This week I go a bit deeper into the blog posts I wrote reviewing the book How To Keep House While Drowning and my post about my procrastinated (but now finished!) yard project. I’ll break down the four things that are necessary for shame, why shame doesn’t always look or feel like shame in our […] The post Episode 25: Examining Shame and the Neurodivergent Brain first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.

How does spirituality help keep burnout, especially neurodivergent burnout, in remission? And what are the three D’s of burnout and how can spirituality help them? Learn how dissonance, demands, and disconnection lead to burnout and the ways in which spirituality can counteract these without adding more to your to do list or making you feel […] The post Episode 24: Spirituality and Neurodivergent Burnout first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.

This week’s episode follows up on last week’s when I talked about what a dark night of the soul was and how it specifically applied to neurodivergent individuals. After a quick recap of what I mean when I talk about neurodivergence, and an explanation of how I consider autistic/neurodivergent burnout to be different from “regular” […] The post Episode 23: Similarities Between Neurodivergent Burnout and a Dark Night of the Soul first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.

Welcome to season 2 of the podcast. I am proud to announce we’re now distributed by the MuseCharmer Network. I believe we’ll be appearing other places soon as well, so stay tuned! CW: This week’s episode begins our discussion of the Dark Night of the Soul which may include talk about difficult emotions, feelings, thoughts, […] The post Episode 22: An Overview of the Dark Night of the Soul and Neurodivergence first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.

We’re ending our first season of the podcast with an explanation on a shift in focus. As you know there’s been a break in the show, and I explained why that happened (life, college, disability, burnout, finding focus, etc.), but also, I realized that to be true to my authentic self I needed to pivot. […] The post Episode 21 – Ending Season 1 With a Transition first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.

In this interview Emma Barnes, we chat about the big problem of ableism in the meditation space (and we talk about yoga, too) and how the image of a thin, white, affluent person seeking “just a little stress relief” does a big disservice to a lot of individuals who could use meditations (and yoga) to […] The post Episode 20: Ableism in the Guided Meditation Space, an Interview with Emma Barnes first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.

Today’s episode brings together a conversation about tea ceremonies, meditation, Buddhist philosophy, yoga, and the love of autistic special interests in a discussion that hopefully changes the way you think about meditation and perhaps, even tea. I’m pleased to be joined by Dani, the Punk Rock Autistic for a lively interview and a demonstration of […] The post Episode 19: Meditation, Tea, and an Interview with The Punk Rock Autistic first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.

What stories are you telling yourself? When you hear voices or narratives in your head talking about you, your choices, your life, whose voices are they? Where did they come from? One of the hardest and most important things late diagnosed (and all diagnosis configurations from self dx to professional dx and everything in between […] The post Episode 18: Rethinking Our Stories first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.

Liberation has been forgotten in the modern yoga movement, especially modern postural yoga, from which today’s yoga studios, yoga teacher trainings, and yoga organizations have arisen. And yet, if we put the liberation back into yoga, we can use it as a tool for liberation. While my focus is specifically neurodivergence liberation, disability liberation, and […] The post Episode 17: Rekindling Yoga’s Power of Liberation first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.

Today’s show discusses same foods within the context of being neurodivergent and chronically ill. We discuss how food is trust and how same foods represent a trust with your body, which is vital to feeling safe and well. We’ll also talk about how same foods help wellness, and how they present challenges to eating healthier […] The post Episode 16: Same Foods and Wellness first appeared on Chicken Yogi Show.