Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rejection therapy is a social media trend that encourages people who fear rejection to make an odd request of a stranger once a ...

Starting from childhood, Michelle Panning remembers being afraid of rejection. "It's that bubbling feeling inside that's like, 'Just open your mouth and ask,'" Panning, 35, told BI. She would always ...

(CNN) — Out of the crowd, Michelle Panning picked her target, an unsuspecting man she didn’t know, and asked him an unusual question. Her hands shook as she pointed her phone camera on herself. (CNN) ...

Michelle Panning, a relationship coach, documented herself trying "rejection therapy" for 30 days. It's not an officially recognized therapy, but two therapists said it's a form of exposure therapy.

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