No One Is Mad At Me: Combatting Rejection Sensitivity

Hosted by Trystan Reese

Tue, Apr 21, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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Wired to Win: Harnessing Your Neurodiversity
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What you'll learn

What your brain is actually doing

Understand the neuroscience of rejection sensitivity so your experience makes sense and can be explained to others

Build prevention strategies

Learn to ask for feedback proactively and prepare for feedback conversations effectively to prevent future spiraling

Let them — and mean it

Practice releasing the need to manage others' reactions so you can stop bracing for rejection before it even happens.

Why this topic matters

Rejection sensitivity can quietly shape how you communicate, ask for feedback, and sustain relationships — often without a name for what's going on. This lesson gives you that name, plus practical tools to stop bracing for rejection before it arrives and build a different connection to rejection so it stops running the show.

You'll learn from

Trystan Reese

Adult-diagnosed ADHDer and in-process rejection-sensitive recoverer

Trystan Reese is the founder of Collaborate Consulting, where he teaches individuals, teams, and organizations to leverage difference as a superpower.

Past clients include...

Google
Cambridge Associates
Maybelline
World Wildlife Fund
Dropbox

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