Rejection sensitivity, met with something better than advice.
A cited book, a workbook you actually write in, an audiobook for the drive, and a clinical reference for the person across from you.
Four pieces. One continuous method.
Read it, write in it, listen to it, or bring it into the room. Each piece stands alone; together they are how the work actually sticks.
RSD & ADHD
Thriving with a Luminous Mind
Twelve chapters that name the mechanism instead of the character flaw. Every claim carries a citation and an honest grade — including the places where the research is thin and the field is still arguing.
The Workbook
Where you take the notes
Ruled lines, real space, and a prompt on every page. Twelve questions and ten one-page worksheets per chapter — designed to photocopy clean, so you can hand a single page to your therapist instead of a whole book.
The Audiobook
For the drive, the walk, the bad afternoon
The whole book, narrated unhurried — one hour twenty-five, nineteen tracks, one to a chapter. Each opens with its own reflection and haiku, read slow enough to land. Citations removed so the prose can breathe.
It tells you how strong the evidence actually is.
Most writing on rejection sensitivity states everything with the same confidence. This suite grades every claim, and says so out loud where the ground is soft — RSD is not a DSM diagnosis, IFS outcome evidence is pilot-level, and polyvagal theory's core premises are under live dispute in the peer-reviewed literature.
The label is provisional. Your experience is real. Both things are true, and you deserve to know which floor you are standing on.
A dot, never an alarm.
Your client found the label online. Here is the rest of the conversation.
Affirm the phenomenology, name the construct's status once, then move to what you can actually track.
Case formulation frames, latency-over-intensity assessment, and sequencing guidance for clients whose emotional response outruns deliberation.
Whole-page patient handouts, headed and footed, ready for the copier — including one written for a client's partner, parent, or manager.
A measures appendix, an every-technique practice index, and a reference list that flags preprints, case series, and commentary for what they are.
Ten more, each with its own workbook.
The same standard — cited research, worked practices, a companion workbook — carried into every framework and every room in a life.
Ammanuel Santa Anna
Founds fields.
Author of the first guide ever published on Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and of the ten-part international series that followed. Founder and CEO of Luminous Prosperity Inc., working from Providence, Rhode Island.
A sensitive mind is not a mind that needs less feeling. It is a mind that needs better conditions.
Everything here is educational and does not replace individual assessment or treatment. Nothing on this site is a diagnosis. If you are in crisis, contact local emergency services or a crisis line.