dedicated to inside out transformation. They live in Charlotte North Carolina and enjoy raising their two children, Maximus and Abigail.
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March 15, 2023
Exposing the Rejection Mindset by Mark DeJesus
Read it if you:
✔️Struggle with people pleasing or performance based living
✔️Have unhealed rejection wounds
✔️Want to see life through eyes of opportunity and abundance, not scarcity or fear of rejection
✔️Want to be at peace with who God made you
✔️Want to understand better why people operate in hurtful ways sometimes. There’s unhealed hurt in us all.
Mark’s teachings, whether in book format or podcast, have been an incredible tool for me in many ways. The way he writes, teaches, and shares vulnerably always resonates with me, gently opening my eyes to areas in my heart that need healing. One thing that he talks about in this book that really stuck out to me is being rejected vs taking on the rejection mindset. We will be rejected in life, but we don’t have to live under its mindset.
Main takeaway: We were meant to live in freedom, in God’s love as His children. We were made to be who God created us to be. Reading this book helped me step closer to that. It is filled with truth and love in a safe way that says: you can do this, you can overcome.
Read it if you:
✔️Struggle with people pleasing or performance based living
✔️Have unhealed rejection wounds
✔️Want to see life through eyes of opportunity and abundance, not scarcity or fear of rejection
✔️Want to be at peace with who God made you
✔️Want to understand better why people operate in hurtful ways sometimes. There’s unhealed hurt in us all.
Mark’s teachings, whether in book format or podcast, have been an incredible tool for me in many ways. The way he writes, teaches, and shares vulnerably always resonates with me, gently opening my eyes to areas in my heart that need healing. One thing that he talks about in this book that really stuck out to me is being rejected vs taking on the rejection mindset. We will be rejected in life, but we don’t have to live under its mindset.
Main takeaway: We were meant to live in freedom, in God’s love as His children. We were made to be who God created us to be. Reading this book helped me step closer to that. It is filled with truth and love in a safe way that says: you can do this, you can overcome.
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October 26, 2023I can't give this a review yet because there are some exercises in the book to try for 30 days. I'm starting now.
October 16, 2020
Suffering through rejection?
This book had great insight how we allow rejection to take over areas of our lives. I took full advantage of the prayers & took the time to answer all the questions. I may not be completely free but I am on my way. I have noticed times now I will stop myself knowing I am thinking like a victim & change my thoughts to line up with God’s words. Progress is slow but happening!
This book had great insight how we allow rejection to take over areas of our lives. I took full advantage of the prayers & took the time to answer all the questions. I may not be completely free but I am on my way. I have noticed times now I will stop myself knowing I am thinking like a victim & change my thoughts to line up with God’s words. Progress is slow but happening!
January 11, 2026
Empowering indeed!
I searched for the longest of time why certain areas of my life where stagnant and this book beautifully unveiled what I had been dealing with from the root.
I really loved how I was able to pin point areas of my life where I've faced rejection, notice patterns that accumulated because of it and pray that the Lord would heal me from those wounds.
Although it's still a journey, it's good to know who and what you're fighting. The battle ground has been leveled and I know I shall be victorious.
I searched for the longest of time why certain areas of my life where stagnant and this book beautifully unveiled what I had been dealing with from the root.
I really loved how I was able to pin point areas of my life where I've faced rejection, notice patterns that accumulated because of it and pray that the Lord would heal me from those wounds.
Although it's still a journey, it's good to know who and what you're fighting. The battle ground has been leveled and I know I shall be victorious.
November 13, 2022
So incredibly helpful
I appreciate the wisdom, insight, and practical exercises Mark offers in his books. I've read several of his books and watch his YouTube videos and have experienced much healing. This book, along with his others, is invaluable for overcoming trauma and experiencing freedom.
I appreciate the wisdom, insight, and practical exercises Mark offers in his books. I've read several of his books and watch his YouTube videos and have experienced much healing. This book, along with his others, is invaluable for overcoming trauma and experiencing freedom.
January 27, 2025
Not just a good read but a much needed counseling session
The book gives insight into a spiritual and emotional ailment that plague so many of us in society and church today. It also provides guidance and steps to take to get us on the pathway to our healing. Very important tool.
The book gives insight into a spiritual and emotional ailment that plague so many of us in society and church today. It also provides guidance and steps to take to get us on the pathway to our healing. Very important tool.
December 31, 2021
This book fired me up to lead a life of truth, where I am free to be me! I may stumble once in a while, when the lies of insecurities pop into my head, but I can choose to overcome them and other personal limitations. It's time to walk in freedom.
November 14, 2018
Blessed and brought light into my life🙏🏾
One of the best Christian books I have read thus far. God bless the Author and equip him to write more.
One of the best Christian books I have read thus far. God bless the Author and equip him to write more.
October 14, 2022
Highly recommend this author
June 28, 2024
This book was enlightening to learn all the emotions that are tied to rejection. I use this book as a reading and study.
October 26, 2024
Powerful!
An incredible book on healing the soul and mind from the spirit of rejection. I will never be what I was again! Been set free!! Hallelujah🙌
An incredible book on healing the soul and mind from the spirit of rejection. I will never be what I was again! Been set free!! Hallelujah🙌
July 11, 2016
This book essentially describes psychological problems in "Christianese". For example, DeJesus talks about a "spirit of rejection". Despite the Christian language, the book gets the psychology correct to my understanding. However, DeJesus is not a psychologist, therapist, or expert of any kind. This places him in a bit of an odd position in writing this book. As I understand it, he is a former pastor who now leads a ministry related to what he talks about in the book.
DeJesus makes some odd connections, such as saying a verse in the Bible is talking about bone marrow. He relates a number of psychological problems to specific physical ailments, such as abandonment to respiratory illness (as I recall). I am not aware of any evidence for these connections and no support is provided.
One of the biggest weaknesses of the book in my opinion is its length. The book is over 350 pages, and the pages significantly larger that the average book. It seems to me that DeJesus likely could have communicated the information more concisely. That said, the book does sound wordy or redundant.
The other biggest weaknesses in the book is that I feel it is short on help on improving in the problem areas described. DeJesus spends a lot of time describing each problem thoroughly. But I felt that the solutions generally amounted to "don't do it anymore". Being aware of a problem is certainly the first step in improving upon it. However any further attempt to help in the book came across as intangible words.
Overall, "Exposing the Mindset of Rejection" isn't a terrible book. I just believe there are other better books out there which cover similar ground but which are briefer, more helpful, and written by an expert in the field (psychologist/therapist).
DeJesus makes some odd connections, such as saying a verse in the Bible is talking about bone marrow. He relates a number of psychological problems to specific physical ailments, such as abandonment to respiratory illness (as I recall). I am not aware of any evidence for these connections and no support is provided.
One of the biggest weaknesses of the book in my opinion is its length. The book is over 350 pages, and the pages significantly larger that the average book. It seems to me that DeJesus likely could have communicated the information more concisely. That said, the book does sound wordy or redundant.
The other biggest weaknesses in the book is that I feel it is short on help on improving in the problem areas described. DeJesus spends a lot of time describing each problem thoroughly. But I felt that the solutions generally amounted to "don't do it anymore". Being aware of a problem is certainly the first step in improving upon it. However any further attempt to help in the book came across as intangible words.
Overall, "Exposing the Mindset of Rejection" isn't a terrible book. I just believe there are other better books out there which cover similar ground but which are briefer, more helpful, and written by an expert in the field (psychologist/therapist).
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