Welcome to the I Have ADHD podcast, where it's all about education, encouragement, and coaching for adults with ADHD.

I'm your host, Kristen Carter, and I have ADHD.

Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.

I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.

Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter, and you're listening to the I Have ADHD podcast. I am medicated, I am caffeinated, I am regulated, and I am ready to roll.

It is a gorgeous April day here in the Philly suburbs, and I am so grateful that Spring is finally springing.

Winter just feels so long around these parts, and I'm so, so excited.

For warmer weather, longer days, green trees, all of the things, I am just so, so, so relieved that it is finally, finally happening.

And I hope that whatever the weather is in your area of the world, that you are enjoying it, and that you're grateful for it, that you're able to go outside and enjoy it.

Today we are wrapping up our series on rejection, and oh my word, this has been an intense experience for me.

I've finally said the things that I've been wanting to say for four years, but have been too afraid to say them.

Did you know that I put off recording these episodes for four years because of my own rejection sensitivity issues? That's true.

I've had these thoughts for so long, but I haven't been able to externalize them on a large scale like for this podcast, because I've been massively afraid of being rejected.

That's so ironic. Right? The irony of it all.

But after four years of getting coached by various coaches and two years in therapy, I'm finally brave enough to navigate whatever pushback or rejections I may receive when I say publicly, I reject the label of RSD.

Of course, rejection sensitivity is a real and valid experience of nearly every person with ADHD, but I will no longer associate myself with the label of RSD, because along with it comes the implication that it's exclusively genetic.

So it's my brain's fault that I'm sensitive to rejection, not society's fault, and exclusively treated with medication as if therapies and coaching do nothing to help, which is totally, totally, totally, totally bonkers.

So here I am as a product of both therapy and coaching, being able to stand before you today and scream at the top of my lungs. Okay, I won't scream. That would be, that would be bad.

But say very clearly and plainly from a grounded place that non-medication approaches to treating rejection do in fact work.

They work to alleviate the debilitating pain of rejection sensitivity. And you, yes, you might dear listener can learn how to soothe that pain.

And that's exactly what we're going to be chatting about today. Now, as we get rolling here, I want to take a moment to invite you to join my group coaching program focused.

This program was created by someone with ADHD. That's me. Four people with ADHD. That's you. And in it, you'll have access to bingeable courses like how to regulate your emotions so you can deal with your rejections sensitivity.

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