RELEASE REJECTION

WEEK 3 - PORTAL: THE WOUNDS

The card for this week is Release Rejection. Before you start reading…take a moment to take in the image. For the next 7 days, use this card as a way to check in with your relationship to rejection.

Place your hands on your heart a for a moment…take a few breaths…good…now let’s begin…

“Rejection teaches a child to disappear in plain sight … and call it strength.”— Voge Smith

🌬️ The Invitation

This card speaks to the tender terrain of being left out … not once, but again and again.
The quiet ache of not being chosen. Of watching the door swing open for others, while you learn to silence your longing.
So you adapt. You decide:
“It’s safer not to want. I’ll sit at the far end. I’ll take the back seat.”

The strategy? Minimize visibility to avoid the sting of rejection.
The cost? A lifetime of self-abandonment masquerading as humility.

This card arrives now to say:
You are not too much.
You are not too late.
You are not unworthy.
You are ready to release the rejection …not by begging for belonging,
but by reclaiming your seat at the table of your own life.

💔 The Wound

A moment of rejection, especially in childhood, can lodge itself in the nervous system like a splinter. The body remembers … tight belly, dropped gaze, small voice. This card asks us to revisit that moment not to relive it, but to reparent it.
You don’t need to keep proving you’re okay with being left out.

🔻 Releasing Statements

• I release the decision I made that the best way I can be safe is to take the back seat.

• I release the belief that exclusion means I am unworthy.

• I release the pattern of silencing myself to avoid rejection.

• I release the decision to hide so I won’t be hurt again.

🔺 Receiving Statements

• I receive the grace of inclusion.

• I receive the welcome I’ve always longed for.

• I receive the truth that I belong …even if no one sees it yet.

• I receive my place at the table of my own becoming.

🔍 Inquiry Questions

• Where in your life are you still taking the “back seat”?

• When did you first feel the sting of being excluded?

• What part of you decided not being seen was safer than being rejected?

• What would it feel like to be included …not by them, but by yourself?

🕊️ The Closing Whisper

Take a breath.
Drop into your spine.
Bring to mind a moment when you felt left out … from the group, the family, the opportunity.
Let the memory arise gently. No need to force. Just notice what your body feels.
Now say, aloud or silently:

“I release the decision I made that the best way I can be safe is to take the back seat.”

Feel that. Really feel it.

Then, hand to heart:
“I receive the grace of inclusion.”
Inhale:… accepted… Exhale: … excluded

Let your body register that truth:
You belong. Without performance. Without apology.