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Description & Overview
Do you replay a single comment for days? Does an unanswered text send your mind spiraling into certainty that you're being abandoned? For adults with ADHD, rejection doesn't just sting. It floods, it consumes, and it hijacks your whole day before you can think straight.
You are not too sensitive. You are not too much. Your brain is wired to feel rejection as genuine pain, and it fires faster and burns hotter than anyone ever taught you to handle. That's rejection sensitive dysphoria, and until now, no one gave you tools built for the way your brain actually works.
This workbook changes that. Drawing on three proven therapies, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy, it walks you step by step from understanding why rejection hits so hard to building a personalized plan you can actually use in the moment. No twenty-minute journaling exercises for a brain in crisis. Just real, usable skills that meet you exactly where you are.
Inside, you'll discover how to:
Recognize a shame spiral the instant it begins, and interrupt it before it takes over
Fact-check the catastrophic stories your flooded brain invents
Survive the worst emotional floods with fast, body-based tools
Break the grip of shame using genuine, science-backed self-compassion
Navigate rejection in your relationships and at work without shrinking or lashing out
Rebuild a sense of self-worth that no single person's approval can shake
Written in the warm, direct voice of a coach who truly gets it, every chapter turns hard-won psychology into plain language and practical action. You'll stop white-knuckling your way through painful moments and start responding with skill, steadiness, and self-kindness.
Imagine feeling a piece of feedback and letting it be just feedback. Imagine loving people without the constant fear they're about to leave. That life isn't a fantasy. It's a set of skills away, and those skills fill these pages.
You picked up this book for a reason. That part of you that's tired of letting rejection run the show was right.